Food
Choosing great food on a budget and turning that into meals the entire family loves! That's the goal for many households. It's not always easy, or affordable so here are a few ideas and recipes that make sense for our family. Hoping you find some new favourites for your family meal rotation here too. A love of food is something we all nurture from the start with our family, and as parents it's a constant challenge to commit to healthy living while also sticking to the budget. Here are a few tips and tricks that can help you eat healthy food and also try a few new recipe ideas that won't break the bank. Don't Miss my Cooking with Kids series and my Pinterest board by the same name. There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of amazing and fun recipes for families there. We cook it first and sometimes make the mistakes so that we can deliver great recipes and food content to you.
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Schneider’s Lunchmate Plus Fruit #Giveaway
Every Mom – or Dad – knows lunchbox letdown is a big deal when you are a kid. So how do you avoid the lunchbox coming back home from school completely full at end of day? Well, here, at the Schuck casa, we are huge fans of protein, fruit and vegetables in lunches and snacks. We try to eat healthy and give our kids good options for meals. School lunches have always been a challenge. And I think that’s the case for pretty much every parent alive. So once a week our kids get hot lunch and that saves me time plus it breaks up the monotony of boring lunch…
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Dempster’s Farmhouse Country White Bread #Giveaway
What’s your favorite sandwich? I like mine toasted first on a great bread, something substantial, not flimsy or too grainy. The bread, for me, is like the canvas for a work of art. I need it to be well constructed so I can build it high with all the fixings. First I like a good Swiss cheese, then liverwurst, mayonnaise, mustard and salami, maybe a slice of ham too, if we have it. Then I warm the whole thing up for about 20 seconds. Perfection. Writing about it makes me hungry. You can see, with that amount of yummy stuff in the middle, my bread has to stand up. That’s…
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Celebrating Baby Milestones with #NatrelBaboo
Guest post by my baby blogger – Brooke Looking back, the first year with my first child was a breeze. I thought that was normal. At the time I thought it was hard, and being sleep deprived wasn’t easy, but in terms of what to expect? Easy. We called him our text book baby. If the books said they were fussy at 6 weeks, guess what? He was fussy at 6 weeks. He sat up, crawled, walked, talked exactly as expected. I could prepare myself for what was coming next and look forward to him learning these new skills. When my twin boys were born about 3 months early all…
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Cooking With Kids–Delicious Lemon Thyme Pork Tenderloin
Pork Tenderloin is always a huge hit here. So it doesn’t take much work to dress it up for my kids and make it a great family meal. This is my Cooking With Kids recipe for this week and yes, the kids helped a bit, but this is a recipe you need to be careful with, because raw meat can be dangerous if not handled correctly. I wish I could convey how amazingly delicious this is. Start with Pork tenderloin. Plain. Vegetable oil or olive oil and Clubhouse Flavourful Recipe Mix Lemon Thyme Pork. Take the pork tenderloin and roll it in a couple teaspoons full of oil. Roll the…
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Best Apple Cinnamon Butternut Squash Soup
If it’s autumn here it’s all about the squash. I don’t like much about autumn transitions, but the food is amazing. Butternut squash and apples and corn and pumpkin pie are some seasonal favourites. So when I found this recipe for Apple Cinnamon Butternut Squash Soup on Life Made Delicious I was keen to try it. Now, the kids didn’t help much with this one because they were at school when I made it, but Thursday is my Cooking With Kids segment and soups and stews are always a hit with my kids. I anticipate they will give this a try and at least one will enjoy it. I know…
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Cooking With Kids and a Killer Pulled Pork Recipe #ClubHouseRecipeMix #Giveaway
We have done pulled pork before here on Cooking With Kids, but this week I got a great variety of spices from McCormick’s and Club House, so because pulled pork is such a hit with the whole family well I just had to try this one immediately. As I said, we have made pulled pork here with my own recipe, but I wanted to see how much punch the ClubHouse Recipe Mix for Pulled Pork added. Now, my kids, at this age and stage of their development, are fussier than they ever were as toddlers. They eat well most days, and they love their fruits and vegetables, but I don’t…
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Easy Meal Ideas with VH Sauces
Did I really just make this? Delicious Pad Thai? VH sauces inspired me to get creative this week. True story. I am a cautious diner, usually. I stick to a few dishes I like and I experiment on occasion with sauces, so VH delicious sauces seemed just right for me. I was asked to take part in a Collective Bias shopportunity and I jumped at this one because I know VH makes some great new Asian Inspired sauces. Months ago I read about the garlic hoisin sauce on the Yummy Mummy Club and I was excited to try that one. So, as usual, when I shop, I hunt for good…
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Cooking With Kids: Summer Blueberry Treats
It’s Thursday, so here we are cooking in the kitchen with kids. Easy peasy this week and yet, oh so yummy. I saw a variation of this on Pinterest and wanted to try it. So this is what we started with. Oh so yummy and nutritious blueberries. Did you know they are a superfood? Yes, they are. Also they contain great nutrients that help your skin and protect your brain from Alzheimer’s Disease. I love that. Then I added this. My favourite yogurt. I can generally only find at Costco. And we rolled all the delicious berries in yogurt. And we froze them for a couple of hours. And oh…
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Grownup Lunches and The Grazing Bunch Fiber 1 #Giveaway
My girls have always been grazers. You know the kind of children that need regular input of small amounts of food at consistent intervals. Snackers. Yup. So the challenge there has always been managing their cravings and providing small nutritious snacks that aren’t too dense in calories. In our house, fresh fruit is always on hand and so too are carrots and things like that. We maintain the philosophy that kids make better food choices when there are healthy choices in abundance. We try to encourage them to choose milk and water over juice or soda pop. And then there’s fiber. I’d like to say that fiber is never a…
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Free Customized Children’s Placemat
Here’s one I am taking advantage of right now. Warning: You will be responsible for shipping costs – I think that is $3.99. Create a custom placemat for you child. How fun is that? You can even involve your child in designing it. This offer is from Ink Garden and it only runs until June 29, 2012. I am an Escalate affiliate and this offer is valid worldwide.