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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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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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 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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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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One of the hardest things about an allergy diagnosis is taking food away from your child. “Sorry, no more yogurt for breakfast. Nope, no more butter on your muffin. Say bye-bye to that peanut butter sandwich.” Then you break the news. You also have to rotate your food. The raisins you like to snack on
I left my Instant Pot in the box for at least 6 months, but not for the reasons everyone else does. The Instant Pot is an electric pressure cooker, and I’ve seen other people talk online about how they let theirs sit unopened because they were afraid of it exploding. Me, I’m just too busy
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I’m not gonna lie. Having (multiple) kids with (different) food allergies is not easy. In fact, many days it is down right hard. I can’t cook one meal for the whole family. I can’t just order pizza when I’m sick and have no energy to cook. At the moment I can’t even eat at a
The holiday break is over. The new year is here. That means it’s time to get back on track with healthy eating! One very important part of that is teaching your children what real, nourishing food is and why it is important. In my experience the best way to teach your kids about good food
Everyone knows not to drink the water in Mexico. Same rule should apply to theme parks and other one-day excursions. Don’t drink the $5 bottled water. It’s a rip-off! But when you’re on vacation, enjoying a special day with your family, you feel trapped. Like a lion at the zoo eating a piece of meat
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Just because everyone is doing it doesn’t mean it’s right. Generations of parents have known, understood, and parroted this fact to teenagers with raging hormones who didn’t want to hear the old adage one more time. But for some reason, when it comes to hormones in 10-year-old girls, doctors aren’t getting it. They decided that
My children, at the young ages of 5, 3, and 1, are little mirrors of the passion I have for cooking. They jump at any chance to do it, and cling to every word as I talk about seasoning, cooking technique, and fresh nourishing foods. I appreciate this as I want these children to grow
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There will be some who will say that I’m trying to ruin birthdays, that I’m an out-of-season Grinch, my heart clearly two sizes too small (likely from lack of sugar and white flour, they’ll snidely surmise). There will be plenty who will point fingers at me and inquire why I think I should have the
Knowing what food is healthy is not something kids just know. You have to teach your kids how to eat. Start when they are young with simple rules to start a life of better health. Your mission, if you choose to accept, has nothing to do with holding a fork and spoon properly. I want
I’m a people watcher, when I get an opportunity. I like to wonder about what other people are doing, their motivations, their “story” that day. Lately, I don’t need statistics to tell me that the nation has an obesity problem. I can see it with my own eyes. Sometimes I try to estimate the percentage
“I don’t even want to go to a barbecue at my boss’s house this summer, because it might not be any fun with all our food restrictions,” my husband admitted to me last week. “What if they offer the kids a juice pouch, or the dreaded freezer pops with artificial colors? And then there’s the
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There are a couple reasons I realized I wasn’t called to homeschool, although I gave it a go for 3-year-old preschool and failed miserably once I started blogging and Paul was four. As a former teacher with a mean streak of perfectionism, I was never satisfied with the curriculum. I knew I would forever be
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