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Families are diverse and so are the ways in which they eat. While one family may gather around the dinner table and say grace, another may pack a picnic to bring to the soccer field, and another might eat in shifts as people get home. Furthermore, the same family may resort to different approaches depending on the needs of the night. In my house, for example, Monday nights include a band rehearsal for one son

Thank you to NanoSalad for sponsoring this post. All opinions are my own. Whenever I give workshops on how to raise healthy and happy eaters (if you want me to visit your community to speak about this or other issues related to cooking for and feeding your family, please get in touch!), one of the questions that I get every time is: how do I get my kid to eat fruits and vegetables? It is

Got a celebration or party coming up? These healthy party foods are great to make with kids, so that you can involve them in the fun, too! As you may or may not know, I am a huge proponent of cooking with your kids. But I also know that inviting our kids into the kitchen on a daily basis is nearly impossible (who has the time for that?!). If you would like to start cooking

Peanut butter isn’t only for sandwiches and apple slices! In this article we share tips on how to cook with peanut butter and some recipes to get you started. Peanut butter has kind of a bad reputation – many people see it as a high-fat, kid food (crustless PB&Js, anyone?). In my opinion, though, that’s not a fair assessment. There are a lot of nutritional, financial, and practical benefits to peanut butter that shouldn’t be

Family meals can be hard. So in an effort to help your family find its own mealtime equilibrium, I have put together some different ideas that may help you to change the dynamic at the dinner table. How to Change the Dynamic at the Dinner Table We all know that family meals are important for a vast array of reasons from helping your kids to establish healthier eating habits to decreasing the risk of teenage