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Family On Board Posts
10 Dinners Your Middle Schooler Can Make for You This Summer – Part 2
With the kids home for the summer, now is a great time encourage them to start cooking for the family. Learn how with 10 easy recipes they can make.
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Tips For Cutting Out Processed Food: From Reader Emily
Mom, Emily, shares her real food journey of weight loss and feeling better about herself after cutting out processed food in this guest post.
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Tips For Cutting Out Processed Food: From Reader Stephanie
Full-time mom and wife, Stephanie, shares how switching to real food eventually became a habit and saved her family money in this guest post.
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Tips For Cutting Out Processed Food: From Reader Sara
Mom, Sara, shares how she gets her kids involved in the kitchen and other tips and advice for cutting out processed food in this guest post.
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Tips For Cutting Out Processed Food: From Reader Liz
Mom of three, Liz, shares why reading ingredient labels is so important—especially for her family—plus other great tips and advice in this guest post.
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Tips For Cutting Out Processed Food: From Reader Darci
Working mom and blog reader Darci shares her top 5 tips for cutting out processed food, health changes, and how she plans her meals in this guest post.
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How One Mom Healed Her Son’s Eczema (Naturally!)
Our guest post from Jennifer Roberge, from The Eczema Company, shares her story and natural remedies that healed her son's eczema.
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5 Steps to Get (Older) Picky Eaters to Try New Foods!
Trying new foods is one key to raising healthy eaters. But what if you've got a very picky eater? Learn how to help even the pickiest eaters try new foods.
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How to Raise Kids Who Love Salad (4 Tips!)
Want your kids to eat more salads? Guest blogger Sally Kuzemchak, MS, RD, shares her secrets on how to raise kids who love salads and a bonus chart to help.
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6 Steps for Cooking with Your Kids This Summer by Kiran
Get the kids excited about cooking this summer with Camp Kitchen! We've got 6 steps to ensure cooking fun for the whole family, plus a 5-day digital plan.
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ButcherBox Review
Here is some great info about our longtime partner, ButcherBox! It's an excellent source for high-quality meat products. Read on and get a special deal!
How to Make Meal Planning Easier (with the Plan to Eat App!)
It’s no secret that we’ve been longtime fans of Plan to Eat, an online meal planning service + grocery list maker. In fact, they’ve been partners of ours for six years now – clearly they are very well loved! :) We’re so excited to announce in today’s sponsored post that they’ve just released a new app (for …
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Food Mistakes Parents Sometimes Make
Here are some food mistakes parents sometimes make as well as suggestions on what we have found to work for our kids with regard to eating.
Worried Your Child is Developing a Poor Body Image? Here’s What to Say (And Not Say)
Although rarely talked about, body image is a major health issue for growing kids. Read on for advice about honest, open conversations to help your child.
A Week with the Leakes: Dinner & Treats
Our Week with the Leakes series concludes highlighting real food dinners and treats. You'll see-- living a real food lifestyle doesn't mean deprivation!
A Week with the Leakes: Lunch
In part two of our series, we share what our real food lunches looked like for an entire week. Stay tuned to "A Week with the Leakes" for dinner and treats!
A Week with the Leakes: Breakfast & Snacks
Ever wonder what we (the Leakes) eat for an entire week? Join us for this fun blog series starting with a snapshot of real food breakfast and snacks.
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How to Plan and Organize Your Meals with Plan to Eat
Using an online meal planner such as this one from Plan to Eat can help you plan ahead, become more organized and save you money!
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Make-Ahead Meal Plan Challenge (Join Us!)
Learn how to prepare make-ahead dinners for one week (or more!) and even have extras in the freezer with our free Make-Ahead Meal Plan Challenge.
How Blue Apron Can Help Your Kids Learn To Cook
Blue Apron makes it easy for the whole family to be involved with the cooking and, at the same time, for your kids to learn how to cook.
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Fun Announcements from My Trip to New York City
Fun announcements from my trip to New York City, where I cooked my recipe for Taco Stuffed Peppers live on the Food Network. Click on a link to see the video!
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Spring Clean Your Family’s Diet (with these healthier food swaps!)
Spring cleaning doesn’t just have to be for your house … it can be for your body, too! This is the perfect time of year to make some clean and simple healthier food swaps because, remember, any small change is better than none. :) – Healthier Food Swaps DITCH INSTEAD GET RECIPE Deep-fried potato chips …
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How I Got My Picky Kid to Eat Real Food (Reader Story)
When our family switched to real food, both my husband and I lost weight. However, our greatest accomplishment was with our kids’ eating habits, especially my picky kid.
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Baby Inspired the Whole Family to Eat Real Food (Reader Story)
Our journey started in 2012 when my oldest son was getting ready to start solid food. The more I read up on our choices, the more it seemed so easy to make baby food and such a waste of money to purchase those tiny jars that often had more additives than actual food.
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Real Food Tips for Working Parents
Making all your food from scratch is no joke, so I've complied some real food tips for working parents (or anyone who's just super busy!) to help.
Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge (with Plan to Eat!)
Start 2017 off right with a meal planning routine you can actually keep by joining our friends and longtime sponsor, Plan to Eat, for their new Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge!
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Teaching Your Kids Cooking Skills is SO Important!
Teaching your kids cooking skills is no new topic on this blog… and for good reason! Cooking [from scratch] is “the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being” according to Michael Pollan. Learning how to cook takes time and practice and, since most schools don’t teach this important …
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The Cook-Off: A FUN Way to Get Your Entire Family Cooking Together!
How our annual family cook-off came to be + how you can put together your own, including printable score cards.
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How to Feed Busy Families Real Food
I very strongly value the notion of feeding my kids well and not resorting to fast food places simply because I "have to." I've found the following ideas help me feed my busy family real food without having to compromise.
Our South American Adventure!
I am going to go a little off topic today to share some pics and details from our recent trip to South America!
Why Family Dinner? Reasons That Might Surprise You
This is a guest post by Jenny Rosenstrach with Dinner: A Love Story. I recently met Jenny in person at an event and thought you guys would enjoy learning about her blog and her mission behind the family dinner!
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Kids Cook: A Summer Activity (and Beyond!)
I recently started a weekly ritual that I know a lot of you would also love: Kids Cook Night. I'll share a little about how the process works for us as well as the intangible benefits that are a part of this activity. It's a win-win all around.
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Are recipe delivery services more expensive than the grocery store?
A friend was recently telling me how her brother is really into Blue Apron and has been trying to get her family to try it, but she hasn't wanted to spend the money. So it got me wondering - are recipe delivery services really any more expensive than going to the store and buying everything yourself?
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Real Food on the Trail!
This past weekend we went on our second-ever family backpacking trip (our first time without a guide)! When we first did this last summer the guide handled all of the food, which definitely appeared to be a big undertaking.
Let’s Commit to a Device-Free Dinner!
It's no secret that smart phones, tablets and the like have taken over our lives. It's my hope though that we can all agree to keep one sacred place device-free, and that's the dinner table!
