So, like everybody else who made a New Year’s resolution to eat healthier, I had started improvising on the snacks. With a weakness for anything sweet & salty, I  immediately started diving into trail mixes [...]

Our guest blogger is Melissa Stewart, mother of two. She will introduce herself:
Hi. My name is Melissa, and I’m from South Carolina.  I swam competitively for 12 years.  We Southerners live in the sun.  I [...]

“I’m tired of this. I don’t like that.” Just weeks into the new school year, are you hearing these statements about school lunch? What to pack for lunch at school is a dilemma many parents [...]

This time of year I am reminded of how picky my oldest child is.  I am reminded daily, but without the family gatherings and parties, we are better able to cope.  His Thanksgiving dinner was [...]

As our family ate meals together over the Thanksgiving weekend, Bryce would watch Max joyfully gobbling down foods like sweet potatoes, grapes and blueberries. After a couple of meals and a particularly intent observational period [...]

My sister’s little boy just turned a year old, and he’s a fantastic eater. His enthusiasm for eating then encourages her to continue to try new foods with him and possibly even prepare things that [...]

Through my work in nutrition education, some of the most common questions I am asked have to do with feeding children, especially those who may be “picky eaters.”  Questions come from parents, grandparents, teachers, childcare [...]

You may feel like you’re on information overload sometimes with so many options –– good old word of mouth with friends, families and neighbors, Facebook, Twitter, television, radio, newspapers, the Internet, healthcare providers, childcare providers, [...]

I overheard my daughter’s preschool teacher talking to another teacher recently.
“I try to teach the little ones about healthy eating.  They love to learn about fresh fruits and vegetables—even if they are not willing to [...]

I am in my second week of learning about nutrition programs and issues here in the Andean highlands of Peru and have seen and heard time and again the same concerns and issues [...]