Juice is fruit, so it’s healthy, right? Not really. First, let me make clear that I’m talking about the juice you find in bottles or juice boxes in the beverages aisle at a grocery store, not the stuff people make at home with a juicer or the purchased equivalents that have to be kept cold. [...]
…the teacher will probably still serve pretzels. Last week I got an email from my first grader’s health teacher announcing that they’d be tasting healthy snacks that Friday, and parents were invited to send in some food for the class to share. Healthy snacks? Oh, now you’re speaking my language! Examples of healthy snacks included [...]
Let’s start with a confession today: I’ve never fed a real food baby once solids have been introduced. All of our babies began life with the perfect food: mother’s milk. After that, one child started with the standard rice cereal, another had a bit of rice cereal and oatmeal but much, much less than number [...]
Tags: babies·breastfeeding·feeding babies·homemade baby formula·lunch·soy·stainless steel
Spinach, sweet potatoes, zucchini…sounds like a great savory dinner, right? How about the first meal of the day? Let’s push some paradigms and challenge people to get more veggies in their breakfasts! We all know the “Food Pyramid” guide (or whatever shape it is most recently) is too heavy on the grains, but they’re getting [...]
Tags: breakfast·vegetables
The treasure trove of knowledge found in social media amazes me sometimes. I mentioned yesterday how I was able to avoid antibiotics and poke into natural remedies for basic illnesses because of the good advice I received from the KS community on Facebook and Twitter. My readers sometimes help me more than I help them. [...]
Tags: back-to-school·lunch·real food·snacks
Keeping it simple can keep everyone happy. My philosophy with my kids on many things, like movies, treats, outings, video games, and more has always been, “Don’t tell them what they’re missing and I don’t have to be the big meanie.” This is harder to accomplish as they get older, but I’ve tried as much [...]
Tags: birthdays·cakes·disposable plates·gluten free·reducing waste
My husband, you know, takes the fermented cod liver oil in capsule form. He struggles to even help give it to the kids because sometimes he might get some on his hands and have to smell it. He therefore gets to sit around and laugh at all the faces we all make while we swallow [...]
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