Raising healthy eaters- Making mealtimes work with toddlers

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 young children (see this post and also this one), here are some ideas from our house on the actual preparation and presentation of meals. We keep breakfasts very simple [...]

The Great Debate- Washing our fruits and vegetables

Q&A: Online sources for whole grains

Two hearty whole grain bread recipes

Spring cleaning for your plastics!

Q&A: Whole grain breakfasts and snacks for toddlers

We currently give our 15 mo. son oatmeal for breakfast, and I usually mix it with unsweetened applesauce for a little bonus. He seems to be getting bored with it, and I wondered what you do for breakfast with a toddler? He has other things in addition (fruit, yogurt, and sometimes a muffin if we have them), so I'm wanting to ask specifically about whole grains.Also, do you have any snack suggestions beyond the typical Cheerios? Thanks for your help!Carrie

Making good use of my dehydrator

About 14-16 cups sprouted buckwheat (I get this amount by sprouting two medium sized packages of the whitish-green, not the dark brown kasha, buckwheat from my baking aisle in the grocery store- it's probably about 4-5 cups of dry buckwheat).3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil3/4 cup raw honey1 coffee grinder's worth of ground flax seeds 2 coffee grinder's worth of ground raw sesame seeds (you can interchange these two somewhat- I was low on sesame seeds, so I did 2 grinder's of flax and only [...]

Raising Healthy Eaters- Involving Children in Choosing and Cooking Food

kitchen chair

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: Image by qmonic Some days both of the chairs from my daughter's little table set join us in the kitchen, and sometimes she drags in one of the big ones like this from the dining room instead. Whatever the chair (or chairs) du jour, if I am [...]