Homemade granola has become a staple in the Kimball household. We just love healthy granola bars and I love making them. I’ll tell you why. 😉 I am an efficiency freak. If I can save time or combine a trip, even if it’s just around the corner four feet to the bathroom, I’ll load up […]
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Earth friendly gifts are always in style no matter your family and holiday traditions! Check out these green Christmas gifts to spoil those you love most. If the world is having trouble because we are using too many resources, it’s always a good idea to buy less and give less! But often we still want
Every year, bloggers share their “gift guides” for Christmas shopping, and every year I feel like I’m in junior high. Why junior high? That was when I tried to be cool by buying the “in” trendy clothing, but apparently I was always a few months too late. No matter what I did, I wasn’t up
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Gathering with family for the holidays should be relaxing and joyful but family holidays can be stressful when food philosophies class. Here’s now to navigate family holidays with an extra measure of grace! I’m willing to bet that you don’t eat the same as your extended family. Or your neighbors. Or your church community. In
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When your 3-year-old and 6-year-old boys both like a meal with cabbage, apples and chicken, what do you do? Cheer and run around like a crazy woman because it’s a miracle. Figure out how to make it quick and easy with only one pot. Put on your skeptical hat because there’s no way it can
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From weekly food prep to once a month cooking, here are meal plan methods to try to see what meal planning strategy works best for you and your family. Even if you’re not doing a tricky diet like a Whole30 or going camping while gluten-free, we all KNOW in our heads that meal planning is
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As a kid, food was fun. Important to life, nourishing, sure – my mom always cooked healthy food from scratch for us even before it was trendy. But it wasn’t stressful, until life threw me some curveballs. After overcoming an eating disorder in college, I was diagnosed with food allergies as an adult. This is
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When winter squash are suddenly everywhere in the fall, acting like they’re all gourmet or something – what’s a home chef to DO with them? Especially if…you don’t like mushy orange vegetables but you know they’re good for you! And what are the different kinds of squash anyway? Interested in cooking squash in an Instant
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Coconut Thai Soup is a delicious addition to your diet. Enjoy this Thai Coconut Carrot Soup recipe! This post is from guest writer Craig Fear of Fearless Eating. Today, millions of people are suffering with chronic gut issues brought on by the forces of modern living. Most at some point seek medical help. And while many medical
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Ask anyone who’s been gluten free for a while and they’ll tell you it’s really not that hard. Katie has some really great gluten free recipes and the list keeps growing! It may seem daunting at first, but after a while you learn to substitute and try new things (remember those baby steps!). Plus there
You all know that I’m not a big fan of sugar, and my healthy Halloween party plan along with its cousin the healthy school Christmas party post are evidence of that. Oh, and then there was the time I said sugar is as bad for kids as cigarettes…but I still eat cookies. I DO still
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Fed up with the school birthday treats? Me too. Here’s everything you’ll need for a quick and easy NO SUGAR kid Halloween party idea. Games, activities, and healthy food plan for school Halloween treats are done for you! Are you in charge of planning a kids’ Halloween party for your child’s elementary school classroom this
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As parents, we decide what foods our babies try first. We control the menu and set the standards of “what we eat.” But at some point, those kids encounter the outside world and the insane cramming-junk-down-our-throats consumer culture. How can you keep your kids healthy when there’s so much pressure to eat junk? It’s tough
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This post is from KS contributing writer Becca Stallings of The Earthling’s Handbook, with photography assistance from her son Nicholas Efran, who knows how to read a label! The trouble with teaching kids to cook is that they get into the habit of enjoying homemade food–and then they go off to college. Most universities require
Would there be an uproar if parents found out the school had passed around cigarettes – only one per kid, mind you – at the elementary school track-and-field day or the fundraiser run? Advertisement for run: “All children who finish get a T-shirt and a cigarette at the end of the race!!” Um. Seriously? Of
Have you ever found yourself surrounded by a sea of tomatoes on your counter and wondered “What in the WORLD will I do with all these tomatoes?!?” I feel your pain! August and September on our farm are insanity. Seems like every day, there is more and MORE produce ripening that demands to be preserved!
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If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, what’s the most important part of a healthy breakfast? Making sure what you eat is nourishing and sustaining. Healthy fats do both better than any glass of orange juice or frozen waffle, making them the foundation of any healthy breakfast. The Role of Fat in
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Chill, Mama. That karate chop I busted out on poor Uncle Charlie when he made an attempt to give my first baby a bite of dirt cake at 7 months old? May have been overkill, it turns out. When that little-baby-who-is-now-an-alarmingly-old-kid was born over a decade ago, the recommendation from our pediatrician on introducing first
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This post is from guest writer Alison Adair from the Pure Food Kids Foundation. Food marketers spend two billion dollars a year convincing kids to eat foods that are unhealthy – we don’t want our kids to fall for it. But how do we protect them from the cartoons, celebrity endorsement, flashy colors and games
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I was so awful at first at finding Whole30 approved recipes that satisfied! Those first few days of the Whole30 for my husband and low phytic acid anti-cavity diet for me felt like torture. We were hungry, felt deprived, and every meal was a feat of self-discipline and mad knife skills. (Good thing my kids
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