Rainbow Blog

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

We are really excited to have a guest blog post by our new friend Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer the creator of www.kitchenclassroom4kids.com be sure to visit her fantastic site after you’ve read her post here! As a parent of a child who has been eating both gluten and dairy-free for five years and counting, making sure that my son is getting the nutrients that he needs to be healthy and strong in his daily diet is of paramount concern to me.  When we first took gluten out of his diet, my son’

During our last grocery shop, Hannah picked up a Radicchio and declared that we just had to try it!! It really is a cute little thing and when we peeled the leaves it felt just like deflated balloons! Hannah ate some raw, I added some leaves to my morning juice and the rest we added to our baby spinach salad. We found it to have a slightly bitter taste, we’ve never tried these before so we don’t have much of a reference point for what a good one should look and taste like! How do yo

The biggest reward of eating a rainbow is a healthy body! Of course for kids, having a weekly or monthly celebration or a healthy reward is something more tangible that they can work towards. The way it works in our house is, if our daughter eats a rainbow for 6 days in a row, she then gets to choose a fun activity for the family to do together on the 7th day. Here are some celebration ideas we’d like to share with you: 1. picnic at a park 2. family bike ride 3. going for a hike 4. making

When we think about eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables it’s fairly easy to get in your green, red, orange and yellow…but the blue/purple color group can be trickier to work into your diet every day! I am always on the lookout for purple produce. Purple happens to be my daughter’s favorite color so when we go grocery shopping she is always the first to spot anything purple! We were both excited when we came across some purple kale!! We’ve been enjoying our green