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Just take those sugary characters off the shelf

April 30, 2011 by Jessica 2 Comments

Long before I’d even come close to letting my son watch a Clifford video, his eyes lit up at the big red dog on the Cascadian Farms cereal box. Come to think of it, that was probably even before I ever let him eat any cereal. (Any cereal always been gluten-free and character-free, and I’ve…

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Study says kids don’t want sweet cereals

December 20, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I just learned from Nancy Piho’s My Two-Year-Old Eats Octopus blog about the results of a new study on children and cereal. In a study published in Pediatrics, Yale researchers found that children will eat low-sugar options if they are offered. The gist is “If you serve it, they will eat it,” suggesting that offering…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: cereal, children, extrusion, food, nutrition, real food, Sally Fallon, sugar, sweet, Weston A. Price Foundation, Yale research study

Happy and healthy Halloween

November 16, 2008 by Jessica 1 Comment

This year’s Halloween was a great day with crisp air and squeaky clean blue skies. I’m happy to say that, at two and a half years old, my son had a blast without having any clue that Halloween and candy have anything to do with one another. Here’s what we did: 9:00 Parade at school…

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