Celery Root and Wild Mushroom Soup

Serves 4
Full-bodied and full of flavor, wild mushrooms enrich the earthy taste of celery root in this pureed winter bisque. Makes an excellent side for meat, tempeh or a bright green salad.
Cooking Tip: Allowing the dried mushrooms to cook into the stock (vs. soaking them in water to reconstitute) will enrich the stock (and the [...]

Healthy Kids – Farm to School Program

I thought I’d post this blog, after hearing yesterday about the recall of 143 million pounds of beef from the California slaughterhouse being investigated for animal abuse. Cows too sick to walk were filmed being shoveled up with fork lifts and dragged across floors with metal chains.
Sad to say it, but I believe that this [...]

Kid’s Health — The Rotating Breakfast

One of the biggest dietary problems I see for kids (and adults) in the modern world is the addiction to refined breakfasts: boxed cereal, pancakes, rolled oats, toast, even “health bars”. Yes… they’re easy, they’re quick, there’s no clean up and they give a quick boost in energy. But what about an hour or two [...]

Trick or Treat? Fair Trade Halloween Chocolate!

There’s a bittersweet tale behind chocolate. As much as we love to see our kids parading through the neighborhood for sweets, kids on the Ivory Coast of Africa (where 43 percent of the world’s cocoa is produced) are being sold into abusive child labor camps on the cocoa farms. Young kids are forced to work [...]

Kid’s Health – Tortillas, Wraps and Burritos

You can stuff anything into a tortilla. Of course they make burritos, but you don’t have to limit yourself to traditional Mexican ingredients. Chicken or tuna salad stuffed into neat little packages, for example, makes a healthy, high protein lunch when the kids get sick of the usual same old sandwich. You can even spread [...]

Kid’s Health – Sneaking in the Good Stuff!

What kid doesn’t love pancakes? Waffles? Muffins? Organic moms love them too — they know how easy it is to sneak in the good stuff without the kids even knowing.
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Whole grain flours can have a strong flavor and heaviness, but if added into foods [...]

Healthy Desserts, Raw Desserts

Think “raw desserts”. What pops into your mind? Healthy? Crunchy? Soggy? A sad alternative for someone on a diet? Raw desserts make the healthiest desserts on the planet, but they also make skeptics. Can desserts made without flours, fillers, sugar, or dairy products truly satisfy?

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Kid’s Health – Hemp Milkshakes!

Written by Meg Harpool for Alison Anton

I recently questioned myself (as parents often do) while selecting a box of hemp milk from the shelf of my local health food store. Before I serve my children this so called “foundation food”, I felt the need to do a bit of research. Since both hemp and [...]

Healthy Kids – Give ‘Em Choices

“Would you like carrots, corn or beets for our vegetable tonight?”
Having kids choose between 2-3 kinds of vegetables can help foster self-esteem by giving them a role to play in the preparation of their meals. This gives them a certain boundary (“we’re definitely having vegetables”) yet enables them to choose for themselves from what has [...]

A Kid-Friendly Kitchen

Imagine allowing your kids to eat anything in the kitchen that they wanted. In most kitchens, kids find overly processed commercial foods that contain refined white flours, partially hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup. But what if you had a healthy, kid-friendly kitchen and promoted healthy food attitudes and good eating habits?
Rersearch shows that [...]

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