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Oct
7

Making Healthy Eating Fun for Your Kids, A Recipe Swap and Giveaway!

by Brandy

This giveaway is closed!

looney I’m going to post a few things that we make around here that the kids love! I would love for you to share some of your own recipes and ideas in the comments. Remember…each comment gets you an entry for the gift basket! You can comment on any of the posts that feature Bugs Bunny and his Eating Right sign!

I think I mentioned before that we love Bento! Bento is fun and you can really get kids to eat some different things by making it cool or pretty! You can take healthy foods and shape them into characters that they love! They will want to eat it even more if you let them help!

There are streams on Flikr dedicated to Bento! You can get a lot of ideas from looking at photos. There are some great ideas to be found!

One of my girls favorite Bento items are “Mock Sushi”

Turkey “Sushi” Rolls are easily made with bread, cream cheese, sliced turkey and veggies of your choice! Take your bread slices and roll them out flat with a rolling pin or a cup. Spread cream cheese on the bread and lay thin sliced Turkey at one end with some veggies. A sliced tomato, match stick cut carrots or anything else you desire. Roll it all up nice and snug! Cut the roll in half, then cut those halves in half again!

Another fun one uses Nori Wraps (seaweed). You take your Nori sheet and spread with mashed Avocado. Layer on fresh spinach, match stick style carrots, green onions, garlic, sea salt, veggie slice cheese…oh yum! Roll as directed and cut into the bite size sushi pieces. Nori is packed with nutritional goodness!

I really need to make an effort to photograph some of our bento projects and post them. The girls have a blast making and eating them!

MomLogic has some great ideas posted on healthy lunch, snack and dinner ideas for your family.

Please share some of your recipes here! You can leave each one in a separate comment for more entries for the gift basket!

I will be choosing with Random.org this coming Sunday!

Disclosure: I have been hired by Warner Brothers to help spread the word as part of their WB Word of Mouth Program. All opinions I post are my own.

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Oct
1

How I Shop With the Kids…

by Brandy

looney Our latest conversation is about making shopping fun as well as educational with the kids. For us I make it a goal with my older daughter to save money while shopping healthy. She knows that making things from scratch is usually the healthier and cheaper option. The little ones have fun by helping to pick out their very own special fruits and vegetables. They want to grow big and strong and know that healthy food will help them get there.

We always start in the Fruits and Veggies and work our way around. I usually skip the cookie and soda aisles.

How do you navigate the grocery store with your kids?

Remember all comments on the Looney Tunes Eating Right Kids Program posts enter you in the giveaway!

Don’t forget: Momlogic’s nutrition expert, Haylie Pomroy is answering questions about nutrition. Send her your questions to eatingright@wb.com. She will post answers starting this week.

Be sure to visit MomLogic.com

Disclosure: I have been hired by Warner Brothers to help spread the word as part of their WB Word of Mouth Program. All opinions I post are my own.

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Sep
10

Healthy Equals Cooties?

by Brandy

looney It seems that some kids think that healthy foods are icky…ewwwww. Why is that? Is it from TV? Parents? Friends? I’m thinking it is mainly friends. Kids at school complaining about the good for you lunch their mom packed. Sometimes it’s not cool to eat an apple, it’s much cooler to eat a brownie. Do you think that is what they think?

My kids do not attend public school, but I have heard that they have vending machines there. Do they have these at your child’s school? Soda, Snacks and Candy? How are you to know what your child is eating?

How do you ensure your kids are eating healthy at school. What are some of your kids favorite snacks?

Momlogic’s nutrition expert, Haylie Pomroy will be answering reader questions about nutrition. Your readers are welcome to submit their questions to her and she will post answers starting the week of September 14th. Users can submit questions to eatingright@wb.com

Don’t forget, commenting on this series (any post in the series) will get you entries for the gift basket giveaway!

Visit MomLogic.com

Disclosure: I have been hired by Warner Brothers to help spread the word as part of their WB Word of Mouth Program. All opinions I post are my own.

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Sep
2

Making Healthy Eating Choices For Kids

by Brandy

looney I want to focus this post on starting a conversation with you guys about healthy eating choices for kids. I’m going to tell you to tell you what works for me and then I would love to hear what works for you.

At our house, I simply keep the junk out. Yes, I do buy some goodies. Trust me..the girls are not doing without. These are treats…not an every day occurrence. Some people add a desert to every meal they serve! This is not good for kids. It is teaching them very bad habits!

