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Eat Your Greens: Get Some Muscles From Brussels Sprouts
St. Patrick's Day may conjure up memories of Irish soda bread, corned beef, and pints of Guinness, but we're approaching the holiday from a different direction this year – an opportunity to get our kids to eat more green. We're taking five green vegetables and trying out different methods to get our tots to gobble them up.
Eat Your Greens: Spinach Pesto Grows Lil Muscles
St. Patrick's Day may conjure up memories of Irish soda bread, corned beef, and pints of Guinness, but we're approaching the holiday from a different direction this year – an opportunity to get our kids to eat more green. We're taking five green vegetables and trying out different methods to get our tots to gobble them up.
Roasted Root Veggies for Babies and Adults too!
Recipe from Cooking for Baby: Wholesome, Homemade, Delicious Foods for 6 to 18 MonthsMy niece has some of the best eating habits of any one-year-old. Again, I attribute this largely to the dedication of my brother and his wife to expose her to a wide variety of foods. Now that my niece has just started getting some teeth she has started moving from puree to more solids.
Delilicious: Playful Chef Farmer's Market Set
Mother Goose had seen the future when she said, "To market, to market, to buy a plum bun. Home again, home again, market is done." With more and more parents joining the organic movement, visits to the local farmers market have become a weekend ritual in many households.
A Vegetable by Another Name
My brother enjoyed Spiderman pancakes and Superman eggs when we went out to brunch growing up. I've heard of parents telling their tots that broccoli florets are lil trees and carrots are the Easter bunny's candy, but have never called them by another name to my own kids. The results of a Cornell study may have you calling cucumbers "flying torpedoes" and spinach gratin "brilliant brain-food."
Lil Tip: Swap Out Your Mashed Potatoes with Cauliflower Puree
If your tots never tire of mashed potatoes, consider swapping out the root for a vegetable. Simply steam or lightly boil cauliflower florets, then strain them and add a bit of milk or broth and a dab of butter. Use a hand-mixer to puree the ingredients and then salt and pepper them to taste before plating.
Eco Tot: Puddlefoot Organic Tees
Encourage your lil one to eat his veggies with the sweet organic tees by Puddlefoot ($22), a line of shirts designed to celebrate the goodness of the garden. Created by Suzi MacDougall, an Ojai, California mom, the shirts feature six animated garden-variety vegetables with cute taglines. From "Stalky" the celery to "Y'onion" the onion, the sweatshop-free shirts are also PVC and pthalate-free and made with water-based inks.
Delilicious: Dr. Praeger's Broccoli Littles
Kids and vegetables are often like oil and water. Try as you might, getting them to eat their greens can be a struggle that makes many mamas want to simply give up. If you are ethically opposed or just don't have time to puree and hide the veggies in brownies and chicken nuggets, opt for Dr.
Delilicious: Calling Mamas Whose Kids Eat Veggies!
If your lil rascal limits his food intake to buttered pasta, grilled cheese, and french fries, you need not apply. But if you've got carrot- and cucumber-loving children, chef Art Smith and the makers of Hidden Valley Ranch are looking for your kind. Banding together as part of the Love Your Veggies campaign, the sponsors are trying to find women who are committed to getting their kids and communities to eat greens with their Search For Veggie Champions Contest.
Baby Wellness: Forget the Vegetables
As parents, we often worry about our children getting the proper food, nutrition, water, education, and other nurturing necessities. As covert moms publish books like the Deliciously Deceptive and the Sneaky Chef, which aim to help disguise healthy food options under the masks of cupcakes and waffles, one esteemed pediatrician says to forget the vegetables.
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