You don’t have to try to fool your kids into eating food that’s good for them. You just have to slightly more clever than they are. That’s where these five handy food hacks come in. Just little tricks that will help you get more vegetable matter into those little mouths.
Putting out veggie appetizers. I learned […]

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Way back in June the New York Times published what may have been the least helpful guide to making family meals I have ever read. It was something to the effect that mom should spend her weekends organizing and shopping and cooking meatloaves and roasts and other boring, but noncontroversial food. The real […]

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Fall is a great time for a fresh start. With the beginning of a new school year we try to get our acts together and get organized around planning simple dinners and easy lunches. We’ve got to organize all the various family members’ schedules. It gets the us A types very excited.
While we’re fantasizing about […]

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I wonder how the Iron Chef would do with school lunches. “Okay, you’ve got ten minutes to make a healthy, fun, kid-friendly lunch that my child can eat in 15 minutes and you can only use what’s in my fridge. Go!” Now that’s a food challenge—the one parents face every weekday morning. Whether their kids […]

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There are certain products that come out that almost make me wish I had a baby again so that I could use them (A couple of minutes of thinking about a sweet baby quickly turn to the reality and I become sane again). The Kaboost portable chair booster is one of them. This cool, new, […]

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In my last post, I said that my current favorite outing with kids in NYC is to take the trolley to explore the South Bronx. I thought I’d write up some more details so more of you can enjoy this great excursion. And thanks to everyone who has contributed their favorite outings.
My idea of a […]

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Just walking around New York City can be a great experience for kids to learn about history, not just of New York, but American history as well; and there’s no part of NYC more full of history and color for kids than the Lower East Side. Perhaps that’s why it’s been the inspiration for so […]

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I had to create a list of NYC food blogs for a project I am working on and, even though food blogs have nothing to do with parenting, I thought it might be interesting to Mommy Poppins readers. Hey, we all eat, drink, shop and cook. It’s good reading. Enjoy.

eater
nyc blogs/eats
the food section
plate of the […]

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I’m pretty much convinced that kids can live on peanut butter alone, which is good since creating new lunches for the kids every morning while you’re trying to do ten million other things is hard enough. But, there’s a neat product I’ve been eying, called laptop lunches, that could make lunch duty a little easier.
If […]

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Macmillan’s Online Dictionary has featured the phrase Fridge Googling, a term coined by the online parenting community, as its term of the week. Have you heard the term? Is it something your family does? Fridge Googling, it has also been known as Google Cooking, is to look for recipes online by searching for the […]

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