We also do not buy a lot of prepared convenience foods. We cook most of our meals together. Kids are much more interested in trying a new food if they helped prepare it. When we had a garden, the girls were also more interested in eating the foods they helped to grow and pick. It really does work.

Another way they try new and different healthy foods in Bento! Bento is so much fun to make and eat. If you have a picky eater this might be something you should give a try. It is basically turning food into edible art! It’s pretty awesome!

83671bb2a4_MediumBasket MomLogic has some great ideas posted on healthy lunch, snack and dinner ideas for your family. Be sure to check it out. Also check out the Grand Prize Gift Basket they are giving away.

As a reminder…as part of the program I am happy to announce that they will be providing one of my readers with a gift basket! The basket is a $100 value! It is filled with Looney Tunes products like DVDs, plush toys, green shopping bags and non-perishable Eating Right products.

To be eligible for the gift basket just comment and participate on this 5 week series. I have a conversation starter question below.

What works for you?

Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Safeway, Inc. have teamed up to create a better-for-you line of food products for children, uniting flavor and nutrition with the iconic Looney Tunes characters. The Eating Right Kids food line featuring Bugs Bunny, Marvin the Martian, Daffy Duck and others offers more than 60 items across 18 categories including breakfast foods, produce, portable meals, dairy, snacks, beverages and frozen entrees – making it easy for moms to spot healthier food and beverage items for their kids that taste great.

Items in the basket include:

Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1

Tweety T-shirt from Junk Food

Looney Tunes plush item

Looney Tunes stationary or home good

Eating Right Kids “green” shopping bag from Safeway

Eating Right Kids post card

Eating Right Kids Products (non perishable) in a branded lunch box

Canned Ravioli with Daffy or Microbowl with Tweety

Tri-color Wheat Rotini with Sylvester and Tweety

Apple juice with Taz

Chewy Bar with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner

Please note: If an item listed in the giveaway prize is not available, it will be replaced it with a similar item of equal value.

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Aug
25

Do Your Kids Eat Healthy?

by Brandy

looney I’m one of the lucky ones…my kids love healthy, good for you foods! They love fruits and vegetables. Of course, they love candy and junkie stuff too. Things like that are not an every day staple though. I try to keep a fresh choice of fruits and vegetables for the kids on hand at all times.

As things kick off with school and 4H more time is spent out of the home. This can cause some challenges in providing healthy foods. Unless of course I plan ahead. Sometimes things are in such a rush that I don’t have time to plan ahead. What am I supposed to do then?

For the next 5 weeks I will be working with the Warner Brothers “WB Word of Mouth Team” who have hired me to take part in the Looney Tunes Eating Right Kids program featured on Momlogic.com. You can visit the Eating Right Kids page on Momlogic.com. There you will find healthy recipes and more! 8bff8a9018_SnkPk_GrpsChz

Overview of Looney Tunes Eating Right Kids Program:

Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Safeway, Inc. have teamed up to create a better-for-you line of food products for children, uniting flavor and nutrition with the iconic Looney Tunes characters. The line includes categories such as breakfast foods, portable meals, dairy, snacks and beverages. Each product will feature such world-renowned Looney Tunes characters as Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Taz, Sylvester, Wile E. Coyote, Roadrunner, Marvin the Martian and Daffy Duck, who serve as ‘Mother’s Helper,’ making it easy for moms to spot better-for-you food and beverage items for their kids that taste great.

Be sure to head on over to Momlogic.com to check out the Eating Right blog from Haylie Pomroy. She will be posting healthy recipes, expert tips and Looney Tunes Eating Right product recommendations(available at Safeway stores**) to help us moms save time when creating healthy meals for our families.

As part of the program I am happy to announce that they will be providing one of my readers with a gift basket! The basket is a $100 value! It is filled with Looney Tunes products like DVDs, plush toys, green shopping bags and non-perishable Eating Right products. To be eligible for the gift basket just comment and participate on this 5 week series. I have a conversation starter question below.

Momlogic will also give away a grand prize basket valued at $500 which you can also enter to win. Please visit Momlogic.com for more info on that giveaway.

“Tasty Tip” I know that I can get my kids to eat anything if they can dip it!

What are your favorite ways to get kids to eat their fruits and veggies? I would love to hear some of your tips in the comments section!

**Safeway also owns Vons, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Dominick

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