Sometimes making a homemade, healthy breakfast is a difficult thing to accomplish when you have a huge to-do list that doesn’t allow the time to sit down and enjoy your meal. For days like those, you need a good grab-and-go breakfast that is hearty and sticks to the ribs the way that oatmeal does. These…
Snacks for Kids
Healthy Gummy Fruit Snacks
Have you ever heard of agar? If not, pull up a chair and let me tell you a little story about an incredible food ingredient that will make you marvel over the wonders of Mother Nature. Picture it, Sicily 1932. No wait, that is Golden Girls. I apologize–my circuits got crossed. Agar. A jelly-like substance obtained…
Monster Smoothie Bowls
Ever fight with your child on eating more veggies or maybe you just want a different way to serve that kiddo his or her favorite recipe? Make your smoothies fun and with scary or silly faces! I mean, if I were a kid and my mom (or dad) said, “Daughter, today I feed you Monster Smoothie…
Watermelon Donuts
Watermelons are starting to pop their pretty little heads up in the grocery stores (yay for seasonal produce!) and it’s time to find as many creative ways to eat up this fruit before it leaves us at the end of the summer and we have to wait another year. And since no one (I know…
Earth Day Pudding Cups (+ VIDEO)
If you can’t plant a tree then do the next best thing and save the planet with these Plant-a-tree Earth Day Pudding cups. Made with my favorite Chocolate Pudding recipe as a base, this is an easy-to-assemble allergen-friendly snack that you will love making (but not as much as eating). It’s as easy as this:…
Gluten free Soft Pretzels (gum free)
I think it’s safe to say that you are completely set up for success this Easter for a fun, creative, allergen-friendly holiday. From pretzels in the shape of bunnies, almonds that want to be baby chicks, super cute cupcakes, and even toast to take over the egg-dying tradition, you have so many choices to choose from when…
“Cool Ranch” Spinach Tortilla Chips
Forget Lucky Charms, these green “Cool Ranch” Spinach Tortilla Chips dipped into a rainbow pico de gallo are not only magically delicious but definitely a better celebratory food to indulge in. But then again, that is my opinion because chips and salsa = food fallen down from heaven. All it needs is a pot of gold…
