Encouraging Your Child to Appreciate Their Taste Buds

Encouraging healthy eating is about balance - even when it comes to taste. Here are a few tips that can help you expand or improve the balance in your child's taste buds. Experiment with Tastes: Allow your child to experience and identify the four unique tastes that make up … [Read more...]

Recipes for Kids: Organic Vegan Mexican Hot Chocolate

I remember as a child experimenting in the kitchen with recipes and concocting my own. It takes a special parent to allow children free reign in the kitchen, as the results can be disastrous, but the experimentation and wonderful ideas that result are worth the risk. My daughter … [Read more...]

5 Green Products: Seaweed Snacks to Organic Literate Jammies

1. Yamamotoyama Seaweed Snack Chips Teriyaki We discovered these seaweed snacks at a health food store in Mt. Shasta, CA. My kids love to just snack on full sheets of nori, but these small snack size bites are perfect for munching in the car and packing in school … [Read more...]

5 Green Products: Phthlate-Free Glow-in-the-Dark EarthBall to Peeled Snacks Full of Food Additives to Avoid

1. EarthBall The EarthBall is inflatable and made from "New...Child Safe Phthalate-Free Material". It is 16-inches in diameter, but what makes this ball really cool is that it glows in the dark. Created with NASA satellite photos, the cities of the world illuminate. The … [Read more...]

2 Green Products: Organic Fair Trade Green Mountain Coffee to Healthy Baby, Happy Home

1. Organic, Fair Trade Green Mountain Coffee I could not survive motherhood without coffee! In fact today, I treated myself to a rare afternoon cup. Green Mountain Coffee is one of my favorite brewers. We were sent a fair trade sampler that included: Organic Coffee … [Read more...]