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1 Lil Links: Quick, Delicious Meals to Feed the Whole Family
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2 Interview With Lori Loughlin: 90210 Star Dishes on Meals
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3 10 Reasons Why You Should Eat as a Family
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4 Tamra Davis Cooks Up a Show For Her lil Beastie Boys
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5 10 Light Family Meals For Scorching Hot Days
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6 There's More Than One Way to Eat a Rotisserie Chicken
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7 Annabel Karmel: Appropriate Food Portions For Children
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8 Drive Through Dinner: Families Eating Less Meals at Home Than Ever Before
Maybe Jamie Oliver needs to invade our homes, not our schools. Between shuttling tots between activities, managing our careers, and running our households, moms are busier than ever before and it's showing in how we feed our kids. A new study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association finds that more kids are eating foods prepared outside the home than ever before and this may Read more
Think sitting down and sharing a meal as a family is just about a warm, fuzzy feeling? A new study by the journal Pediatrics says it may be much more than that. The study found that kids (aged 2 to 17) who shared at least three meals a week with their families were less likely to be overweight, eat junk food, or develop an eating disorder, and more likely to eat produce. I ate meals with my Read more
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post written by Annabel Karmel, the British children's chef and kiddie cookbook author. This week Annabel shares tips for ensuring lil ones get enough to eat throughout the day! There is no definitive guide to portion sizes for tots. Babies' appetites vary for many reasons, so it is important to be flexible and not to worry if some days they don't eat Read more
Chicken — it's what's for dinner . . . a few nights a week! When time is of the essence and there are hungry mouths to feed, mama needs a few tricks up her sleeve to get dinner on the table. Takeout may be fast, but it takes a toll on the wallet. Rotisserie chicken — be it the $6 kind from Costco or a $20 version from a gourmet shop — gives moms endless options for providing the family with Read more
Feeling hot, hot, hot! That's how many moms feel today as the Midwest and East Coast continue to ride out a mid-Summer heat wave. When the temperature is soaring, the last thing mothers want to do is turn on the oven, but the kiddos still have to eat. We've rounded up 10 light dinner options that the entire family can enjoy. Do you have a light Summer dinner recipe that your tots love? Share Read more
Rachael Ray claims that a meal only takes 30 minutes, but she doesn't have a toddler running into the kitchen and latching onto her leg or a preschooler who needs help reaching the scissors. That half hour easily grows into three-quarters of one. After spending many years building her career as a film, television and music video director — she has both Tone Loc's “Wild Thing" video and Billy Read more
Sitting down for a family meal is a time honored tradition that still exists — even in Tinseltown! We recently chatted with Lori Loughlin, the actress best known for her role as Becky Donaldson on Full House and more recently, as Debbie Wilson on 90210, about her partnership with Barilla pasta. Loughlin and Barilla are encouraging families to involve tots in mealtime planning and preparation Read more
Sitting down to dinner as a family is about more than breaking bread and sharing food — it's about connecting with your children and creating lifelong lines of communication within the nuclear unit. Last week, Nestle/Stouffer's invited me to be their guest at a Let's Fix Dinner conference to promote their family meal campaign. While it's hard for parents juggling careers and their kids Read more
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It is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, and the subject can't really be contained to one week. When thinking about eating disorders, and frankly getting a little sad about them, I remembered a positive news story I read a while back. There was a study on family meals and eating disorders, that as mother of two girls I found heartening. Researchers found that sitting down for regular Read more
