Looking for some great kids’ books about food? There’s nothing like a good book about food to inspire your kid to eat a healthy meal. Where else to start besides Maurice Sendak’s 1962 classic “Chicken Soup with Rice“? It will transport you back to a simpler time when chicken soup was always best when served […]
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Wash Fresh Produce, Please
Why don’t people wash fresh produce? Like, always. As a permanent default. We’re asking in part because we recently took the kids on a tour of an organic farm. As we puttered through the fields on a creaky tractor, the workers would hand us fresh-picked carrots, peppers, cucumbers, and other vegetables for munching. “You can […]

Re-Thinking Ketchup – and Ketchup Alternatives
Is ketchup an ever-present condiment on your table? With all of the sugar (and often even high fructose corn syrup) involved, it’s time to start thinking about ketchup alternatives. Ketchup is Evolving True, ketchup is evolving. It’s come a long way since people tried to call it a vegetable. Some brands started by creating lower-sodium […]

Chocolate formula? Just say no.
We keep hearing about the mini-kerfuffle launched by food writer Marion Nestle in response to manufacturer Mead-Johnson’s new chocolate formula (this includes chocolate- and vanilla-flavored toddler formulas). At Jolly Tomato, we don’t cover baby foods so we aren’t spending a lot of time talking about formula. But since the product (Enfagrow) is meant for toddlers […]

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