Layered Popsicles
A fun layered popsicle to use up what you have in your fridge by using different juices for fun combinations.
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06/28/2011
Watermelon Popsicles
06/28/2011
Lemon-Lime & Blueberry Popsicles
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be posting recipes you may have seen before as we transition into our newly designed site. Thank you for your patience, and feel free to use this as an excuse to try recipes you may have missed the first time around.
06/28/2011
Fast Food or Wine? An Out of the Box Food Post for Grownups
It’s our birthday! Yes, Out of the Box Food is is officially one year old and we thought it only right to celebrate! We’ve worked hard over the past year to read labels, shop smart and prepare fresh alternative recipes for our children. For those of us who have been together all year, I figured it’s time to treat ourselves. If you’re new to Out of the Box Food, we’re glad you’re here and that fact that you’re reading this post and interested in making healthy choices for your family earns you the right to celebrate too! (more…)
06/05/2011
Dessert Turned Main Dish – Whole Wheat Strawberry Cake
One of the not-so-guilty pleasures of being a food blogger is the ability (and necessity) to set aside time to peruse many of the fabulous food blogs out there. Today I happened upon Fork Spoon Knife and Smitten Kitchen. What beautiful sites filled with mouth-watering food photography and delicious recipes. Both sites had photos of similar desserts that caught my eye. Fork Spoon Knife had one for a Strawberry Buttermilk Cake while Smitten Kitchen had photos of their Summer Strawberry Cake. In both sets of photos the strawberries peeked out of golden brown puffed cakes, just begging to be eaten. I knew then and there, that we would be the ones to eat them. I had strawberries and buttermilk just waiting in my fridge for a good use. But there was only one problem – we didn’t need dessert, we needed dinner. So what’s a mom to do? I upped the nutrition ante of course! (more…)
05/29/2011
Croutons – Top Salads with Butane or Bread?
Welcome back to an ingredient we’re beginning to recognize with dependable frequency – TBHQ. Yes, the ingredient that preserves food products by way of lighter fluid is back in the “mix”ed greens. This time it joins us in the form of a crunchy tidbit our children rely on to top a salad…the crouton. Croutons are by definition (according to dictionary.com), “A small piece of fried or toasted bread, sometimes seasoned, used as a garnish for soups, salads, and other dishes.” Bread, oil and seasoning. That’s it. Simple right? Not always. (more…)
05/22/2011
Inspiration from Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Thanks to Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, I came up with something brilliant last week. Well, maybe not brilliant. Great? Oh alright. How about worth a try? I’d even go so far as to say that this new discovery should at least be tried by everyone with picky eaters. Want to know what it is?
Last week I participated one of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Twitter Competwitions. That’s right, no it’s not a type-o. Competwition. The team at Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution keeps coming up with great ways to get like-minded folks together to talk about fresh food and this is one of the events they host on Twitter. When my son asked what I was doing, I explained that I was submitting an entry for a recipe contest. The theme was salad. My son looked at me for a long moment then asked, “So what’s your recipe?” A bit surprised that he was interested in this salad recipe contest, I told him what I was planning to submit. He looked thoughtful for a moment then said, “I want to enter a recipe.” I began to type. (more…)
05/15/2011
Not Your “Mother’s” Oatmeal Cookies
Who doesn’t love cookies? I’m a big fan of the cookie and here’s a cookie that’s been around for almost one hundred years: Mother’s brand Oatmeal Cookies. Well the cookie itself hasn’t been around that long, (though with preservatives these days…) I digress. Mother’s brand cookies have been a staple on supermarket shelves for nearly one hundred years, yet their ingredients are anything but wholesome. (more…)
05/08/2011
“Secret” Ingredient Guacamole for Cinco de Mayo
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that a a lot of kids out there like avocados. They are a healthy, nutrient rich fruit (yes they are a fruit) that are often passed off as a vegetable in sandwiches, salads, and of course, guacamole. Seeing as Cinco de Mayo is right around the corner, I realized those easy prepackaged containers of guacamole would soon be flying off the supermarket shelf. (more…)
05/01/2011
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