Real Mom Nutrition
A no-judgments zone about feeding a family.
Mind-blowing fact: Your GI system is home to up to a trillion microbes! Keeping this “good” and “bad” bacteria in a healthy balance is key–and adding probiotics to your diet can really help. In her new book Drink Your Way to Gut Health, fellow dietitian Molly Morgan offers 140 recipes for smoothies and drinks made with …
I’ve been a smoothie girl for a long time. I make one nearly every day for breakfast and pack my Vitamix when I go on vacation. But I’ve also been intrigued by juicing. Like everyone else who watched the documentary “Fat Sick & Nearly Dead“, I wanted to run out and buy a top-of-the-line juicer immediately. But …
Filling and kid-friendly, this shake is full of calcium, potassium, and protein to start your child’s day. Breakfast is not my fifth grader’s favorite meal of the day. (My first grader, on the other hand, practically jumps directly from his bed into a seat at the kitchen island with a spoon in his hand.) I invented …
The Polar Vortex got me dreaming of warmer temperatures in faraway places–where thermometers have never seen minus 10 degrees at high noon and where you don’t need to wear a ski mask to take out the recycling. That was the inspiration for this smoothie, a new favorite of mine. Close your eyes and it’s part …
Ever since my two week No Added Sugar Challenge, I’ve kept added sugars out of my breakfast completely. And I’ve been drinking a lot of Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothies. But my obsession has turned to a new morning drink: The Creamy Dreamy Banana Date Shake. It was created by Katie Morford at Mom’s Kitchen Handbook, a …
Not eating added sugar is not as hard as I thought it would be. Day one: Rough. Day two: One mammoth, splitting, day-long headache. The rest of the week: No problem. I even went out of town to a friend’s surprise birthday party, where I was faced with almond cake with buttercream frosting and molten-lava chocolate …
From-scratch cocoa trumps packets of Swiss Miss any day of the week. Mix up a batch of this (I often double it) and store in jars in your pantry so you’re ready for cold-nose-and-feet season. Mix it with milk for extra creaminess and nutrition.
