When you work with as many parents as I do, you see people from all walks of life and who maintain a wide variety of speciality diets for any number of reasons. I’ve been asked many a time by a new mom if I felt that it was safe for her to wean her baby […]
When talking about managing children’s weight, addressing picky eating, or promoting healthy relationships with food one of the most notable factors is how frequently children are exposed to family meals. This isn’t factored by what is served at the family meal or if the food is organic, or home cooked, or paleo, or vegan or […]
The holiday season is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year. But for some it can cause more stress than wonder- and not because of the Christmas carols on the radio playing OVER and OVER and OVER. The Holidays often mean lots of family meals with more and more delicious food available […]
I’ve said before that I am the WORST at following a recipe. Lie really the WORST. I try and try but I think I am just incapable of seeing a recipe properly through based on the actual instructions. But this weekend seeing that I had a couple of bananas getting overripe I decided I had […]
I had a client of mine who was around 10 years old tell me that vegetables weren’t really his thing. Sometimes I think we all feel that way about certain foods or experiences. We try sashimi once and decide that fish isn’t our thing, or try boiled brussel sprouts and say thanks but no thanks. […]
Ingredients: 2 heads fresh broccoli (or 1 bag frozen) 2 bell peppers sliced 1 red onion sliced 1 large lemon 1 can chickpeas 3 tbsp olive oil 2 tsp sumac 1 tsp garlic salt and pepper to taste Directions: Preheat your oven to 425F line a baking sheet with parchment paper Mix broccoli, peppers and […]
You know the mom- the one who has the cookies or cake ready. The cookies that take overnight chilling and sixteen bowls and spoons and yet the kitchen looks like it was just cleaned… Unfortunately I’m not that mom- not by a mile! I’m really just way too lazy for anything needing more than one […]
I had to go to school for years to become a dietitian. Then even when I was done there were exams to write, volunteering so that I could get more experience, and a college that I am responsible to to tell me what is and isn’t expected of me. So, when having kids I thought […]
Very often I hear myself telling patients that my advice is “easier said than done”. A fact which I know to be true…because while sometimes it’s super easy for me to give the advice at work when I put my dietitian hat on, it’s SOOOOO much more difficult to follow through on when I walk […]
Parents always want to know how much their kids should be eating. Whether they’re infants or teenagers, parents will ALWAYS be concerned that their kids aren’t eating enough- ALWAYS. I’m fairly certain that there is something about becoming a parents that changes our genes or something. So fairly often I’m asked by parents what serving […]
