Did you know that the E.U. requires warning labels on foods with certain artificial food dyes? And that American brands have adapted their foods for sale in Europe? It doesn’t seem so far-fetched, then, to ask why they aren’t making the same changes to the products sold here, right? Well it turns out some companies […]
Entries from March 2011
Dye-Free for Purim and Every Day: Sign the FDA Petition
March 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment
Tags: cooking with kids · food for thought · holiday · kids cook monday
Eat Your Greens on St. Patrick’s Day
March 17th, 2011 · 2 Comments
The boy is having a St. Patrick’s Day party at Pre-K today, and of course everyone was asked to bring in something green. We were brainstorming ideas and the first thing that he came up with was peas. I have to say I was more than a little proud that he thought of naturally green […]
Tags: cheese · cooking with kids · holiday · recipes
How to Host a Cupcake Playdate
March 4th, 2011 · 5 Comments
I mentioned last week that the boy was hosting a cupcake playdate to watch the season premiere of DC Cupcakes. (Oh yes, and if you watched the gorilla party episode really closely…in slow motion…you may have spotted the back of a blond head in the crowd — that was the foodie tot!) It was a […]
Tags: baked goods · baking · cooking with kids
First Bites {Real Food for Babies}
March 2nd, 2011 · 5 Comments
Here’s a little known fact: this blog’s original name was “Puree Gourmet.” That’s right, way back in the primitive days of food blogging (spring of 2007, to be precise), blogs that focused on feeding families were hard to find. The only site I was aware of at the time for baby food help was Wholesome […]
Tags: baby food
