Rainbow Blog

Hannah wanted to try making a breakfast meal for us this week and let me tell you it was well worth the effort!  And there was definitely a lot of effort! I am getting much better at just letting her do things on her own without chiming in with my advice on how to do it easier or faster!  It’s been a fantastic lesson for me in letting her find her own ways of doing things in the kitchen…in fact it’s also carried on outside of cooking…I’m finding it easier to let h

This is our final day of our snacks by color series and it happens to be my daughters favorite color…PURPLE!!!!  It can be a challenging color group to eat everyday as there aren’t as many options as the other 4 color groups. Hannah enjoyed snacking on olives, frozen blueberries and purple carrots! Some other purple snack ideas: Eggplant chips *here is our In The Rainbow Kitchen video on how to make them Blackberries Raisins Grapes Cabbage Prunes Dried Figs Purple Pepper Eating a Ra

When my daughter comes home from school she’s usually ready for a snack, and in our house, that means either fruits or veggies!  We like to make it a little fun buy using mini cookie cutters, toothpicks, cute dishes and most importantly we make it colorful!  We like to think of fruits and vegetables as being part of an edible rainbow so everyday we aim to eat a variety of fruits and veggies that are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green and Blue!  The phytonutrients in fruits and vegetables give t

 We are always looking for ways to incorporate fruits and veggies into every meal and snack so that we eat a rainbow of produce everyday. Eating blueberries as a delicious way to get our purple/blue magnet on our rainbow chart! One of our favorite desserts happens to feature one of our favorite fruits…blueberries!!!! Blueberries have been called a superfood…in our house we call them brainfood! So what better to include in a dessert?! This is an quick and healthy dessert to whip up!