“Slip some cauliflower puree into a bowl of instant mac and cheese, and aren’t you also inadvertently cementing a kid’s belief that cauliflower does not exist in a beneficent universe?” – Dara Moskowitz Grumgahl (Experience Life Magazine) I want to start by commenting on those naysayers of ‘hiding’ veggies. I fully support “hiding” veggies in…
Archives for February 2012
Creative Play Using Natural Ingredients
I discovered the idea of sensory boxes a few weeks ago while checking out some great creative project and play pages. It was soon after this discovery that the teachers at my son’s preschool told me that his favorite things to play with at school are the sand and the fake snow sensory boxes. After…
Thermography vs. Mammography: Which One Is Right for Your Breasts?
In the last decade mammograms have gotten a bad rap, and rightfully so. At 34, the only breast exams I have gotten have been done by my midwife when I was pregnant. Though my grandmother died of breast cancer at a relatively young age, I had just heard too many negative things about mammograms and…
What's Really in Your Food? You May Never Know!
A friend’s husband attended an OSHA workshop last week and the facilitator of the class gave the above handout to the attendees. Apparently the man teaching the class is very much into spreading the word about chemicals that people come into contact with on a regular basis and may not know about. It’s crazy to…
Going More Natural at the Supermarket – The Next Step: Do Your Best to Avoid GMOs!
Hopefully Going More Natural at the Supermarket – Where to Start gave you a good foundation of how to shop for foods that will keep your family healthy instead of making them sick (by sick I don’t necessarily mean symptoms that you see right away, but rather long term illness such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes,…