Kids Cuisine

Today at the breakfast table, I broke the news that it was “Family Cleaning Day,” and proceeded to list a series of chores I thought the kids could handle independently while I tackled a deadline for work. Clearing the breakfast dishes, I reminded everyone of their duties and headed off to my desk with visions […]

Leave it to my daughter to come up with a clever new snack idea. As I was putting the finishing touches on a batch of homemade marinara sauce, Abigail walked in from school, ravenous as usual. I told her I would be a minute before I could find her a snack, and turned […]

My review copy of Michael Recycle landed on my front porch just in time for an afternoon playdate… and ended up being the topic of conversation for the rest of the afternoon. The kids, ages 5 through 8, loved the bold coloring of the fantastic illustrations and found the writing to be hilarious!
Michael Recycle […]

The odds were stacked pretty well against Amy’s Kitchen before I even opened the first box of the company’s new organic frozen kids meals. For one thing, two out of three of my kids have a distinct distrust of new foods. Those two girls also have an uncanny sense for knowing when something is organic […]

“My Bag and Me” is a new book, released from Penton Kids Press just in time for Earth Day, 2008. Shaped like a grocery bag, this board book is just the thing to get toddlers excited about going green at the market.
This story follows a little boy on a shopping trip with his mother and […]

Perhaps it’s a little odd to whip out the ice cream machine when the thermometer outside is barely nudging sixty, but what can I say, I’m an optimist — with a desperate yearning for warmer weather. That, and I find myself at the change of seasons with a taste for spring and a surplus of […]

My four-year-old son Zander is in a phase right now where he asks if everything he eats is healthy for him. When I acknowledge that yes, what he is eating is healthy, he smiles and gobbles up whatever it is. If I tell him that something is not healthy, but it’s okay to […]

Lizzie Marie’s Tasty Tidbits Cooking Classes recently launched in our community and parents are shocked! Feedback we’ve received from participants’ parents include:
“I cannot believe my child ate healthy foods at your class and loved them!”
“My child never tries anything new… but she ate everything in class!”
“My daughter begged me to stop at the store […]

I just love it when hotels not only think of kids, but actually put some thought into interesting, cultural activities for child guests. There is a hotel that is, in fact, catering to foodie kids (or at least the offspring of foodies), which is all the better.
The Loews Las Vegas Resort just announced a new […]

At our local elementary school, we recently began a program called Cancel-A-Car that encourages families to take action at home to offset carbon emissions from cars. After the school-wide launch assembly, where a mama polar bear and her cub discover that their home is melting, the kids were excited to learn what they could to […]