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How to Get Kids Excited for Healthy Food
It’s a tale as old as time, the question that every parent is dying to know the answer to: How do I get my kid to eat healthy foods and be excited about it? Sure, bribing them works every now and then, and the promise of ice cream after dinner will be enough for any [...]
Top 4 Back To School Essentials
Top 4 Back To School Essentials
Back to School is in full swing and, whether this is your first rodeo or your 8th, the past year and a half have changed things up quite a bit. There might be some new items on your list to help keep things clean and sanitized while the kids are [...]
What Are The Four Food Grade Materials Used for Baby Products?
As you shop around for the best products for your baby, there is one phrase you will come across quite a bit: Food Grade Materials. If a product is made with food grade material, it means it is safe to come into direct contact with food products. This includes the cases, pigments, fittings, utensils, and [...]
Moldy Lunchbox? Here’s What to Do
If you have a child, chances are you have come across the horror of a moldy lunchbox seal. The funk and gunk lurking underneath the rubber seal of your child’s lunchbox are enough to make anybody feel like they are about to lose their lunch, and they can be part of the many stressors for [...]
A Parent’s Survival Guide to Working From Home
If you have kids, then working from home probably entails three different jobs: your day job, being a parent, and also being a teacher. All three are full-time commitments, plus overtime. All the work can be exhausting, especially in this prolonged pandemic. But as difficult as it may seem, it’s possible to juggle work and [...]
A parent’s guide to lunchtime, nap time, masks, and more!
Back to School with Innobaby: A parent’s guide to lunchtime, nap time, masks, and more!The last 4+ months have felt like both a breeze and an eternity. Just a few months ago, our kids were breezily in school with their peers blissfully playing, learning, and lunching with their peers daily. They were recessing, running, [...]
Quarantine #parenthacks
Quarantine #parenthacksIt’s no surprise that with the vast majority of non-essential workers working from home, both kids and parents are on a constant hunt to find new and exciting activities to do, all while juggling ‘normal’ life within their own four walls. Being at home while working, parenting 14+ hour days, plus making meals and [...]
Innobaby Keepin' Fresh Bento Snack Box – REVIEW
Innobaby Keepin' Fresh Bento Snack Box – REVIEWMy girls love eating fruit and would live off fruit alone if I let them! So we were very excited to receive the Keepin’ Fresh Bento Snack Box from Innobaby so we can keep our fruit fresh.This Bento Snack Box is the perfect way to cut up some [...]
Tips for Packing School Lunches
Whether you’re disappointed or relieved that the new school year is right around the corner, the seasonal transition is a time of change. Maybe you are sending your first child off to school or are a seasoned pros with kids ready to enter a new grade level. No matter what phase your students are in, [...]
Perfect Fall Treat - Pear Oat Squares
Pear Oat SquaresYield: approx. 25 1 inch squaresIngredients:1 cup old-fashioned oats1 cup pitted Medjool dates1 1/2 cups dried pears1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice (or some combination of cinnamon, ginger, and cardamom)Directions:Place oats in the bowl of your food processor and pulse until ground. Some small pieces will remain… you don’t want to process so much [...]
Stainless Steel Leakproof Food Storage. . .Makin' Life Easier
By the time I write this, many of us parents have gotten over the hard part of the back-to-school season. The school supplies have been purchased, sleeping schedules have been established, and we are forced to adjust lunch ideas to what our kids’ favourite foods are this year. With all that going on, it helps [...]
A Day at the Beach . . . Passing on a Cherished Tradition
Some of my fondest childhood memories are the all-day beach days we would have during the summer while I was young. We'd spend hours collecting shells, playing in the waves and the rest of the world seemed to disappear. Of course there was plenty of snacking too.So much has changed since that time, yet so [...]