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What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
Dinky and Coco's - stupid name, excellent Italian gelato.
14383 Metcalf Ave
Overland Park, KS 66210
How do you get toddlers to eat Vegetables?
Sorry for the double post, but after living with a French family for 6 months, I know that their children are not always paragons of great eating. I know that they often struggle with the same issues of getting kids to eat their vegetables.
The thing that they do that helps is that they typically get fresh vegetables (rather than frozen) and they sit at a table as a family.
How do you get toddlers to eat Vegetables?
My kids (6 and 3) are good vegetable eaters. Here is what works for me:
1) They go grocery shopping and choose the vegetables that they want to eat.
2) We don't try to get them to eat vegetables that they just don't like. Neither likes lettuce, so we don't serve it.
3) Let them help with the cooking. They like to help cut the food and put it in the pan.
4) My kids like their vegetables cooked fairly well, softer than I like; so I overcook them a little and always add a little salt and pepper.
5) Make it clear that it is part of a healthy dinner. If they don't eat them, they don't get any dessert or other snacks after the meal. That tends to resolve most issues.
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Cooking With Kids: School Lunches
Let me start by stating that I agree 100% that this is a problem. Schools should offer healthy and well-rounded meals to all students.
That being said, I resolve the issue by making my daughters' lunches. They get to choose one day a week to eat at school. Otherwise, we send a lunch. I realize that not everyone has the economic or home-life to make this decision, but I would be willing to bet that a lot of families could.
If you read Pollian, you realize how deep the problem is. Why is corn, soybeans and meat subsidized but organic apples not? To really solve the problem we need to address our farming priorities.
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
Dinky and Coco's - stupid name, excellent Italian gelato.
14383 Metcalf Ave
Overland Park, KS 66210
How do you get toddlers to eat Vegetables?
Sorry for the double post, but after living with a French family for 6 months, I know that their children are not always paragons of great eating. I know that they often struggle with the same issues of getting kids to eat their vegetables.
The thing that they do that helps is that they typically get fresh vegetables (rather than frozen) and they sit at a table as a family.
How do you get toddlers to eat Vegetables?
My kids (6 and 3) are good vegetable eaters. Here is what works for me:
1) They go grocery shopping and choose the vegetables that they want to eat.
2) We don't try to get them to eat vegetables that they just don't like. Neither likes lettuce, so we don't serve it.
3) Let them help with the cooking. They like to help cut the food and put it in the pan.
4) My kids like their vegetables cooked fairly well, softer than I like; so I overcook them a little and always add a little salt and pepper.
5) Make it clear that it is part of a healthy dinner. If they don't eat them, they don't get any dessert or other snacks after the meal. That tends to resolve most issues.
Cooking With Kids: School Lunches
Jamie Oliver is great. I will look for that show by any means necessary.
Wendy, I will definitely send leftover pasty in Iris's lunch after our Thanksgiving pasty blowout.
Cooking With Kids: School Lunches
Leftovers are what I survived on for years as a student (grade school through college). My Mom always had a box in the fridge for snacks. I could dig into it any time I wanted. It had serial bars, carrot sticks, hard boiled eggs, celery sticks ... anything easy to grab and eat all properly portioned out. Every day at least one of these would go into my bagged lunch. In place of an ice pack, I used a reusable bottle of frozen fruit juice.
Cooking With Kids: School Lunches
We have a bunch of things that go into the kid's lunchbox. He particularly is fond of nuts (peanuts or cashews), a variety of cheeses, apples, dried apricots or raisins. Also whole wheat pasta is a big hit as is home made pizza. Meat-wise, cured meats such as ham and salami are unsurprisingly a big hit, but leftover pork chops, chicken and beef are also popular. He's tried the school provided lunch a few times and has uniformly hated it, which I am very grateful for.
