nutrition

Foods My Picky, Allergic Girl Eats

Don’t you love how parents give each other the best advice? After one of those kind of parent chats yesterday, I realized I hadn’t shared some of my hard-earned tips for feeding a child who we recently discovered is allergic to EVERYTHING and super picky to boot. JJ is allergic to the following: dairy (milk/cheese), soy, […]

5 Fun Farm to Table Activities for Kids

You’ve heard about the farm to table movement but have you introduced it to your kids? Try one or more of these fun farm to tale activities to get started. Kids like mine, that live in the city, often don’t know where their food comes from before it appears on their plates. So, there are fun […]

Weekday Breakfast Tips #QuakerUp

It’s time to go back to school and Quaker has asked me to give you some quick and healthy weekday breakfast tips. Plan for Calm A few years ago, I realized that in order to have a calm, organized morning routine (including breakfast,) we had to wake up 15 minutes earlier. Now breakfast for is our […]

Speech Lady Jen Answers Feeding and Speech Questions

Imagination Soup readers ask speech, oral sensory, and feeding questions of fellow reader and speech pathologist, Jennifer M. Hatfield M.H.S., cc/slp of Therapy and Learning Services, Inc.. Will her answers help you, too? Read on to find out. Reader Question: My almost 3 year old developed a bad habit of sucking his food and we constantly […]

Eat the Alphabet

Guest post from writer, editor and mom, Dawna Edwards. Eat foods alphabetically, starting with A and ending with Z. That’s right, commit to 26 days-worth of different letters at each meal. You’ll add new dimension and learning to meal time. Unless you’re a die-hard meal planner blessed with children who have super-flexible tastes, you may […]