Real Mom Nutrition
A no-judgments zone about feeding a family.
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 …
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 …
Are your kids always hungry before dinner is ready? Here’s a strategy for snacks before dinner that won’t wreck their appetites. There’s nothing more maddening at mealtime than sitting down to a dinner you’ve spent 45 minutes preparing only to have your kids push aside their plates because they’re already full. On pretzels. Navigating the …
Thank you to Cuties for sponsoring this post! I may have scarfed down my fair share of packaged junk as a child, but I also ate a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables—and I grew up understanding where they came from. My dad cultivated a sizable backyard vegetable garden, so our meals were full of …
Five years ago, I stood on the pee-wee soccer field and got angry. I sat down at the computer and hammered out a post called Soccer Mom Soapbox, about the frustration I was having with all the Capri Suns and Oreos on the sidelines. I didn’t know how it would be received. Maybe I was overreacting. Or …
Whether your child attends a half-day or full-day preschool program, there’s probably a snack involved. Preschool snacks serve a few purposes: They build community in the classroom, as children gather together to eat. They help build skills, like pouring drinks, serving food, and observing good table manners. And they keep kids nourished between meals, especially …
Snack platters for kids include a variety of nutritious foods served in a fun way. Here are three easy ways to encourage healthy snacking. Have you met the Snack Platter? If you haven’t, it’s your new best friend–and secret weapon for encouraging healthy snacking. I sung the praises of the Snack Platter in this post: How a …
If you have kids in baseball, softball, football, and other organized sports, you know about the concession stand. It may generate much-needed revenue for the sports league. It’s almost always stocked with junk food. As a parent, it’s hard to deny your player something from the concession stand, especially when the whole team gathers there after …
The world is full of nutrition advice–dispensed by dietitians, doctors, personal trainers, bloggers, moms at the bus stop, complete strangers in line at Whole Foods. Some of it is good (eat more green leafy vegetables!). Some of it is bad (don’t eat bananas, they’re too high in sugar!). And some pieces of advice gets passed around so …
This easy Double Chocolate Granola bakes up in big clusters, so it’s perfect for snacking and packing in lunch boxes. Disclosure: I was asked to participate in the #CrunchOn campaign as a member of the Healthy Aperture Blogger Network. I was compensated for my time and also received free samples for recipe testing from California …
I own approximately three-thousand plastic kid-size snacks bowls in a variety of colors and sizes. There have been large schools of Goldfish crackers living under my sons’ carseats, and I used to empty out the contents of my purse and shake it free of pretzel and graham cracker debris almost weekly. I am familiar with …
