ZisBoomBah http://blog.zisboombah.com Where it's OK for kids to play with their food! Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:08:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Speed Meal Planning By Amy Roskelley from Superhealthykids.com

Meal planning at our house takes under five minutes. If it took longer, my kids would be knocking on the neighbor’s door begging for food or, more commonly, eating cereal for dinner, because I just wouldn’t get it done.

So, in order to plan our meals in less than five minutes, we follow a routine we call the SPEED Session. Search, Plan,…

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]]> http://blog.zisboombah.com/2010/09/07/speed-meal-planning/ Come on a Family Food Adventure with ZisBoomBah We’ve let you play with your food online, now we’re taking Pick Chow! on the road!


We’re 
LIVE this afternoon, September 4, at the Boulder Creek Hometown Fair!! Join us between 2 and 4 p.m. in the Demo Tent outside the Boulder Library.

 In a spectacular COOK-OFF BATTLE, Boulder chefs Chris Blackwood (West End Tavern) and Hosea Rosenberg (StrEAT Chefs) each must create…

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]]> http://blog.zisboombah.com/2010/09/04/come-on-a-family-food-adventure-with-zisboombah/ 10 Easy Kids Meals Made from 25 Healthy Grocery Must-haves Over in the Grocery Tips section of our blog, we published a list of 25 Must-haves for Healthy Meals on a Whim. If you’re one of those people who can’t do anything around their household without a user manual, fine, here is what you do with the 25 things we told you to buy:

Extra tip: And, as always, if you involve your kids in preparing…

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]]> http://blog.zisboombah.com/2010/09/02/10-easy-kids-meals-made-from-25-healthy-grocery-must-haves/ 25 Must-haves for Healthy Meals on a Whim You open the fridge, you close the fridge. You poke your head in the pantry. Nothing. Nothing inspires you to pull off a decent healthy meal for your kids (who, of course, are already waiting in the wings hungry, because you had so many other things to do, you simply couldn’t think ahead about what’s for dinner. That’s just what happens to busy parents. All the time).

Sounds more familiar…

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]]> http://blog.zisboombah.com/2010/09/02/25-must-haves-for-healthy-meals-on-a-whim/ Healthy School Lunches: Wrap It Up! It’s back to school for the kids – and parents, on their part, are back to needing fresh, healthy school lunch ideas. One for every day of the week! Don’t worry, you don’t have to do it alone. We asked some of our favorite chefs and foodies to help you out. Barbara Hughston from In the Kitchen with Kids send over two delicious recipes for wraps that are both…

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]]> http://blog.zisboombah.com/2010/08/31/healthy-school-lunches-wrap-it-up/ The Habit/Reward Balancing Act: How to Change One Habit in Your Child Or: The Deconstruction of a Habit – and Rebuilding a New One

This is in in continuation of last week’s article “Habits: Why We Need Ice Cream When We See the Truck“

I know it doesn’t seem like you reap anything but frustration from the fact that your child refuses vegetables, or won’t try anything new, or has a meltdown every night at the table. Whatever the problem, it’s…

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]]> http://blog.zisboombah.com/2010/08/30/the-habitreward-balancing-act-how-to-change-one-habit-in-your-child/ Dumb Mom’s Guide to Growing Healthy Kids

And, by healthy, of course, I mean slender, well-nourished ones who can run fast and do sit-ups and pull-ups and all manner of stuff I couldn’t do if my life depended on it.  The perfect kind that choose to eat vegetables because they like them, not because you force them to by plugging their noses and jamming the spoon in their mouths threatening to take away their TV time.

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]]> http://blog.zisboombah.com/2010/08/27/dumb-mom%e2%80%99s-guide-to-growing-healthy-kids/ Back to School! Lunchbox Mac N’ Cheese Muffins Our friend Missy Chase Lapine, The Sneaky Chef, sent us this fabulous school lunch idea to share with you:

These are a handy lunch box alternative to sandwiches for kids who are tired of sandwiches or, like mine, just won’t eat them! The Sneaky Chef mac ‘n cheese formula is tried and true, and this turns it into a hand-held meal that can be popped into the kids’…

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]]> http://blog.zisboombah.com/2010/08/23/back-to-school-lunchbox-mac-n-cheese-muffins/ Habits: Why We Need Ice Cream When We See the Truck Or: The Anatomy of a Habit

You want your child to eat better, but it’s tough. No matter what you do, things seem to stay the same. Sometimes, things even get worse.

Changing someone’s eating habits is no easy task. (If it were, we’d all be stellar eaters.) And it takes more than information to move things along. Everyone knows the information about ice cream — it is sugar-laden and…

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]]> http://blog.zisboombah.com/2010/08/23/habits-why-we-need-ice-cream-when-we-see-the-truck/ Better Hurry with your Sweets, Kiddo We know those mean little sugar bugs cause cavities. Why? Because we say so. Every night. It pretty successfully scares the kids into brushing their teeth, right? Now researchers found out that it isn’t so much how much sugar your kids eat as it is how you’re feeding them the sugar. When your child eats something sweet, it takes the bacteria in his mouth about 20 seconds to convert the…

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