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4 Fun Meals to Get Children Excited About Healthy Eating

Getting children excited about healthy eating can be one of the hardest challenges for parents! Some children (no matter how hard you try) just don’t like healthy food and turn their noses up at even the freshest fruit and vegetables. There are some tricks to getting...

Get Your Kids to Eat Healthy Snacks

Good Monday, Heroes! I got to interview Chef Ellie Krieger recently and she gave me some super neat suggestions for healthy and interesting ways to use grapes in snack and party foods. Enjoy: I really liked Chef Ellie’s suggestions and have already tried out a...

Chef Mark Bucher Shows Me How To Make Turkey Burgers

Having this blog has generated some neat opportunities over the last 5 years. The latest most interesting one was the chance to interview Chef Mark Bucher about cooking with turkey. I’m not the biggest turkey fan, especially ground turkey. Every time I have...

Even a Super mom Needs to Order Pizza Sometime

It can be easy for a busy mom to over-extend herself. With so much pressure to be perfect, it’s little wonder that women often suffer from stress and exhaustion. Whether trying to live up to the idealized images in women’s magazines and Pinterest boards,...

Great Tips for Getting Kids Involved in the Kitchen

My older daughter just loves to help out in the kitchen. She takes pride in creating yummy and nutritious meals. She’s been “helping” in the kitchen since she could hold a spoon (and knew a few kitchen safety rules). She’s seven now and rivals most teens I know when...