Articles tagged with Cooking
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Beyond Vegetable Dip
“Vegetable dips” can go two ways. You can create a dip intended for dipping your raw raw vegetables into, or you can make the dip itself out of vegetables. Well, for this delicious snack idea, we used vegetables as the dip! This is just a pizza sauce dip, but we included some extra veggies, for a [...]
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Healthy Home-made Apple Sauce
Even though apple season is 5 months away, I had a hankering for some fresh homemade apple-sauce. So over the weekend I whipped up a batch and it turned out amazing! Here’s an easy recipe for you to try. Home-made apple sauce is a great low-calorie, nutritious snack. Although the apples are peeled and cooked, losing much of their [...]
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The ‘Fast Food’ You’ll Want Your Kids To Eat
Knowing I’d be driving around, and the kids may not have time to grab a snack at home, I packed some instead. We love trail mix, and there are a million combinations to making a good trail mix. So, we put together what we like. Usually: Almonds cashews peanuts Macadamian nuts unsweetened coconut Semi-Sweet chocolate chips Raisins Dried cranberries One serving of nuts is 1 [...]
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Healthify Your Celebrations: Cinco De Mayo
There is no reason to purchase deep fried corn chips, when homemade ones are super easy and fast to make. While I prefer the taste of the homemade tortilla made into a baked chip, when you’re short on time, slicing and baking your corn chips work just just as well. Whether you are celebrating Cinco De [...]
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Sauteed & Roasted Brussels Sprouts
I rarely meet a brussel sprout that I don’t adore. Unless they are steamed, in which case I’d rather pass. Sauteed, roasted, caramelized or grilled and I’d eat vegetables for breakfast, lunch and dinner! When I was in California my cousin, who is an excellent cook, made some extra delicious brussels sprouts and I couldn’t wait [...]
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Snazz Up Veggie Snacks With Marinades
How many times do we think of baby carrots, when we think of snacking on vegetables? Sometimes, we just need to mix it up a bit. We also like cucumbers around here. But we don’t want to eat raw cucumbers every time. That gets boring too. Your kids may not even care for the flavour of [...]
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High Octane Snacking
If you look at any list of foods ordered by its nutrient density, you will always see Kale topping the list. With its incredibly high amount of vitamins K, A, and C, and over 45 different flavonoids, Kale is a must eat food for kids today. Research is showing the health benefits of including Kale in [...]
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Avocados: Ugly but Healthy
Avocados are the Quasimodo of Super Foods. They aren’t very attractive on the outside, but they are truly good inside. Rich in monounsaturated fatty acids, fiber, magnesium, folate, vitamin E, lutein, carotenoids and polyphenols, this odd looking fruit packs a nutritional punch. Avocados have been cultivated for thousands of years. They originated in south-central Mexico between [...]
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Julienned Vegetables for a Lunch in Japan
Last week we ate lunch like the Italian kids, so now we must equally represent the children in Japan for J week. We learned while we had our Japanese students visit this summer that school kids in Japan would eat for lunch each day: Rice (that is the star shaped item in bento) Soup (my kids refuse to [...]
