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Healthier Snack Choices for Kids

by Dawn Lorenz 4 Comments

Healthier Snack Choices

Healthier Snack Choices: I think that we can all agree that whole, unprocessed food is the best option at any given time. However, for some people, sometimes it’s hard to incorporate these whole foods for each snack of the day, while juggling the rest of our daily lives. There is a calling for ‘better than’…

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Filed Under: Food, Healthy Meals Tagged With: children, food, Healthy Snacks, Organic Mattress

Alkaline Kids: How pH Affects Overall Health

by Dawn Lorenz 13 Comments

Alkaline Kids

Yesterday, I took my two oldest children to their well visit. As part of the exam, the pediatrician has them each pee in a cup to test for diabetes, urethritis and kidney health. After reading the stick from Lila’s urine, the pediatrician comes back and asks me if I have Lila drinking alkaline water, to which I reply…

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Filed Under: Food, Healthy Meals, Kids' Health, organic Tagged With: alkaline, children, healthy foods

Moms Find Lead in Green Sprouts Products; Company Threatens Them

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Green Sprouts

This past January (2017), Tamara Rubin, a mother, blogger, and an expert in lead testing, was hired by ‘Shannon,’ blogger of the Natural Baby Mama, to test sippy cups and baby bottles for lead. Among those that came up positive for lead, is a bottle by Green Sprouts. Tamara Rubin sent her findings straight to iPlay, the parent company of Green…

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Filed Under: Eliminating Toxins in the Home, Healthy Meals, Safe Products, Toxins in and around the Home Tagged With: Green Sprouts, Lead in Baby Bottles

A Vegetable Turkey Loaf that is Divine

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Vegetables are the most important and nutritious food available. It’s important to get them into our diet as much as possible, so I often incorporate them into recipes that typically don’t include them. I shared pictures of a veggie turkey loaf I had made for dinner on my personal FB page two weeks ago and people…

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Filed Under: Healthy Meals, recipes, Recipes, Veggie Tricks Tagged With: recipe, turkey loaf

Healthy Muffins Kids Will Love

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I love muffins, but I don’t love that they often contain preservatives and a massive amount of sugar. Most recipes call for at least a cup and a half of cane sugar and the standard medium size muffin has approximately 37 grams of sugar. That’s insane, especially when a human should really only consume 8 grams per day….

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Filed Under: Food, Healthy Meals, recipes, Recipes, Veggie Tricks Tagged With: healthy muffins, recipes

Is Your Child’s Breakfast Setting Her Up For Failure?

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(Healthy Breakfast Options and Why They Matter) ~ a guest post written by Jaclyn Harwell *see her bio at the end of this post ~ A note from Raising Natural Kids: We love Jaclyn’s healthy breakfast options! In addition to these, we get greens into ourselves and our kids each morning as the nutrients in…

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Why Your Family Should Be Eating Flaxseed

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flaxseed

Getting some extra nutrition and fiber into your snacks and meals is easy if you know what to put where. In this case, the WHAT is FLAXSEED, and the WHERE is just about anywhere! The health benefits of flaxseed are numerous. The nutrients in flaxseed fight cholesterol, bone loss, diabetes, heart disease, excess fat, inflammation, constipation,…

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Getting Kids Into Veggies

by Dawn Lorenz 1 Comment

Lips sealed, arms crossed, “I don’t like this.” Meanwhile, he’s never even tried it before. Sound familiar? All of my kids love fruit and they each have a few select vegetables that they will ask for, but none of them willingly eat a wide variety of vegetables. Being that I want them to get the nutrients…

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Filed Under: Food, Healthy Meals, Recipes, Veggie Tricks Tagged With: Family, food, Healthy Meals, Kids, Vegetables

Valentine’s Pancakes (a veggie trick!)

by Dawn Lorenz 2 Comments

Last Valentine’s Day I wanted to start the day by doing something special for my children, so I decided to make my kids pink pancakes in the shape of hearts for breakfast. The trick to the pink color is the use of beet puree! To eliminate some of the work in the morning, I cooked…

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Filed Under: Healthy Meals, recipes, Recipes Tagged With: pink pancakes, Valentine's Day

Bringing Tradition Back to Food

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With Thanksgiving approaching, families find themselves eating foods more traditionally cooked.  Whole turkeys are being roasted, soups are made from the stocks of bone broth leftover from the feast, and foods are being prepared and eaten whole, as opposed to being served in parts. Nutritionally, eating whole foods is extremely important, as opposed to the…

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Filed Under: Food, Healthy Meals Tagged With: cooking, healthy food, traditional foods

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