Conscious Family Food

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Introducing Food to Babies

Posted on May 27, 2014

What a great time in life – discovering food! Tastes, textures, smells – it is all new and exciting! As the parent doing the introducing it can be equally as scary as it can be exciting. This is why it is super important to be sure to talk with your pediatrician BEFORE taking ANYONE’S advice – even mine! For us, by about four months of literally breast-feeding every 2 hours (and yes my child was putting on great amounts of weight – I...

Cooking Oil Facts

Posted on May 23, 2014

Cooking Oil 411 I used to think that oil was oil. I used it to sauté veggies, or in a recipe, or to make popcorn, not really on my radar. Then I heard about coconut oil & how it has so many benefits.http://t.co/LC9y5JeIdZ #healthyselves — Malibu Mama Loves (@MalibuMamaLoves) September 16, 2014 Really? I thought, it is just oil… Then I did some research, I was curious. I was shocked at what I found. This is what I did not...

How To Get Kids To Eat Healthy

Posted on May 21, 2014

The Nightmare All parents live in fear that their kids are not eating enough or the right things or are eating too much. Some are afraid to give healthy snacks because they don’t want to be the boring parent, some are afraid of the ‘fancy’ snacks but choose to give them anyway – never mind that there are enough preservatives in that bag of cheesy nachos to keep a cat alive for almost 6 years… – but it is in a pretty package and...