Top 10 Life Skills to Teach Your Kids Before They Turn 18
When I was a kid, I never once said, “I want to be a digital entrepreneur when I grow up.” I never had “be a…
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Simple Snack Kids Can Make: Hydrating Watermelon Slushie Recipe (No Added Sugar!)
My ten-year-old son wrapped up his soccer season in late spring. His last game was a make-up game that had been moved to early June. And it was HOT. It was an intense game where all of the kids were playing hard. My son, in particular, was going all out (in typical Active Eater fashion).
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Give Your Pizza a Plant-Based Protein Boost! {Chickpea Pizza Crust}
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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Salad Bar Ideas for a Kid-Friendly Dinner
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
Healthy Strategies for Real Food in the Summer
If you can’t stand the heat, how can you stay in the kitchen making real food all summer? It’s a struggle for me every year, in a home with no air conditioning. Pennsylvania summers aren’t as hot as some other places, but we get our share of hot days–and then there’s the humidity that makes
Healthy Summertime Popsicles Made by Kids (No Added Sugar!!)
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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Insect Spray Safety: Ingredients to Avoid and Why
Nobody wants to be a bug’s dinner while they’re trying to enjoy a beautiful summer day. But the landscape is changing – society is becoming more informed about the potential hazards of what we put ON our bodies, and the hazards of those biting bugs seem to be increasing. An informed mom needs to know
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What do you do with Zoodles?
What’s the deal with zoodles? If you’ve tried zucchini recipes before and thought it was a mushy mess, you may be a little worried about making spaghetti out of them. Spiralizing is used on many vegetables, especially when people are attempting a gut-healing or grain-free elimination diet, BUT zucchini noodles, “zoodles,” are by far the
Your UVA Protection Probably Isn’t Working (Especially in the Pool)
It just doesn’t stop this summer! First, Consumer Reports says that mineral sunscreens just aren’t effective after testing 13 of them. I totally disagree with them and elucidate my points rather, ahem, pointedly, right HERE. Now, a reader sent me this article about the dangers of the sunscreen ingredient avobenzone reacting with chlorine in swimming
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5 Easy Steps for Using a Week’s Share of CSA Vegetables
It’s dinnertime on a Wednesday, and you’ve just been handed 10 pounds of fresh, organic, locally-grown, assorted vegetables! You’re eager to get some of them onto your family’s plates tonight and make sure you use every bit as wisely as you can before next week—when another load of vegetables will arrive—and you never know what
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How to Ferment Anything in Small Batches
We’re all trying to add more vegetables into our diets – from steamed vegetables to dehydrated vegetables to roasted veggies. That’s why I have The Best Produce to Stockpile. Today, we’ll be covering fermenting vegetables! All it took was one bite. I was hooked. A friend had offered me a small jar of her homemade sauerkraut
7 Ways YOU Can Help the Bee Population Survive!
“How did I get myself into this? What am I doing?” my mind kept asking. Nervously, I glanced in the rear view mirror of my SUV and my fears were confirmed. My foot pressed down hard on the accelerator. If only I could make it home, I would be safe. I opened all the windows
Two-Ingredient Berry Cheesecake Pops Recipe (+ Homemade Cream Cheese!)
If you’ve read my blog at all you’ll know my little family is obsessed with ice cream. Whether it’s the classic mint chocolate chip with homemade chocolate chips, or vanilla drizzled with honey sweetened caramel and raw hot fudge sauce, we can’t get enough. And even though I’ll admit to succumbing to the occasional store
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Summer Recipe Time! Easy Real Food Dishes for Any Occasion
Ah, summer! Days full of being out in the sun, not a care in the world… Whether you’re at a baseball game, out for a bike ride or relaxing on the beach, you still need to eat at least three meals a day, right? But you don’t feel like heating up the kitchen—or maybe even
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Real Food Road Trip {Eat Well, Spend Less}
No, I’m not hiring Guy Fieri to take us on a tour of restaurants that serve real food across the nation…although maybe that should go on my bucket list! We traveled for a long drive over Memorial Day weekend this year, and packed our own food road trip food (and have even made dinner in
Eat Well, Spend Less: Sprouted Lentil Salad
I’m happiest at the bottom of a salad bowl. You know how when you get to the end, you’ve run out of lettuce, but there’s a bunch of little things that fell through sitting on the bottom of the bowl? The red onion, feta cheese, sunflower seeds, and lately, sprouted lentils. Mixed up with the
WFMW: How to Throw a Messy Party (The Best Summer Kids’ Gathering You’ll Ever See!)
27 kids. 12 adults. Jello, flour, chocolate syrup, and lots of cream – both whipped and shaving. The goal? To make a mess. The end result? More fun than we even expected. Many of you appreciated the servitude my son showed with his 5th birthday party, and rightfully so. If you’ve got a wild side,
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