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How to Make Snack Time Healthy and Fun

by Ellen Rooney Martin, Posted Mar 30th 2011 4:30PM

Fruit before cookies when it comes to snack time. Credit: Getty Images
It's tough to please everyone at snack time. Parents want their kids to eat healthy food, while kids often push for chips and soda.
But experts tell ParentDish ...Instead of reaching for the cookies first, opt for an apple.
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Farmer Steve's Organic Microwave Popcorn

by Honey Berk, Posted Jan 13th 2011 2:00PM

Once you pop organic, you'll never want anything else. Credit: Amwell Valley Organic Grains
In 2007, there was a big push for microwave popcorn manufacturers to stop using diacetyl, an ingredient in artificial ...A friend recently turned us on to Farmer Steve's Popcorn, and our microwave has been popping with excitement ever since.
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Add Papaya to Your Diet for Better Digestion

by Karla Heintz, Posted Apr 6th 2010 9:00AM

Christopher Columbus called it the "fruit of angels." Others were less poetic merely referring to it as the "big melon." But today, papaya is best known as the fruit for digestion. Cultivated in Mexico, this nutrient packed fruit has been used ...
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Butterfly Bites Make a Great Spring-Themed Snack

by Karla Heintz, Posted Mar 10th 2010 1:00PM

With spring just around the corner, why not treat your kids to a fun, spring-themed snack that's healthy, too? Typical snacks for kids these days usually fall into the not-so-healthy "junk food and baked goods" category -- think muffins, cupcakes, ...
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Snacking Shocker: Kids Prefer Cheetos to Carrots

by Melissa Kossler Dutton, Posted Mar 5th 2010 5:00PM

When a snack attack strikes, are kids opting for junk food? Credit: Paul J. Richards, AFP/Getty Images
Apples, carrot sticks or raisins? Puh-leeze. When it comes to snack time, more kids are reaching for salty chips, candy and junk food than ...
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Delivering Birthday Party Invitations: An Unexpected Workout

by Carrie Snyder, Posted Jan 29th 2010 4:00PM

At Cabin Fever we aim to make room for everyone in the family to participate, however small or tall the activity. In our last post, our almost-seven-year-old made her own birthday invitations. Thus, our Saturday afternoon plan: to deliver ...
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Curb the Carbs! Snack Time is Out of Control

by Ellen Rooney Martin, Posted Jan 22nd 2010 3:30PM

Are your kids overdoing the sugary snacks? Credit: halloweve1977
Who would have thought childhood snacks could create so much anxiety? But, as a diatribe in The New York Times asserts, snacks for children can be treacherous ground for many ...
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Distraction Tactics: Comforting a Child Who Is Not Your Own

by Carrie Snyder, Posted Jan 15th 2010 3:30PM

Occasionally, or even fairly frequently, I have in my care someone else's child. Occasionally, though thankfully not as frequently, someone else's child discovers she misses her own mother, or is in some other way suffering malaise, boredom, or ...
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Too Much Sugar - How Bad?

by Sabrina Weill, Posted May 7th 2009 10:00AM

Well, okay, maybe just one... Photo courtesy of Stockexpert.com.
I used to think of our home as a "low sugar" household. Then recently, we had visitors -- dear friends from the other coast who apparently truly do have a low sugar household. I ...
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Braving the voting lines with your kids

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Nov 4th 2008 1:03PM

I voted today -- yay! I may have just moved and had a baby less than a month ago, but I actually left the house and voted -- wouldn't have missed it for the world. Even better than proudly taking part in the Democratic process, my family went with ...
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DailyDish - Get lunch ready the night before

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Nov 3rd 2008 6:03AM

Make everyone's lunches and any other meals or snacks the night before. ...
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Healthy kid foods - not so healthy

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Aug 4th 2008 10:00AM

Anyone who has ever taken a child to the grocery store knows that food marketers who target children know their stuff. Sugary cereals are on the bottom shelf, and beloved cartoon characters adorn box after box of chewy, gooey, treats. Though ...
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Fridgewatcher lets you share your leftovers with the world

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Jul 21st 2008 8:00AM

People all over the world are opening wide their refrigerator doors and sharing their contents with the public on a site called Fridgewatcher. According to Fridgewatcher, "every fridge tells a story." And you know what? After being sucked into this ...
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Chewing on Lego

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jun 22nd 2008 3:54PM

There's a reason the Lego company offers up the larger Duplo building blocks for younger kids -- children under the age of three or four are likely to put their toys in their mouth and the smaller Lego bricks are a definite choking hazard. So you ...
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Fruit is the number one snack for kids under 6

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Jun 15th 2008 1:00PM

Hey moms and dads -- give yourself a pat on the back. The NPD group recently found that fruit is now the number one snack food for kids under the age of 6, bumping cookies -- a longtime favorite -- out of their number one slot. They also found ...
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