Recent Posts Tagged With 'snacks'

• Nearly fat-free brownies

  Posted on Tuesday November 11th, 2008 at 08:39 in health, nutrition, recipe, baking, obesity, snacks, habits, Ingredients, sweets, children's health, brownies, healthy foods

  Last week, I interviewed Sandi Jeanette of Good Samaritan Hospital about a talk she was giving on kid nutrition, health and obesity at Pearl River’s recent Parent University. During our chat, she mentioned she was handing out recipes for heal...

• Gross-out food for Halloween

  Posted on Saturday October 25th, 2008 at 08:05 in snacks, halloween

  I have two boys. Let me repeat: I have two boys. No matter what anyone says about children being children and all being the same, I can tell you, that’s a load of hooey. Sure, there are girls who are not so girly (I, myself, was always a ...

• Packing a “lunch” for pre-K

  Posted on Saturday September 13th, 2008 at 12:10 in snacks, lunch, juice, goldfish, pre-k, school lunch, pre-kindergarten

  Sorry I’ve been so lax in blogging lately, but it’s been a pretty busy time in my house. A week and a half ago, my oldest, Rafael, started attending pre-kindergarten. We’re very fortunate in that our school district in New Jerse...

• School lunches — take three (four?)

  Posted on Thursday September 4th, 2008 at 13:23 in parenting, snacks, lunch, animal crackers, sitting at table

  I don’t know about you but it’s only Day 2 of the 2008-2009 school year and I’m already sick of making lunches. Probably not a good sign. It doesn’t help that over the summer we switched to a new daycare-slash-preschool fo...

• Frozen fruit — an ultimate snack

  Posted on Tuesday August 12th, 2008 at 15:01 in snacks, fruit, blueberries, berries, produce, healthy foods, fruit picking, frozen blueberries, small bites, you-pick

  I had long known that frozen grapes make great snacks—practically calorie-free provided you don’t eat bunches and bunches of them—but I didn’t realize that frozen blueberries are just as nice. Although now I come to think of i...

• OK, so, like, no sugar ever?

  Posted on Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 at 12:03 in sugar, snacks, sugar doughnut, sugar cereal

  I recently took our oldest to a routine dentist’s visit, a new one since we’ve recently moved.  He’s a lover of all things sweet and chocolate — and like many (most?) 6.5-year-old boys needs to be prodded to brush his teeth ...

• File under: What were they thinking?

  Posted on Friday June 20th, 2008 at 06:00 in toys, sugar, snacks, Candy, choking hazard, infant safety, eating shenanigans

  Any parent of a toddler knows how often you have to snatch things out of the little ones’ hands or fish foreign objects out of their mouths. That’s why all those toys and games with small pieces have “not suitable for children un...

• Chez car

  Posted on Wednesday May 14th, 2008 at 06:05 in Car, road trip, snacks, car trips

  We have two snackers. Markus is pretty much always hungry and Rafael you sort of have to chase around to get food into his skinny little body. So we pretty much always have something for the smitchiks to eat in the car. When Rafael actually says he...

• Puff piece

  Posted on Tuesday May 13th, 2008 at 12:54 in snacks, infants, food safety, transition, solids, feeding solids, gerber graduates

  We took a giant step forward on the road to eating “real” solids last week when JD actually chewed the tiny piece of Gerber Graduates fruit Puff I gave him instead of choking on it. Since I had broken the star-shaped Puff into such small ...

• The last piece of baklava

  Posted on Thursday April 10th, 2008 at 16:28 in baking, sugar, snacks, sweets, transition from baby food

  I’m not sure if it’s considered setting a good example for your children to make a batch of baklava and then let it sit around, drenched in honey/sugar sauce, beckoning. I don’t think we talk much on this blog about making treats ...

• Snacks…around the world

  Posted on Tuesday April 1st, 2008 at 14:58 in Chocolate, cookies, snacks, birthday parties, cheerios, vegemite, goldfish crackers, sembei, indian snacks

  So on Sunday we took Zyla to a birthday party and there were loads of 2-year-olds running around toting Goldfish crackers. Zyla managed to get her little hands on some of these orange bits..she’d never had them before…and from the looks o...

• The sugar doughnut. Or, how we got some exercise on Sunday

  Posted on Monday March 24th, 2008 at 16:11 in exercise, snacks, donut, sweets, doughnut, sugar doughnut, sugar donut

  With yesterday being Easter Sunday, most of our regular weekend expedition options were out. All the malls and stores were closed; the weather early in the day was just a bit too nippy to go to a park. Plus, with all the rain we’ve had lat...