Kids Cuisine

Cooking meals at home from basic ingredients is usually healthier than picking up processed and pre-packaged convenience food. But kids (at least my kids) seem to have an intrinsic preference for food that comes in packages.
So I wasn’t surprised at the shear excitement my 6- and 3-year-old sons displayed when they saw the stash of […]

Even kids who enjoy cooking and helping in the kitchen aren’t always in the mood. Who is?
In our home, kitchen gadgets have kept the kids interested longer than they would have been otherwise. The boys use the tools for their intended purpose or they make up new uses all together. In any event, the tools […]

I tried it, I really did. I made some food look funny to see if my kids would eat without complaining. The idea is that they would be so tickled they would forget to think about the actual food and just eat it.
I had read Brian Wansink’s article earlier that day about how to change […]

With kids in the house, good snack options are a must. To me, a good snack maintains the delicate balance between taste and nutrition. It’s easy to make a delicious snack — classic chocolate chip cookies — but if we make those, we’ll spend two or three days eating way too many until they’re gone. […]

Today is exactly three weeks past Halloween. Did you worry about how to deal with all the candy your kids brought home? As I listened to friends with young children discuss various schemes for limiting candy, I wondered if this is one example of worrying about the wrong things.
I’m a nutritionist, so people often ask […]