You probably know jicama for its use in salads or as crudite, but of the most overlooked and yet tasty things you can do with jicama is to make jicama chips. Yes – jicama chips! They’re light and crunchy with just the tiniest yet tantalizing amount of sweetness. First things first, for the uninitiated: Jicama […]
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Fresh Summit
Try to imagine, if you can, almost every variety of fruit and vegetable in the world under one enormous roof. We’re talking massive produce displays, spread out over multiple football fields worth of space. If you can begin to picture that, you’ll get a sense of the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit, which took place […]
Eggs and (Sweet Potato) Bacon
Someone once described bacon as “the candy of meats,” which is the easiest way to explain why kids love bacon. It’s crispy, salty, and it smells oh-so-delicious in the morning. But even if you buy the uncured bacon, how good is for you, really? As foods go, it’s awfully fatty – and it’s easy to […]
Fun Food Saturday: Veggie Chips
Planning on chip-and-dip for the Superbowl? What if there were a way to make it healthier – and appealing to kids as well? With that thought, we started experimenting with a variety of different veggie chips this week. Not kale chips, mind you – those are so 2010. We were thinking even further outside the […]
Fun Food Saturday: Fruit Chips
Did you get the sense last Saturday that we love fall apple season? If not, we’ll try to convey those feelings again: Reason #424 that we love this time of year is that we can make apple chips (and more). Apple chips are fun to make and a great little snack. In fact, the only […]
Hi! I'm Jeanne Fratello - a writer, reporter, and a mom who is on a mission to find great food for kids and to keep parents up to date on the latest nutrition news. You can read more about me here.
