Articles tagged with: family
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)…
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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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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).
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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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Next time you take your kids to a restaurant, print out these simple etiquette tips from ZisBoomBah’s very own restaurant industry guru Mike Carcaise. Practice these dos and don’ts together, and your little restaurant patrons will be sure to impress grandma and grandpa next time they dine out with your family!
- DO sit straight at the table and put the napkin on your lap
- DO use care when grabbing
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This is part 3 of ZisBoomBah’s original series “Understanding Your Child’s Body Image.”
Part 1 and part 2 of our body image series talked about how kids don’t consciously draw a link between their own body image and behavior. For them, it’s about being accepted by their friends and loved by their family. So we asked the question, does a positive body image motivate a child…
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Time for a little self-promotion: Since public voting started this week, ZisBoomBah has been switching back and forth between first and second place in Michelle Obama’s nationwide Apps for Healthy Kids competition This is huge news for our startup. If we win, we’ll get major recognition and receive $10,000.
The details: ZisBoomBah is the only contestant from Colorado that was even approved to compete in the…
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Eating unhealthy meals at home usually happens when you don’t feel like cooking or didn’t have time to shop for fresh groceries. Both? Then you’re really in trouble. Unless, of course, you have a well-stocked freezer, which makes preparing a healthy meal for your family in minutes a breeze. It’s obvious: The fresher you’re freezing the food, the better the food when you thaw it. Freeze right after you get…
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I was walking through the grocery store the other day and I realized that some veggies and fruit have really cool names. Dinosaur kale seemed like a vegetable kids would surely want to gobble up, right? And who wouldn’t be curious what UFO peaches must taste like. I wondered if catchy veggie names can win kids over or if a veggie is a veggie is a veggie to a picky…
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An authoritative parenting style fosters frequent family meals, researchers from the University of Minnesota have found. Their data also shows that family meals have a positive influence on teens to eat healthy. The study differentiates four parenting styles: authoritative (parents were empathic and respectful, but maintained clear boundaries and expectations), authoritarian (parents maintained strict discipline and showed little warmth), permissive (empathetic but with few rules) and neglectful (emotionally uninvolved with…
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