Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food, Health, parenting on Aug 30th, 2012
I’m always fascinated by the way kids think. Why they do the things that they do. I love how loyal they are. I also love how susceptible they are to suggestion. I can vividly remember getting Big Girl to eat her dinner by telling her that so-and-so, a friend from nursery school, LOVED what we [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Going Green, Health on Aug 22nd, 2012
This weekend my husband got mad at me. The kids wanted to bring two juice boxes each along to the beach. I said no, substituting one reusable water bottle for one of the juice boxes. “What are you worried about,” he wanted to know. “Our kids are so skinny. I will be pissed if you’re [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food on Jun 8th, 2011
Plenty of people out in blogger land regularly bemoan the fact that “kid food,” for most people, is fried, fake, and/or filled with artificial colors or flavors. It’s my turn, I guess. We’ve got a big kid-centric event coming up. We’ve gone for the past five years, and it’s always lots of fun. Quite honestly, [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food on May 18th, 2011
“Do you have any of the Boar’s Head Natural line?” My question was really rhetorical since I was standing at the deli counter of my local Stop & Shop staring at a giant banner touting the stuff. The guy in the white coat and cute paper hat groaned. “Yes, we do, but it’s going to [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food, Health, Illness on May 4th, 2011
I’m tired today. Tired of being the one who had to tell a group of parents not to bring snacks with food dyes or high fructose corn syrup to our meetings. I just couldn’t deal with the fallout of those two ingredients, which made the group bounce off the walls. I’m fairly sure those who [...]
Posted in babies, Eating Healthy, Food, toddlers on May 3rd, 2011
Big Girl, as I have mentioned before, is a great eater. She will try anything. She likes most of what she tries. Little Girl is not her sister. Yes, she eats broccoli and sweet potatoes. She loves hummus. But she’s not one to just jump at the chance to try kale, for example. This week, [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Eating Healthy, Food, Health on Feb 10th, 2011
I was in Target the other day shopping for Valentine’s Day cards for Little Girl. (Big Girl got more expensive, infinitely cooler cootie catcher cards.) As we were walking past an endcap, Little Girl spotted fishies, asking me to buy them. Knowing that the Pepperidge Farm pretzel Goldfish are one of my husband’s favorites, I [...]
When I go to playdates the other moms almost always put out one or more of the following: Chicken fingers, French fries, hotdogs, and macaroni and cheese. And I always serve Little Girl the same thing: Whatever I’m eating. a sandwich, some cheese and crackers, a little meat rolled up, some fruit. She doesn’t eat [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Eating Healthy, Food, Health, toddlers on Sep 15th, 2010
When Big Girl went to preschool, I sent a snack for her every single day. EVERY day. I wanted nothing to do with the Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers that the school doled out. Thinking back, I was probably extremely forceful about it. Extremely. That’s why, when Little Girl walked into the classroom last week, the [...]
Posted in Food on Aug 4th, 2010
I bought a sandwich today. It came on a square roll dotted with poppy and sesame seeds. The roll was crunchy on the outside but fresh and yummy on the inside. I got honey turkey on it. I picked my own accompaniments: tomatoes, lettuce, salt and pepper and mayonnaise. It cost $5.97, which may not seem [...]