Can you start to see fall? Can you start to smell it? Getting excited for it?
I AM!! Fall is my favorite and my best (as Lola and Abby would say) it just makes me so happy! While at the Farmer’s Market (well the few times) is when I started seeing Fall.
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After School Snacks
Snacks can and should be a part of every child’s balanced diet
An afternoon snack is not just an indulgence: active kids with fast metabolisms and small-capacity tummies need a between-meal pick-me-up on a regular basis. It can be 6 hours or longer [...]
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Two pancakes my girls LOVE and I feel good about making for them.
-I use Lehi Mills Heart Healthy Pancake Mix and add in pureed butternut squash or sweet potato or pumpkin with some cinnamon.
-My daughter named these PINKY-DOO Pancakes, the recipe is from Jessica Seinfeld’s Deceptively [...]
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It is so crazy to me that where I live it is back to school time, must be because winter lasted so long summer didn’t get a real chance.
So the least you can do to make it up to your kids is to send them off with some yummy healthy [...]
I wish I could say I came up with the saying, “Don’t Dummy Down Your Kid’s Food” but alas someone said it on one of my favorite summertime reality TV shows, The Next Food Network Star.
But ya know, it is really something I live by. I refuse to “dummy down” my kids food.
One of my [...]
How to Raise Healthy Eaters
Raising children with good eating habits will be essential to their health and lifestyle as they grow older. Here are a few tips to help you:
For Infants
Babies acquire eating habits and preferences early so it is good to have a healthy start.
-Offer a variety of food to ensure a well balanced [...]
I know for some of you the first thing you picture when you think of cooking with your children or letting them cook is this:
And yes this is an actual picture of after I let my child help me make dinner.
But you know what? Even though she is only two I could see her in [...]
I have failed many years in a row at doing a garden. This year I decided to do a very basic herb garden and so far so good I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Gardening with kids is an excelled way to share quality time with them, teach them some basic botany, and instill in [...]
Every Monday night I record John & Kate plus Eight and look forward to the time that I can sit down and watch it. It is the only TV program that my daughter will watch with me because I tell her, “It’s the KID show!”
There was one episode where they were taking the two older [...]
I finally found what I have been looking for…a great resource to help me know how to buy locally and support my local farmers.
http://www.localharvest.org/
ALSO another great site (the purple rice is fun, very tasty, and went really well with my potato coconut curry-massaman curry) to purchase products that help farmers in 3rd world countries.
http://www.altereco-usa.com/main.php
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