Real Mom Nutrition
A no-judgments zone about feeding a family.
Answers to your top questions about food and nutrition.
When your evenings are full of activities and the kitchen table is your backseat, here are some simple and healthy dinner in the car ideas. Gone are the lazy days of summer. Suddenly it’s time to shuttle kids to soccer games, play rehearsals, dance lessons, playdates, and all the things. And you may be thinking: …
Feeling the pinch of higher food prices? Here are a dozen items to make from scratch. You’ll save money and avoid food waste! I can’t be the only one who has recently stood in a grocery store aisle, done a double-take on a price, and blurted out “Are you kidding me?!?” Grocery prices are up–by …
How much protein do teens need and what are the best sources of protein for teens? Here are the need-to-know facts. The protein obsession seemed to happen overnight for my teen boys. Suddenly they were studying food labels, putting protein bars on the grocery list, and cooking eggs for breakfast after sets of push-ups and …
These food & kitchen hacks are all-time reader favorites! I’ve never met a food or kitchen hack I won’t try at least once. Some crash and burn (sometimes literally). Others are so good I wonder, “Where have you been all my life?!” So I share those gems with you. And across all the years of …
Looking for a healthy snack idea for kids? Meet the Snack Platter: easy, fun, and full of nutritious stuff. Thank you to Wish Farms for sponsoring this post. They’re a 4th generation family farm that produces berries including Pink-a-Boo® Pineberries, the new blush-pink berries on the plate above. As a dietitian, I get a lot …
Got the game but need munchies to go with it? Here are some healthy snacks for game night that your family will love. I admit it: My family can fall into an after-dinner rut of parking in front of the TV for Netflix–or worse, staring zombie-like into our own devices. But on the nights when …
Have a loved one who had a new baby or surgery or experienced a loss? Here are 30+ ways to deliver comfort and nourishment to family and friends in need. Bringing a meal to friends in need sounds so nice. Until you promise to do it–and then the over-thinking begins! What if they don’t like …
Spending too much money on packaged snacks every week? Here’s a round-up of cheap healthy snacks for kids. Does it feel like you spend half your weekly food budget on snacks? And if your house is like mine, all the packaged snacks–the expensive stuff you were hoping to slowly dole out–are gone within hours, leaving …
Need some healthy breakfast ideas for teens? Here are 40-plus meals for inspiration, including lots of make-ahead options! Breakfast may not be your teen’s favorite meal of the day, especially when they’re bleary-eyed and crabby at 6:30am on a school day. But your teenager needs to fuel their morning, not to mention all the enormous …
Here’s what you should know about “ultra-processed foods”–how they affect your health and what that means for your family. I wrote a shorter version of this post for my column on WebMD’s Food and Fitness Blog. Talk about “processed food” can make me twitchy. That’s because so much of it smacks of privilege, particularly the …
Are food dyes harmful to kids? Does artificial coloring make kids hyperactive? Here are the facts you need to know! Has your kid ever had a blue-stained tongue from a lollipop or pink frosting-smeared lips? And have you ever felt a twinge of worry, wondering whether those bright, colorful dyes are harmless or harmful–especially after …
Need healthy lunches for teens? Here are several quick lunch ideas that your teen will get excited about. More than once at lunchtime, I found my teenagers elbow-deep in a bag of pretzels or absentmindedly nibbling granola bars. And I realized that in the transition to giving my kids more independence around some meals, they’d …
