Ask a silly question, get a silly answer!

While I didn’t technically hostess another “ask me anything” post (and–man–those are fun but–man–they are a lot of work), I have accrued quite a collection of not silly at all commented and emailed questions from the little handful of you who read my blog. I thought a nice way to handle some of the ones [...]

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as close to natural as it gets!

Before I became a mother, I taught elementary school art. Before I taught art, I studied art in school. Before I switched my major to art in school (and, I had a triple major, if you must know…K-12 art ed., Studio Art, and Bible), I was dead set on becoming a nutritionist and I was [...]

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a real breakfast of champions

Thought I’d throw out there this awesome, really easy “recipe” I came up with recently for a killer kid’s breakfast. I put recipe in quotes because I don’t use real recipes, the kind with amounts and measurements… Mix up (I used my food processor) a half a brick of tofu, a generous spoonful of ground [...]

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a word about books

As many of you know, my boys are fabulously healthy eaters. They will eat anything and everything that I set in front of them, almost without exception. I credit this to perhaps some genetic propensity on their part (hmmm, my mother made ridiculously healthy food for us when we were babies and children, but I [...]

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sample daily eating log: Big Mac

Seriously, since this kid ate his first bite of food at 6 months, he has not stopped eating. He would eat 6 bowls of homemade baby food in one sitting; 2 1/2 bananas for a snack when he was 8 months old; two entire apples, pureed at home; and mountainous bowls of pureed brown rice [...]

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