Rainbow Blog

Today’s lunch was packed in an EasyLunchBox and also includes a cloth napkin from Funkins! Hannah enjoyed her Annie’s Mac and Cheese, cucumber slices, raspberries, strawberries, a mandarin orange and a square of banana bread! Happy Healthy Lunching Kia & Hannah

Summer is a great time to rekindle your love for fresh fruits and vegetables. So many great produce items are in season and a fabulous way to stay healthy during the warmer months. The following recipe ideas are a great way to incorporate fresh produce into your diet all summer long! 1) Savory Italian Bruschetta This Italian summer staple is very easy to make and it tastes great. All you need are summer cherry tomatoes, basil, garlic, chives and olive oil. Cut the tomatoes and mix all of the in

I remember watching Jamie Oliver’s TED talk and being absolutely mesmerized and motivated by his passion for kids eating healthy food.  His food revolution tv show was fantastic and really helped spark a lot of conversation and action! The energy behind the show has carried through onto twitter via the Food Revolution team and their weekly twitter parties that are fun and full of great information. So I’m sure you can see that I am a big Jamie Oliver fan…well imagine how thri

Hannah’s recipe choice this week isn’t a meal but it’s a great snack that we all REALLY enjoyed!  Hannah made granola bars from The Whole Family cookbook by Michelle Stern, we both love this cookbook because it’s full of great recipes that the whole family can prepare together! We’ve made the granola recipe in this cookbook plenty of times (we’d never go back to store bought!) so we were really looking forward to seeing how the granola bar recipe would turn o

We are working our way through our food rainbow! Today is Orange day!!! Hannah enjoyed sliced orange peppers,  cubed up cantaloupe and orange slices!  It can be fun to come up with different ways of presenting fruits and veggies! Sliced, cubed, crinkled cut, grated…there are a lot of options. Here are some other ideas for healthy ORANGE day snacks: Carrots Mangoes Apricots Peaches Squash Nectarines Papaya Come back tomorrow for YELLOW snack day! Happy Healthy Eating, Kia

I sometimes find it helpful to give myself a theme when coming up with healthy snacks for my daughter!  Since we are always working on eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables I decided to share some daily snack ideas based on color! Today is RED day!!!! Hannah had watermelon, raspberries and strawberries for her RED day snack! Here are some other ideas for healthy RED day snacks: Red pepper slices Radishes Apples slices Cherries Grapes Pomegranates Rhubarb Come back tomorrow for our Or

By breaking produce into color groups of fire-engine red, bright orange, sunshine yellow, emerald green, and rich purples you can make eating fruits and vegetables fun and easy for your kids!  Even at a very young age, kids can easily grasp the concept of eating a rainbow. So what can we do as parents to encourage our children to eat more fruits and vegetables?  Here are 8 suggestions: 1. Keep Fruits and Vegetables in Sight: Stock your fridge full of washed and ready to eat fruits and veggie

When you take the time to make your own food you can easily turn a not so healthy meal into something that’s delicious and much healthier than it’s fast food version. We all love pizza at our house so we decided to find ways to enjoy it without filling our bodies with unnecessary preservatives and cheap ingredients. We found a great whole wheat pizza dough recipe online, there are plenty to choose from, here is one that we have tried. Hannah had fun helping us make the dough! Then w

I love the title of this song…what a fun way to think about food and eating!  This is the last music video from our guest blogger this week, Rachel See Smith, if you haven’t seen the videos from early on in the week you will definitley want to go back and watch them!  I love Rachel’s mission and I think music therapy is absolutely fascinating!  I am so grateful that she shared her songs with us this week!  Thankfully it won’t be the last you hear from her because she

Every once in a while you meet someone (in real life or online) that you instantly click with…it’s as though you’ve been friends for years!  I just had that happen when I connected with Rachel See Smith, she is a board certified Music Therapist and quite possibly the sweetest most positive person I’ve “met” (we met via Twitter so technically we haven’t met….yet!) and I am so excited to spend this week sharing her great work and fun songs…you