Can you believe a mom of 4 could teach her big kids how to cook in just 2 weeks?? I love that Mary used my online cooking class for kids, all three levels, every single day for two weeks, even while the toddler was underfoot! In the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse, my kids and […]
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Check out some of the best kids cooking videos online… Did you know it is thought that people will remember 90% of what they see in a video, but only 10% of what they hear? And if you consider that children usually only listen to less than half of what their parents try to tell
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Without fail, every day right around 3:00 pm my kids rush up to me asking, “What can we have for a snack?!” I’m usually trying to feed their little brother or he’s sleeping on me (which despite six months of me trying to tell them that’s not the best time to ask me for things
Gluten-Free Sweet and Salty Snack Mix Recipe Kids Can Make Read More »
I hate when plans fail but sometimes even my best intentions to meal plan fail me. When dinner time is fast approaching and I have NOTHING to make I know I can use my Instant Pot to cook frozen hamburger and make this easy dinner possible! Over the years of our healthy living journey, my
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Inspiring kids to eat healthy and learn to cook is my passion. I hope with my online cooking classes for kids I’m helping parents do just that every day! But we can always use a few new ideas, too! (Like Raddish Kids) When Becca told me her daughter’s love of this salad, I knew she had to
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Why bother making healthy popsicles? Because nobody wants to turn on the oven to bake healthy pumpkin muffins in the summer! Our neighborhood is packed with kids, and they love hanging out together. When the weather is hot, popsicles tend to come out and get shared with friends. What’s a household to do when we
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Here’s one for you: Q: What do you get when you cross a child under 10, a can of bread dough, and a bag of shredded cheese? A: A children’s cookbook. Up until a few years ago, it seemed like our culture didn’t put a lot of trust in kids’ tastebuds or cooking abilities. Recipes
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Does teaching kids to cook help them to eat healthier as an adult? Hmmmm… I love science, but sometimes it’s baffling that certain things even need to be studied. If you were to ask any mom out there whether learning to cook would help someone eat healthier, she would say, “Well yeah, duh, obviously it would!”
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If your kids only want to eat fruit gummies and won’t even eat raw veggies with a delicious homemade ranch to dip them in, you’re not alone. Picky eating (better termed selective eating) is a bit of an epidemic in America, but it doesn’t have to be this way! A lot of parents think that
Want to experiment on homemade gluten-free tortillas with me? We’ve even done a keto friendly tortilla recipe. Leah and I made some videos of our testing with the Mockmill and einkorn and gluten-free grains in tortillas, and I wanted to let you know a bit about what you’ll see. We’ve made homemade whole wheat tortillas
I’ve been experimenting with baking by weight, and once I figured out how to convert my favorite recipes from cups to grams, I’m really thinking it’s the best way to learn to bake for kids. We teach kids how to measure flour in our Kids Cook Real Food online cooking class for kids – that
Something amazing happened this week. Because I’m teaching my kids to cook, dinner got on the table on time when it never would have otherwise – including the easiest homemade mashed potatoes ever! Tuesday was a crazy day, with one meeting stacked upon another and school conferences at 4:30 p.m. I neglected my own meal
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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
Troll’s Feet & Toxic Waste Mac: Quick, Healthy Fun for Halloween Dinner {GUEST POST} Read More »
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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Calling all red food! (ahem) Calling all naturally red food! (ahem) Calling all naturally red food not chock full of sugar and junk! I am planning a kids’ Valentine’s Day party at school again this year, and I am determined to plan fun games and food that don’t include sugar, artificial food dyes, and trans
In this Internet age, there are a lot of myths proliferated widely…are “picky eaters” one of them? Could there be ways to cure your child’s “picky” food preferences – even if they’re not really picky eaters?! Kresha Faber of Nourishing Joy and I sat down to discuss that topic recently, and I loved her tips!
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I have wonderful memories of Christmas from my childhood. We’d go to church for a candle light service on Christmas Eve. When it was time for presents my three siblings and I would sit in a line, and my dad would hand them out one at a time. There was so much joy and excitement.
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School is right around the corner (I said it…don’t throw tomatoes). Depending on where you live it could be a month, a couple weeks or even days away! Of course that means school lunches are coming too. When you have to manage food allergies, your choices are limited. No more pb&j. No crackers and cheese.
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With summer in full swing it’s nice to be able to give the kids a cold treat without loading them up on sugar. Not to mention it’s way more fun to be playing outside then spending a bunch of time inside the kitchen preparing food! These frozen banana bites are fun to make and fun
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It’s the kind of comfort food you pine for when it’s gray and cloudy outside. There’s not too much heat to make you want to avoid using the oven. And mashed potatoes on the side sound just right. In other words, it’s fair to say that when it’s cloudy, there’s always a chance of… You
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