Quick & easy healthy snacks for kids are awesome. Actually, anything that makes healthy eating with kids easier is awesome. These banana bites fit the bill 100%. This snack is ready in 30 seconds, and to make it even better, it involves eating off of a toothpick 🙂 Score! …because […]
Delicious with less sugar
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Leftover-Oatmeal Muffins What can I do with leftover oatmeal porridge? Have you ever asked that? Maybe there are extras due to an over zealous estimation on how much your kids would eat… or because someone slept in and grabbed a granola bar on the way out the door to […]
Gingerbread breakfast smoothie. Aka. A healthy Christmas treat for your kids- it could be a breakfast or snack! What makes a good breakfast smoothie? In my books it’s going to be Filling Tasty Nutritious Without gobs of sugar Simple to make and kid loved. Especially this, because i’m not going […]
Fruit sweetened muffins. (tasty ones). That was my agenda. Could a muffin with no added refined sugar taste any good? My goal was to make the answer ‘yes!’ (with the exclamation mark). Trimming out refined sugar is always good. Less sugar in general is a sound idea. Blah tasting muffins […]
Whole grain chocolate chip oatmeal cookies Rules of a chocolate chip cookie: It must be chewy- Not cake like, not crumbly- just chewy…and soft. With crisp edges. And tasty. A perfect chocolate chip cookie always has oatmeal. No negotiating here. 🙂 Likely because they were our standard cookie growing […]
Superhero banana bites! Here’s a quick, fun, healthy snack recipe that your kids will be able to make without help! (Or without much help, for the littlest ones). Banana bites with some extra pa-zaz. Getting your child into the kitchen to make his own snack is a great way […]
Lemon meringue pie overnight oats Another breakfast with a delicious name. I’m all about making the names of recipes appealing to kids- just like putting Dora the explorer on a box of gummy fruit snacks sells to kids, so does a tasty sounding name! Since we as parents are facing […]
The scoop: Quick, easy, fruit loaded, and kid loved! Step 1: Put berries in blender Step 2: Add a little maple syrup Step 3: Blend! Step 4: Enjoy a syrup made of fruit instead of having your little one drown his pancakes in straight syrup! (Bonus= much cheaper […]