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7 Best Healthy Foods To Buy In Bulk
Cooking healthy meals for your family doesn’t have to be complicated or time-consuming. In our home, we keep things really simple. Each week, we buy the same staple foods and make many of the same meals. Between working full-time, writing this blog, my...
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5 Kitchen Gadgets I Can’t Live Without
Before I got married and had kids, food and nutrition weren’t nearly as much of a focus in my life as they are now. As a single woman living alone, I relied on quick and easy meals like scrambled eggs or pasta and broccoli. If I cooked, it would have been...
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10 Simple Meal Prep Hacks For Busy Moms
I wish I had better news for you, but the truth is that getting healthy meals on the table takes time. Time to plan what you’re going to cook, time to shop for the ingredients, time to do the actual meal prep and cooking, and (ughh) all the clean-up. When...
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4 Folate and Folic Acid Benefits For All Moms—Whether They’re Pregnant or Not
Folic acid, the synthetic form of folate or vitamin B9, is well known as a vitamin that pregnant moms take to help prevent neural tube defects like spina bifida and anencephaly. Since the first 4 to 6 weeks of pregnancy are when the neural tube is formed and when...
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8 Supermarket Shortcut Foods To Make Healthy Eating Easy
The new year always comes with the best intentions: eat healthier, work out more, get more sleep and cut down on all that stress. When it comes to your kid’ health, perhaps you’ve made a commitment to stock your kitchen with healthy food, cook more and...
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10 Healthy Eating Hacks For 2019
Whether your New Year’s resolution is to lose weight, get in shape—or nothing at all, the month of January is a great time of year to set new, healthy goals for your family. Perhaps you want to encourage your kids to eat healthier, try new foods or leave behind their...
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5 Reasons Why Healthy Eating Make Kids Happy
You already know that feeding your kids healthy foods is important for their growth and development and overall health and wellness, but can healthy eating make kids happy too? There’s no doubt that food is medicine and raising kids to eat healthy can prevent...
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6 Natural Remedies To Ease Kids’ Tummy Aches
When my daughter complains that she has a stomachache, the first words out of my mouth are always, “are you going to vomit?!”I know no one likes dealing with a kid who is vomiting, but when I see someone else getting sick, I start gagging myself.Most of the time...
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How To Safely Introduce Nuts To Your Baby
My kids were babies just a few years ago, but at that time parents were told to avoid offering peanuts, almonds and other tree nuts until they were toddlers and as late as 3-years-old.The food philosophy was meant to prevent babies from developing severe and...
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6 Tips To Manage Your Kid’s Food Allergies During The Holidays
When you have a child with food allergies like I do, keeping them safe during holiday parties and family get-togethers can be challenging. Between new types of foods, homemade dishes with secret ingredients and all those Christmas cookies, you’ll be laser-focused on...
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5 Winter Superfoods for Kids
The winter season lends itself to a wide variety of brightly colored vegetables bursting with flavor and packed with nutrition for your kids.With more time indoors, winter is also one of the best times of year to experiment with new recipes, cook with your kids and...
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6 Real Reasons Parents Don’t Feed Their Kids Healthy Food
When I was a child growing up in the 80’s, many parents fed their kids frozen TV dinners, meals that came out of a box and processed foods that were fast and convenient. Today, grocery store shelves are still lined with these types of foods, but most parents know...
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5 Healthy Holiday Gifts for Moms
After you purchase gifts for your kids and everyone else on your list, bake all the Christmas cookies and attend the obligatory office parties and school events, there’s no doubt that holiday stress will get the best of you. This year, instead of checking off all the...
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Gestational Diabetes Diet: 7 Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy
If you’ve been diagnosed with gestational diabetes, you might be wondering what foods you should eat, what foods you should avoid and what else you can do to have a healthy pregnancy.According to a 2014 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),...
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5 Healthy Holiday Gifts for Kids
Whether it’s a gift they asked for or something you knew they’d love, there’s nothing better than the joy of watching kids open their presents. Along with the toys, electronics and clothes, why not add also buy a present that will make them healthy and happy too? Here...
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