food

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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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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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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Think About Food

October 16, 2010




I am sometimes accused of asking too much of people. Today, for World Food Day, I want to make a simple request. I want you to think about food. I’m not going to tell you to boycott certain companies or certain ingredients. I’m not going to tell you how much to eat or what to [...]

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Play Food

July 26, 2010




There are some really bad kids toys out there. Jaw droppingly bad. And when I saw this one on Finding Summer’s Anti-Consumerism Link Farm post, my jaw did drop. I could see this being useful for budding documentary film producers putting on a home re-make of Supersize Me, but otherwise I wouldn’t be welcoming my [...]

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Make it about what goes in, not what comes out

April 20, 2010




With Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign happening along side ongoing promotion of incredibly unhealthy food as reasonable meal options (french fries passing as vegetables, “Lunchables” passing as lunch, Kraft Dinner passing as a reasonable donation to food insecure families, toddler meals laden with sodium passing as specially made for toddlers, [...]

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10 ways to feed your family without killing the planet (Blog Action Day)

October 15, 2009




Today is Blog Action Day 2009. Last year’s theme was poverty and I effortlessly wrote a long post about our Empathy Deficit and how it is preventing us from making poverty history. This year’s theme is climate change. Just a few days ago I was listening to Tim Flannery on CBC radio talking about his [...]

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(Not quite) Wordless Wednesday: A Tale of Two Dinners

June 24, 2009




Jack Spratt could eat no fat. his wife could eat no lean. So between the two of them, they licked the platter clean. Sounds close to the tale of my two little monkeys with diametrically opposed taste buds. Ironically, the only thing that appeared on both plates last night is also the only thing neither [...]

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