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Coconut Sweet Potato Pie

This creamy dessert is full of beta carotene. The wheat-free crust provides omega-3 fatty acids and fiber.


	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.
	The Feingold Solution: Assessing the Role of Diet in Children's Behavior How preservatives and additives affect your child's well-being.
	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.
	12 Ways to Avoid Toxins in Packaging Dioxin in paper and chemicals in plastics can migrate into food. Here's how to avoid food contamination from packaging.
	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.
	Fresh Food Nation For hungry learners, farm-to-school programs feed body and mind.
	My Sugar-Free Son When I tell people my five-year-old son, Lukas, has never had any refined sugar, some look at me as if I have two heads and ask me how I could be so cruel. But many are curious how it is possible.