With four kids and a busy schedule, I’m always on the lookout for breakfast ideas that are easy, nourishing, and budget-friendly. Of course they have to taste good too! My kids love any kind of breakfast bar recipe option. That usually means homemade granola bars, breakfast cookies, or even breakfast cupcakes! If you too love […]
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Last year I taught a health and nutrition class for 5-8 year-olds at our homeschool co-op. Hands down the activities they were most excited about were our kitchen projects. Kids love to cook! I only got a handful of days with them in the kitchen because it was used by another class. But when we
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One of my favorite things about being a Nutritional Therapist is getting opportunities to teach kids what it means to be healthy! Which is why I love teaching a Health & Homesteading class at our local homeschool co-op. The first half of the year is dedicated to learning all about the human body and how
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As a mom of four and a small business owner, mornings are my favorite time of day! I’m always up early to get some work done and get myself ready before my kids are up. It’s a blissful time of quiet to start my day. I use every last second I can get in my
A real food diet can be a time-consuming lifestyle – I might even venture to say that making unprocessed food from scratch and running around to specialty markets or farms for natural organic food to eat is a greater time-suck than (gasp) Facebook. January is a great time for simplifying, so here are three ways
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It’s not often that I am able to go on a one-on-one date with any of my kids. Life is just so busy! So when my youngest daughter and I had the opportunity to go see my oldest daughter’s theatre performance, we made the most of it by going out for dinner before the show.
“I don’t like muffins!” That is a common phrase heard coming from my youngest daughter (almost eight). Of all my kids she is the only one that I would have ever labeled “picky.” I prefer the term “selective.” To be fair, she does have good reason. She had a lot of feeding challenges and trauma
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Okay, it’s another busy morning, and you’re rushing out the door, when you’re six-year-old announces what he announces every morning 15 minutes after breakfast: “I’m hungry.” I don’t know what it is about kids in the morning, but before my kids hit the tween stage, they needed a big breakfast. Now, my older boys can
Is it possible to be a morning person and at the same time hate making breakfast? The answer is YES! That sums up my mornings. I get up way too early every morning to have quiet time before the kids are up. It sets the tone for my day. During my morning time, I eat
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Christmas morning is often a flurry of excitement, giggles, and presents. But what about those hungry bellies? Shouldn’t the morning excitement include good food? Shouldn’t your kids have a special holiday breakfast to start the day? A few years back we had quite an unusual Christmas. We woke up to a house without power. The
I’ve noticed it takes approximately once for kids to assume something is a tradition. Do anything once, especially near a holiday, and suddenly that is “the way we do it.” The kids will expect it every time. Thank goodness, I’ve been using a simple, make-ahead breakfast for every Christmas and Easter for years. So when
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Need a nourishing, budget-friendly, real food breakfast for school mornings? Or do you just hate flipping pancakes? We got you covered in this recipe. First, let’s acknowledge how amazing pancakes are. When you transition from processed food to real food, you might have to say goodbye to a lot of food that was in your
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What’s better than pressure cooked oatmeal? Cooking steel cut oats in the Instant Pot! Instant steel cut oats are a lifesaver for this family. Read on to learn why. I am a morning person (don’t hate me!). I kind of feel like I have to be with four kids. Getting up early is the only
It’s summertime! While we adjust to new schedules and fun plans, it’s the perfect time to encourage our kids to develop life skills that are harder to focus on during the school year. We want our kids to enjoy their summer and fill it with lazy days, outdoor play, and getting lost in library books,
That uncomfortable feeling, the cross between hunger and anger, it’s “HANGER”! It can be triggered by low blood sugar in kids – and adults too. Here’s what you need to know – and how to keep that ‘hangry’ feeling at bay. Do you have a “witching hour” at your house? You know, that time every
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Getting a healthy breakfast on the table for your kids before school is a common struggle whether you homeschool like Mary or have kids in school like me. I have a whole post full of tips and recipes for quick healthy breakfasts and this recipe is a great one to add to your rotation! Enjoy!
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I have four kids. They all have individual eating styles and food preferences. But in general I know what they like. Three out of four will eat what I serve without much complaining. Sure they have their favorites. But they eat most things. Then there is my four-year old. She doesn’t play along so nicely
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Breakfast. It’s the one meal of the day that I don’t typically “cook” for my family. At least not on a weekday. Mom and Dad are up early. The kids get up a bit later. Sometimes we’re relaxed. Sometimes we’re rushed. But that doesn’t mean breakfast isn’t important to me! Quite the contrary. I know
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I love dairy. In all forms. If I could choose one food group to never have to give up…it would be dairy. And yet I or someone in my family (or a combination) have been dairy free for anywhere from six months to two or more years at a time during the past seven years.
As part of our Grinding Grains Challenge, readers sent along a few recipes, including this one for Whole Grain Banana Spelt Muffins. My 3-year-old loved making them with me as we practiced some of his preschool skills in the kitchen. Muffins are always great for school snacks, easy breakfasts, and packed lunch sides. I tend
