Guilt-Free Gluten-Free Dishes for Your Memorial Day Backyard BBQ {a complete menu with recipes}
Why not give gluten-free a try this Memorial Day? Odds are, someone you know — or their kids — has a wheat allergy or sensitivity or suffers from celiac disease. An allergic reaction to foods containing wheat is one of the more common food allergies in children. Yet other Memorial Day guests may want to give this trendy nutrition program a go to see what the fuss is all about. …
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Eating Healthy: When It’s OK to Let Kids Eat When They are Hungry
ZisBoomBah’s child health and nutrition experts usually answer reader questions about nutrition and diet here. This time, I needed advice on raising my little healthy eater. Our 7-year-old daughter is very active, always on the move. Lately, her barely-there eating schedule was beginning to concern me. With the Lovely L. eating small yet frequent portions throughout the day, the lines between meals and snacks have begun to blur.
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Cooking with Kids: Spinach-Stuffed Whole-Wheat Crepes by The Kids Cook Monday
Cooking with your kids is on the family menu tonight with help from our friends at The Kids Cook Monday! A whole-wheat pancake is the perfect tasty packaging to wrap around creamy pureed spinach. Kids will have fun blending the batter together as well as folding up their finished product.…
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Cooking with Kids: PB&J French Toast by The Kids Cook Monday
Dads, are you planning to cook with the kids this Mother’s Day? Here’s another breakfast recipe idea you can add to the Mother’s Day brunch menu. In this PB&J French Toast recipe, a classic brown bag lunch (PB&J) is fused with a beloved breakfast treat (French toast).
This recipe is specially designed for cooking with kids. The kids instructions are written with young chefs ages 8–11 in mind. …
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What Women Want: A Mother’s Day Guide for Dads and Kids {with brunch menu}
This Mother’s Day brunch menu is for all the dads and kids out there who want to plan a nice meal for their wife on her special day. Whether you are an experienced cook or a kitchen novice, this advice is still relevant. If you are planning an extremely ambitious Mother’s Day brunch menu that you haven’t tried before: homemade crepes with strawberry coulis and ginger cream; eggs benedict with …
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Understanding the Glycemic Load of Foods
Glycemic load (GL), just like the glycemic index (GI), offers nutrition information for foods; specifically, how a food affects blood sugar and insulin. Similar to the glycemic index, the lower a food’s glycemic load, the less it affects blood sugar and insulin levels. Watching the glycemic load of foods, therefore, is an important tool for parents of children with type 1 diabetes, such as myself. Ultimately, however, balanced blood sugar …
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Mindful Eating: How not to lose your cool at the dinner table
When talking about mindful eating, we usually consider things like chewing our food slowly and enjoying the flavor and texture of every bite. But what about practicing mindfulness in the way your family interacts at the dinner table? Isn’t being pleasant with others during mealtime part of a mindful eating experience, too?
A conversation with ZisBoomBah’s psychology expert Beth Lonergan, PsyD:…
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Cooking with Kids: Fava Bean Crostini by The Kids Cook Monday {with complete dinner menu}
Cooking with kids is always easy with recipes from The Kids Cook Monday, which include special instructions for little chefs. Here, in fact, removing fava beans from their pods and inner peels is actually easier for smaller hands, which makes it the perfect project for your chef-in-training. A wide variety of breads can be used in these delectable fava bean crostini, which show off the fresh flavors of …
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Low-Carb Foods and Carb-Free Snacks for Children with Diabetes
The list of carb-free foods and low-carb snacks the nutritionist handed us when our daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a little over 4 years ago included sugar-free Jello, sugar-free gum and diet soda. I kid you not. Those were the so-called “free snacks” I could feed my toddler between insulin injections, because they contained fewer than 5 grams of carbohydrates per serving and would have little effect on her blood sugar. Luckily, eggs, meats and cheeses are also carb-free. …
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Fun Games: Girl Scout plays 19 ZisBoomBah quests, changes family’s eating habits
As a developer of fun games and healthy apps for kids, ZisBoomBah has partnered with the Girl Scouts of Colorado last year. Since then, the troops have integrated ZisBoomBah’s exercise and food games as part of the Girl Scouts of Colorado’s Live Healthy, Lead Healthy Challenge. ZisBoomBah has designed custom quests — fun games for girl scouts to complete and earn their Journeys (troop leaders can also design their own quests). …
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