1. Health

Good Nutrition In School & Out

Keep kids strong and healthy by fueling them with good-for-you foods from breakfast to dessert. Plus, teach them how to make good food choices on their own.

Should Children Take Vitamin Supplements?

Find out whether your children need dietary supplements.

How Nutritious is a PB and J?

This comfort food has been around for ages, but just how healthy is it?

Healthy After-School Snacks for Teens

Help your teen by providing healthy, easy-to-prepare after school snacks.

Make the Most of After-School Snacks

After school snack tips for parents and after school caregivers.

Introduce Your Child to Healthy Cooking

Increase your children's interest in healthy nutrition by introducing them to healthy cooking at home in your kitchen.

Healthy Kids' School Lunches

What do your kids eat at school for lunch?

Brown Bag Lunch Recipes

Get some great ideas for filling your child's lunch box with nutritious, delicious and fun foods. Make sure your child's lunch is eaten, not traded!

Tuna Sandwich

This delicious freeze ahead tuna sandwich recipe, using cream cheese, whipped salad dressing, shredded carrot, and lemon juice is quick and easy.

Mini Hero Sandwich

This easy and delicious mini hero sandwich recipe is perfect for a school lunch box.

Turkey Cobb Salad Wrap Sandwiches

Turkey Cobb Salad Wrap Sandwiches is a quick and easy recipe using leftover turkey or chicken. Simple wrap sandwich recipe using turkey, bacon, blue cheese, and avocado.

Make a Smoothie

Learning how to make a smoothie is easy. And once you master a few simple tricks, you can make smoothies of all kinds, from strawberry smoothies to butternut squash smoothies!

Easy Breakfast Recipes

Sending the kids off to school with these healthy breakfast recipes will guarantee they're alert and functioning at their best. From mini frittatas to yogurt parfaits, these quick and easy breakfast recipes are sure to please even the pickiest eaters.

Calcium Rich Foods

Understanding which foods are high in calcium can help to make sure that you are encouraging your kids to get enough calcium in their diet by choosing calcium rich foods, such as milk, cheese, and yogurt.

Vitamin D Supplements for Kids

Vitamin D is now again being recommended for infants who are exclusively breastfed or who aren't drinking enough infant formula or milk.

Kids Snacks They'll Love

Whether you are looking for an after-school treat or something to tide your little one over until dinner, these kids snacks taste good and are good for you.

School Lunch Ideas

School lunch ideas should be tasty, healthy and easy to pack. These healthy lunch box recipes will tempt the kids' taste buds and make parents feel good about serving them. Kids will love these healthy lunch recipes.

Creative School Lunch Ideas

Looking for creative school lunch ideas? Want to step outside the sandwich zone for something new, different and tasty enough to appeal to even the pickiest eaters? Read on! These 10 easy lunch recipes are so delish, they wouldn't dare trade them!

10 Quick and Healthy Recipes for Busy Families

These quick and healthy recipes will satisfy your taste buds and your time constraints. Even better: They are designed to please both kids and adults, so every member of the family will be satisfied. Enjoy!

Make Pizza With Your Kids

Cooking with your kids is a great opportunity to spend quality time with them. This tasty pizza recipe is simple to make and fun to eat.

Make Fruit Kebabs With Your Kids

Fruit kebabs are a healthy and flavorful snack that your kids will love snacking on as much as they'll love preparing. Put on your aprons and get started with these fun ideas for fruit kebabs.

Making Bag Lunches for Kids

Ditch the fatty, expensive, and unsavory lunches your children are having at school. Instead, pack your kids a bag lunch they'll love.

Healthy Snacks for Kids - Ideas for Healthy Snacks for Kids (Tweens, too!)

Tweens are mega snackers, but they don't always choose healthy snacks. These healthy snacks for kids are yummy enough to please even picky tween eaters.

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