Most parents have a general sense that it’s a good idea to feed children organic food, but buying certified organic foods can be expensive. If you have to make choices, make sure you know when and where it is most important to buy organic food for your children’s snacks. What snacks are you most likely…Read the full article.

If you planted a garden with your child earlier this year, she’s probably been eager to sample the results. Now is the season for fresh garden snacks with children. Eat It Fresh and Raw Fresh fruits and vegetables straight from the garden can be such an intense taste experience that they become lifelong memories. I…Read the full article.

“I tell all of my friends about food,” my daughter told me. I’ve noticed that both of my children talk about food issues in casual conversation with their friends. “Dude,” my 9-year old son said to his friend, “have you read this book?” The book is the Young Readers Edition of The Omnivore’s Dilemma. “Yeah,…Read the full article.

I try to make the best food choices for my family. This is not always easy when the food industry uses weasel words to bend meanings. One of the best food articles I read all of last year was from Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm. You may have met him and his farm either in…Read the full article.

The Food Renegade posted today on an FTC report on hearing about food marketing to children. Conclusion of the report? Voluntary standards for advertisers. I want to give the benefit of the doubt, but I’m just too cynical. As long as there is profit to be made from marketing sugar, fat, and salt—and long-term profits…Read the full article.

Harvest time is the perfect time to ask yourself about your local in-season abundance. How Local Is Local? How far does your food travel to reach your table? On average, 1,500-2,500 miles. Food miles are certainly not the only consideration, but this is one more factor you can use to consider the environmental impact of…Read the full article.

As I’ve been thinking about healthy lunches and what’s for lunch at schools recently, I keep coming back to the problem of soda and children. Specifically, I wonder what is the state of soda in schools. To answer my question, I’ve set out on an investigation. The situation is actually better than I expected, but…Read the full article.

What is your child’s favorite smoothie? Today, my son decided he didn’t want to eat lunch at all. I suggested he just have a smoothie. It worked! I even let him choose and didn’t try to sneak in a broccoli stem or a handful of beans. He choose peaches from our neighbors’ tree, a banana,…Read the full article.

I homeschool my children. We’ve been talking in the past couple of weeks about what we want to cover this year. We’ve decided to focus on food. My daughter’s big list of questions included requests to learn to make “yummy foods from all over the world,” and my son’s questions included “what is the most…Read the full article.

One way that I make sure my children are eating plenty of colorful fruits and vegetables every day is giving them smoothies. Our simplest recipe is agua fresca (fresh water) with just water, ice, and fresh strawberries. My daughter loves this. She learned about it when she was learning Spanish, and the characters in her…Read the full article.