The importance of vegetables in our diets has been spotlighted in my previous post. Today I want to give you a recipe using vegetables in a crisp and delicious way. This salad is a wonderful lunch-time or anytime meal or meal-addition. It is a recipe from Amy Houts's...
Everyone would benefit from growing a vegetable garden. Vegetables, especially those grown above ground, should provide one of the main staples of our daily food pattern. We are blessed and very fortunate to have such a wide variety of food available to us. Yet many...
Help kids connect food to what they value - what is important to them. For example, if they are athletes concerned about doing well in sports, you can tell them about protein foods needed for building and repairing tissues, enabling them to become better athletes. If...
Have you ever eaten soggy potato chips right down to the greasy bottom of the package? Or eaten dried out cake to the last few crumbs? Why do we eat foods that don't even look or taste good? Hard questions to ponder. For help in getting you and/or your children out of...
There is a great article about McDonld's latest offering - FMO (fruit and maple oatmeal) by Mark Bittman in the New York Times 'Opinion page'. You can read it here. Be sure to click on the link describing how to make your own oatmeal. You'll never know how many...
You may know children who are picky eaters, or who refuse to try new foods, or even those who exhibit bad behavior at mealtime. As food patterns develop early, parents need to guide young children toward having good attitudes about food and mealtimes. Here are hints...
You all remember the story of young George Washington chopping down a cherry tree? The story goes: His father asked him whether it was he who cut down the tree, and he said "I cannot tell a lie. I chopped down the cherry tree." Whether the story is true or not,...
Mary Todd met Abraham Lincoln at the age of 21 when she went from Kentucky to Springfield, Illinois to live with her sister. At that time, he was, in his own words, "a poor nobody". Though opposites in background and temperament, their three-year often stormy...
On this Presidents Day week-end, we take a look back at history. . . When George Washington took his oath of office in New York City on April 30, 1789, and assumed his new duties as President of the United States, his wife, Martha Washington, remained at home and...
Presidents Day is held the third Monday of February. This was first designated as a federal holiday to honor George Washington, the first President of the United States whose birthday is February 22. Now, in addition to Washington, we honor the legacy of Abraham...
