As summer temperatures heat up, cool summer treats are in high demand. Popsicles are simply perfect.

Sure you could buy a box, but making them yourself is so much fun, and the flavor possibilities are endless. Kids love to help make them almost as much as they like to eat them. Here are 10 homemade popsicle recipes to keep you cool all summer long.

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Sure, made-from-scratch treats are great, but sometimes we don’t have the time to whip up a batch of wholesome banana muffins right on the spot. If you’re looking for fast, fun and delicious treats you can serve to your kids at a moment’s notice, look no further than these simple DIY recipes that use store-bought ingredients to save time.

I don't know about you, but we love pizza at our place. We love pizza from the pizza joint around the corner, and we love making our own pizza at home. But for the ultimate pizza-inspired snack, there's pizza roll-ups made with crescent rolls. They're kind of like hot pockets without all the creepy, mysterious ingredients. Calzones without the insane calorie count. Best of all, they're fun and easy enough for kids to make with you. Here's a recipe for making your own crescent pizza roll-ups.

Have you seen this fruit? Meet the cucamelon, a "savory fruit" you can grow yourself. Is it a cucumber ... or is it a melon? Who cares, when it's this adorable! I've never tasted one myself, but now I'm going to have to hunt some down. Suddenly I feel like my summer will not be complete without them.

If you think the cucamelon is cute, check out these four other wee little fruits and vegetables. Wouldn't you love to see them all together in the same bowl? Have you ever tried ...

Frozen pizzas and other frozen dinner foods are often a lifesaver when you're in a pinch to prepare a meal, but you may need to think twice before popping one in the oven. New York-based snack food company, Rich Products Corp., had to recall more than 10 million pounds of frozen pizza, mozzarella bites, Philly cheesesteaks, and other products linked to a rare and potentially dangerous outbreak of E. coli poisoning.

The strain found in the foods, E. coli O121, has already has sickened 27 people in 15 states who ate certain Farm Rich and Market Day frozen chicken quesadillas, pizza slices, and other snack foods. And at least eight people have been hospitalized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which updated cases on Friday.

In the meantime, three million pounds of the products were still out there for sale on shelves. Yeah, I'd say that's a bit worrisome ...

Hey, wake up!! Good news for sleepyheads: Now you don't even have to hassle with the inconvenience of a grande latte to get your morning (or afternoon, or evening) buzz, thanks to Alert Energy Gum, Wrigley's soon-to-be-on-the-shelves new chew. Available in fruit AND mint flavors (why not mocha?), the gum is intended for consumers ages 25 and up who, I assume, are either incredibly tired or impatient or both.

Caffeinated gum isn't an entirely new concept, to be fair, but now that Wrigley's is in the game somehow the whole idea seems more legit. Or if not legit, at least more readily available. But ... really?! Do we really need caffeine in our chewing gum? Look, I'm not judging -- this is coming from someone who would probably just cease to function entirely without the aid of coffee -- but I just don't know if I can get behind the idea of caffeinated gum anymore than I can get behind the idea of any of these caffeinated snacks.

I'm well aware that the following concept may seem kinda odd to most families, and quite honestly, it seems kinda odd to ME to write about it ... because it's such a normal part of how we do things here in Gosselin Land.

About three times a year, typically in August before school starts, in November or December around the holidays, and sometime over spring break, I pull out the large mixing bowls, the huge stand mixer (I think I need a restaurant grade mixer because that thing is just never big enough!), and rally all of my willing kids and, almost, in the blink of an eye, together we turn into a full blown bakery! The goal is to fill our freezers with hundreds of prepackaged school lunch desserts! And that, with eight kids eating school lunches for about 180 days a year, is quite a feat! In fact, by my quick calculations, I pack 1,440 lunches each and every school year!

You know how we totally take for granted that there was a time before "sour cream and onion" or "BBQ" was a potato chip flavor? Well, one day, our grandkids might be shocked to hear there was a time before you could wander into a store and scoop up a bag of Chicken and Waffles, Cheesy Garlic Bread, or Sriracha (a hot sauce often used in Thai and Korean dishes) chips! Yep, those are wild new flavors Lay's will be test-driving nationwide starting next week ... 

Once the chips hit the store, lovers of Lay's potato chips will be able to decide which one of the three will be its newest flavor. After trying them, fans will have until May to vote for their faves, and the flavor with the most votes will stay on store shelves. Just call it crowd-sourcing snacking!