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Healthful Halloween Snacks: Make a Witch's Hat!
It's Halloween! Time to celebrate! Of course, it can be hard to find celebration snacks that aren't just cookies, candies, and cakes, especially on a holiday that is so closely tied to junk food. However, that doesn't stop us with coming up with fun Halloween projects, and today we'd like to re-introduce one of our most popular recipes, the Witch's Hat Slaw.
Witches and Slaw
Here is a wonderful way to get everyone eating carrots, apples, cabbage and yogurt all at the same time. Plus the slaw witch is bound to gather laughs and many happy memories for Halloween and all month long. From our Holiday Secrets Cookbook.
Children, Activity, Diet
Children, activity, and diet are all discussed from a parent’s point of view.
5 Fun Ways to Serve Strawberries
Strawberries are still lighting up the store shelves and farmers' market, so what better time is there to delve into fun ways to prepare and serve them?
Be a Fruit Vendor to Eat More Fruit
Here's another great strategy for making fruit more appealing...
June is Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month
June is fruit and veggie month. Celebrate by solving these 20 riddles - and learn more about these great super foods!
Quick Quiz for Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month
June is Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month! Pique your audience's interest in these tasty foods by introducing some riddles from Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD...
Relieve Stress and Promote Fruit with Brand-New Coloring Pages
Calming your brain while promoting mindfulness is great news for your health, as is finding healthful ways to get rid of stress, tension, and anxiety. With that in mind, I asked my team of artists to come up with some great coloring pages that also promote healthful dietary messages...
Fresh Dessert Makeover
S'Mores get a high-fiber, high-protein makeover with this fantastic new snack/dessert recipe...
Can Omega-3s Reduce Asthma Symptoms?
A reduction in dietary salt and an increased intake of omega-3 PUFA may reduce asthmatic attacks without also suppressing other parts of the immune system or causing other serious side effects as are frequently seen with the chronic use oral corticosteroids...
A New Way to Boost the Appeal of Fruits and Vegetables
Sandy Cadra, RD, CDE has a fresh new strategy for making fruits and vegetables more appetizing...
Preventing Obesity: A Guide for Parents
What and how we feed our infants and toddlers sets the stage for their future eating habits and health...
Whole Wheat Breadsticks
My son loves breadsticks, especially the ones from Domino's pizza. I am not so keen on the pizza place's variety because they are higher in fat, sodium and cost compared to ones I can make at home and they are not whole grain. Here is a recipe that is very easy to make and yields great results that are kid tested! These were the hit of a spring break pool party the other night here with teenage boys.
10 Things You Should Know About Food Safety
According the the latest estimates from the CDC, "each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases"...
3 Tips for Experimenting with Healthful Ingredients
According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, one of the keys to National Nutrition Month this year is to "Practice cooking more at home and experiment with healthier ingredients." Let's talk more about that, shall we?
Kitchen Hack: 1 Bag of Apples, 7 Different Snacks
National Nutrition Month is just a month away! Naturally I want to make sure that you have all the resources you need to support and inspire your audience. That's why today's kitchen hack answers this year's call to "put your best fork forward..."
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