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Pan Apple Pancakes
There are few things more evocative of winter than the smell of maple syrup and pancakes. Try this apple variation to make warm, wintery memories.


The Feingold Solution: Assessing the Role of Diet in Children's Behavior
How preservatives and additives affect your child's well-being.
The Mothering Soup Fest
For Peggy's Kitchen 158, "Soups in Still Life," the Mothering staff cooked up the soups, photographed them, and then had a staff taste test. Here are their comments.
12 Ways to Avoid Toxins in Packaging
Chemicals in plastics can migrate into food. Here's how to avoid food contamination from packaging.
Giving Thanks at Mothering
We take pleasure in sharing some of our holiday menus for Thanksgiving 2009. May they inspire you to try something different this year.
In the Kitchen with Baby
The choice of what goes into an infant's mouth is up to us, at least while our children are small.
Video - Cooking Collard Greens
These powerful vegetables should be a daily part of the diet, especially for nursing mothers.
Video - Joaquin's Lunch Box
Great lunch box tips from Jane of Cookus Interruptus.
In Praise of Kale
With all these benefits, why doesn't everyone eat kale?
School Lunches that Nourish Body and Soul
Thanks to Lynn Walters and her organization, Cooking with Kids, Santa Fe schoolchildren are eating healthier, uncommonly delicious hot lunches.
Video- Cooking Soba Noodles
Find out how to properly cook your soba noodles from food expert Cynthia Lair of Cookus Interruptus.
Potatoes For The Family
All about how to include potatoes in your family's diet.
Peggy's Kitchen
A variety of food articles and writings from the kitchen of Peggy O'Mara
Walnuts For The Family
Here are tips on how to best use, store and choose walnuts.
Raspberry Leaf Tea
Raspberry leaf tea is the most popular herb used during pregnancy, and is particularly useful during the third trimester.
Baby Nog
This is a great drink to have at the beginning of your day. It’s packed with protein for energy, and B vitamins to calm and sustain you.
Secrets of the School Lunch Box: Fresh Healthy Meals Kids Will Actually Eat
It's possible to create nutritious meals very quickly.
The Good Earth: A Farmer's View
Why go to the effort--and often the expense--of choosing locally grown organic foods to feed your family?
Frankenstein Foods: The Case Against Genetic Engineering
As a mother, I am instinctively opposed to genetically altering our food supply.
Green Horizons
The New Natural Marketplace -- A Guide to the New World of Whole Foods.
Genetically Engineered Foods: Too Many Unknowns
More than half of the groceries in your shopping cart could contain the products of genetic engineering.
Nourishing Your Independent Toddler
Somewhere between 12 and 18 months, your easy-going infant becomes a toddler striving to take control of his or her activities. Don't let the table become a battleground. Here are a few ways to make meals enjoyable for the whole family and to help your child develop a healthy attitude toward food.
Maya and the Market
The author faces a challenge as she attempts to buy wholesome foods instead of the brightly-colored, beautifully packaged junk food marketed to her child.
The Fast Food Trap: How Commercialism Creates Overweight Children
Exploring the role of mass media and corporate culture in an epidemic of obesity
Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food
Over the past decade, soy foods have become America's favorite health food. The truth, unfortunately, is far more complex.
Rediscovering the Homemade Lunch
I'd barely established the tradition of homemade lunches in our household before both girls began to complain. As the school year wore on, more and more of what I packed returned home untouched, or was traded away on the lunchroom "black market." It was a losing battle and I was losing patience.


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