Articles about 'Food and Nutrition'
March 15th, 2013
To increase your family’s intake of fruit and veggies in school or at work, here’s a simple trick…
Cut an apple or orange and place a rubber band around it. Then place it in a baggy or container.
It keeps the fruit fresh and juicy on the inside, yet it’s easy to eat.
Enjoy!
–Mama Lisa
February 2nd, 2011
It’s very satisfying to make your own food coloring out of natural ingredients. It’s also educational for children to see how people used to get color out of fruits and vegetables. Not everything has to come pre-bottled from a factory!
Since Valentine’s Day is coming soon, today I’ll explain how to make red and pink...
January 10th, 2011
Sugar cookies are nice to make for holidays and special events. They look so festive.
Making cut out cookies is a fun way to get your kids to learn about baking. They can start learning to follow a recipe, roll out dough and then make the shapes with cookie cutters.
This recipe makes sugar cookies a...
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September 11th, 2010
How domestic to dream of cauliflower! I’ve had a head in the fridge for a good week or so now – in reality, that is. And that sad, rejected head of cauli is looking poorer every day. So much so that it infiltrated my dreams!
Last night I dreamt that some lady brought over a...
May 21st, 2010
This illustration was drawn by a diabetic child explaining the daily routine to be followed by a patient with diabetes in order to control the disease. The artist is from Cuba, so the text is in Spanish. I provided English translations below each image.
Here are zoomed-in views so you can see the details…
“No...
December 11th, 2009
This dish was inspired by a beet soup recipe I found on the internet. I didn’t have all the ingredients for the soup, so I adjusted the recipe and made this wonderful side dish! Boy was it yummy!
Heavenly Beet Puree
I Bunch of Fresh Beets 1/2 Lemon ...
November 27th, 2009
What a great idea: Edible Schoolyards, where children help create gardens and take part in a kitchen classroom. “Students participate in all aspects of growing, harvesting, and preparing nutritious, seasonal produce”.
Perhaps this is part of the answer to instilling a love of healthy food in kids… get them involved in growing and making their...
November 24th, 2009
Healthy living and eating requires constant vigilance. It’s important to refocus on this topic from time to time. In this spirit, here’s an interesting conversation about eating right from Bloggingheads with Mark Bittman. He writes about cooking for the New York Times and has written several cookbooks.
In the video they...
September 12th, 2009
It’s sad to read about how many chemicals companies are dumping into the environment… and guess what? They’re ending up in our water supply. Check out the New York Times article about how Pollution Grows With Little Fear of Punishment. This has been a world-wide issue – but it’s becoming more of...
September 5th, 2009
The New York Times has an interesting article about Parenting and Food. It talks about what to do with the child who wants to eat a lot. The dilemma is that telling your kid not to eat too much can cause eating disorders in the future. Yet, if you don’t help them...
January 22nd, 2009
If you like berries like I do, you’ll be berry happy to hear yet another report extolling their healthy benefits – especially raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and elderberries. They’re good for you fresh or frozen. So, however you have them, eat those berries and make sure your family gets them too!
December 8th, 2008
Cabbage is a nice, inexpensive vegetable to buy in these difficult economic times. What’s more – it full of nutritious vitamins and antioxidants. It’s one of the cruciferous vegetables that’s been found to be so important for your health.
This past weekend I made my mother’s recipe for Cole Slaw that I grew up...
December 6th, 2008
I’m trying to work out ways to dye icing that don’t involve food dye. Some of the dyes today are questionable health-wise, but also, I’d like my kids to see that you can do things the old-fashioned way.
Looking back at old cookbooks, I keep noticing that they used a lot of cochineal...
December 5th, 2008
Celeriac, or celery root, is a well-known vegetable root in France. It’s called céleri-rave in French.
I got some this week at our vegetable CSA (a club we belong to where we pay in advance and get delicious organic veggies delivered from a farm every week).
One way to eat them is to make a...
November 25th, 2008
I mentioned in my last blog post how we belong to a CSA (Community Sponsored Agriculture). We get less expensive organic vegetables that come from a farm that day. We get whatever vegetables come in each week – there’s a little choice sometimes – but to a large extent – we get whatever’s...
November 25th, 2008
The other day I discussed one way to help decide whether or not to buy organic food for your family – selectively buying organic produce based on which fruits and vegetables have tested high in pesticides.
Another good idea is to see if there are any organic farmer markets, food co-ops or CSA’s in your area....
November 22nd, 2008
Deciding whether or not to buy organic food for your family is a harder question in today’s economic climate, where people are worried about job security.
One answer is to selectively buy organic. Specifically seek out organic produce based on which foods have the highest levels of pesticides on them. The not-for-profit Environmental Working...
July 17th, 2008
My daughter made these great treats at our local library.
It shows what a little imagination and some candy can do! You can adapt these ideas to any theme for a kids party, a unit in the classroom or just for fun at home.
-Mama Lisa
February 2nd, 2008
Have you been following your New Year’s Resolutions successfully? This year, mine concerned taking better care of myself and my family: Trying to fit in more exercise and to improve our diets. Not easy when you have two fussy kids and an even fussier husband!
Well here we are, a month later, so...
January 2nd, 2008
It’s the first week of January, so it’s not too late to start, or even to make, a New Year’s Resolution. I’m trying to make ones that are realistic and that I can stick to. I recommend built in checks over time to make sure you’re sticking to it.
My first resolution is to...
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