September is National Fruits & Veggies Month! Your role is important because we are right in the middle of a fruit and vegetable consumption crisis. Close to 9 in 10 Americans still do not eat enough of them! It's the perfect time to set goals to [...]
This post contains affiliate Amazon links. Your back to school routine may be anything but routine these days. In any case, everyone still needs to eat lunch. If you are schooling and working from home, it's still a good idea to prep a lunch in the morning. When [...]
I attended sponsored tours of veal farms in Pennsylvania and Indiana this summer to learn more about how today’s veal is raised. My travel expenses were paid and I was sent some free samples of ground veal and cutlets to experiment with, but I was not compensated for this [...]
With school back in session, it's lunch packing season. Now that you have a teenager, you know that the days of love notes and cutting sandwiches into fun shapes for your finicky child are over, but lunch still needs to be enticing enough to eat, and still provide the [...]
Usually I post about food and nutrition science, but this week's post is a bit more philosophical. It concludes with some simple tips for back to school nutrition and wellness, so feel free to skip ahead... As a mother of 3 sons who are teenagers and beyond, I [...]
Breakfast is often viewed as the most important meal of the day. This can be debatable, as it depends on the day, but for school-age children and teens, breakfast truly is important in terms of good health and proper growth. Breakfast is an opportunity to include important nutrients [...]