Cooking With Kids: School Lunches
Any school lunch diiscussion should mention Jamie Oliver's school dinner campaign in the U.K. While there's a web site : http://www.jamieoliver.com/schooldinners but it's the the series of shows that are incredible. I think the only way to see it in the U.S. is to download them via bittorrent, but it's an eyeopener. I watched it about the time Sicko had hit the theaters. Instead of seeing someone whine about how things were bad and "someone" should fix them we saw multi-millionaire Jamie Oliver spending months trying to figure out how to serve kids healty lunches for about $0.75 a day that was also something they would want to eat and enjoy. He worked with the teachers, administrators, parents and the kids to try to make it work.
Cooking With Kids: School Lunches
I can't think of many things that would really be in danger from sitting out for three hours; it's more that some aren't as good anymore (say, pudding).
Since I stopped eating bread in first grade, my mom probably has a bunch of creative lunch ideas. A favorite that I remember is thin slices of turkey wrapped around celery sticks.
The day I brought chips and salsa for snack, I had a crowd of kids around me. This incident was finally eclipsed several years later when Mike and I took leftover pasties to school, wrapped in newspaper and still hot; you could smell them all the way down the hall, apparently.
Kids like things cut up in a funny way, or at least cut up (like, apple slices instead of whole apples). They also like to eat out of a bunch of different dishes, dim sum style.
Nicole successfully teamed up with the school nurse last year during standardized testing to get the kids' special test snacks changed from Pop-Tarts to apple slices. They already had a bunch of "bad" snacks, so one day they offered kids a choice of cookies or apple slices, and more kids chose the apples.
Cooking With Kids: School Lunches
Ice pack it is! At Iris's school they're happy to reheat in the microwave, but they don't have fridge space, I don't think.
Cooking With Kids: School Lunches
I avoid worrying by putting a small ice pack in Izzy's lunchbox..I used to do it when I was in school and it seemed to work. Some preschools will refrigerate the lunches if you make a request. I would be delighted to find bulgogi in my lunchbox too!
Cooking With Kids: School Lunches
Izzy, I was just writing something about the value of turning tonight's dinner into tomorrow's lunch. It's something I need to put into practice more often. Tomorrow night we're having bulgogi for dinner; I'm sure Iris would be delighted to have that at school.
So how much should I worry about the lunch sitting unrefrigerated between 9am (when we leave for school) and 12:30pm (lunchtime)?
Cooking With Kids: School Lunches
The best way to pack lunches is to use tried and true foods that your child has eaten at home. I wrote a post about using leftovers...
http://izzyeats.blogspot.com/2007/09/last-nights-dinner-lunchbox-key.html
Make extra dinner and your child is sure to be happy at lunch. Another tip is to prepare the lunch together with your child if possible. Some lunch favorites: leftover pasta, goat cheese/fig spread sandwich, tomato/mayo/greens sandwich, roast turkey sandwich, hard-boiled eggs... also add fruits, baby carrots, yogurt etc..
Cooking With Kids: School Lunches
My last child (now a college sophomore) simply would not eat the school food. He took his lunch which we put together the night before, and put it in the fridge, from 5th grade thru high school. He took cheese nearly every day - brie, cheddar, goat cheese, some baguette, a leftover artichoke and homemade mayonnaise, cut up fruit, sometimes meat (fried chicken breasts were a favorite), a hard-boiled egg with a tiny vial of salt and pepper, salad and homemade ranch or vinaigrette, a few cold shrimp. When he had a helpful teacher who had a microwave, he started to bring reheatable leftovers. What amazed me was how popular his lunches were with other kids! And what amazed me was that they and their parents kept buying lunches at the school cafeterias, even though most of it got thrown away every day!
He spent the summer studying in France this year, and he cooked his dinner every night on his little 2-burner stove. He saw "cheese crumbs" in a supermarket, and tried fried brie, he cooked artichokes as big as his head, he ate a baguette for breakfast with coffee and one with dinner, made pesto from scratch. All of his friends, when they weren't eating at his place went out and paid for meals (with the dollar at @1.40 to the Euro!!!). He found a not just decent, buy pretty damn good red wine for 2 Euro for 1.5 liters (waaay cheaper than coke!), and found a tagine at the flea market and cooked and ate tagine for the first time. He had fresh cherries and white-fleshed peaches for dessert, and then went and did his homework in a cafe or brasserie with wi-fi, nursing a glass of wine or a bier presse.
