Today I had ample opportunity to think about the things that matter. Yesterday felt like The Day of Crap News About Feeding Families. There was the ongoing internet dust-up over whether home cooking and family dinner really are soul-sucking drudgery
I was recently approached by a clinic called BMI of Texas, asking if I’d read and review a children’s book the doctors in the practice had written to help young patients and their families. The entire idea of a doctor’s
Last week, I wrote about the new challenge we’re facing in our household with a schedule that now doesn’t allow us all to sit down together each night for dinner. I shared my thoughts on how to manage that kind
How do you plan for a family dinner routine when not every person can make it to the table? Can you even have a family dinner without the whole family present? That’s a big question these days, I think. I’ve
Before I get on with the meal plan, I just want to say something. Today, my friend Bettina at The Lunch Tray shared an op-ed from the Washington Post which theorized, among other things, that the problem of unhealthy school
Happy Food Revolution Day 2014! As I have in years past, I’m teaming up with a group of fellow food bloggers to celebrate this day with a communal project. The amazing people at the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation got in
It’s high time, in my estimation, that we stopped talking so much about “obesity.” It’s a well-publicized public health crisis, the buzzword of the moment, but framing our national dialogues around a measurement of our citizens’ body sizes doesn’t seem
Longtime readers often joke with me about the little carnivores I’m raising — L., in particular, is a lover of eating anything that at one time had a face. It’s true that while I enjoy eating vegetarian meals, it’s not
What We Need, A Bigger Calorie Count Can’t Provide. Much has been made this week of the changes that are coming in the world of nutrition labels. There have been more articles and blog posts on the internet than I
How we’ve worked through the “Eat more, eat less, eat now” struggles to have a peaceful family dinner. Raising kids is a big old umbrella term. You think it’s one thing, but it’s not. It’s a lot of little things: