Consumers groups and health officials welcome Nestles’ decision to cut down on the marketing of unhealthy junk food to children as part of the Council of Better Business Bureaus’ (BBB) Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative.
The initiative was launched by BBB in 2006 to promote responsible advertising among food manufacturers. With the rising problem of [...]
Tags: Advertising, children, Food, Nestle
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Planning meals can be a challenge at the best of times. Add picky eaters to the mix and it can sometimes become even more difficult.
Making a menu plan for the week can really help you become organized in the kitchen. Not only does it take the pressure off each day from deciding what [...]
Tags: Cooking, Food, grocery shopping, healthy eating, meal planning, meals, Nutrition
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Being a parent is an exhausting job, there’s no doubt about it. However, you don’t have to feel exhausted all the time. Here are some things I’ve discovered that really sap my energy and make it more difficult to keep up with my energetic family.
Not Eating
I’ve found that I really need to watch [...]
Tags: caffeine, diet, energy, exhaustion, Food, Parenting, sleep, stress, tired
Posted in: Parenting
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According to Tara Parker Hope, blogger at Well, the health site of the New York Times, one of the most common mistakes of parents is “sending children out of the kitchen.” She went on to cite studies which showed involving children in food preparation make them more open to try new things to eat.
That’s probably [...]
Tags: children, dangers, Food, kitchen
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When our daughter was born, my wife and I cooked every single weekend in the weeks leading up to her due date. We made casseroles and huge batches of soup and stocked our deep freezer almost to capacity with ready-made meals. We did this ourselves because we didn’t expect anyone to do it [...]
Tags: Baby, family, Food, help
Posted in: Baby
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