Recently we made homemade waffles using a real Belgian waffle iron and waffle mix as part of our group speech and language special recipe activity at school. We chose waffles because the letter of the week was ''W''! This tasty dish turned out to be a huge hit with all my speech students and even the pickiest of eaters decided to have a taste. Add ...

Today I'd like to share some basic fruit and vegetable puree recipes which are ideal for making your own stage 1 baby food, as well as adding flavor, texture and nutrients to older stage foods for babies and toddlers (and even older!). I use my fruit and vegetable purees in pasta dishes often to give my picky eater older daughter some added ...

Over the next week we are having several Thanksgiving Day feasts both at home with family and atschool with the students. Of course I will be contributing a dish or two for each of these turkey daycelebrations and have been on the hunt for some delicious new ways to eat vegetables. If your littleone is anything like mine, they will probably eat ...

If you are anything like our family, you have wayyyyyy too much Halloween candy left over from yesterday's holiday! We have three bags of candy we never even opened! I guess we overestimated how many little ghosts and goblins would be knocking on our door last night! Now we are left with a wide variety of extra chocolate treats plus the sweets my ...

It's that time of year again! Time to make everything around us ORANGE and BLACK! Time for pumpkins, ghosts, witches and ''scary kitty cats'' as my now 3 year old daughter likes to say. I love using these themes and colors when I am cooking and baking this time of year! So today I'd like to share a fun recipe to get you in the Halloween mood! ...

On April 20, I posted a recipe featuring a ''low sugar, low calorie'' tropical smoothie made with Unsweetened Coconut Milk.  Over the past several weeks, I have been experimenting with various other low sugar beverages that can be enjoyed solo or can be used in conjunction with a variety of ingredients and blended into a delicious smoothie ...

Here are two very simple vegetable based recipes for picky eaters to enjoy! Both require just a few basic ingredients and are easy to prepare. Pieces are also tiny enough for little hands and mouths to handle independently! Both dishes are favorites in my home, and I hope they will be in yours! Cinnamon Carrots You will need: Fresh baby ...

Dealing with a picky eater (my very own 2-year-old daughter) on a daily basis can be quite daunting at times. She has a mother who loves to cook, bake, and sample a wide variety of foods and flavors as much as humanly possible. Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoy and look forward to taking culinary risks in the kitchen. In addition, I am extremely ...

Today's post is full of yummy drink recipes for the little leprechauns in your life! Recipe 1: Rainbow Punch You will need: food coloring (several colors) seltzer water white grape juice straws clear colored cups (so you can see the rainbow!) Steps About a day before you intend to make this punch, fill an ice cube ...

Welcome to ''B'' week at our school, where the focus has been on beans, beads, bears and the color brown! For our speech and language group lesson this week, we made our own very round and very delicious ''Brown Bear'' face. I developed the idea after I Googled ''bear recipes for kids'' and a polar bear recipe came up! It requires a rice ...