No Bad Food When it comes to food, we often hear terms like "good" and "bad" being thrown around. We are constantly bombarded with messages about ...

As a busy parent, you understand how important meal planning is. Having a solid plan (and a solid back-up plan ... and maybe a back-up plan to your...

Your little one has been begun eating solid foods and you’re wondering if she’s ready to make the leap to using spoons, and, if so, which baby spoo...

One of the best ways you can encourage your kids to regularly try new foods is to demonstrate trying new foods yourself. The fact is that modeling ...

Time to Make Your New Year's Resolutions It's that time of year. January is the time of year when people the world over make New Year's resolution...

 It's Thanksgiving, Now Be Grateful When I was a child, the expectation at our Thanksgiving dinner was that we took turns going around the dinner t...

November 15th is National Clean Out the Fridge Day. And while I'm pretty sure that is meant to be a day that you clean out the fridge, I like to t...

If I were the betting type, I would put a lot of money down on the fact that your child has - on more than one occasion - asked "How much do I have to eat in order to get dessert?" If I'm wrong then I'd venture to say that you've been asked - on more than one occasion, after setting a lovingly prepared dinner on the table and before a single bite has been tasted - "What's for dessert?"

A balanced diet for toddlers is different from that for adults since the nutritional requirements of a person changes throughout their life. Infancy to early childhood is an important developmental stage, so they need a lot of nutrients to assist with their rapid growth. For babies until 12 months, breast milk and iron-fortified formulas are enough to give them the nutrients they need. But when your infant becomes a toddler, you’ll definitely need to incorporate more foods into their diet.

As we move headfirst into spring it seems the appropriate time to talk about one of my other long-term food goals that I have for my family: that they know where their food comes from. I don’t mean that they need to know where every cucumber and apple are grown and to have been able to shake the hand of the person that grew them, but I do want them to know that cucumbers grow on vines and apples on trees.

It's tempting to overload your littles with vegetable options. Sometimes that strategy can work: for example if your kiddos are familiar with some veggies and you pile a new one onto a platter of their favorites.

But with new fruits & vegetables, it's best to start small. REALLY SMALL. Seriously small.

There are countless examples of you absolutely crushing it at this parenting thing. You can bandage boo-boos like a boss, scare away monsters under...