Category Archives: Snacks and Lunches

Super-Fun Fruit Salad Cups Kids Can Make Themselves

These fruit salad cups are a great recipe for kids to make themselves and provide [...]

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Homemade Applesauce & Homemade Apple Butter (and why organic apples matter)

Homemade applesauce and homemade apple butter are superbly and blessedly simple to make - and [...]

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Homemade Caramel Corn

Naturally-sweetened homemade caramel corn provides the sweet treat you love without any of the junk [...]

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How to Teach Your Child to Pack Their Own Healthy Lunch + Healthy Homemade Lunchables

Making healthy homemade lunchables is super-simple and keeps lunch packing from being a chore. With [...]

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3 Holiday Dips for Kids of All Ages

These SWEET chickpea-based dips (aka "hummus") will not only provide excellent protein and minerals, but [...]

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10 Easy Ways to Pack More Fermented Foods in Your Child’s Lunch

Whether you’re packing a lunch to go or preparing lunch to eat at home, midday [...]

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Homemade Fruit-on-the-Bottom Yogurt Cups

These homemade fruit on the bottom yogurt cups are simple, frugal, healthy, eco-friendly, customizable, and [...]

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Probiotic Fig Newton Butter

This fig butter is unlike any you've known - and it's easier, tastier, and healthier [...]

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Homemade String Cheese

Homemade string cheese is an easy, fun treat to pop in your child's healthy school [...]

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Real Food Homemade Cheez Whiz & Homemade Velveeta (gasp!)

Homemade Velveeta and Homemade Cheez Whiz are your real food answers to the chemical-laden, "food" [...]

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Easy 5-Minute Homemade Pudding Cups

These quick homemade pudding cups make a nourishing, HEALTHY substitute for store-bought pudding cups that [...]

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Real Food Makeover: Pigs in a Blanket

Last month, I asked our newsletter subscribers to send me recipes they wished they could [...]

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Rhubarb Salsa

Rhubarb salsa is the perfect NON-sweet use of this prolific spring fruit. We can't get [...]

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Perfect Homemade Granola Bars

These homemade granola bars can be customized to nearly anyone's favorite flavor and texture, due [...]

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Super Creamy Peanut Butter

Making creamy homemade peanut butter is easy and fun - and not to mention finger-licking [...]

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Fresh Herb Frittata from The Nourished Kitchen

This Fresh Herb Frittata is from the new Nourished Kitchen Cookbook, an elegant, eloquent book [...]

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Bacon, Brussels Sprouts, and Apple Quiche

This quiche is filled with surprising ingredients - but is surprisingly scrumptious! Eat it for [...]

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Homemade Cheerios

Homemade Cheerios are healthier than the commercial version and easy to make! This informative article [...]

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Sourdough Pancakes

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sourdough Pancakes are a yummy twist on the classic sandwich - [...]

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Strawberry Ice Cream

This strawberry ice cream is rich and creamy, but not heavy like typical custard bases. [...]

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Easy, Delicious Hummus

Hummus is the perfect hot weather food and is a great snack for the whole [...]

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Lox Pizza

This lox pizza sings of the flavors of spring. It’s a little like a grown-up [...]

Matcha Shortbread

These delicious, green-hued shortbread cookies are sure to please as a sweet treat on St. [...]

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Sourdough Oliebollen: Dutch New Year’s Doughnuts

A more nourishing version of Dutch oliebollen, the treat no New Year's celebration should be [...]

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