I loved vegetables as a kid.  My mom tells me that as a kid I used to reach out and snatch florets of broccoli as we were grocery shopping.  Unfortunately, not all kids share my love of fresh produce.  According to the US Department of Health, children should be having 3-4 servings (cups) of vegetables every day.  You may find that it’s difficult to get your children, especially younger ones, to eat just one serving!

So how do you give your kids their recommended daily dose of veggie goodness without…

For kids, a snack is more than a quick bite between meals- it’s a meal in itself, and it’s vitally important to keep their young minds alert.  But you probably know that it can be a challenge to find healthy snacks that your kids will actually eat, and that don’t take as long to prepare as an actual meal!

Most kids are a lot more likely to eat the snack you’ve prepared if it’s:

A) on a stick

B) cut into a fun shape

C) interactive

We’d like to share a few of our favorite healthy, fun, easy-to-prepare snacks.  Try…

Today I made the absolute best pumpkin muffins!! Thank goodness the recipe made 32 because at the rate they are flying off the counter my typical recipes wouldn’t have even lasted until supper time. They were so good that I had to post it on facebook and because response for the recipe has been so quick I thought it would be quickest to post the entire recipe here. But I can’t take all the credit for this heavenly recipe…I found it on AllRecipes.com and it had something like 11,000 reviews! So I knew it had to be good. Okay so…

Are you bored of the same old after school and afternoon snacks that you make for your kids time and time again?  I am, especially because all 3 of my girls are hungry non-stop, it doesn’t seem to matter that we just ate 5 minutes ago!  So I went in search of some fun ideas and here is a great one that I tried the other day.  My girls loved it and were busy chatting the whole time they were eating about how cool it looked.

What a great way to get…