Kids Cuisine

Recently, I talked about healthier school lunch options, particularly ones involving more fruits and veggies. Despite what many kids and, sadly, some school administrators think, pizza sauce and french fries do not count as a serving of vegetables.
The trouble is, it can be hard to convince some kids that veggies are tasty and fun lunch […]

When I was still in school, there was a big scandal when the first President Bush defended nutritionally poor lunches by saying, “Ketchup is a vegetable.” In some places, this kind of thinking hasn’t changed much, but many school systems are taking the initiative to provide truly healthy and nutritious lunch options.
Does your local school rise […]

This is the time of year when everyone is talking about healthy lunches, but so far on Kids’ Cuisine, we haven’t discussed healthy breakfast. If your kid is going to have a happy and successful day at school, he or she needs to start the day with a well-balanced, filling meal. This can be hard […]

I just got back from a week in Alaska, and it was awesome! If you ever get a chance to go in late summer or early fall, jump on it! Why? The salmon are jumping! Each year, salmon swim upstream from the ocean to small rivers near the Alaskan coast to mate. We spent a […]

I was never a big fan of candy necklaces when I was a kid. The candy wasn’t very tasty, and once you started to eat parts of it, the remaining candy tended to get sticky. Yuck. I can, however, appreciate the idea of having a little snack to carry around with you.
FT Bletsas, a Greek […]

Does your kid love to make up new recipes? Does he or she happen to enjoy a burger, especially one with interesting toppings? If so, I’ve got the perfect contest for your family!
Red Robin, home of delicious burgers and chicken sandwiches, is starting a kids’ cooking contest for ages 6 to 12. Between now and […]

I love pressed sandwiches. There’s just something magic that happens when all of the ingredients are pressed tightly together. I’ve thought about getting a panini press for years, but it always seemed like overkill to waste money and space on a device with just limited use.
An article in this week’s New York Times food section […]

There’s a new study out that explains why it can be so hard to get kids to eat healthy food. Researchers at Stanford followed preschoolers in a Head Start program in California. The kids were given samples of burgers, chicken nuggets, french fries, juice, milk, and carrots — one of each was unbranded, and one […]

This is Fair Food Part 2: Attack of the Grease!

On Tuesday, we talked about introducing your kids to produce and livestock at the fair. Today we tackle a more controversial subject, fair food — the greasy delights found along the midway at every fair.
Funnel cakes are a fair classic — cake batter drizzled into a […]

It’s that time of year — summer is in full swing, the heat is on — it must be fair time! My local paper, The Washington Post, ran a huge listing of local county and state fairs in the Weekend section this week, and it really got me excited about the possibilities for exploring.
The fair […]