Wondering what produce is in season? Check out these three sites!

I remember as a kid the excitement of seeing certain fruits and vegetables in the market as the seasons changed. We ate more root vegetables like yams in the winter, and eagerly awaited the arrival of mangoes in summer. Now due to the convenience of modern civilization, everything is available all the time. Apples used [...]

Where does your milk come from?

Are you curious to know where your milk or dairy product comes from?  All those codes on the milk bottle actually do have a meaning besides the expiration date and the best use of date.  It turns out you can track exactly which state and which dairy farm produced your milk.  This website, whereismymilkfrom.com turns [...]

When toddlers won’t eat

Simone’s food menu for yesterday: 1 Zucchini and onion cheese quesadilla, ½ cup strawberries,  1 blood orange, ½ cup sesame asparagus, ¾ cup lentils with spinach with rice, 3 lamb balls, yogurt, 20 oz of milk, 1 cookie Simone’s menu for today: ½ plain croissant, ½ cup grapes, 1 bottle pediasure, 20 oz of milk, [...]

The evil sides of corn…….

Corn is everywhere in our food products.  This should be no surprise!  Most of us know about High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) and its use in majority of the processed products in the supermarkets.  Do you know the other corn products that are often added to these processed products?  I always thought that if I [...]

Healthy Shopping List Guide

Here’s a healthy shopping guide & List from WebMD that you can print and keep handy with you when you go grocery shopping next.  It lists the food that gives us the biggest punch for a healthy diet.  The list includes foods that are good for maintaining blood sugar, fruits and vegetables that have the [...]

Need Weekly Menus for Children?

Ever run out of ideas on what to feed to your little ones?  Looking for some way to plan out a week’s menu for your children?  I really like this menu planner site by Gerber!  It plans out weekly menu based on the age of the child ranging from supported sitter to a preschooler (See [...]

How to get your children to help in the kitchen

Children aged 2-5 can easily do most of the following tasks in the kitchen: Help stir ingredients in a bowl Wash fruits and vegetables Add ingredients to a bowl if supervised Hold a small handheld blender with adult supervision. Bring and put away ingredients Mash ingredients or knead dough – basically anything that they can use [...]

Name your veggies

A study by Cornell University, where they observed about a 190 4 years old, found that giving creative names to the vegetables results in children eating twice as many vegetables. For Example: Call Carrots — X-Ray Vision Carrots or Spinach – Superhero Spinach Do you have any funny names for vegetables that you use?  Please [...]

Hot air or paper towel to dry hands?

When given a choice of using hot air or paper towel to dry hands for children, use the paper towel.  The advantage of using paper towel is that the act of rubbing the paper on the little hands removes a significant number of  residual germs  left after washing something that is not easily done with [...]

The secret ingredient in Kid’s Pizza…….

is SUGAR!  According to a recent Reader’s Digest article on 20 secrets your waiter won’t tell you, a waitress at a well known Pizza chain said that they add sugar in the dough so that the kids will like the pizza more.  That’s a pretty scary thought! As a parent you think you are ordering something [...]

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