Back-to-School Lunch Tips
by Stacie on 8/16/10 | 3 Comment(s)
I’m working on a series of back-to-school posts for One Hungry Mama about packed lunches and decided to give you Brooklyn folks a peek at the first. Because that’s how we roll here in the B-K. Always watching out for one another.
I point to a bunch of recipes below, but the real focus in on [...]
Keep it Spicy, Baby: Easiest Jerk Chicken & Mango Salsa
by Stacie on 8/05/10 | 0 Comment(s)
Before I had kids, one of my go-to meals was jerk chicken with a side of sweet plantains and garlicky wilted kale. I stopped making it once my first Hungry Boy started eating. I thought it was too spicy to share with an itty bitty eater, even an adventurous one. Then, once out of the [...]
Mom, Do I look Fat?
by Karen on 7/29/10 | 2 Comment(s)
“Mom, Do I look Fat?” by Donna Fish
Anyone out there deal with this one yet? (I am writing today for those with girls in that 8 – 13, 14 year old range.)
If you have trained yourself to stop saying: “Do I look fat in this?” out loud, particularly in front of your daughter, hoping to [...]
Vitamin D: Why you and your kids need it NOW
by Jill on 7/29/10 | 1 Comment(s)
This morning at breakfast, I remembered that the kids and I hadn’t taken our vitamins since before vacation, a week ago. Not really a big deal, though with all the press that vitamin D has gotten lately, I made sure the kids and I took ours today.
What can happen if we don’t have enough of [...]
Got a Picky Eater? One Hungry Mama has help!
by Stacie on 7/28/10 | 0 Comment(s)
I’m going to give you a reason to laugh at me. (It’s okay. I deserve it. And laughing is good for you.) Ready? I didn’t think that my older son would go through a picky phase. Ever.
Done chuckling? Yea, me, too. Because my (deservedly) famously intrepid eater has now, nearing 4-years-old, gone through several picky [...]
Eczema: What can be done?
by Karen on 7/22/10 | 0 Comment(s)
Eczema: The rash that itches! By Dr. Hugh Gilgoff
Almost all babies have sensitive skin. We all know to avoid harsh detergents, strong perfumes, and rough fabrics during this period, but what is normal dry skin versus eczema? What can you do to avoid dry skin? And what medicines are safe and effective? Read below [...]
BPA-Free Tomatoes for Your Pizza Sauce? Yes, Please!
by Stacie on 7/20/10 | 2 Comment(s)
I recently found two must-read posts at fabulous eco-family blog The Soft Landing that list BPA-free canned foods, including packaged tomatoes!
This is big, folks. Tomatoes are high in acid, which causes increased leaching in canned goods. That means tomatoes are some of the least safe canned foods and the hardest to package without sturdy [...]
Fruit + Herbs: Perfect Together!
by Stacie on 7/02/10 | 0 Comment(s)
Herbs aren’t just for spicing up your meat, grains and veggies! Combining fruit and herbs is one of my favorite ways to create unexpected flavor combinations. Bringing together sweet fruit and aromatic, sometimes even floral, herbs creates irresistibly bright tastes that pop in your mouth. Plus, fresh herbs (and some spices!) have important health benefits [...]
EWG’s List of 9 tips to reduce environmentally-induced cancer
by Karen on 6/28/10 | 0 Comment(s)
The Environmental Working Group sent out an email this morning that I thought was really important to relay to you all:
You may have heard that the President’s Cancer Panel issued a landmark report last month suggesting that public health officials have “grossly underestimated” the extent of environmentally-induced cancer among the 1.5 million Americans diagnosed with [...]
Whip your body into shape & help your kids academically this summer
by Karen on 6/16/10 | 2 Comment(s)
If you’re anything like I am, I need some major help getting my body in shape after having babies: both physically and nutritionally. One of our new Directory Listings can do just that. Michelle Hobgood, the owner of Fusion Fitness & Wellness, offers quite a few ways to get started: Ultimate Body Boot Camp, Mamas [...]
Organic vs Local: What’s a Parent to Choose?
by Stacie on 6/15/10 | 1 Comment(s)
It’s that time of year again, when the greenmarket begins to overflow with bounty. I love when I can get all of my fruits and veggies from my local market. Except for one lingering, nagging concern: most of the food is local (great!), but conventionally grown (not great, especially with a very little eater in [...]
CSA spots available- and some jobs!
by Karen on 6/01/10 | 1 Comment(s)
When I first moved to Brooklyn, I was initiated into a whole new world of food coops, Greenmarkets and CSAs. Though the Park Slope Food Coop intimidated the heck out of me (and still does) and the Greenmarkets have become a common stop for us, I haven’t ventured out into the land of CSAs. I [...]
