LIKE YOU, EVERY TIME I READ ABOUT A “SUPERFOOD”, I start to wonder whether I could realistically work it into our family diet. Does it cost a million dollars? Would the kids really eat it? Has more than one magazine article ever even mentioned it? Time to find out.
weekly roundup: Ideas, news and inspiration about cooking for kids everywhere
The Jamie Oliver Foundation has declared Oct. 24, 2013 FOOD DAY. Sign up now to support their efforts to bring food education to schools across the nation. What a great week! Here’s what else happened…
Foodlets Friday: A week’s worth of recipes & recaps
THIS IS A NEW IDEA, so let’s see how it goes. At the end of the week, we’ll recap what’s happening right here on Foodlets and way beyond. ON FOODLETS The Michelle Obama book giveaway, American Grown, is on! You have 5+ ways to enter to win one of two free copies Muffin Madness, our…
Foodlets on Care.com
OUR GIRLS MAY BE LITTLE, but we know about packing healthy foods for lunch away from home–and we were thrilled to share a few ideas with Kate Hanley in her article 7 Ideas for Easy – And Healthy – School Lunches on Care.com. There are several smart ideas from sites that I’m dying to check…
Foodlets on She Knows.com
FAMILIES AROUND THE WORLD, that’s the name of the feature we’re part of on She Knows.com, the website voted #1 for women based in Arizona. Our story is aptly titled, “Raising three kids under three in Italy“, and just about sums it up, right? Thanks Katie Kavulla! READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON SHE KNOWS >>…
Foodlets on Epicurious
WOW! AND YAY! Foodlets is featured on The Epi-Log in my very own Q&A interview. This blog appears on Conde Nast’s notable food site, Epicurious. I’m especially thrilled to see our crazy humble ideas there because a. It’s Epicurious and b. I love Conde Nast; my first job was at Bride’s Magazine in New York…
New Foodlets column on Yahoo! Shine
WE’RE DOUBLING UP! The Cooking for Kids (And Other Crazy Ideas) column will now be syndicated on Yahoo! Shine, in addition to The Huffington Post. You can always find all of my posts at the Foodlets page, where new posts will be published every other week. And from time to time, my posts will be…
Babble’s Top 100 Mom Blogs: Vote for Foodlets!
INCH, INCH, INCH. We’re working our way up through the list of nominees for Babble’s Top 100 Mom Blogs and need your help! Visit our entry page and click the Facebook “Like” to vote for Foodlets. As of this posting, we’re at number 16 but number 1 would be so much better! To show my…
Fatty acids make babies smarter
THIS IS NO FISH TALE. A new study came out last week making it official. Fatty acids are beneficial for babies. Tue, Sep 20, 2011 (HealthDay News via BabyCenter) — Whether they’re fed by bottle or breast, babies seem to turn out smarter when nourished with healthy fatty acids found in breast milk and some…
10 foods to avoid and 6 to make a healthy habit
COUNTING CALORIES IS OUT. So says The New York Times in a story about the new study from Harvard University. More than 120,000 people were followed for 12-20 years, the most comprehensive study to date, revealing a few key factors in weight-loss. Or rather, how to not gain weight over the years. It seems that…
Do we have to eat genetically modified food?
SPEECHLESS. This is how I’d like to end today’s post but I don’t want to appear overly dramatic lest the message be diluted. Have you ever wondered, why so many people are allergic to peanuts now? And milk? And corn? According to this expert, it’s because those items aren’t “real food” anymore. Not always. Thanks…
Mark Bittman on what’s wrong with what we eat
IF MY CULINARY HERO has long been Barefoot Contessa, this man is her new competition. Only new to me though. Mark Bittman has been a food columnist for decades, currently employed by an outfit called The New York Times. Here, he speaks to something I’ve been trying not to hear for quite some time: we…
Eat more fruit: National Mediterranean Diet Month
WE’RE ALREADY CELEBRATING AT OUR HOUSE. As citizens of Rome, the olive oil runs free in our kitchen and even 23-month old Phoebe will ask for it if she can’t see it oozing off her bread. So I’m glad to hear that the US is getting into the action with National Mediterranean Diet Month. Mostly…
If the only choice is carrots, kids will eat carrots
IN VENDING MACHINE NEWS, there’s actually a surprisingly hopeful finding. Thanks to the keen eye of Margaret Roach, my friend/mentor/idol, I recently read a Grist.org article where a high school in Ohio quickly turned junk foodies into carrot crunchers…by installing a baby carrot vending machine. Turns out, kids like snacks. If the available snacks are…
Mark Bittman’s Get Tough Advice for Dinner
HE’S GOT IDEAS, BUT they don’t sound easy. In Mark Bittman’s summertime treatise on how to get dinner on the table–and the family around it–he offers five just-do-it tips on Babble.com. I love Mark Bittman, I love a family dinner. I’m in. Particularly when introducing a new food, say, raw carrots, typically goes like this…
Are fish sticks the end of everything?
NEW YORK TIMES WRITER Susan Dominus hit a hot spot last week…the children’s menu. With higher prices, not to mention stress levels, I can see how a fast and easy alternative to the regular restaurant menu was born but wonder if it’s a shortcut not worth taking. And I’m not the only one. At last…