Okay, right off the bat I have to confess that I’ve never watched the real housewives of anywhere and I don’t actually know who Bethany Frankel is, other than seeing her name on the magazines at the checkout line. But several stories that are cropping up about her this morning got my attention. Apparently, Bethany [...]
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Some Awesome Vegan and Dairy Free Treats for Halloween
Whether you’re a vegan or just want to hand out healthier treats for the neighborhood kids, finding and choosing things that kids will actually like can be a problem. Last week, I passed on some good ideas for healthier treats, but GoDairyFree.com did me one better by posting “The Top 10 Cutest Dairy-Free and Vegan [...]
A Healthy Halloween Doesn’t Have to Be Tricky
It’s hard to believe that it’s already October, but it is and Halloween is just around the corner. I have nothing against candy and am an unrepentant chocoholic, but for the last few years I’ve felt a little hypocritical about shoving handfuls of candy at the neighborhood kids on Halloween, especially when I know they’re [...]
Keeping Picky Vegetarians Healthy
I have many vegetarian friends who have serious issues with keeping their vegetarian kids healthy. Vegetarian kids face the same nutritional concerns and present the same nutritional challenges as any other kid; mainly getting them to choose healthy foods over less-healthy options. Vegetarian kids are just as prone to rely on junk food or processed [...]
Vegetarian Married to a Non-Vegetarian and They Make It Work
One of the biggest challenges for a vegetarian is being married to a non-vegetarian or in a family of non-vegetarians. To be fair, I’m sure this is a challenge for the meat-eating family members, too. Over the weekend, I read Pamela Knudson’s article on the Grand Forks Herald site called “Vegetarian Diet Poses Challenge for [...]
The Vegetarian Back to School Survival Guide
It’s that time of year again. The kids are going back to school and busy parents are going back to cramming their already-full calendars with car pools, meetings, practices and packing lunchboxes. That can be a real time-cruncher for any parent, but presents some issues for vegetarian and vegan parents especially. Last week I posted [...]
This Year Kids Have More Vegetarian Options at School
For the first time in fifteen years, the nutritional regulations for school lunches have been improved and the standards raised. The government has stipulated several changes that will make school lunches much healthier and give kids more fruit and vegetables as well as more options to eat a completely vegetarian meal. According to an article [...]
A Look at Organic Vegetarian Baby Food
I was not yet a vegetarian when my children were babies. Like most American kids of the time, my children ate baby foods from the two Big Baby Food Companies, although I did switch them over to cut up whole foods as soon as possible. At the time, organic foods were not well-publicized and commercial [...]
Kid’s Cereals Are Healthier, But There’s a Catch
Every parent, vegetarian or not, has gone through the cereal gauntlet with their kids. You know the one I mean: the battle between you and the kids as you make your way down the breakfast cereal aisle. They want the super-sugary cereals they see on commercials and you try to convince them that the healthier [...]
One Cool Teen Explains Why She’s a Vegan
I love it when cool vegetarians make the rest if us look good as a group. When those cool vegetarians are kids I get really excited about it. I saw this interview with high school senior Allison Schreffler from Chestnut Hill, PA and she’s such a great kid and a wonderful spokesperson for vegetarianism. Aside [...]
