Rainbow Blog

It’s always so exciting for us to see Today I Ate A Rainbow in a magazine!  So we were thrilled to find out that the always fantastic Organic Spa magazine included our rainbow kit in their May/June issue which is on stands now!!!  We really appreciate magazines sharing our Rainbow Eating message with their readers as they have such a huge reach! Thanks for the great write up Organic Spa Magazine Happy Healthy Eating, Kia

 My friends over at The Kid Can Cook let me know about a very important campaign that they are a part of in Texas called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP – a program that is federally funded but shares administrative costs with each state.  Right now, in Texas, 1 in 4 children is food insecure – that means that roughly 1,723,992 children in Texas don’t know where their next meal is coming from. The purpose of this blogging campaign is to create awarene

We are once again thrilled to have another guest blog post from Joy M. Hawk….enjoy!!! I think we all agree that in an ideal world, our children will eat their rainbow of fruits and vegetables on a daily basis, and eat a lots of whole foods and not a lot of sugar or processed stuff.  Super.  Now is that reality?  How does a busy parent achieve such utopia without giving themselves an ulcer? Honestly, it does take some work.  It takes setting a good example, and, to some degree, I think

I wrote this post as a participant in the Eat, Play, Love blog carnival hosted by Meals Matter and Dairy Council of California to share ideas on positive and fun ways to teach children healthy eating habits. A list of other registered dietitians and moms who are participating in the carnival will be listed at the bottom of this post or can be found on Meals Matter. Raising healthy eaters is easy to do when you get your kids involved with the food they eat! I think the key to success is to mak

I’m so excited to have Amy Roskelley from Super Healthy Kids guest blog for us today!!!  We LOVE her healthy plates and her site is a great resource for healthy meal ideas! In our family, I’ve found the easiest way to get my children to eat more fruits or vegetables is to make it accessible to them. Our fruit basket sits on the counter, where they can reach it! I want them to be able to get snacks themselves, so I put it right in their line of sight so they can see it at all times. Here

This week we have a special guest who will be sharing her thoughts on making granola for the first time!  Our very own Rainbow Girl Hannah Robertson will take it from here I think The Whole Family Cookbook is amazing!  The recipe was easier than I thought it would be because I’ve never made granola before.  We usually get granola from the store.  We got the Whole Family Cookbook and I saw that it had a recipe for granola.  I didn’t know I could make my own granola!!!  It