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Healthy Snacks...Toddler Approved!

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Common Scenario:  You come home from work still hyped up from the incomplete list of to-do's left on your desk, pick up the kids and do the mental shift-gears routine.  You get home and everyone is ravenous and it is going to take 30-40 minutes until dinner is ready. Babies are crying, your fuse is short...and you reach for the not-so healthy snacks to pacify everyone. LET ME HELP YOU!!! This is the time to create something that has delightful interest (looks good), and is also healthy.  I debut...the snack platter! Yes, that is right, I pulled out left over eggs and breakfast sausages from that morning and did a quick re-heat, along with nuts, oranges, a few crunchy green beans, dehydrated apples from the kitchen and chips with guacamole ALREADY on them (healthy fats are a must around my house!). The only thing that took about 3 minutes to prepare was sliced bananas with Almond Butter, and I might have snuck a multivitamin in between the nut butter and fruit:) I...
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Building Healthy Babies...What Foods When?

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My hubby and I knew we wanted to raise our kids as naturally as possible, so they could build their bodies on a solid foundation.  After the baby is born, it takes time for that new baby-body to adapt to a new environment (our world). That is why the CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) is committed to increasing breastfeeding rates throughout the United States and to promoting and supporting optimal breastfeeding practices toward the ultimate goal of improving the public's health.  I have 2 books on JenPorro.com that I were my go-to's for how long to breastfeed, when to introduce food, which foods to introduce at what time...and how to do all this with a highly traveling full time job!   My friends and family were very impressed at the homemade  babyfood and natural progression of fruits and vege's we would give our 2 quickly-growing boys!  Below is a picture of the amount of food that each child would consume within 4 da...
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