Quite honestly, we sometimes find it challenging to get Molly (age 2) to really down a good serving of vegetables or sometimes even fruit. For us, healthy juices and smoothies are a great way to sneak a super-size helping of nutrition into her diet. These three recipes are in regular rotation in our house. Blue …
Tag: Snack
Blueberry “frozen yogurt”
As the weather gets warmer, I start craving colder treats - here is one that is sweet and creamy enough to be a treat, but healthy enough to be a breakfast. It is nothing like what you would get at a frozen yogurt shop, but it has a great consistency similar to ice cream, and …
Spring break, yeah!
It's spring break next week, y'all. And whether you're going somewhere or not (but especially if you are), these weeks off lend themselves to a lot of snacking and/or eating on the go. In our case, we're headed - in the car - to Florida to spend some much-needed QT with some sand and the …
Frozen yogurt granola cups
The other day I tried a recipe I found online for frozen yogurt granola cups, and really enjoyed them. They are great to grab a breakfast on the go or for an anytime snack. They pretty much consist of granola, yogurt, a nut butter and some honey and are very simple to make. There is …
Pineapple Green Smoothie
I've been looking at smoothies to find a good, easy and tasty way to incorporate more vegetables in our diets at home, and although there are a couple regulars, and some that didn't work out so well... the latest smoothie I tried was so good that I feel the world needs to know. It is …
Yogurt hack
Our three-year-old loves, loves, loves yogurt. I think she’d be fine if we fed it to her three times a day. Unfortunately, there can be a lot of hidden sugars in yogurt. So, in order to avoid it, we make our own fruit yogurts. We buy frozen fruit, thaw it in the fridge, throw it …
Applesauce Cider Palooza
The middle school class loves to cook. We made applesauce because we wanted a quick snack, which took longer than we thought to cook. We got our ingredients together. 27 apples, 1 1/2 cups sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon, and 5 1/4 cups water. We also got our tools together, apple cutters, knives, peelers, measuring …
Pickle Recipe
This summer we started a garden at our new home in Richmond. We grew cucumbers and had a great time turning them into pickles to send in for lunch at Central. August got to help plant the cucumbers, watch them grow, make the pickles, and enjoy them in her lunch one day at school. Here are …
Some Favorite Lunch Ideas
Almost every night, I stand in front of my fridge and shift my weight from foot-to-foot while trying to figure out what to pack for lunch (much like my morning routine of standing in front of my closet, full of clothing, with nothing to wear 😉). I do have a handful of basics I can …
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
A group of toddlers spend a rainy afternoon enjoying a special treat baked by one of our toddler parents. Vegan lemon poppy seed muffins! Toddlers love being in the kitchen just like our older kiddos, and this recipe is a great one for them to help with! Give them a whisk (and maybe an apron) …
