Nutrition

Creating a Happy, Healthy Relationship Between Your Toddler and Food

January 3, 2012




For toddlers, a lot of things are about control — they want control and they’ll do anything to get it. Food often becomes a battleground for families, with parents wanting them to eat nutritious food, to sit properly at the table, and to learn to eat what is put in front of them. High expectations [...]

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How to Survive and Thrive While Grocery Shopping with Your Toddler

December 19, 2011




 This next guest post is a great transition from the topicsof toddler survival into the topic of toddler food. Please welcome Aimée from the amazing food blog Simple Bites with some great tips on surviving the grocery shopping experience with toddlers. We must have looked a sight, my three-year-old, Mateo and I. It was my [...]

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Parents vs. Junk Food: Who Is To Blame?

December 7, 2011




Once again, the media is looking at the question of who is to blame when children aren’t eating properly. Parents and activists (such as Corporate Accountability International) don’t want fast food and processed food companies marketing their junk to our children. Those companies, on the other hand, claim that they offer many different choices and [...]

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Planting Seeds of Change

October 16, 2011




We’ve all heard the saying “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” This proverb can be so aptly applied to so many different situations. When I think about how to best help people in need, regardless of the [...]

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Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes…

October 11, 2011




Last week my partner went out to our friend’s organic farm and picked tomatoes. Lots of tomatoes. Big ones, small ones. Red ones, green ones, and orange ones. This weekend, I turned most of them from tomatoes into pasta sauce, with smaller amounts going toward ratatouille, salsa and fried green tomatoes. Some are cooked and [...]

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Summer Enjoyment Guide to Eating with Kids

August 9, 2011




This is a guest post by Kristin from Peace Love and Muesli, a great blog with plenty of healthy ideas for families. She probably wins the prize for the blogger I’ve known the longest. We were both heading out to BlogHer ’11 last week and she agreed to write a fun guest post for my [...]

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Fuel for Human Bodies: Our Complex Relationship with Food

July 7, 2011




This is a post about families and food, poverty and privilege, accessibility and convenience, taste and nutrition,  consumerism and profit, affordability and sustainability. This is a post about our complex relationship with the way we fuel our bodies that cannot begin to do the topic justice. Healthy eating? Whose responsibility is it? You’ve heard it [...]

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From Farmers and Gardens to Plate

June 26, 2011




I have food on the mind lately. I’m trying to feed our family better and I’m also working on a post in my head as a follow up to the McDonald’s post. I want to talk about our food system, our relationship with it, how it impacts our lives, and what needs to change. But [...]

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Leftover Cereal Chocolate Chip Cookies

June 25, 2011




Recently on Care2, I wrote a post called Does Your Annual Food Waste Exceed Your Body Waste? It has some pretty scary statistics on the amount of food that we waste in the developing world. We always try to keep the amount of food that we waste to a minimum and I’m always frustrated when [...]

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McDonald’s Canada’s All-Access Moms

June 22, 2011




Have you heard about the partnership between McDonald’s Canada and CityLine (a Canadian daytime television show targeted at women)?  They are working together to provide a FABULOUS opportunity for Canadian mom bloggers called McDonald’s All-Access Moms, where real moms get to “go behind the Golden Arches.” Apparently all the cool mom bloggers in Canada got [...]

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