Immune-Boosting Baby Oatmeal Recipe
Nearly all the ingredients in this baby oatmeal recipe pack some immune boosting power. It’s good to have some recipes on hand with good nutrients to give your baby or child’s immune system a boost, especially if you’re making independent choices regarding vaccination.
“First Stew” Lentil Baby Food Recipe
This lentil stew recipe for babies is just perfect for introducing more protein to your baby food, plus a few ingredients that will help get him ready to share in grownup foods. And it was super tasty!
Best Lists of Food Additives and Preservatives
It’s always a challenge to ensure that what goes in our bodies is chemical and preservative free! The following list of great links to food additive lists is becoming one of my new favorite resources. Often, you can just choose another brand and leave out the chemicals altogether, but sometimes there’s no chemical-free ingredient choice! Leading me to wonder, which food preservatives are the real baddies?
What to do with all that summer zucchini! — Recipes and Ideas
Late summer is the time to find all the zucchini recipes and ideas we can get our hands on. So here’s an offering of fun recipes, kids activities, and other ways to use the prodigious summer squash.
Chinese Stir Fry Recipe with Summer Vegetables
This authentic Chinese stir-fry recipe is my response to the question “What can I do with all this summer zucchini?” Stir fries are an easy way to use up vegetables like zucchini and summer squash. I’ve found this recipe to be tasty, simple, and kinda fun when you get a rhythm going!
Summer Grilled Vegetables Recipe
With the heat of summer and the abundance of summer vegetables like zucchini, summer squash and eggplant, here’s a recipe for cooking on the grill — a great way to avoid heating up the house!
Miso Magic Dressing
This recipe is my adaptation of Joe Terry’s Miso Magic Dressing from A Cookbook for All Seasons (aff). I just had it with today’s healthy lunch! For more about the beneficial properties of miso, and a somewhat insanely OCD analysis of what I ate today, check out my post “Today’s Lunch: Some Ideas for Easy [...]
Mama Hope’s Mostly Healthy Oat Bars
Here’s a recipe for some yummy but healthy oat bars. My 12-year-old son loves them, and they’re packed with immune-boosting brain food too!
I use cashews, since my son is allergic to every other type of nut, but of course you can substitute any type of nut you’d like. I’ve also done them with chocolate chips!
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