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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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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Can we get high school kids to eat healthier foods?

November 7, 2010




From Jamie Oliver to new provincial nutritional standards and policies for schools, many school districts in North America have been pushing to improve nutritional standards. Some have set specific targets for eliminating trans fats and reducing levels of sugar and fat. Others have banned deep fryers and soft drinks. But, as the food in schools [...]

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Healthy Processed Foods (they do exist!)

November 1, 2010




I’ve become a compulsive label reader. I used to just buy whatever tasted good and ensure I had a good variety in my diet and assumed all would be good. I didn’t realize how much junk companies are adding into processed foods and how much better I would feel and how much healthier I would [...]

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The high-fructose corn syrup bloggers: A symptom of a larger problem?

October 7, 2010




Almost exactly one year after the Nestle Family bloggers, we now have the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) bloggers, otherwise known as the “Corn Sugar” bloggers (note: HFCS is known as glucose/fructose in Canada). Like Nestle a year ago, the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) invited a bunch of bloggers to listen to their one-sided version of [...]

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Good Nutrition: Nestlé is part of the problem, not part of the solution

October 5, 2010




A little bird provided me with a copy of a Nestlé news release that was being circulated via e-mail today. It seems Nestlé has teamed up with the American Academy of Pediatrics on a Healthy Active Living Initiative.  According to the news release: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), with support from the Nestlé Nutrition [...]

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Social Media School Snack!

September 7, 2010




My kids both have a great little tasty package waiting for them in their lunch boxes today. It is the culmination of searching, testing, shopping, hinting, and baking. So what are those, you may ask? They are mini nut-free granola balls, similar to the very unhealthy sugary processed packaged ones my kids constantly begged me [...]

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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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