Category Archives: Healthy Eating Tips

School Lunch For Picky Eaters

School Lunches for Picky Eaters  Confession: I’m the parent of a picky eater.   I’ve been fortunate that our two older children have been pretty laid back about school lunch. One of them always eats a lunch from home due to food allergies. He has been fine eating either a PBJ or ham sandwich, combined with a fruit and veggie, every school day for five years. Bless him. His younger brother likes to mix it up

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Instant Pot

Instant Pot Ideas Hi, this is Tiffany Scharff, the Parent-Tot teacher.  I wanted to talk about a new kitchen appliance that I have been using a lot lately, the Instant Pot which is an electric pressure cooker.  I have found this appliance to be very helpful in getting food on the table for my busy family.  I have found we are eating less fast

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Make Ahead Lunch Prep

Make Ahead Lunch Prep My kids never want to buy lunch at school.  Some days during the year I have been known to beg them only because it sounded so much easier than making a lunch every morning.  I realized with a little prep on Sunday afternoons and some team work we could solve the problem and eliminate some of the “crazy” from our

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Sunday Meal Prep

Sunday Meal Prep “What’s for breakfast” and “what’s for dinner” are dreaded phrases in my house. We are so rushed to get out the door in the mornings, I need a quick and easy, but still healthy breakfast, and then by the time evening comes, making dinner is about the last thing I want to do. I had heard a lot about Sunday Meal

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