Food, Nutrition, and Health Tips for Kids

Food Nutrition and Health Tips for Kids - great snack and meal ideas

One of the biggest problems I have when it comes to my toddler and eating is that he doesn’t eat meals like I do. He would much rather snack all day then have large meals.

So in order to get him to eat during the day I let him have small snacks every two to three hours versus a set breakfast, lunch and dinner. And because it’s so easy to grab a pre-packaged snack from the cupboard I needed to find some simple, quick, healthy snack ideas to keep him fueled throughout the day. [Read more…]

How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds

Have you ever eaten pumpkin seeds? How to roast pumpkin seeds is so easy and takes only two ingredients!

How To Roast Pumpkin Seeds

One of my favorite memories of fall growing up was when my mom would make pumpkin seeds. She’d bag them up and put them in our lunches or just have them out for an after school snack and they were so good! So I knew it’d be a fun thing to make with my kid this fall. 

After we gutted (or shall I say I gutted) our pie pumpkins we discarded the stringy mess and saved the yummy seeds. I knew this would be a great snack for me to munch on as we made our way to Halloween. You know, so I’d stay out of the candy 🙂

The seeds were yummy and just a little salt went a long way! I’m hoping to use some to top pumpkin muffins or pumpkin bread if I get the chance to make it.

How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds - Ethan eating a few

Pumpkin Seeds

  • Pumpkin seeds (cleaned and dried off)
  • salt (to taste)
  1. Preheat oven to 325.
  2. Lay out pumpkin seeds in a single layer on an un-greased rimmed cookie sheet.
  3. Sprinkle with salt and bake for 25 minutes.
  4. Take out of the oven and let cool.

Make sure you watch you little one or else they may try to come up and steal some while you aren’t looking 🙂 I caught my little guy doing exactly that…

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Adventures in Toddler Food: Veggie Bites

My son has been pretty bad at eating his veggies lately. With the vast fluctuation day by day of his appetite we have had very little luck getting the greens in him. He’s much more interested in the colorful fruit we’ve been bringing home this summer. A little too interested…

So I went out in search of a good veggie bite recipe and found a lot online. I got bits and pieces from a lot of different recipes and kinda pieced them together to form this one. And I am quite happy to say that it was a recipe he loved.

Veggie Bites

Veggie Bites

  • 1 bag frozen broccoli & cauliflower, steamed & chopped
  • 1/3 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs
  • 2/3 cup shredded cheddar
  • 2 eggs

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