Kids Cuisine

My kids, like most little kids, love to dip. I’ve tried to take advantage of that to work some new or previously rejected foods into their repertoire. I quickly realized they were thwarting my attempts to get them to eat veggies by using the veggies as mere spoons to deliver dip.
Then I realized that wasn’t […]

MyRecipes.com is running a fun special now featuring a Month of 100-Calorie Snacks. Although it isn’t geared to kids, I can hardly think of people who like snacks more than children. It is often a challenge to come up with healthy snacks kids will enjoy, but some of these recipes sound pretty kid-friendly.
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It is a rare thing to feed a dish to my whole family and have them unanimously love it. One daughter likes to declare, “I don’t like this! I want something else!” even when given an old favorite.
Another daughter doesn’t want to touch anything but cookies, crackers, and generally bad foods. My husband was perfectly […]

I have just switched to working at home all but one day a week, and food was a major reason for my decision. That might sound strange, but it has been difficult to be a foodie mom and a working mom.
I love to cook, and I believe strongly in feeding healthy, fresh meals to my […]

I knew before we even started that it would end badly, but I thought the kids would have a lot of fun making a gingerbread house. I was right on both points.
When we went shopping a couple weeks ago, my daughter spotted a gingerbread house kit and, oh, she wanted it. It sounded like a […]

I always love finding ways to actually get my 4-year-old daughter, who just recently proclaimed to me, “I don’t like vegetables,” to willingly choose to eat vegetables. It’s always hit or miss. Some days she loves one type of veggie, then hates it the next day.
Yesterday, she actually was eager to put vegetables on a […]

School lunches don’t have to be junky processed foods like pizza, hot dogs, and chicken nuggets. A University of Minnesota study has found that school lunch sales don’t decline when healthier meals are served, and that more nutritious lunches don’t necessarily cost schools more to produce, according to the Associated Press.
“The conventional wisdom that you […]

I’ve already gotten the question about what my children want for Christmas. Knowing that one loves to cook, and hoping the other two will love it when they get older, I’ve been putting together a wish list for my cooking (and aspiring mini chef) kids. Here are some must-haves for your little sous chefs:

Cookbooks for […]

I found it disturbing, although sadly not surprising, to read in this recent post on new diet guidelines for children under age 2 that the most common vegetable for toddlers is French fries. How insane is that?
So it got me thinking that perhaps it’s time we parents just boycott French fries for kids. We will […]

There are often discussions and tips about going organic with your kids. In fact, there are entire lines of packaged baby foods, toddler snacks, and children’s juices that are organic. It’s sometimes interesting to me how little emphasis there is on feeding your children meals with locally-grown ingredients.
I won’t even get into the debate over […]