Real Mom Nutrition
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This Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie, made with whole wheat flour and oats, is a fun treat for dessert or snack time. How have I lived this long without baking a skillet cookie?! It’s so much quicker than spooning out two dozen mounds of dough. And can we talk about how you get a …
Introduce your child to this super-nutritious veggie with these chocolate beet cupcakes, from the new book Adventures in Veggieland. My boys are not on board with straight-up beets. Yet. But they’ll drink them whirled into smoothies and juices. And thanks to this recipe, now they like them in cupcakes. I call that progress. Because part …
If you’re looking for a fun and unique dessert idea or a sweet weekend breakfast, here’s how to set up a whole wheat crepe bar. Crepes are way easier to make than they seem, and when you set them out with an array of fillings and toppings, everyone can assemble what they like best. How …
Thank you to King Arthur Flour for sponsoring this post! I enjoy making meals, snacks, and goodies from scratch. I really, really do. But I don’t enjoy when my life feels like an endless cycle of make food/clean up/make food/repeat. So I supplement homemade foods with packaged food and feel no shame. After all, there are …
Thank you to Wild Blueberries for sponsoring this post! I may be a dietitian, but I’m also a big fan of cupcakes and frosting. But I am not a big fan of fake food dyes (here’s why). So I like tinkering with ways to use natural hues from fruits and veggies. This Naturally-Colored Wild Blueberry Frosting is …
Wouldn’t it be nice to celebrate Valentine’s Day without Red Dye #40? I’ve shared a recipe for naturally red frosting that gets its hue from beets (read Naturally Colored Frosting). I wanted to do a baby pink frosting for Valentine’s Day that’s colored and flavored with whole fruit. For naturally pink frosting, start with a half-pound of …
I don’t think sugar itself is toxic or poison. I don’t believe we need to completely banish it from our diets. But it’s a fact that most of us are getting too much added sugar, the kind put in by manufacturers (not the natural kind found in fruit and dairy). That’s especially true for kids. There’s no Daily …
