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Healthy Dinners for Busy Nights Series: Top Vegetables and High-Fiber Carbs for Low-Effort, Kid-Friendly Meals
We’ve been talking about healthy dinners on busy weeknights. It’s possible! Use tasty, simple foods and balance your meals for family-friendly dinners without fuss. In the last post, we talked about lean, affordable proteins that everyone can enjoy within minutes. In this post, we’ll cover vegetables and high-fiber carbs. We’ll start with vegetables, focusing on
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Healthy Dinners for Busy Nights Series: Top Proteins for Low-Effort, Kid-Friendly Meals
Life is busy. By dinner time, I’m usually tired and thinking about a long to-do list that I haven’t finished. I don’t have much time or energy for making elaborate meals, but I know that nutritious meals are critical. They keep us going now, and they set the stage for a healthier future. In this
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Healthy Cereal Nutrition Calculator for Kids (Build Your Own Bowl)
In our previous blog post, we described my dad’s original homemade cereal recipe. It’s kid-friendly and nutritious. It’s also parent-friendly because it doesn’t require cooking, clean-up is minimal, and you can vary it according to your tastes and needs. Here’s a calculator you can use to figure out the basic nutrients in your cereal. Just
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The Nutritious “Cereal” My Dad Made—And Why Your Kids Will Keep Asking for It
Most Americans grow up thinking that cereal comes from a box, but that’s not what “cereal” meant in our household when my sister and I were growing up. Whenever my dad offered to make us “cereal,” we got excited, whether it was for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My dad worked from home, while my mom
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Make It Count: Turn Daily Life into Healthy Family Time This Spring Break
Spring break may mean a family vacation for some, but for many parents, having kids home from school for a week or two is challenging. You’re suddenly responsible for full-time child care, including safety, entertainment, and health. At the same time, you may be working your regular schedule while trying to meet your own physical
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Benefits of Family Meals – and How You Can Get More Nutrients with Less Hassle
What comes to mind when you think of family meals? The idealized image may include seven dinners a week together, smiling children with clean hands, relaxed parents who are fully focused on the family, and home made, balanced meals that everyone shares. For most families, the reality is different. By dinner time, kids and parents
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6 Nutritious Spring Break Lunches for Kids: Easy for You, Fun for Them
Parents know that when kids are home from school, there’s a lot to juggle. Parents need to make sure kids are entertained and active every day, and working parents need to take time off or figure out how to get their work done when kids aren’t in the classroom. In addition, there are lunchtimes. Most
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Healthy DIY Meal Helpers: Fast Dinners for Busy Parents and Hungry Kids
What’s for dinner? If you’re like most parents, you may not always have a lot of time to come up with an answer before it’s time to get the food on the table. Pantry meal helpers like boxed macaroni and cheese, Hamburger Helper, Rice-a-Roni, taco kits, and ramen are easy, quick, and usually popular with
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6 Top Family Dinners – Made Healthier Without Complicated Recipes
Many parents want to cook healthy for themselves and their children, but that can be challenging. Kids can be picky eaters, and parents may worry that it’ll take time or gourmet cooking skills to get a healthy meal on the table. For ideas, check out whole grain dinners, breakfast for dinner, and kid-friendly dinners. And
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The Habit That Builds Healthy Families Now and Forever – It’s Not Diet or Exercise
We’ve been talking about ways to add in healthy behaviors during routine days of late winter. In case you missed them, check our tips for establishing healthy eating patterns and exercise routines for the family, as well as supporting sleep, energy, and mental health for kids and parents in a positive environment. There’s another area