Kids Cuisine

When I was at Costco today with my son, something caught my attention. While I am accustomed to seeing the brightly colored, fake flavored Go-Gurt yogurt tubes, I have never seen a Go-Gurt package with the word “Simple” on it. Hmmm. What could this mean? Has a major food manufacturer caught on to the fact […]

Every time I see Stretch Island Fruit Co.™’s  Fruit Leather, I wonder why it isn’t in the snack aisle with the other fruit snacks.  Sure, Fruit Roll Ups have fun with their packaging and are pretty close in the amount of calories to Fruit Leather, about 50 calories.  But, Fruit Leather have the upper hand, as […]

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 […]

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 […]

It’s that time of year when, after a relaxed summer, both parents and kids have to start thinking (and sometimes stressing) about what to pack for a healthy lunch. When I was young, each kid in our family made their own lunch, and this often led to some pretty interesting (and not necessarily healthy) combinations. […]

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, […]

Editor’s note: Let’s welcome Chris Arpante to the Kids Cuisine team!
Although the school year is wrapping up (here, anyway), it’s never too late to bring attention to childhood obesity and what kids eat. I have always had issues with school lunches, even growing up. However, I was fortunate to have my mom pack […]

Peanut butter is one of our household’s favorite staples. We love peanut butter as a sandwich spread, dip, cracker spread, or occasionally in a sweet treat. Shoot, we’ve all been known to just dip in a spoon and eat the peanut butter straight up. More recently, though, I started wondering how it would work to […]

My children love fruit leathers and fruit snacks, so when the opportunity came up to try Fruitabu’s line of Organic Smooshed Fruit Flats, we jumped at the chance. Our sample happened to be apricot flavored, and the ingredient list consisted of organic apple puree concentrate, organic apricot puree concentrate, and organic lemon juice concentrate. […]

These homemade granola bars are chewy, sweetened with honey and brown sugar, and easily customized to suit your family’s tastes. Feel free to add chocolate or peanut butter chips, replace the raisins or cranberries with dried cherries or chopped dried apricots, or add sunflower or sesame seeds for added protein. If you’re having one of […]