Kid-sized fun at the grocery store

2010 04 13

Upon visiting the newly opened grocery store in our neighbourhood, my 3 year old daughter was thrilled to discover that they had kid-sized carts for her to push.  She happily trailed behind me to collect all the groceries while we …

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Home Ec Class Hosts K-1 Students

2010 04 09

I have invited a K-1 class from a nearby elementary school to my Foods 12 class. The students do some research on what younger children like to eat and come up with some simple, healthy recipes. (Several Prescribed Learning Outcomes …

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Pizza Night is Win-Win for Everyone

2009 10 22

Both of my kids (aged 4 and 8) have always shown some interest in the cooking process, but my wife wasn't always too keen on squeezing into our tiny kitchen with an extra two tiny chefs. Like most moms, she's …

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She likes more than cheese and tomato sauce on her pizza, she just didn’t know it.

2009 10 22

With my 7 year old niece visiting, we made pizzas from scratch. We tasted ingredients before we put them on the individual pizzas. Without talking about them as toppings, we enjoyed tasting bell peppers, mushrooms, sauteed chicken, even raw sweet onion and …

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Cookbook inspires budding chef and picky eater

2009 10 21

I bought my eight-year-old and six-year-old boys a cookbook:  Kids’ Fun & Healthy Cookbook, by Nicola Graimes. I asked them each to pick out a recipe to make for a family meal.  My eight-year-old picked out Sticky Ribs …

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