It starts at the top AND at the bottom. We need to slow down our food preparation and our dining, we need to teach our kids what good food tastes like, and we need laws that help us ensure safe, nutritious food in this country.
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
Besides the usual NY faves (Il Lab, Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory), I love Creole Creamery in New Orleans. It's an old-fashioned ice cream parlor with flavors like chocolate breakfast (with maple syrup flavoring), creole creamcheese, lavender honey. They usually don't ship their ice cream, but they might if you beg.
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
Jeni's in Columbus, OH. Amazing.
I would also say Grater's from Cincinnati, OH. It is made in the French pot method with homemade chocolate chips.
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
Burnt Caramel and Earl Grey tea ice cream at Toscanini's and Ginger Molasses and CARROT CAKE ice cream at Christina's!! Both locations in Cambridge, MA.
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
Capogiro gelato (and I've only had the pre-packed pints from Whole Foods)
Otto on 8th Street and 5th Avenue
Cones on Bleeker
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
Have to throw in another vote for Jeni's in Columbus. They are, simply put, amazing. Seasonal flavors, high-quality sourcing, very-reasonable shipping... nothing to dislike. I'll also echo the earlier nod to Denise's (which is in fact my neighborhood creamery). In a knock-down drag-out, I think Jeni's has to be the winner, but I just had Denise's cucumber ice cream a couple weeks ago, and it was revelatory.
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
Handel's Ice Cream in Ohio - I have not found a better ice cream - particularly their Butter Pecan. My fiance loves their Chocoholic Chunk.
(I will also throw a little weight behing the Graeter's nomination, though)
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
Sheer Bliss ice cream which comes from Florida and is sold in round tins in Garden of Eden in New York. Creamy, luscious and addicitive.
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
OMG! I totally forgot about Max & Minna's ice cream in Queens, NY. They have all the standards, but then they have flavors like ketchup, lox and cream cheese, and garlic. I think I tried broccoli there once. Their novelty scoops are cool, but they're other flavors are just fantastic amalgamations of all the ice cream dreams ever.
The Penn State creamery is pretty good, too. ;-) I'm rather fond of their flavor called "happy happy joy joy," vanilla ice cream with shredded coconut, dark chocolate bits, and toasted nuts.
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
There's a small company in Kentucky and Ohio called Graeter's that's absolutely fantastic. They do ship and you can do no wrong by ordering chocolate chip or strawberry.
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
Best ice cream shop ever is in los angeles. It's called scoops and it's famous for it's super crazy flavors. on any given day you will find the WEIRDEST flavors like fig and wasabi or strawberry vinegar or currant basil. Check out the 5 start reviews on Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/biz/aaEWX-LNLcbkiOvD_yxOIg
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
Ted Drewes frozen custard in St. Louis, MO! They ship, though it's not as good. This is what the custard at the Shake Shack was based on. The best is their "Cardinal Sin" sundae - vanilla custard, hot fudge, tart sour cherries. Perfecto.
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
La Creme Cremaillere in Bedford, NY. I adored the cherry clafoutis, which I don't see on their Web site, but I do see wild forest strawberry (fraise des bois). They import the berries from France and Italy. The ice cream is not overly sweet, and the texture is perfect.
They ship.
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
For Penn State ice cream:
http://www.creamery.psu.edu/
What's Your Favorite Local Ice Cream?
I second the nomination for Penn State Creamery ice cream. Best strawberry ice cream ever--super creamy and packed with chunks of fresh berries. They also have the best cream cheese, mmm!
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Let me start by stating that I agree 100% that this is a problem. Schools should offer healthy and well-rounded meals to all students.
That being said, I resolve the issue by making my daughters' lunches. They get to choose one day a week to eat at school. Otherwise, we send a lunch. I realize that not everyone has the economic or home-life to make this decision, but I would be willing to bet that a lot of families could.
If you read Pollian, you realize how deep the problem is. Why is corn, soybeans and meat subsidized but organic apples not? To really solve the problem we need to address our farming priorities.