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Mealtime Manners

Mealtime manners begin before the food is even placed on the table. Children should wait until the family is seated before beginning to eat. One way to accomplish this is to serve your meals family-style. The food is served from platters on the table. Food isn’t placed on individual plates until after you’ve said grace. […]

Keep Produce Fresh, Longer

Did you hear that? Bang, Kaboom, pow!
It’s my fruit and veggies fighting again! You may think your kids fight a lot, but fruit and vegetables don’t like each other at all. They’re probably fighting right now in your refrigerator, too!
The solution for happy produce is to keep fruit and veggies apart from one another. Manufacturers […]

Organic Snacking Is Really Affordable

I made a trip to the grocery store in preparation for talk. We constantly hear how expensive organic foods are and I wanted to make my own cost-comparison: Processed Snacks to Organic Munchies. How much will purchasing organic foods actually impact your budget? Turns out it depends.
We know organic cost more than conventionally grown fruit and veggies. It’s usually a good thing to compare […]

Fat Is Bad, Right?

You have a fat head!
You do, you know. Fat makes up over 60 percent of your brain, so you have a fat head.
Dispite what you may have heard, fat is good. Every body needs fat; although we need the right kinds of fat. In fact, Omega-3 oils are vital for good health.
Toddlers need approximately 35 […]

Bread Should Be ‘The Staff of Life’

Bread is the foundation of good nutrition. That’s real bread. Whole grains include all three parts of the grain kernel: the bran, the outer layer or the fiber; the endosperm containing the complex carbohydrates; and the germ containing B and E vitamins, phytochemicals, and antioxidants.White or refined flours remove the bran and germ to provide […]

Do Americans Eat Better?

We regularly lie about three things: sex, money, and what we eat.
We lie most about what we eat. Because we desperately want to believe we eat a healthy diet; we comfort ourselves with lies and food myths. We believe we eat better than most of the world!
Americans are fatter than the rest of the world, […]

Transform Your Picky Eater

Children are experts at parent manipulation. If you have a picky eater, you know firsthand how frustrating it can be to get her to eat one tidbit of nutritious food.
Picky eaters have built a wall of resistance to avoid eating nutritious foods. They love fast foods and junk foods, while refusing to eat whole foods, […]