The local Girl Scout troop contacted me to give a lecture to their seven year olds about nutrition. I was given thirty minutes to talk from 3:45-4:15pm. Do you know what a typical 7 year old wants to do during that time after a long day of school? EAT! These girls would be coming to me good and hungry and I was going to take advantage of that hunger with some unique fruits and vegetables and see if they would go for it. To start the talk I asked each person to tell me their name and their favorite fruit and vegetable. I told them my favorite fruit was a […]
I was invited to blog for a company called Peas of Mind. Here is their website: http://www.peasofmind.com They asked me to discuss how to deal with older picky eaters so that is what I did. Here is the link, but the article is available below for you to read. This was a fun assignment for me. http://thepeasperspective.blogspot.com/2011/01/those-picky-eaters-ages-9-12.html ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Those Picky Eaters… Ages 9-12 We get emails from parents all the time, and we love hearing from them! Our favorite customer emails are the success stories, like when a toddler who typically turns his nose up at steamed broccoli florets gobbles up Broccoli Veggie Wedgies, making dinnertime more enjoyable for the […]
My husband and I took the kids to Disneyland a few days ago. As we walked through the park I noticed fruit and nuts stands, but few people were in line to purchase the items. As you can imagine, the lines were lengthy for cotton candy, churros and snow cones. As we were leaving the park I walked up to one of the fruit and nut stands and had a conversation with the employee (Cast Member as they are called) about the specifics of the purchases. This nice man explained to me that his stand sold about two hundred pieces of fruit per day and on average, 15,000 people visited […]
