Curious about the safety of energy drinks for kids? As a dietitian mom, I help you uncover the potential risks of excessive caffeine, dehydration, and displacing nutritious foods. In today’s fast-paced world, energy drinks have gained popularity among individuals of all ages. However, concerns have been raised regarding the safety of these highly caffeinated beverages…
Starting Solids Basics: What Parents Need to Know
Starting solids is an exciting milestone in your baby’s life. In this post I answer a lot of commonly asked questions about how, when and what to feed your baby when starting solids. Starting solids is an exciting milestone in your baby’s life, but it can also be confusing, especially when you’re overloaded with conflicting…
Delicious and Nutritious Make-Ahead Brunch: Carrot Cake Overnight French Toast
Need a make-ahead Easter brunch idea? Look no further than my carrot cake overnight French toast. Breakfast is by far my favourite meal of the day—I would have breakfast foods for every meal if I could, and make it a habit to have “brinner” (breakast for dinner) on busy weeknights because it’s not only easy…
Are You A Short-Order Cook? The Truth About Making Separate Meals For Your Kids
Here’s why being a short-order cook might perpetuate picky eating habits. Getting dinner on the table every night can be a struggle, and it’s compounded when you make separate meals to please picky palates. Now instead of spending 30 minutes on a family meal, you may be spending 60 minutes catering to individual taste buds….
Easy Egg Burrito Bake
What mom doesn’t love an easy, quick nutritious weeknight dinner recipe that her kids actually eat? I can tell you that as a mom of three little ones, I’m all about easy and quick, and as a dietitian, I appreciate nutritious, real, whole food ingredients that take no time to throw together for a meal…
Breastfeeding Moms: How to Safely Store Pumped Breastmilk
I remember when I returned to work after having my third baby, one of my biggest sources of anxiety was how I was going to pump, transfer and store breastmilk at (and to and from) work. With a little bit of creativity, I was able to figure out a system that worked for me, and…
My Top 3 Secrets to Taking the Guilt Out of Dinnertime (and ensuring my that kids eat healthfully!)
As a registered dietitian, here are my top secrets to success for stress-less weeknight meals (even when you have a picky eater!). Picture this: You’ve just come home from a long day of work, knowing that you’re solo-parenting your three young kids for the night, and you don’t have dinner planned. The kids are hungry…
Why You Should Break This Feeding Habit (And What To Do Instead)
Raise an independent, confident and mindful eater by encouraging them to self-feed. It’s 5:00pm and you have to get your son to soccer by 5:45pm. You’re rushing to get food on the table and trying to get your kids ready and fed in 20 minutes so that you can get out the door on time. Every…
Top 10 Realistic and Healthy Habits for Your Whole Family to Adopt in 2018
Setting healthy intentions (or resolutions) for the New Year always seems like a great idea at the beginning of the year, but can be REALLY challenging to see through, especially for those of us who have created less-than-healthy habits over the years. Habits are actions that we take without even thinking about it—things like grabbing…
Easy Warm Butternut Squash, Lentil and Cranberry Salad
This easy and festive warm salad will be everyone’s new holiday favourite! Christmas Eve is probably my favourite night of the year, even now more than ever because of my three kids. The entire day and night are full of anticipation and magic as they await Santa’s arrival. We usually host at our house, and…
5 Things You Shouldn’t Say to Your Kids About Food
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…
The Easiest Oatmeal Muffins You’ll Ever Make
I always make a huge batch of oatmeal on Monday mornings for the week ahead. I love oatmeal for so many reasons, but most of all because it’s easy, nutritious and filling. Oats contain soluble fibre, which helps to slow down digestion and keep you fuller longer and sustain energy levels! They are also very versatile,…
3 Ways Parents Unintentionally Limit Their Kids’ Food Preferences
We moms have the most powerful influence on kids eating behaviours. As a pediatric dietitian, here’s how you can make that influence a positive one! I had no idea how easy it was for parents to limit their kids’ food preferences, until recently. Last night, my three-year-old daughter watched every move I made at dinner (and…
Easy Weeknight Recipe: Two-Pan Thai Chicken Veggie Bowls
There’s something very gratifying about finding a nutritious and tasty recipe that the whole family loves. What makes it even better is if it’s easy to throw together last minute! These Thai Chicken Veggie Bowls hit the mark in every way–not only packed full of nutrition, but also delicious and super easy to prepare. I…
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