I cook 99% of my family's food and I've found it easier to hit each food group once a day rather than try to force my toddlers to eat them all at every meal.
My daughter is a good eater. She likes all the food groups; it thrills and shocks me every time I see her chowing down on a salad. She does not eat a big breakfast, a tendency she shares with me, but she eats good portions of lunch and dinner. I have noticed that I have a window of opportunity to feed my children healthy meals. If I offer them food before they are truly hungry, they are only interested in junk food. If I wait too long, they degenerate into cranky messes and will eat only bread. There are two sweet spots each day where I can offer them healthy meals and they will happily consume them. I have written before about how we eat toast for breakfast, sandwiches, scrambled eggs, soup or pasta for lunch, and chicken, salad, bread …
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2nd St & Jackson St, Hoboken, NJ
South West Hoboken
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Kathy Zucker's toddlers help her cook and bake with the vegetables and fruit they grow in their balcony garden. They are learning a lot more than cooking with each lesson.
I cook almost all of our meals. That sounds a lot more involved than the reality of toast for breakfast, sandwiches, scrambled eggs, soup or pasta for lunch, and chicken, salad, bread and fruit for dinner. Once a week I prepare a one-pot meal that feeds us for three or four days. I start one pot meals about three hours before dinner; all the ingredients go in our dutch oven where they simmer, with occasional stirring, until they are ready to eat right when my husband comes in the door. I bake cookies and homemade bread once a week, and pies, cupcakes, muffins, tortes or chocolate mousse whenever we have fruit or cream that is about to pass its expiration date. By cooking 99 percent of our meals, I can control the amount of fat, sugar and …
40.74051
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2nd St & Jackson St, Hoboken, NJ
Toddler cooking in South West Hoboken
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