Kids Cuisine

I have to admit, decorating cut-out cookies with frosting and sprinkles, and the inevitable mess of sticky-food-colored-finger-licking-and-tiny-rolling-candies-on-the-floor-mess that ensues, is one of my least favorite things about Christmas cookies.  And, of course, it tends to be the one the kids are most interested in.  Enter Sunny Seed Drops.  While this approach still involves small pieces, […]

Editor’s note: Some children with peanut allergies are also sensitive to other nuts, so please be careful with substituting other nut butter if your child has a food allergy.
You remember those jars of all-natural peanut butter with the big layer of oil on the top… the one that drips down the side when you try […]

It seems like one day you’re picking out a Spiderman lunch box, and the next your newly minted teen is asserting his preference for starvation over your homemade lunch. He’d rather eat something awash in radioactive-orange cheez-flavored pixie dust than something you lovingly prepared with your own hands.
Don’t believe me? I’m guessing you either don’t […]

You won’t catch me filling the landfill with by-products from my kids’ school lunches this year… at least most of the time. While it is hard to resist the convenience of the individually wrapped cheese stick or fruit leather, most of the foods that we pack for our lunches this year will be stored in […]

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 […]

Initially, the thought of green ice cream is not appetizing—unless of course by “green,” you mean fully sustainable and organic. Such is the case with the recently opened Three Twins Organic Ice Cream store in Oxbow Public Marketplace in Napa, CA—the only fully organic and sustainable ice cream facility in the region.
Three Twins has 70 […]

Not all kids’ cereals are created equal. There are kids’ cereals that are healthy and wholesome and are designed to provide kids with the nutrients their growing bodies require. No sugar, no drama, no prize in the box. Just minimally processed grains that cry out for the sugar bowl. When I was growing up, these are […]

Why is it that when something is little, even when it is something ordinary like a nose or a foot, it is adorable? Well, the same goes for food! Barilla had a fantastic idea when they thought to create Piccollini - miniature versions of 5 of their pasta shapes: penne, ziti, fusilli, farfalle, […]

I really like Barilla brand pasta, and I love to use small pasta shapes in my cooking, so I was very interested in giving their new Piccolini line of miniature versions of their popular pasta shapes a try. Available in four fun mini-shapes — Mini Fusilli, Mini Wheels, Mini Farfalle (bowties), and Mini Penne — […]

I swore I’d never be one of those moms who caves to the whining in the cereal aisle. I don’t care if the sugar-sweet, brightly-colored cereals are on my child’s eye level, beckoning to her with a toucan’s song. I will not succumb to the blatant marketing aimed at small children, and I most certainly […]