Overwhelmed by Healthy Cooking? Start Here!

Pasta Is Done When You Throw It Against The Wall . . . And It Sticks Hungry for a baked potato? Stab some holes in a spud and microwave for 10 minutes. How about some blueberry muffins slathered in margarine for dessert? Grab a box from aisle five. If you’re wondering, I’m summing up my …

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How to Make a Salad Your Kids Will Never Forget!!

Silly Me! In yesterday’s post on cultivating your child’s inner foodie I forgot to mention one of the BEST ways to get them to eat their greens: Make a Wild Salad! You get to go outdoors, eat good food, identify plants, “cook” together, experience new flavors – all in one salad bowl! All you need …

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5 Ways to Change Your Child’s Palate Toward Real Food

What Is The #1 Most Important Key To Health? Genetics? No, food! That’s my own professional opinion, of course! I have had clients walk in with cervical cancer, with auto-immune disease, with all manner of illness, and in some cases the *only* thing we changed was diet! Although many doctors and certainly mainstream culture will …

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If A Strawberry Contains Fish Genes Is It Still Vegetarian?

If You Think Kids Are Asking Hard Questions Now, Just Wait Biotech companies are actively working toward a world in which we will have to explain the reason potatoes glow in the dark when they need watering and why pigs have cowhides. Oh yes, these have really been attempted, as has the strawberry/fish combo from …

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Frankenfish Blocked By U.S. House

Aquabounty, the biotech firm that spent 15 years and $60M creating GM Atlantic Salmon, is up a creek without a paddle. Better them than one of their fish, which could devastate natural populations if they ever happened to mix. In an amendment to the 2012 Farm Bill, the U.S. House of Representatives moved to ban …

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The Secret is in the Sauce

I am two snapshots away from completing a project eight months in the making. In about thirty days I’ll be ready to push. Yes, I’m having a book baby.

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Recipe FAIL

What do all these photos have in common? They are my kitchen failures, of course! If the proof is in the pudding these concoctions demonstrate one thing: looks can be deceiving. I wish they’d turned out great so I could share the recipes with you, but since I can’t why not laugh about it? Behold, …

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Eyewitness Report: Animals Won’t Eat GMO’s

A Corny Story Apparently I forgot a category in yesterday’s poll (which is still going on btw!) . . . “investigative journalism of controversial topics.” Thanks, Whittney! So here I am, reporting to you live from the potamus family living room, where just moments ago I looked outside and confirmed this groundbreaking, nutcracking story. Before …

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I'm Heather, aka The Mommypotamus. As a wife, mom, writer, researcher, and real food lover, I write about the topics that concern me most. What is a Mommypotamus?



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