Kids Cook Real Food is a hub of information for raising healthy kids, including our weekly podcast, The Healthy Parenting Handbook, with expert interviews, helpful tips, and kid-produced recipes.
This frugal BBQ chicken recipe is a great staple recipe! My kids and I make it several times a month. It can be made in the slow cooker or Instant Pot and it’s free of gluten, grains, eggs, dairy, nuts, soy, corn, sweeteners (optional), and more – so simple to feed everyone! I don’t know […]
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Mac and cheese is a cinch in the Instant Pot! It comes together so quickly and easily you might think you forgot a step the first time you try it! 😉 You don’t even need to be able to boil water or know when pasta is done for it to come out perfect! Since my
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Imagine waking up on a Saturday morning without a kid yell-whispering “I’m hungry!” in your face. Instead, you come out of your room to see your kids preparing breakfast! Sounds like a dream huh? Now, I’m not saying you should send your 3-year-old to the kitchen to make breakfast for the family, but you might
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Homemade dressing time!! We use this recipe in our Kids Cook Real Food™ course for intermediate kids to practice measuring… But today we are going to go ironic on that. My goal is to show families how flexible cooking from scratch can be, and how much room there is for error. So we aren’t really
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These brownies have a very surprising ingredient that you probably have in your pantry right now…sometimes we serve them as breakfast because they have so many redeeming qualities and just some honey as a sweetener. 🙂 Healthy Dessert Recipe The recipe is from my eBook “The Everything Beans Book.” I know, a brownie recipe in a
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Some of these interviews challenge my brain so much!! If you’ve ever said, “Geez, stop whining,” to your kids, OR thought you were doing one better by pleasantly singing, “I hear a whiny voice!”—be ready to be challenged! Suzanne Tucker is a physical therapist and parent educator who is on a mission to raise an
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Rice and beans are a classic frugal meal made from shelf-stable pantry staples. Today we’ll show you how to make our favorite rice and bean meal in the Instant Pot and give you some options to mix up the flavors in this cheap family dinner. Recipes Kids Can Make If your kids are old enough
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We’re all about connection at Kids Cook Real Food™™, and today we get to learn about how to connect the heart and the brain to improve your physical, mental, and emotional health! The HeartMath Institute is all about the heart, not mushy-gushy stuff but real science-backed strategies to bring more heart to the world. In
I can’t justify spending over $1 each on brand name fruit and nut bars when it’s so easy to make them at home. Here are 2 varieties of nutrient-dense, enzyme-rich bars that are easy to pack, easy to eat, and fairly painless to put together. These quick and easy homemade energy bites can be formed
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What if I told you you might have to throw away half of the healthy food you worked so hard to put on the dinner table? What if I told you that can basically happen AFTER your kids eat everything on their plate?!?! Healthy food is only the first part of being nourished—we need to
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