by Monica on February 18, 2011
I have tried and tried to avoid artificial food coloring/dyes in the peapod squad’s food, but it is like trying to climb Mt. Everest on a tricycle…especially when most folks think I’m nuts for even caring. And the kids think I’m a seriously mean mommy, because all of the “cool” food is brightly colored with artificial stuff. The scientific evidence may not be concrete yet, but I see a HUGE difference in my kids when they consume the junk. Red 40 seems to be the biggest culprit for us, but I’d love to be able to avoid all of it.
I highly recommend this really interesting read…
via When Food Dyes Color Our Child’s Behavior – Feed Our Familes Blog.
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by Monica on November 19, 2010
For my next lazy mommy trick, I shall turn this…
into these…
Place the cookies with the striped-side down. Dip a marshmallow in melted chocolate (16oz of chocolate chips and 2tbs of shortening will work if you don’t have those little fancy chocolate candy melts). Stand them up on the cookies. Use yellow (or orange if that’s what you have…like I did) decorator icing to pipe on a buckle.
That’s it. Seriously…it doesn’t get much easier. No baking. No stress. Now that’s something to be grateful for!
{Just please be sure the kids eating these cute things know not to cram the whole marshmallow into their mouths. They should be bitten into and chewed well. Large marshmallows are just the right size to easily get lodged in a young child’s throat, and their mushy consistency makes them mold to the shape of the airway…making it very difficult to get them out.}
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