Category Archives: Children

The Challenge: Make a Chicken Dinner for Less than $9.99

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Have you seen the commercial where a fast food chain challenges you to make a fried chicken meal for less than $9.99? It shows a mom with her two kids racing around a grocery store adding up all the ingredients needed to make the meal. In the end, the mom announces they’re going out because it’s cheaper than making the meal herself. I had my doubts. And as friends know, I’m always up for a mathematical challenge. So I did my own
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A Low Chocolate Halloween!

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My kids love Halloween.  They do trick or treat very far in our neighborhood, and they still seem to get a ton of candy.  Their aunts and grandma give them treats too!  The problem with all that candy is that they have been known to eat a ton of it without me knowing it, and I have been known to raid their buckets too!  Don't get me wrong. I am not anti-candy.  I do not need it, and they do
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Get the Lead Out

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This month I would like to share information about lead poisoning in our children.  As a registered dietitian I provide information about how one's diet can actually increase or decrease the amount of lead absorb by the body.  Fetuses, infants, and children are more vulnerable to lead exposure than adults since lead is more easily absorbed into growing bodies, and the tissues of small children are more sensitive to the damaging effects of lead. Children are more likely to have
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