12 Sunday Dinner Recipes That Get Kids Cooking
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03/26/2014
Maple Pumpkin Pie With Whole Wheat & Flax Crust
Maple Pumpkin Pie with Whole Wheat & Flax Crust Ingredients: 3 eggs, separated 1/4 C pure maple syrup 1 3/4 C fresh pumpkin puree 1 tsp cinnamon 1/8…
11/24/2013
52 New Foods for your Family – Guest Post
A New Year’s Food Challenge: 52 weeks, 52 new foods – Guest Post
By Jennifer Tyler Lee
52 weeks, 52 new foods. How one family achieved the most frequently broken New Year’s resolution: to eat healthy.
Battles over broccoli and Brussels sprouts were fierce at our family table. Getting my kids, ages 3 and 6, to eat healthy was a terrible struggle. Over time, the diversity of dishes on our family table narrowed so much that even my husband and I weren’t eating very healthy anymore. I wanted our table to be a place of joy and fun for our family – a place where we could gather for great conversation and healthy food together. It all changed when I turned healthy eating into a game. (more…)
12/16/2012
A Refresher in Popsicles
This week is going to be a little different here at Out of the Box Food. We will be publishing our brand new post mid-week, going live this Wednesday, August 1st, instead of our usual Sunday night. Why? We are excited to announce that we have been asked to participate in a author series of with our advertising partner, Glam Media, and one of their very special clients. Get ready to learn about some great products and have lots of Real Food summer fun. (more…)
07/29/2012
4th of July Potluck
Family, friends, fireworks and food – It’s 4th of July week and for many of us, that means BBQ’s and Potlucks. So what are we bringing? This week we’re digging into our archives to offer some of our all-time favorite seasonal family-friendly dishes to brighten any BBQ or Potluck.
Happy 4th!
07/01/2012
Farmer’s Markets for Kids – A Magical Introduction to Fruits and Vegetables
Spring Break. For many of us those two words are synonymous with freedom: freedom from school, freedom from responsibility, freedom from winter, and freedom from the captive grasp of supermarket produce. That’s right, Farmers Markets are opening in towns across the country, and for those of us here on the west coast lucky enough to have year-round farmers markets, we are now able to enjoy the bounty of spring produce. (more…)
04/24/2011
Clean-Out-The-Fridge Vegetable Broth
How many times do you find yourself cleaning out the produce drawer of your fridge and kicking yourself for not actually using those veggies you were certain you’d use, “this time”? It happens to me a lot. I overbuy the beautiful produce I see at the farmer’s market, use only half a bunch of celery or undoubtedly leave half an onion sitting wistfully softening in the drawer. Don’t beat yourself up. You can use those leftover veggies to replace something you’d normally buy at the market, but without all the added sodium. Something you can use to make soup, risotto, mashed potatoes, sauces…the possibilities are endless. Vegetable broth. (more…)
03/13/2011
Chicken Broth: What’s in a Can?
I can’t tell you how many of the recipes I make call for chicken stock or broth. It’s an ingredient I use more often than I can keep track of, yet I was unaware what I was actually adding to my dishes every time I cracked open a can or poured generously from a carton. Sodium. And lots of it. The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that individuals consume less than 1500mg of sodium per day (that is just over 1/2 tsp of salt). Yet some varieties of packaged chicken stock and broth contain more than 850mg sodium per serving! (more…)
03/06/2011