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Preschool Nutrition

  Sometimes getting children to eat healthy can be a chore.  Children are so drawn toward sugary foods.  Of course, so am I, but I know better.  They also like to eat bland foods that all tend to be yellow or orange like macaroni and cheese, breads,  and pasta.  Eating too much pasta or bread is not healthy as your body will process it as sugar.  But don’t worry too much about fat and carbs in your preschooler’s diet.  Preschooler’s are growing and need energy and fat to help keep them healthy.  The best thing you can do is cut … Continue reading →

Cloudy With a Chance of Stinging Nettles and Smoothies

Last weekend, we went out to pick stinging nettles. This was a fun excursion. Stinging nettles grow wild around our city, although I’ve never had the opportunity to pick them before. They grow near sunny ditches, and we have a lack of both sun and ditches in our particular neighborhood. When we got home, I steamed the nettles and we ate them for dinner. They were a lovely cross between earthy flavor and leafy green. They are also supposed to be very nutritious. Unfortunately, my daughter took one bite and determined that they were icky. Oh well, at least she … Continue reading →

Defusing Food Power Struggles With Your Preschooler

Preschoolers are all about defining themselves in relation to the rest of the world, especially their parents. This can show up as a power struggle, and it’s a sign that your preschooler is becoming his own person. But when the power struggles come to the dinner table, parents can struggle with balancing their child’s need to define his food preferences and the need to have that child eat a healthy diet. A diet of chocolate and chips might sound desirable to a preschooler, but it doesn’t cut it nutritionally, of course! How can you opt out of the food power … Continue reading →

In Search of Mealtime Peas

It’s Christmas time, and the sweets they are a-calling. The vegetables, not so much. Oddly enough, with the influx of chocolate and baked goods, this time of year my body actually craves fresh vegetables. We have a share in a local organic farm, and I think that the absence of our weekly dose of farm veggies leaves my body wondering what happened. My daughter, well she’s an eggs, meat and bread kind of kid. Although she adored certain vegetables as a baby, she started feeling pickier about them in toddlerhood. While we’re lucky not to have a completely vegetable-phobic child, … Continue reading →