Do you have a Whole Foods market near you? And if so, how often do you make the trip with your kids? Recently we had an opportunity to do a behind-the-scenes tour at our local Whole Foods, and even though we’ve shopped there many times we were impressed with the new things we discovered. First [...]
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Melissa’s Organic Green Juice Box
After a long day spent traveling for work, imagine what a nice surprise it was to walk in the door and be greeted by this wonderful organic produce box from Melissa’s. It was like opening an indoor garden: This Organic Green Juice Box contains one bunch each of organic kale, lettuce, celery, parsley, collard greens, [...]
Warm Baby Kale-Leek Salad in Crispy Cups
Are your kids salad-eaters? Or do they turn up their noses at all things leafy and green? This is a question we’ve struggled with for a while because we have one kid in each camp (one greens, one no greens). The fact is, there are so many ways to enjoy leafy greens besides the traditional [...]
Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery (SPUD)
Working moms: You know that feeling, when you come home from a long day of work, and everyone’s waiting for you to make dinner, and suddenly you realize you have nothing to cook because you haven’t had a chance to go shopping for the most basic food staples? Yep. Us too. Enter SPUD, the Sustainable [...]
Lundberg Rice Farm Visit
Rice: It’s one of the major food staples of the world. It’s one of the first foods most of of eat as babies. It’s ubiquitous in many varieties of ethnic cooking. And yet, most of us (well, at least we’re speaking for the Jolly Tomato here) don’t have any clue how it’s grown. So with [...]
Real Food: Chocolate
Chocolate?!? Sure, your kids will happily eat it, but could we honestly call it real food? The good news: Yes – if it’s made the real way. To get the scoop on real, pure, honest-to-goodness chocolate, we decided to take a behind-the-scenes look at the Theo Chocolate factory in Seattle. Theo is the first organic [...]
Hi! I'm Jeanne Fratello - a writer, reporter, and a mom who is on a mission to find great food for kids and to keep parents up to date on the latest nutrition news. You can read more about me here.
