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On The Road: What To Feed The Kids?
Next weekend, I’ll be putting two kids in the car and driving 10 hours to visit the grandparents. Whenever I’m faced with any kind of day long (or longer) travel with kids I spend at least a week preparing. One of the main concerns I have is food. How to eat healthy and roughly on schedule while travelling is a puzzle for the ages. The kid...
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Mmm… Carrots!
Our friends over at Lifehacker have shared some really interesting info about the humble carrot. It turns out that cooking them whole has both cancer-fighting benefits and improves the flavour, as less sugar is lost during the cooking process. As originally reported on the BBC website, cooking carrots whole means that they have a much high...
Bad Parent
Gimme Sugar
Last month, I took my fifteen-month-old son Leo to his friend Elliot’s first birthday party. It was a mostly adult gathering and as we sat around the table the mother of a seven-month old offered him a taste of ice cream from her spoon. "I’m only giving him a taste," she explained, cheeks flushed. "I almost never give him sugar." Across t...
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6 Reasons Why It Sucks To Be A Kid Today
Rebecca Kelly feels very sorry for today's youth. We had it better. According to her, "back in the good old days, being a kid was awesome, but now today's youth is choking on yuppified bulls*** like organic nonsense, parental controls, and more." 1) Food is No Fun When we were kids we had lunches packed with Fruit By the Foot, Teddy Grahams,...
Droolicious
5 Best International Food Play Sets
You can get your kid the burger & fries, plain produce or basic meat and potatoes play food sets, or you can introduce them to a more cultural array of tantalizing tastes and textures. Here are five diverse international play sets for your kid’s kitchen fantasies. Wooden Sushi Set by Melissa & Doug (above) Nigiri, Rolls, soy sauce...
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They Say: Only Two Kid’s Cereals Good Enough For Everyday
Choice magazine recently tested 42 breakfast cereals marketed to kids. Scarily, only two were found to be nutritionally sound to eat every day - Sanitarium's Weet-Bix Kids and Uncle Tobys VitaBrits Weeties. The other 40 contained either too much sugar or salt, while some including Kellogg's Nutri-Grain, Coco Pops Chex and Crispix Honey scored h...
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Parents Need To Eat, Too – Right?
So, we all know that once you have a new baby in the house everything falls apart — your cleanliness standards, your ability to read grown-up books for more than a pages, your capacity to stay up past 10 pm (with the caveat that you're often up after midnight, attending to the wee one). But one of the saddest losses that can come along with new p...
Bad Parent
Organic Schmorganic
I love bananas as much as the next mum. But when the grocery store is ready to charge me three times as much because those bananas are organic? You can keep them. I don't buy organic, at least not as a rule. There are occasions — when there are no "non-organic" bananas left that aren't browned and smushed and my daughter is begging for bananas...
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Hot Dogs With Spaghetti Inside – What’s NOT For Dinner
So, like, ew. BoingBoing links to a page on LiveJournal (I can't tell you the site name because it appears to be in Russian or another language that I don't recognize) that shows a new way to cook hot dogs. You stick dry spaghetti in them and then cook. The result looks like something that might be served on the Island of Dr. Moreau....
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