Category Archives: Children

We Be Jammin!

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My cousin gave me a jar of homemade strawberry-rhubarb jam last fall.  I had forgotten about it until around Christmas.  I opened it and used it with peanut butter for breakfast.  It immediately brought me back to my childhood days camping with my Aunt Susie.  She always brought this type of jam!  It was terrific.  I hoarded the entire jar!  I even worked this jam into my Weight Watcher’s points!  (It really is that good!) Two weeks ago I was lucky
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Adventures with Fresh Produce: Kohlrabi

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“What’s that?!” I was teaching a nutrition class to middle school-age children last summer when a student asked about kohlrabi. An assortment of fresh produce had been dropped off at the school from a local community garden to send home with anyone that could use it. When the student pulled the large kohlrabi bulb out of the grocery bag, I was thinking to myself, “I hope someone else knows what that is.” Fortunately, the class I was teaching was co-instructed by
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Choline – The Hot New Pregnancy Nutrient

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Last year at this time I was pregnant and I didn’t give the nutrient, choline much attention.  After attending a conference last week I wish I would have.  Choline started to get the interest of nutrition researchers when it was found that fetal rats whose mothers didn't get enough choline in their diets had less brain development and poorer memories after birth than those whose mothers ate adequate amounts of the nutrient. Elizabeth Ward, MS, RD, the author of Expect
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