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One of my favorite blogs is Self magazine’s Eat Like Me. Cristin Dillon-Jones, a registered dietitian and working mom, posts a photo of everything she eats: meals, snacks, lattes in the car,...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Feeding Strategy?
Sam trying to swipe one of Santa's cookies...or some of the reindeer's broccoli (yeah, probably not) I was reading one of my go-to blogs, Raise Healthy Eaters, when I came across a post called “Why...
View ArticleThis One Goes to Eleven
This is Sam. He has bright red hair and vivid blue eyes and is almost three. He loves singing, dancing, and performing dramatic interpretations of Ten Apples Up on Top. Mostly, he’s loud. He slept for...
View ArticleDinner Drama Part 4: Dinner Games (& Other Crazy Tricks That Actually Work!)
I don't typically take pictures of my kids during dinner, but I needed photographic proof of this great turnaround. Sure, he didn't touch the asparagus, but Sam happily ate his chicken and pasta. My...
View ArticleThanks, Mom & Dad
It’s a good thing my parents don’t read my blog. If they did, they’d have to endure all the references to my childhood diet of Steak-umms, cherry Kool-Aid, the canned corned beef (and of course, my mom...
View ArticleAll I Really Need To Know I Learned From This Half-Eaten Piece of Peanut...
Look familiar? Does your child leave behind these little bits of meals and snacks: PBJ remnants, tiny piles of pasta, half-nibbled apples? If he does, he’s doing his job right. And if we say ”There are...
View ArticleThe Truth About Family Dinner
I wrote this post as a participant in the Eat Better, Eat Together Balancing Act blog carnival hosted by MealsMatter and Dairy Council of California to share ways families everywhere can make time for...
View ArticleComing to Peace with a Not-So-Perfect Dinnertime
Last year, Sam went on a dinner strike that just about did me in. The wonderful Dina Rose talked me off the ledge and gave me some strategies that really worked. But even today, dinner is just not...
View ArticleLet Them Eat Cupcakes
I was at a party recently with other families. It was a potluck, and the food was on a buffet. Someone had brought mini cupcakes and put them on the table along with the rest of the food. So when the...
View ArticleThe Myth of Perfect Eating
This is what happens when my kids get hold of the camera: Me, caught in a moment of mom fatigue, surrounded by piles. Definitely not suitable for posting on Facebook. After all, there’s a reason it...
View ArticleMake-Ahead Green Smoothie Packets
I’ve seen these make-ahead smoothie kits all over Pinterest. But I wasn’t convinced until my friend Kelly recently texted me to report that yes, freezing fresh spinach totally works. Kelly and I, who...
View Article{Giveaway} It’s Not About the Broccoli
Three years ago when Sam was a toddler, he went on a strike. A dinner strike to be exact. It went on for months, with Sam sometimes eating no more for dinner than a lick of ketchup or a couple bites...
View Article“Help! My child eats hardly any dinner…then wants a snack 10 minutes later!”...
This week, I reached out to readers on my Real Mom Nutrition Facebook page asking for their most frustrating feeding dilemma when it came to their kids–and promised that feeding expert and parent...
View Article6 Ways to Add Fun to Family Dinner
On a recent Sunday, my husband and I were cooking together, and the boys were pretending we were on a cooking show. It extended to dinner time, when they wanted to judge the dish (a new-to-them...
View ArticleFrom-Scratch Cooking Confession: I Can’t Keep Up!
I believe that a diet based around whole foods is the way to go. I believe we should know what’s in our food, that we should strive to eat food that isn’t laden with preservatives and artificial...
View ArticleA Peek Inside My New Cookbook!
Complete the following statement: Cooking dinner every night… A. Is really important and allows me to express my love for my family and communicate our food values. B. Can sometimes feel like chore at...
View ArticleWin My New Cookbook: Dinnertime Survival Guide!
I was over the moon when Cooking Light asked me to write a cookbook for busy parents. I’m pretty darn proud of the finished product, Dinnertime Survival Guide, which officially launched this week. I...
View Article{Recipe} Easy Fish Tacos
My kids weren’t always fans of fish. Until I made fish tacos. Apparently, being able to wrap your fish in a warm tortilla and pile on whatever toppings you want was a game-changer for them. This...
View ArticleThe Kind Of Eater I Want My Kids To Be
I don’t label my kids “good eaters”, just as I’ve never called them “bad eaters”–even when they’ve made me c-r-a-z-y (read “Dinner Drama“). Instead, I want to be able to call them “successful eaters”....
View ArticleWant Successful Eaters? Combat the Craziness!
Are my kids perfect eaters? No way! Neither am I. (Anyway, there’s no such thing–read: “The Myth of Perfect Eating“). But I do hope my kids don’t follow in my finicky eater footsteps and instead,...
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