What’s the secret/only hope for a healthy breakfast recipe on busy school days? A make-ahead breakfast sandwich like this one and a healthy drink to go with it like ORANGINA. For our favorite new healthy breakfast recipe, starts with leftover roasted vegetables. This could be roasted cauliflower. Or oven roasted broccoli. Sauteed spinach would be…
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The Easy Breakfast Peach Crisp Your Kids Will Sit Quietly and Eat Without Fighting, Ever
Just kidding. This breakfast peach crisp IS delicious. And just happens to be filled with good-for-you ingredients. But I have four small kids and it’s rare that they sit down for breakfast without mayhem swirling in behind them. Someone spills their drink. Someone touches someone else’s chair. You know. You’ve fed kids in the morning….
12 Easy Spinach Recipes Kids Like (Adults, Too!)
Spinach recipes kids like! Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Trust me, as a mom of four kids, it’s felt that way sometimes. But now we’ve tried, tested and eaten our way through SO MANY spinach recipes that I’m sharing my keepers with you here. Here are a few of our very favorite, tried-and-true, even-the-kids-like-them spinach…
Magical Mac & Cheese Cups (with Pureed Sweet Potato + Cauliflower Baked Right In!)
What’s the best lunch for kids? Leftover dinner. Especially when you can transform a crowd pleaser like Magical Mac & Cheese into…Magical Mac & Cheese Cups in minutes. Start with the basic recipe for Magical Mac & Cheese, which happens to include as much veggies as it does cheese, and add three quick things: 2…
Cheesy Summer Squash Tart with Sun Dried Tomatoes
This cheesy summer squash tart with sun dried tomatoes is my eight-year-old’s favorite way to eat summer squash. Full of eggs, cheese, fresh basil and plenty of salt and pepper, the creamy filling pairs perfectly with puff pastry. (Because, what doesn’t, right?) Plus it’s a make-ahead dream. Put your cheesy summer squash tart together earlier…
Magic Muffins: The Healthy 5-Fruit & Vegetable Muffins Kids Love!
Who among us has ever said, “Yep, my kids get ALL the fruit and vegetables they need. And then some.” Not you? Me neither. To get the five recommended servings of vegetables and fruits into four kids every day, I serve veggies straight up but also add them into unsuspecting dishes: Eggs. Smoothies. Popsicles. And you better believe it,…
My 5 Favorite Foods to Take a Family In Need
Do you know a mom with a new baby? Or someone whose spouse just had an operation? What about a friend who could use a break? I’ve found that sometimes the best way to show I care is simple: show up with something delicious. Our elderly neighbor’s wife was recently in the hospital for several weeks….
How to get kids to try new foods: 8 Things I learned from the book “The 52 New Foods Challenge: A Family Cooking Adventure for each week of the year”
Hey, are your kids good at trying new foods? Let’s say you finally make that slow cooker recipe from the video you saw on Facebook. If your kids are like mine, a typical response might be any one of these: Thumbs up! One begrudging bite Small bodies slithering down their chairs like they’ve suddenly lost every last one…
Look what happens when you change 1 thing About a Barefoot Contessa recipe: Bird’s Nest Macaroons!
Want an adorable dessert for your Easter table? How about one that’s actually a cinch to make–and the kids can even help? These coconut macaroons are adapted from one of my favorite Barefoot Contessa recipes, as part of our Barefoot for Babies series where we update the amazing Ina Garten’s ideas (along with a few…
Your Family’s New Favorite Weekend Breakfast: The Big Dutch Baby
There’s a weekend breakfast that makes all four of my kids cheer: Dutch baby. A cross between a giant pancake and a souffle, a Dutch baby’s packed with protein (thank you eggs!) and takes about 3 minutes to prep (you too, blender!). We serve ours hot out of the oven, slathered in apple butter , a SUPER…
4 Surprising Ways to Feed Your Family Better Instantly: Lessons from Michael Pollan and More
Michael Pollan is right again. Want to feed your family healthier food? Don’t worry so much about fads or trendy ingredients he says in his new PBS documentary. Just eat healthy-ish. Ever since I started cooking for my first baby six years ago, which was around the same time that I started paying attention to what I…
The Mini Foodie Gift Guide: Food-Themed Holiday Gifts for Kids (Plus a Few Ideas for Parents, Too)
Christmas stockings are part of my master plan. As I try to mold and shape our kids into half pints who love real food, who value good food and who enjoy food together, I find that including a few awesome treats helps establish a positive (if not downright giddy) association with food. Speaking of kids, if…
3 Kid-Tested Toppings to Make Toast a Healthier Breakfast
My kids love toast for breakfast. They’d eat it every day. So for the sake of variety — both in terms of appreciating new flavors and nutritional value — we started getting adventurous about toppings. This is only a start (and I’d love to hear about your ideas) but these 3 ways to make toast a healthier…
The Perfect 3-Step Waffle Bar Setup for Kids
I thought putting together a waffle bar for kids would be a kind of a pain. But it wasn’t. Yes there was set up and clean up but let’s face it, even sandwiches don’t make themselves. For a fun lunch (and an amazing idea for a kid-friendly dinner party), I set up a waffle bar…
3 reasons why you should cook with your kids; Plus our favorite memory-making recipes for fall
Even though it usually takes longer. Even though it’s definitely messier. You should cook with your kids. Not every meal. Because time in the universe we live in, the one dictated by a 24-hour clock that just won’t budge no matter how hard I try to explain that I need at least two extra hours in the…
Age-Appropriate Jobs for Kids in the Kitchen
Cooking with kids is equal parts messy, fun and important life skill learned. We started early with these guys, and you can too! Here are my favorite jobs for small helpers: Toddlers stirring helping dump ingredients into bowls greasing pans separating (cupcake liners, tomatoes from a vine, etc.) tasting 🙂 Preschoolers breaking eggs (really!) retrieving…
Healthy School Lunch Ideas
Are your kids getting 5 servings of fruit & vegetables a day? That’s what experts recommend. At least. Sound hard? That’s where our healthy school lunch ideas come in. About lunch boxes My four kids love their PlanetBox lunchboxes. Made out of stainless steel, they’re practically indestructible and boy do they make food look nice….
Birds’ Nests: Baked Pasta Cups with Spaghetti & Spinach
Leftover pasta becomes an easy lunch for kids, one with a little imagination that makes for cute lunch discussions. It also includes spinach. Because you know my policy on making things Florentine: Do it as often as possible. We’d had spaghetti for dinner the night before. I threw in an extra handful of whole-wheat pasta, then stored…
Spinach & Pineapple Popsicles, Really!
Looking for simple, kid-friendly spinach recipes? Spinach is one of the most nutritious foods you can eat, which makes it a habit I want our kids to grow up with. Our garden must have got the memo because it’s gone crazy with spinach this year.So far I’ve made Sauteed Spinach with Garlic, Green Eggs &…
How to Make a Pasta Salad Turtle: The Potluck Dish of Your Kids’ Dreams
Even though it’s been a while, moving back to America from Italy has meant many big changes. English. Big cars. And potlucks. So many potlucks. Church potlucks, school potlucks, people who get mail potlucks (you’re coming, right?). We have another one coming up in a couple of weeks and I have to confess something: I…