Kids Cuisine

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 […]

Funny how it’s the little things you are proud of. We were eating dinner out, pizza, for the Kiddo’s birthday. One pizza had meatballs on it. The waitress asks us if we like our dinner. The Kiddo tries a meatball, picks at the pizza, and looks at the waitress and says, “These meatballs aren’t like […]

School lunches don’t have to be junky processed foods like pizza, hot dogs, and chicken nuggets. A University of Minnesota study has found that school lunch sales don’t decline when healthier meals are served, and that more nutritious lunches don’t necessarily cost schools more to produce, according to the Associated Press.
“The conventional wisdom that you […]

It can be disheartening to think of the endless parade of snacks targeted at kids. Colorful packages, creative characters, and flavorful snacks full of unhealthy fats and sweeteners are dangled in front of our little ones. Luckily, a couple of moms have teamed up to offer healthier options for packaged snacks to be enjoyed on […]

Every six years, the Center for Disease Control conducts a survey of the status of school nutrition and wellness. Given that legislation passed in 2004 mandated the development and activation of nutrition and wellness programs in every school by the year 2006, it’s not a surprise that some improvements were made.
According to the survey, called […]

Attention parents: Are you interested in feeding your children healthy food, the smart and easy way? Lunch Lessons, Changing the Way We Feed our Children by Ann Cooper and Lisa M. Holmes is a must-have book. The authors are graduates of the Culinary Institute of America and are employed by educational institutions. Together they apply […]

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 […]

It never ceases to amaze me what becomes a big business these days.  Things that have certainly crossed our minds more than once… more often than not, it’s a question of actually following through when an idea is hatched, and that’s just what Kristi Thomas, 39, did back in March of 2002.  She launched Lunchology, […]