Kids Cuisine

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

My family eats a lot of cereal. So much, in fact, that I don’t even dust the top of the fridge - it’s covered by a protective shield of cereal boxes. There’s just four of us, and no, we don’t eat our breakfast out of washtubs, shoveling it in with ladles. But cereal is a big part […]

If your family is anything like mine, we’ve been glued to the television set in the evenings, watching every Olympic event we can.  My children have discovered that they enjoy watching all the athletes compete at their best.  We’ve had many conversations about sports and what kind of activities they might like to […]

Lizzie Marie has had an abundant summer teaching cooking classes throughout our community.  She was recently invited to teach a class at a summer camp for obese teenage girls. It was a wonderful experience and very educational for everyone in the room (participants, Lizzie, me, and the counselors).  Lizzie leads her instruction with some simple […]

A friend and I were talking about our kids’ eating habits the other day, and rattling off the list of things that they will or won’t eat.  We both concluded that while they may be a little pickier than we’d like, they still eat enough of the “good stuff” that we (and they!) are on […]

Like most other parents, I struggle from time to time with my children and vegetables.  While there is that part of me that realizes their palates are still growing and learning, there is also that part of me that wants them to enjoy everything they eat right away.  As we’ve been enjoying our own home-grown […]

Our fishing expedition on Flathead Lake this summer was comical.  Despite our best efforts, we were unable to catch anything, even though the boat next to us was reeling in fish every time we looked!  Clearly, there was something we weren’t doing right.  As a man from the next boat yelled over to us, […]