We've read a great article in the NY TImes Magazine and luckily we have found it online. We're happy to be able to copy 2 excerpts here. Please read the full article, you'll be fascinated, enlightened and dismayed about the state of "food" in the U.S.
Click NY Times Unhappy Meals to read the full article (registration is required but it's worth the read, use your free mail account!)
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These are the GREATEST! A new way to get your kids to eat their veggies and fruits. I purchased some of these awhile ago at a local health food store. The kids LOVED them - the Just Veggies mix, and the Just Strawberries 'n Bananas are the favourites. You can eat them as a snack or add the veggies to soups, rice or noodles and add the fruits to yogurt, cereal, whatever you want!
Try them
Rice in particular is not a known "high" allergen in the US and most Western Countries. This is why it is typically recommended as an infant's first food (in the US that is).
If there is a rice allergy, studies show that the allergy is most often to the pollen of the rice and a reaction is triggered by the inhalation of the pollen - rice is a grass and may produce hayfever like symptoms. Rice
Mango can be an allergen for some super sensitive people. It may cause atopic dermatalogical reactions in those who are allergic to it! However, a mango allergy is very rare and mostly confined to those truly tropical areas where mango grows.
An allergy to mango is actually an allergy to the Oleoresin in the mango skin. Much like poison ivy reaction, a person who suffers from a mango allergy
We stumbled across these nifty "wallets" from a WAHM business. Great for short trips when toting around a huge diaper bag is not a necessity.
Check them out! Diaper Wallets
RECALL ALERT! Next Step Plastic Sippy/Tumbler issued 22 January 2007
Name of Product: Sippy/Tumbler Cups
Units: About 43,500
Manufacturer: Artcraft and Foremost Inc., of Moorestown, N.J.
Retailer: Mead Johnson Nutritionals, of Evansville, Ind.
Hazard: The impact of being dropped or banged can cause the cup to break into pieces, resulting in sharp or jagged edges that pose a laceration hazard
I'm not sure how we missed this one! We really really cannot stand HFCS and it's insidiousness in the food chain! It's everywhere and in everything imagineable! You may recall our rant about Dannon and their "kid's" yogurts amongsts other offenders who use HFCS.
This is an interesting lawsuit - good for the woman who actually read the label prior to serving it! - maybe it will get the
We are on a roll! Breastfeeding Moms must check this out! It's a great resource if you are sending your breastfed baby to a day/home care program.
Breastfed Babies Welcome Here
US Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
3101 Park Center Dr
Alexandria, VA 22302
703/305-2620
This information package is designed for child care providers who care for breastfed babies. It contains
In doing some research for an upcoming article on our site, I ran across this tidbit. Many parents are convinced that they must offer veggies before fruits so as to avoid developing a sweet tooth. We have always said that this was a myth as our pediatricians and dieticians advised. Now here it is in one (of many different studies and research papers) study more plainly stated than we have ever
What a week! We got hit with a power outage (for 3 days!) and now we're busy playing catch-up. It's amazing how much of a mess a house can get when there is no power! Toys strewn everywhere without being picked-up so that the kids might amuse themselves, laundry that was not done prior to the outage. It was actually nice cuddled up in the family room with the big old fashioned wood stove
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