Kids Cuisine

These frozen banana treats are a hit with the whole family.  The kids will especially love to come home from school to see these waiting in the freezer for them!  My boys shared these with their friends and they were eaten in no time.  There were definitely smiles across the whole table!  Use cute toothpicks […]

It occurs to me that kiwifruit have a lot in common with kittens. Small, fuzzy, beloved by children — they’re edible cuteness (um, kiwis, that is, not kittens). Interestingly, kiwifruit are actually berries, hence their other handle, the “Chinese gooseberry.”
In our family, we like to eat our kiwifruit raw - in thick slices or diced and mixed into fruit salads. I […]

School starts up again next week, and like any other food-conscious parent, I’m already frazzled when it comes to lunchtime for my school-age daughter. When she first started school three years ago, we sent her off to school with cold lunches, lovingly made each and every day by mom.  Halfway through the year though, she […]

A super simple and quick lunch or dinner, Tunallini has an amazing flavor when Italian Flott brand tuna is used.
2 servings.
INGREDIENTS:
1 (2.8 ounce) can Italian tuna, packed in olive oil
1 (15 ounce) can Cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
2 tablespoons Red onion, minced
1– 2 tablespoons Red wine vinegar
To taste Sea salt and pepper
Empty tuna into medium […]

There are some things kids just love to make. Once we bought my daughter a cupcake making kit, she harassed me incessently until we pulled it out and made some cupcakes. We did everything the manual way that we could, including mixing with an old-fashioned mixer.
It was actually a pretty lengthy process, but in the […]

Except for the occasional carton of OJ, we don’t have juice in the house. The adults aren’t big juice drinkers and when my first son was born, I wanted to prevent the daily addiction to juice drinking. Both my kids have since been to preschool, where they did have juice at lunch. But a need […]

It’s that time of year when, after a relaxed summer, both parents and kids have to start thinking (and sometimes stressing) about what to pack for a healthy lunch. When I was young, each kid in our family made their own lunch, and this often led to some pretty interesting (and not necessarily healthy) combinations. […]

The days are growing shorter, the school buses are out becoming familiar with the new routes, pencils are being sharpened, and lunch boxes are being broken out of summer storage.  Every day creeps us closer and closer to that impending first day of school, and the official end of summer that comes with it.  But […]

It has been just over a year since I went to Honduras on the Educator’s Study Tour with Heifer International, and I am feeling quite nostalgic.  As an ode to our adventure and my life-changing experience, I thought I’d post an article that I wrote at the request of a local magazine.  Soon after I […]

School is starting up again here in the south.  While some county systems have already gotten underway, our students have another week of freedom. But, that week will pass quickly, and the time to think about school lunches will be here before we know it.
In the spring, I wrote about how easy it is to […]