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Learning While We Cook: How Preparing Meals Educates Children As they snip, read, and converse with us, our kids are learning physical, mental, and social skills. Here’s how cooking can be educational for them. |
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Jack-O'-Lantern Cookies From Peggy's Kitchen: Have some sweet and spooky fun with these great Jack-O'-Lantern cookies for Halloween. |
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Candy Experiments A creative mother finds an educational use for Halloween loot. And her kids are eating it up! |
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Healthier Halloween It's almost Halloween! Here are some fun and creative alternatives to sugary treats for the big day. |
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Reality Check: One Tired Mom Responds How many parents, especially those with full-time jobs, really have the time to make baby’s food? Let’s find out. |
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Dumpster Diving Today, I pulled some bags out of a dumpster and dug through them for food, and I plan to do it again. The castoffs make a difference for my family while we struggle to cover our grocery bills. |
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In Praise of Kale From Peggy's Kitchen: Whenever I give a seminar on healthy eating, I can't help but talk about kale. With all these benefits, why doesn't everyone eat it? |
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Valentine's Day on a Restricted Diet Today, so many children have restricted diets, whether due to food allergies, gluten intolerance, or a desire for healthier eating, that it can make holidays like Valentine's Day stressful for conscientious moms. |
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Baby Nog From Peggy's Kitchen: This is a great drink to have at the beginning of your day. It’s packed with protein for energy, and B vitamins to calm and sustain you. |
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Giving Thanks at Mothering We take pleasure in sharing some of our holiday menus for Thanksgiving 2010. May they inspire you to try something different this year. |
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Staff Taste Test for Peggy's Kitchen "Food Makes a Family" Novemember-December 2010 Staff Taste Test for Peggy's Kitchen "Food Makes a Family" Novemember-December 2010 |
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Video - Joaquin's Lunch Box Great lunch box tips from Jane of Cookus Interruptus. |
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Rediscovering the Homemade Lunch My mouth literally fell open with shock. Her lunch couldn't possibly be this bad! All those mornings I woke up early to make homemade lunches, this inedible rubbish was the result? I nearly cried with frustration. |
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12 Ways to Avoid Toxins in Packaging Chemicals in plastics can migrate into food. Here's how to avoid food contamination from packaging. |
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Staff Taste Test for Peggy's Kitchen "Protein Power for Pregnancy" Sept/Oct 2010 Staff Taste Test for Peggy's Kitchen "Protein Power for Pregnancy" Sept/Oct 2010 |
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Eating Naturally on an Unnatural Budget Here are some of the best ways to afford healthy foods without committing to endless hours in the kitchen or getting a second job. |
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Maya and the Market The author faces a challenge as she attempts to buy wholesome foods instead of the brightly-colored, beautifully packaged junk food marketed to her child. |
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Celebrate Mother's Day with Lidia Matticchio Bastianich! This Mother's Day celebrate yourself and all the moms in your life with Chicken and Potatoes and Sweet Ricotta Dumplings with Strawberry Sauce from Lidia Matticchio Bastianich. |
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Green Horizons It's not a 1960s co-op anymore. Today's natural foods marketplace is a big, bright, mainstream place. Let us take you there, in Mothering's complete guide to the world of whole foods. |
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In the Kitchen with Baby Babies and young children wait expectantly for their parents to feed them and the choice of what goes into an infant's mouth is up to us, at least while our children are small. |
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The Feingold Solution: Assessing the Role of Diet in Children's Behavior How preservatives and additives affect your child's well-being. |
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The Mothering Soup Fest For Peggy's Kitchen 158, "Soups in Still Life," the Mothering staff cooked up the soups, photographed them, and then had a staff taste test. Here are their comments. |
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Video - Cooking Collard Greens These powerful vegetables should be a daily part of the diet, especially for nursing mothers. |
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School Lunches that Nourish Body and Soul Thanks to Lynn Walters and her organization, Cooking with Kids, Santa Fe schoolchildren are eating healthier, uncommonly delicious hot lunches. |
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Video- Cooking Soba Noodles Find out how to properly cook your soba noodles from food expert Cynthia Lair of Cookus Interruptus. |