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Entries Tagged as 'Food'

Summer Recipes For Healthy Kids

July 12th, 2010 · No Comments

It’s summertime here. Aahhhhh. Living as we do in a Northern climate, we get the benefit of 4 distinct seasons. This makes for great variety, but also means that different kinds of produce are not always available at reasonable prices.
For example, we just finished up strawberry season. The boys [...]

Tags: Food · Parenting · nutrition

Reading Food Labels

May 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments

When my son was a little over one year old, we discovered he had a peanut allergy. He ate a piece of chocolate over at my mother’s house, and immediately broke out in a head to toe rash. Over the course of that year, we found out he was allergic to several foods (milk, strawberries, [...]

Tags: Food · nutrition

Not So Foodie

April 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Confession: I’m a terrible cook. A TERRIBLE cook. I have been known to screw up things as easy as hard-boiled eggs. And toast. I wish I were joking.
(Things I learned from those two experiences; 1) eggs don’t need to boil for over an hour to become hard-boiled and 2) make sure [...]

Tags: Food · Parenting

Parenting In The Media:
Dinner Makeovers for Picky Eaters

March 29th, 2010 · No Comments

Here’s a link to a step-by-step program for slowly adjusting home dinners prepared for your picky eaters. As the mom of a picky eater, I frequently search for these types of articles. Here’s one that came to my inbox today:
Dinner Makeovers For Picky Eaters

Tags: Food · Parenting · health

I Need To Feel Good About My Kids Snacking

March 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments

As a parent, I’m faced with the same ‘which snacks to pack’ struggle as everyone else. Of course I want to give my kids foods they like, foods that are also good for them, but that’s not always the easiest thing to do. I usually end up grabbing for the goldfish or the wheat thins, [...]

Tags: Food · Parenting · nutrition

Meal Planning And Grocery Shopping

October 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments

My least favorite part of the day, even worse than waking up two cranky children, has got to be dinner time. I absolutely abhor dinner time, from the planning, to the cooking, to sitting down to the table only to have children who don’t want to eat this or that.
Don’t get me wrong, [...]

Tags: Childcare · Food · Uncategorized · nutrition

RePost: “Deceptively Delicious”:
Jessica Seinfeld, I lovey-love you

September 11th, 2009 · No Comments

*Note* – [This morning it was announced that the plagiarism suit against Jessica Seinfeld was dismissed. As such, it seems appropriate to repost this fantastic review of Jessica's book by the very talented Wacky Mommy (whose original post appeared here back in the latter half of 2007]
My 8-year-old daughter’s review “Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to [...]

Tags: Food · Parenting · health

Cooking for a Crowd: Banana Bread Cake

July 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

I’ve been scurrying through my recipes in preparation for our annual beach-fest.  This is the weekend that we, along with my 6 siblings, their families and my mother gather on the coast of Maine for sun and fun…  All together we are 7 siblings+6 spouses+ 24 cousins+ 1 mother.  We’ve been getting together for the [...]

Tags: Food

My Eating Confession

April 18th, 2009 · No Comments

I am about to begin my second season of triathlons. I’ve been seriously training for them for the last couple of months, but even in my off time I am proud to say that I was still going into the gym. The other part of the training not surprisingly is watching what I [...]

Tags: Activities · Beauty, Health & Fitness · Food · health

Changes: Enriched Flour vs. Whole Grain Flour

March 18th, 2009 · 13 Comments

One of the hardest changes I’ve made to my family’s diet is switching from white breads to whole grain breads. It’s been a struggle to get everyone accustomed to the taste and although my husband still doesn’t love it, we know that it’s a necessary change. We both want to up the fiber content and [...]

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