If you are not a breakfast cookie convert, prepare to be. These carrot cake breakfast cookies are a great way to shake up the never ending cycle of oatmeal at our house. Eloise is on a peanut butter oatmeal kick lately. I like to keep changing things up when I can, so that there aren’t…
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Snack Tray Lunches
Weather has been warm and beautiful lately, and we have been enjoying outside lunches as much as possible these days. The easiest way to make this happen has been snack tray lunches. What is a snack tray lunch you ask? It’s where I pile all the leftovers and odds and ends from the fridge onto…
Roasted Beets
Beets were one of those things that I was intimidated and confused by before I actually figured out how to cook them. I grew up with pickled beets from a jar (also delicious), but I didn’t have roasted beets until after college. I still remember the delicious quinoa salad I had them on with a…
Division of Responsibility in Feeding
In my early days as a WIC clinic nutritionist, I stumbled upon a book in a reference section for one of the classes I was teaching. This book revolutionized the way I thought about feeding children. It focused more on the psychological aspect of feeding children than the physical. Everyone pretty much knows kids should…
Cooking with Toddlers: Yogurt Edition
I have a confession. I do not like yogurt. I know, at this day and age we are all supposed to be working on our “gut health” and doing all the probiotic things, right? Yogurt, kombucha, kefir, sauerkraut, etc. We always had the little tubs of individually packaged yogurt with flavors that gave their best…
Easy Roasted Broccoli
It has been an exhausting, fun few weeks. We had company for most of the past month. My in-laws visited for a few weeks, my husband’s friend came to town for a visit, and then my mom visited for a few days. We battled sickness (thankfully before all the guests), visited museums and breweries, romped…
Roasted Chickpeas
My in-laws have been visiting for the past few weeks from out of state. It has been a whirlwind of 3 year old birthday party prep and execution, park days, and yummy family dinners (if I do say so myself). It has been such a joy seeing the girls connect with their grands that live…
Snack Trios
I don’t know about your house, but we are right in the thick of the “I don’t want that…I want something else” phase of toddler eating. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten a snack or meal ready in the past few months, only to hear “I don’t like that, I want cereal”….
Shrimp Topped Avocado Cups
I love New Year’s Day. Three years ago, three and a half years into our marriage, my husband and I started a tradition that we’ve continued the past three years. Every New Year’s Day we have a coffee date and discuss our budget for the previous year. This may not sound too exciting, but then…
Curry Coconut Fish
I am in the haze of post Christmas pre-New Years when all you want to do is avoid taking down Christmas decorations, sleep in, and eat all the leftover Christmas cookies. We traveled to my parents house for Christmas this year. As much fun, excitement, and quality family time as it brought, it also left…
Tex-Mex Stuffed Acorn Squash
Texas was hit with a cold front this week. A haul in the fig tree and succulents kind of cold front. It was glorious. We made a fire in the backyard, got to wear our cozy once-a-year flannel, and made this delicious fall-inspired dish. If you have not tried acorn squash, and are not too…
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
There is something that feels very old world, waste not want not about roasting the pumpkin seeds that came out of your carving pumpkins. I love getting pumpkins as soon as October hits, and waiting (im)patiently to carve them. I was not as patient as I should have been this year. We carved them too…
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