**Abbie holding fresh carrots, straight from our garden**What kind of food education are our children getting? While my husband and I were berry picking a few weekends ago, we got into a discussion about whether kids actually have an idea of where food comes from and how grateful we are that ours have the privilege ...

When I put out my request for a guest post for this very last edition of the Raising Healthy Eaters series, it didn't occur to me at the time that I had the perfect person for the task right under my very nose! Who better than the woman who has taught me so much, and ...

As this series draws to a close, I thought it would be helpful to share a list of our favorite, healthy and easy-to-make snacks, and I've given you the opportunity to do the same below. If you have missed any of the posts in this series on Raising Healthy Eaters, here is the link to ...

Just a quick reminder that later tonight I will be posting my Raising Healthy Eaters post on healthy snack ideas for kids, and I will be putting up a Mr. Linky so that you can join in! I will make sure that the post is up by 8pm PST. The only requirement is that your ...

Before you read on through this post, I just wanted to alert you to a couple of important items mentioned at the very bottom of this post, in bold and italics- please make sure that you don't miss them! And now, on with the post... As promised, after some great discussions on other aspects of feeding ...

It's hard to get around in my kitchen these days. It's not really that it's too small, or poorly designed, or anything like that. It's mostly just because these days, my kitchen has a new, rather permanent, addition: Some days both of the chairs from my daughter's little table set join us in the kitchen, and ...

Last week's post (about Feeding Picky Toddlers) brought up some interesting issues in the comments section! I always enjoy comments that challenge my thinking and bring up great topics for discussion, and this post had several! :) I thought that this week, rather than writing another post, I would post some of the points made ...

Feeding toddlers can be a bit tricky, can't it? They're starving one minute, then they pick at their food the next. They love peaches and broccoli and chicken and rice and anything else that you offer them one week, and then the next week they don't want to eat anything but oatmeal with raisins and ...

Since I am devoting much of my time this week to evaluating the needs of the season that I am in, and creating a new schedule, I will get back to this series again next week, with the topic "Feeding picky toddlers"! If you have missed out on any parts of this series, here are all ...

One of the best things about making your own is not only that it makes the most economical sense, but that it makes even organic baby food very, very reasonably priced. Organic food is even more important when it comes to feeding babies, simply because their bodies are so much smaller and more delicate than ...