One of the scariest things to me about today’s food is when items have genetically modified ingredients. I know many people don’t care and feel like we are improving our food. However, when there are genetic parts of fish put in vegetables to help “winterize” plants and pesticides actually grown into corn, I am leery….
You guys, I admit. So many days I am a horrible housewife. And so many days, like today, I look at the clock and it’s 3:00pm and I have no idea what I am going to do for food and I am scrambling for quick ideas to save the family dinner. Because, I don’t want…
As a household that strives to offer healthy toddler snacks, it can still be difficult with picky tendencies and just the fact that toddlers can be so strong willed! I am so excited to share a guest post with you today from Dr. Orlena Kerek from the blog Snotty Noses. She has so awesome tips…
Learning in the kitchen is a fun way to engage toddlers. I know that my 20 month old is obsessed with food right now, making this tot school theme more appropriate than I realized when planning almost a year ago. Because life caught up to us and we are behind in tot school, learning in…
Raising a non-picky eater can be a difficult task in today’s society. There are so many foods that kids would prefer over what is healthy. In all of my research and in all of my experience with kids, I have found that picky eaters typically start at the time of starting solids. Parents many times…
So many family traditions and memories are centered around food, and rightly so. Food is what sustains us, so memories around making food or sitting together at the table are important. However, I am a firm believer in eating healthy and responsibly. I do not want to feed my child refined carbs or sugars, especially…
Make apple cider with kids that they might just love and involve them in the process. With smell being one of the strongest memory triggers, the smell of hot apple cider and cinnamon in the air is such a wonderful reminder of how much I love this season! One of my daughter’s birthday presents was…