Kids Cuisine

One of the benefits of cooking with kids for a living is that people often want to know what I think of their products. Our cooking classes for children and our bustling household are both good venues for testing products and ingredients: How do snacks taste? How do tools work with kids, inexperienced and […]

Pancakes are one food that should be in every parent’s arsenal of secret weapons. Kid have a bad day? It’s “Breakfast for Dinner Night” to the rescue! Kid have a good day? Celebrate with “Breakfast for Dinner Night!” And there’s no shame in serving pancakes for dinner, especially when everyone’s in a rush. They cook […]

This week my family is under siege from that annual bad-guy “The Cold”. As we’re all busy sniffling, sneezing, coughing, and feeling lethargic, food can sometimes take a backseat. When we’re all feeling like we have no energy, it’s so easy to embrace the siren call of convenience. Canned soup, blue box […]

Q: I can’t afford healthy food, what do I do?
A: The ability to “afford healthy food” is a matter of priority. We all have a choice as to how we spend our income. If you are serious about living healthy and you doubt your capability to pay for healthy food, it is important […]

This afternoon, my daughter had a wonderful idea. “We should have a fruit party, mom!” Indeed, we should!
I’d love to think the years of pro-fresh-produce brainwashing from me are finally paying off, but I think she actually got the idea from daycare on Friday. There was a birthday party for the woman who runs the […]

When my kids were preschool age, our family relocated from the Midwest to Southern California. Quite a change in lifestyle for us. My husband took a new job and worked obscenely long hours and had frequent trips out-of-town. Feeling like a fish out of water and lacking in adult camaraderie, the kids […]

Broccoli and my five-year-old son are not friends. ‘Tis a shame because I do love the stuff. The only way I have gotten him to eat it is in one pasta dish. Since he loves fruit and some other vegetables (even artichokes!), I’ll take what I can get.
I’m not a big fan […]

The other night I was hard-boiling some eggs to send with my husband in his lunch during the week. (He’s found that one hard-boiled egg is the perfect energy boost when he is in the need of a pick-me-up.) As I took the eggs off the stove to shock in cold water, my […]

As the New Year unfolds, my daughter, Lizzie Marie, and I are honored to have an opportunity to provide healthy meals for a local chiropractor’s clients who are participating in a Body by God challenge. Our goal is to educate how simple and easy it is to prepare healthy foods, especially High Mileage Meals. […]

I recently grabbed a copy of, “Toddler Meals: Lifesaving Recipes and Advice for Making Fun, Nutritious Food,” in search of some new ideas for feeding my toddlers. Sometimes it can seem like they get just a little too much banana and cubed cheese.
Between picky tendencies of toddlers, looking for food that is healthy but acceptable, […]