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 […]
Every Friday my kids and I work together to plan our meals for the coming week (the meal they plan they also help cook since…
It’s certainly the time of year to pull out all the easy strategies like this one-pot Instant Pot dinner that you can prep the night before or anytime during the day! Getting a healthy dinner on the table in a hurry has rarely been easier than this. Fall is the time of year when parents
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As a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and feeding expert, I work with many parents of picky eaters. But interestingly enough, almost every child that is deemed a “problem feeder” likes chicken nuggets. Coincidence? Not really. But that’s a more complicated issue for another day. RELATED: Is your child a picky eater or a problem feeder? I
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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
For many people fall includes visiting an orchard to pick or buy apples. Maybe throw in a few donuts while you’re there for your once-a-year fresh cinnamon-sugar treat. Then there is my family. Fall means running our small, eighty tree apple orchard. We step outside and pick apples on a daily basis for a month
Chickpea pizza crust is gluten-free, vegan, easy to mix up and handle, and receives literal cheers from the dinner table when I serve it up. Don’t wait to give this extra filling, high protein pizza crust a try! Pizza night is every Sunday, much to my children’s delight. In fact, if we eat anything else,
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You can tell a lot about our culture by the way kids eat. Recently we had some friends over, and my kids gave a little farm tour. When we stopped at the garden, we offered our guests a taste of fresh lettuce. The kids looked at us like we had just asked them to eat
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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If you’re new to cutting gluten and dairy, start with Katie’s post to learn how to go gluten and dairy-free with kids. If you know you’re in it for the long haul, I’ve got you covered here with tips for a GF/CF lifestyle long term. I remember when I first made the decision to switch
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I was the cool mom last year for Halloween. Not only did I let my kids have more than one piece of candy in a day, but I also made a really cool dinner, appropriate to the season: Sometimes, even stuffy, boring adults like me have to let loose and do something fun (like make
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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It’s so important for kids to get a healthy breakfast. Just like how you make sheet pan pancakes, this sweet potato breakfast bake is easy to make. We all know how important it is to eat a lot of vegetables, and I often remind people to start with veggies at breakfast to make it much
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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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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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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I feel like I’m always looking for more easy lunch packing ideas for my kids! I don’t want to make special lunch recipes – I just want those boxes packed up and ready for school in the morning, without stress. Amen? My history with both observing and packing school lunches is pretty extensive (as is
I just got an Instant Pot. Yes, I’m kind of late to the game here. It seems everyone has had one for a while now. (Still unsure if you should get one? Check out Katie’s reasons why you should and 1 reason why you shouldn’t) But I’ve held out. And didn’t even get one until
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