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Family Mealtime: How To Make Your Own Baby Food
Guest Post from Cheryl of Backseat Gourmet

This isn’t a lecture about making your own baby food. I will only ask this: why wouldn't you? Sure, it takes a bit of time and a bit of freezer room. But other than a blender, food mill, food proce...

Family Mealtime: Cooking for Babies
Guest Post from Cheryl of Backseat Gourmet

There is no doubt that I am inherently a food snob, and it is no secret that I’m trying to turn my kids into foodies too. I believe that what we feed our babies — and how we do it — can ...

Snack: Cream Cheese "Tarts" With Wild Blackberry Honey

Looking for a fast, sweet, comforting snack to nibble with your tea? Here's a childhood favorite that needs only three things: cream cheese, sweet honey, and soft sandwich bread. ...

Picture Yourself Cooking with Your Kids by Beth Sheresh
Book Review 2009

Do your kids help out with the cooking in your house? Whether they're toddlers or teenagers, Beth Sheresh thinks that there are lots of ways that kids can contribute in the kitchen - not to mention th...

Good Product: The Batterfinger!

We received this cartoonish spatula as a gag gift a few months ago, but it's actually come to be one of our favorite and most-used kitchen utensils! Surprised? Read on......

Look! A Play Kitchen Made from Fresh Direct Boxes

We just saw this project over at Ohdeedoh and thought it was genius. A very crafty mom turned Fresh Direct delivery boxes into a precious little play kitchen. That's a brownie pan as the sink! Get a "...

Lunch Box Blues: Good Ideas for School Lunches?

A friend of ours with young children told us that she has recently fallen into a school lunch rut of the bagels-and-cream-cheese variety. Have kids? This ever happen to you? We're guessing it has! Any...

Good Food With Evan Kleiman: Homemade Bubble Gum

Remember summer days of bubble-blowing contests and sticky chins? Part of our memories also include the anxious minutes at the corner store trying to decide which brightly colored package of gum to c...

What Are Your Favorite Children's Picture Books About Food?

Today we're kicking off our month dedicated to The Hungry Reader and we want to start at the very beginning. What are your favorite picture books about food? As children, we went through picture ...

Conscientious Cook: Local Food for Local Schools

"The processing of our food is profoundly disgusting, and the accumulation of packaging fills a giant barrel at my school every day." That's a quote from 5th-grader Aden Kahr of Olympia, Washington...

How to Bake With Kids: Tips and Ideas

Cooking with kids is a remarkably fun and rewarding experience, amd baking is one of the easiest (and fun) ways to cook with kids. Whether you have kids or not, you probably have at least one or two...