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.
My family eats Caesar dressing at an alarming rate, both on salads and as a dip for raw veggies, but most commercial Caesar is made with soybean oil, highly inflammatory and NO good for us! Today I teach my 10-year-old daughter how to make homemade Caesar dressing since it’s a little bit tricky of a […]
46: Lesson for Kids: How to Make Homemade Caesar Dressing Read More »
This week’s Healthy Parenting Connector will be my thoughts on the challenges of raising an adult in today’s world… If you didn’t see last week’s interview with author Julie Lythcott-Haims, you are missing out! She’s amazing and had a lot of good things to say as well as some scary predictions about young adults raised
45: Challenges to Raising an Adult in Today’s Culture Read More »
Does it sound great to have your grown-up child back in your house so that you can do their laundry, cook meals for them, and pay their bills…because they don’t know how to be an adult? I didn’t think so. We’re in this parenting game to do the best we can for our kids, and
Did you know 50% of girls dislike their bodies as they enter high school—and some of those habits start as newborns?!? Family nutrition expert and mom Maryann Jacobsen, RD and I sat down to dig DEEP into how we talk about food with our kids, and why simply “not talking badly about our weight” is
My husband is back with us again today for Father’s Day week… Let’s talk about the role of fathers in kids’ healthy lifestyles and what you should do if you just hate cucumbers! We chat about: Whether there are still foods he doesn’t like and what he does about that. How he can see our
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When we went grain-free for a while, pizza night disappearing was one of the saddest parts! Then I found a crazy-good almond flour crust, and back it came! But then…baby #4 had an egg allergy, so I had to get the eggs out of the crust…and then daughter discovered a dairy intolerance, ay yi yi,
40: Kids Demo Homemade Grain-free Pizza Read More »
Ever hear someone say, “He’s just skinny because he has a high metabolism?” Or used this one: “I have trouble losing weight because I have such a slow metabolism…” ? What about our kids? Are there things we can do, habits we can set, foods we can eat, to CHANGE their metabolism and set them
37: Interview with Nutritionist Sara Vance on Why We’ve Broken Our Collective Metabolism Read More »
“It takes a lifetime to build a great life,” reminds Matt Gersper, founder of Happy Living and author of The Belief Roadmap and Turning Inspiration Into Action. Can that life be filled with video games? You’ll be surprised what we end up teasing out! (I didn’t think I liked where it was going for a while,
36: Matt Gersper on Living a Life of Significance (How to Be Happy!) Read More »
Kids are messy in the kitchen!!! Parents tell me this all the time, which means it must be part of the hard job of parenting to teach them to clean up. We’re still working on it in the Kids Cook Real Food™ household, but we have some tried-and-true after-dinner routines that we’d like to share with
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Last week in Dr. Biljana Uzelac’s interview, she said one of the most effective strategies to get kids to be open to try new foods is to enlist an outside challenge. I’ll be that challenger for you! In today’s video I’m going to discuss some strategies for parents to introduce new foods smoothly and go
34: Big Encouragement for Kids to Try New Things (#mykidtriedthis CHALLENGE!) Read More »
