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Did you guys know that August is Kid’s Eat Right month?  It’s a whole month focused on the importance of eating healthy and staying active…both for children and families.  And you know it’s gonna be close to my heart after all the stories I have shared...

Kids (and okay, many adults, too) enjoy eating their vegetables most when they’re carefully hidden in tasty treats. We all know how to disguise vegetables in casseroles, lasagnas, soups and sauces, but what if you could sneak veggies into your breakfast...

Written by Brandy, Contributing Writer There was once this little girl who hated tomatoes. The very thought of them nauseated her, and so if one dared touch her food, she grimaced disdainfully, and flicked the slimy debris from her plate as best she...

Getting my preschooler to eat plenty of produce is often an uphill battle. She’s old enough to be able to reason with me that the jam on her toast is, in fact, fruit (which, technically, it is), and she likes to try to convince me that she should get...

The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another. His mother called him “WILD THING!” and Max said “I’LL EAT YOU UP!” so he was sent to bed without eating anything. — Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (1963) MAX MISBEHAVES...