Got (Goat) Milk?
by Stacie on 5/20/10 | 2 Comment(s)
I have a confession: I don’t like goat’s cheese. Which means that I don’t like goat’s milk. This is not something that a foodie admits easily. This is not something that a Greek foodie admits easily. But’s it true. And I’ve spent a lifetime staying as far away from the stuff as possible. But, after [...]
Avocado: recipes and all its wonderful possibilities
by Stacie on 5/13/10 | 2 Comment(s)
April marks the beginning of California avocado season. That’s as local as avocados get for us Brooklynites, so that means it’s time to dig in! And who can complain about that? Delicious, versatile and super nutritious, avocados are simply the perfect family food.
Avocados can be fed to children as young as 6 months. In fact, [...]
Pumping: when, how and why
by Karen on 5/12/10 | 0 Comment(s)
I remember when my sister first pulled out her backpack-style breastpump, strapped on her bustier and the pump cups and turned the machine on- all while she was giving me some sisterly advice. To her, it was like nothing was going on…to me, it was like: Woah! what are all those tubes and how is [...]
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Celebrate with Healthy Fish Tacos
by Stacie on 5/05/10 | 1 Comment(s)
Cinco de Mayo is one of my favorite holidays. Maybe it has something to do with the food. And (ahem), drink. (C’mon! Who doesn’t love a good margarita?!) But, alas, I cannot drink the way I once could so, instead, I indulged in delicious Mexican fare at home, children in tow. Oh, how life has [...]
Tea for Tots? (+ a recipe for Chai-Spiced Blood Orange Granita)
by Stacie on 4/26/10 | 1 Comment(s)
I’m a big tea drinker and introduced tea to my older son when he was just barely over 12-months-old. I plan on doing the same with my little one, but fully expect the same funny looks. Giving tea to a toddler is apparently a strange thing to do. But is it more than that? Can [...]
Changing kids eating habits
by Karen on 4/18/10 | 0 Comment(s)
One Tray at a Time
by Donna Fish
Change is a’ coming. Slowly, but I see some movement in a positive direction. I always think of the two things that are responsible for the rising rates of obesity in this country and in particular the high rate of childhood obesity: WHAT WE EAT, AND HOW MUCH WE [...]
Finding Quality Produce and Organic Items in Fort Greene / Clinton Hill
by Betsy on 4/18/10 | 0 Comment(s)
I’ve lived in Fort Greene since 2001 and I am thankful to report that there are now lots more options for finding quality produce in the neighborhood compared to when I came here, including organic items! Mr. CoCo (414 Myrtle Avenue) just opened (it’s 24 hours,) and they have a decent selection of organic and [...]
10-Minute meals for when you gotta cook & run (or run & cook)
by Stacie on 4/15/10 | 1 Comment(s)
Thirty minute meals are great—necessary, even!—but sometimes you have to whip up dinner even faster. Sometimes, you’ve only got 10 minutes to get food on the table. Maybe you need to make something that the sitter can feed the kids while you’re on a hot date. Or maybe you’ve come home late from work or [...]
What are some “true” organic dairy products?
by Karen on 4/08/10 | 6 Comment(s)
Our book club just finished reading “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan. It touched off a lot of debate about what is truly “organic” and what isn’t. I wanted to learn more. One of my favorite “green” sites, A Fresh Squeeze, recommended The Cornucopia Institute for solid information on this topic. The Cornucopia Institute is [...]
Big blog news for Brooklyn foodies
by Karen on 4/07/10 | 0 Comment(s)
Big news in the Brooklyn blog world:
Popular Brooklyn food blogger Stacie Billis of ChowMama has founded a new family food blog: One Hungry Mama. Stacie, a Clinton Hill mom, is known for her simple-to-follow and healthy recipes for kids and parents. She has made a giant leap with her new blog One Hungry Mama. She [...]
Chubby Babies: too fat?
by Jill on 3/23/10 | 0 Comment(s)
In spite of today’s story in the New York Times science section, “Baby Fat May Not Be So Cute After All,” I still think chubby babies are cute…and right on target. But Roni Rabin reports that we should be actively concerned with obesity in our children from, and even before, day one. “More and more [...]
Vitamins: Gummy, chewable…or even at all?
by Jill on 3/16/10 | 5 Comment(s)
As a kid, we ate the fruity, chalky Flinstone’s chewable vitamins. My mother kept them in the cabinet above the toaster (which I now recognize as probably not the best vitamin storage place, given the heat from the toaster!) and she would parcel them out each morning as we ate breakfast. I expect she gave [...]
Teaching Your Kids to Wait
by Karen on 2/04/10 | 0 Comment(s)
Thorns and Roses? Believe it or not, Mrs. Obama, This Game is an Obesity Buster
by Donna Fish
I had to laugh while I watched Michelle Obama on the Today Show yesterday. She was describing a game that her family plays called “Thorns and Roses.”
I laughed because when my kids were young, I instituted a [...]
