Rainbow Blog

We are so excited to be part of a 10 Day Giveaway in celebration of our friend’s Copy-Kids reaching 10,000 Facebook fans!!!  This is a huge accomplishment and they deserve all the success in the world because they have an amazing product that we’re excited to write about in great detail next Thursday! Copy-Kids has put together a fantastic DVD that is designed to get little ones excited to eat fruits and veggies…now you can see why we love them…our products are a match m

** We have a Winner!! Congratulations to Susan the winner of the $25 Target gift card from the team at Fat and Appy!  If you haven’t had a chance to download their fun app for kids…do it now!!!   We absolutely LOVE connecting with other people on a mission to make fruits and veggies fun! That is why we were really excited to chat with the creators of a great new app called Healthy Creatures.  Jonathan and Jennifer Fenkse have created an iPad app that allows kids to build crea

Planting a garden can be a relaxing activity that will not only provide hours of enjoyment, but it will also provide tasty food for you and your family to enjoy. From planting tomatoes, to planting green peppers and cucumbers, your garden can provide your family with the freshest foods possible. Since gardening is such a fun experience, why not include your child in your gardening plans? Your child will find the same type of pleasure from gardening that you do, plus it will create a great bondin

This weekend Hannah prepared a kamut pasta dish for us, lucky for her, Daddy had just made a batch of pasta sauce so she said it was a very easy meal to make because all she had to do was prepare the pasta and a spinach ceasar salad. Her favorite part was stirring the big pot of pasta pretending to be a witch and cackling loudly!  When kids are in the kitchen you never know what will happen next…or if you’re going to get turned into a frog! Cooking is just like any other life skill

Getting kids to eat their fruits and veggies takes a combination of a lot of things! If you create a culture in your home where fruits and vegetables are fun and enjoyable it helps to reinforce the idea that produce is our friend! Play time is a great time to include fruits and veggies! I think play is practice for life! Through play, kids can learn to appreciate fruits and vegetables and connect the fact that they are part of making healthy choices for themselves! We had a great time making ou

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

Whenever we go grocery shopping Hannah is always drawn to anything that is her favorite color…PURPLE!!! So it didn’t surprise me when she squealed with delight at some gorgeous purple peppers and asked if she could get one. It is such a vibrant color and was the perfect topping to add to our homemade pizzas! We also spent the rest of our shopping trip doing our best to recite the Peter Piper Picked A Peck of Purple Peppers tongue twister! Colorful peppers are generally more expensive than

March is a favorite month around here because it’s Nutrition Month and because there are so many creative Rainbow ideas around St. Patrick’s Day! Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest are all buzzing with great food ideas. We’ll be blogging at least once a day for this month in order to share ideas, recipes, picky eater tips and so much more! So here’s our challenge to you…at least once a week try a new fruit or vegetable or try preparing them in a new way! Let’s ta

When you have a little chef in your kitchen it’s fun to keep you eye out for cute and creative kitchen utensils that make cooking even more fun!  Cute aprons, colorful bowls, chefs hats are just some of the items you can get to help inspire your budding chef to enjoy the art of cooking! We won these adorable mice measuring cups last year from a Better Together BC contest and these are the ONLY measuring cups Hannah will use because the other ones we have just aren’t as cute! We b

It’s time to hear from our favorite Music Therapist…Rachel See Smith…her song this month is so cute! This month’s “eating a rainbow” song inspiration comes from my good friend, Ginny Driscoll (http://notablemusique.com), who is also board-certified music therapist (Thanks, Ginny, for sharing your song!). What I like about “Crunch my Carrots < click the name to listen ” : 1. It is repetitive (Great for reinforcing key words and providing multiple opportunities for