What you should and should not say to kids at mealtimes. As parents, we want our kids to eat a well-balanced diet and grow to enjoy a wide variety of healthy foods. In our well intentioned efforts, we often verbally “encourage” or “discourage” them to eat certain foods, only to increase picky eating tendencies or…
One-Pot Greek Pasta Bake
An easy (and delicious) one-pot Greek pasta bake, perfect for an at-home date night. It quickly became clear to me—somewhere between kid #2 and kid #3—that eating out at restaurants, whether as a family or for a date night, was no longer an easy, simple option. It required planning, childcare, putting in extra effort to…
Easy, Healthy Gingerbread Muffins
Fill your house with the warm and cozy aroma of Christmas (and get a healthy snack out of it too!) There’s nothing quite like entering your kitchen and being engulfed in the delicious, warm aroma of gingerbread. To me, that feels like Christmas. What’s even better, is knowing that the source of that aroma is a nutritious…
Here’s How Halloween Can Actually Improve Your Child’s Eating Habits
Instead of stressing about the candy overload, use it as a teaching tool for healthy balanced eating. As much as you might feel the need to play “treat police” this Halloween, try not to. It’s no fun for you, and it takes the joy out of Halloween for your kids. Instead, take advantage of this…
15 Nutritious After-School Snacks That Your Kids Will Love
There’s no hunger quite like after-school hunger! That’s why you need this list of 15 easy, healthy and kid-approved after-school snacks! You can thank me later. I don’t know about your kids, but my kids have a one-track mind when they return from school: FOOD. And there’s no hunger quite like after-school hunger—it’s been a…
Chocolate Whole Grain Snack Bars (No-Bake & School-Safe!)
These no-bake chocolate whole grain snack bars are not only kid-approved, but also jam-packed full of nutrition, too! *This post was written in partnership with my friends at Kellogg®. As always, all opinions are my own! It’s back to school time, and we’re in major lunch-packing mode in our house. We have two kids in…
My Top Ten Easy Weeknight Dinners
Here are my top go-to, easy, family-friendly weeknight meals! Our kids will be back to school in a week or so, which means that schedules fill up, activities start, and weeknights become a little more hectic. And we all know that there’s nothing worse than having nothing planned for dinner by the time 5 o’clock…
Chia Fruit Nachos Recipe (and the importance of snacks with “staying power”)
This chia fruit nachos recipe is a delicious, nutritious and filling snack that your kids will love! Making sure that my kids’ snacks are filling and nutrient dense is priority, not only because I’m a dietitian, but also because I’m a busy mom who doesn’t have time to make and serve snacks all day long…
Healthy Chocolate Zucchini Blender Muffins (gluten-free, school-safe)
Your whole family will love these nutrient-packed, delicious muffins! These healthy chocolate zucchini blender muffins are low sugar, gluten free and school safe. Now that I have two kids in school, I’m always on the lookout for school-safe recipes for snacks that are actually nutritious–the kind that I can feel good about sending, and that my kids will…
Weeknight One-Pan Burrito Bowls
You’ll want to add this one-pan burrito bowl to your dinner rotation, stat! A great way to raise adventurous, healthy eaters is to involve your kids in shopping, preparing, cooking, or serving meals. No bribing, coaxing or bartering needed – simply getting kids involved makes all the difference! When kids feel as though they have had a hand in making…
Easy Kung Pao Chicken Recipe
Don’t bother ordering in, this Kung Pao chicken recipe is delicious, quick, easy and Nutritious. Can’t beat that! I love this recipe for so many reasons. It’s one of the tastiest, easiest meals on our supper rotation, and everyone in the family loves it. It’s easy and makes for great leftovers too, both of which…
Easy Roasted Squash Macaroni & Cheese
Even your Kraft-Dinner-loving kids will love this recipe! Give this dietitian- and kid-approved macaroni and cheese with roasted squash recipe a try! Mac and cheese is one if my all time favourite comfort-foods, especially when it’s cold outside. But the health-nut in me is always on the look-out for healthier-yet-still-delicious versions of the classic, so…
Easy Lemony Broccoli Recipe
This tasty, healthy and easy recipe makes for a great summer side dish. Broccoli is high in dietary fibre, folate, Vitamin C, A and K. This amazing phytochemical-rich veggie has been shown to prevent certain cancers, heart disease and stroke. It is basically a nutritional powerhouse! It’s also quite versatile. You can eat raw or…
Kid-Approved Tropical Green Smoothie (& Smoothie Bowl) Recipe
This meal-worthy smoothie is easy, nutrient-packed and delicious. Smoothies are a great meal choice for kids, because they’re so easy to make and they’re packed with nutrition. Bonus: your kids can help make them! Our blender gets a lot of love in our house – smoothies happen almost every day in the Spring and Summer…
My Top 3 Sanity-Saving Tips for Including Your Kids in The Kitchen (and a free printable!)
Here is your comprehensive checklist on how to include your kids in meal and snack prep (without losing your mind!). As a mom of three kids who happens to be a pediatric dietitian, I can promise you this! Did you know that getting kids involved in the kitchen, with planning and prepping meals and snacks…
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