Kids Cuisine

The Chicago Tribune published an article this past week titled “Why won’t Johnny eat broccoli?” It discussed how nurturing your child’s palate can encourage more healthful eating.
The article gave several tips on “how to get out of a chicken fingers-and-fries rut and raise an adventurous eater:”
1. Take Control - the parent needs to play an […]

I love me some cupcakes, and I’m no kid.  Luckily, our five-year-old son serves as the perfect guise for my cupcake capers.  Popular Food Network cook Rachael Ray has been thinking along the same lines lately too, whipping up a bounty of sugary delights that take a little bit of a walk on the wild side […]

It never ceases to amaze me what becomes a big business these days.  Things that have certainly crossed our minds more than once… more often than not, it’s a question of actually following through when an idea is hatched, and that’s just what Kristi Thomas, 39, did back in March of 2002.  She launched Lunchology, […]

Unfortunately just in time for back-to-school activities, approximately 56,000 lunchboxes were recalled last week in the state of California. They were made in China and given out at various health fairs and public events to promote healthy eating. There is a chance they may contain lead, and recent testing found elevated lead levels […]

My preschooler and I don’t always like the same foods. When we got a few flavors of Stretch Island Fruit Co. fruit leathers, we both reached first for different flavors. Just like a kid, she wanted the purple (a.k.a. Harvest Grape). I grabbed the Country Cranberry Raspberry.
I asked her how she liked it. “This tastes […]

My almost 2-year-old daughter, Ava, is always wanting to sit on the kitchen counter when I’m cooking. She sits there humming her own sweet tunes, wanting to smell everything and anything I slice or dice. Ava also has a miniature, plastic kitchen that she loves to pretend to cook with, putting plastic pots and pans […]

These might be “kid-approved,” but not by my kid. As much as he loves their counterpart, regular Go-Gurts, he took one taste of the new Go-Gurts Fizzix and spit it out. I couldn’t convince him to give it another try, nor give the other flavors a shot. He was having none of […]

Luis is a little boy from Australia with an infectious love of food. His adventures are chronicled almost daily on Noggin in little shorts scattered throughout the viewing day. My children love to watch Luis cook up a storm- and the little boy does it all, from the grocery shopping to the cooking. […]

When I was still in school, there was a big scandal when the first President Bush defended nutritionally poor lunches by saying, “Ketchup is a vegetable.” In some places, this kind of thinking hasn’t changed much, but many school systems are taking the initiative to provide truly healthy and nutritious lunch options.
Does your local school rise […]

I was so thrilled to see the first pumpkins appear at my local grocery store. To me, that is the signal of the unofficial beginning of the harvest season, the fall, pumpkin patches, pumpkin pies and jack-o-lanterns. The great thing about pumpkin is that it is associated with so many things that are fun for […]