Did you know that cultured foods are nature’s probiotics? Actually, researchers are calling cultured foods a missing food group! In order to provide your child with optimal digestive and immune health, it is essential to make cultured foods a part of your family’s diet. Before refrigeration, our ancestors used something called lactic acid fermentation to preserve their [...]

Here’s a quick and simple way to empower your children to make their own choices about the food they eat, while giving gentle and non-coercive guidance. We call it the ‘snack zone’ in our house and as a mom I love it for these four reasons: It’s helped end the meal and snack time battles. It honours your [...]

There’s an old adage that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. That’s because breakfast “refuels” our bodies after the period of overnight fasting. Hence the words break + fast. In fact, studies show that children who eat a good breakfast can focus for longer and have better grades and are less likely to [...]

Do you ever have this feeling that you could be getting MORE from your food? Maybe too much goes in the compost or your grocery bill just keeps ballooning… One thing that is for sure, we could all take some lessons from First Nations in times past. It is a well known fact that, for example, [...]

This recipe gets its name because it does so much more than the average roast chicken… Step 1: Purchase a med-large whole chicken from a reputable source . Step 2: Thaw the chicken if frozen. Step 3: Cut the chicken breast off (you can find video demos of how to do this on YouTube). It doesn’t have to be perfect. Set [...]

Many people have heard of kefir – a fermented milk drink that has been around for a very long time, but not as many know about kefir water. Kefir water is a refreshing, effervescent drink made with special grains that digest sugar and ferment your water and fruit combination turning it into a healthy elixir [...]

Have you ever tried dehydrating bananas and mango? If not, try it TODAY. It took two minutes to slice and a few hours to dehydrate. The result was a little piece of heaven. The banana slices were reminiscent of banana cream pie (for some reason) and the mangos were just like candy. It’s easy to [...]

A kefir starter kit (in the fridge section). Kefir starter kits can be purchased at most health food stores. There are also plenty of easy-to-follow instructions to make kefir on various websites.   Tonight we made our own YOP. That’s a brand of drinkable yogurt that most kids really love. I don’t like to buy it for [...]

Most parents have stories of dinner time battles. You want them to eat their broccoli, theyʼre not interested. Whatʼs a parent to do? Donʼt give up! Experts say children sometimes have to be exposed to a food dozens of times before theyʼll try it. Iʼll always remember when when my cucumber-hating son suddenly pronounced them [...]

Embarking on a journey of living a healthier lifestyle can be at once exciting and, overwhelming. Every day a different expert or study comes out telling us so what we should and shouldn’t eat. That can lead to a sort of ‘paralysis by analysis’ or food-phobias, which is neither helpful or healthy. Listening to your [...]