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About FoodieTots.com:

FoodieTots — “Raising Foodies on Real Food” — is a resource for families trying to get fresh, healthy meals on the table in today’s busy world. With an emphasis on food from the farmers market, the CSA or the garden, FoodieTots shares recipes and resources to make eating healthy simple and fun for the whole family. FoodieTots also features recipes for getting kids into the kitchen, as kids who cook are more likely to eat a varied diet and maintain a lifelong interest in eating well.

About the Author:

Colleen Levine is a foodie, farmers market junkie and mama of two who was inspired by the birth of her son in 2006 to learn more about cooking healthy meals at home. She is constantly on the quest for local, organic and sustainable food options and chronicles the successes and challenges here. The FoodieTot family spends nearly every Saturday at their local farmers market, belongs to a CSA farm, and enjoys visiting the many wonderful family farms in the Chesapeake Bay region. Learning about eating well has also led to an interest in making their home more eco-friendly, so you will find the occasional green parenting news and tips here as well. She can also be found writing about cheese at Cheese + Champagne.

“I always say a gastronome who isn’t an environmentalist is just stupid, and I say an environmentalist who isn’t a gastronome is just sad.” – Carlo Petrini, Slow Food International

Recognition/Publications: FoodieTots was named to the Babble Top 50 Mommy Food Bloggers in 2010; cited on Gourmet.com’s “Food Online: A to Z, Food Trends“; a finalist in the 2008 Food Blog Awards for Best Family/Kids Food Blog; named a “Site we Love” by Cookie magazine; and was featured as an “Editor’s Choice” blog at Best Green Blogs.

Colleen’s recipes have been featured in the Washington Post Express and on websites such as Saveur.com, the Meatless Monday campaign, Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food: Dinner Tonight, Cookthink and Cookie’s One Little Bite. She is also a featured contributor to The Mushroom Channel.

Readers: If you have a question about local (Washington, DC, Metro area) producers or markets, or about a recipe posted here, please feel free to contact me at foodietots@gmail.com. If you like what you read, please consider subscribing to the RSS feed, following me on Twitter, and/or joining the Facebook Fan Club. Thank you!

Press/PR: I am available for freelance writing and happily accept PR pitches for sustainable food news and events. I do not do paid product reviews, but am always eager to learn about new products or services for organic, eco-friendly cooking and parenting. Please contact me at colleen AT foodietots DOT com. You can also connect with me on LinkedIn.

Causes: I believe that one cannot truly love food without also working to ensure its sustainability and availability to those less fortunate. For that reason, FoodieTots supports the following causes with our time and contributions.

• Share our Strength
• Heifer International
• American Farmland Trust
• Farm Aid Family Farm Disaster Fund
• Slow Food DC

Fine Print

Recipes/Photos: Recipes are created by experimentation and results are not guaranteed. Unless otherwise credited, all recipes and photos are copyright of Colleen Levine/FoodieTots.com and may be shared for personal use only. For photo permissions, please email me at colleen@foodietots.com.

Review Policy/Disclosure: FoodieTots occasionally posts reviews of products or restaurants. Any reviews on this site are of products used by the FoodieTot family and are not sponsored or paid. When products or meals are provided for free, that fact will be disclosed in the corresponding post. All items are reviewed for relevance to FoodieTots and our readers before being accepted for review, and a positive review is never guaranteed. If we don’t feel an item or restaurant lives up to our standards, we won’t mention it. The thoughts and opinions expressed in our posts are solely our own.

Comment Policy: We encourage readers to leave comments but reserve the right to delete any that are off-topic or inappropriate for any reason.

All text and photos are (c) Colleen Levine, 2007-2010.

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