Healthy Eating

This winter has been a doozy for illness. So many people have been sick, and the illnesses just seems to LINGER. Or it’s just one virus after another for weeks or months. It’s awful to hear about adults suffering, but I hate it when I hear that kids are sick for months …

I’ve been a mother for more than eight years. I’ve been a human for more than 37 years. And yet I am completely baffled by the notion that my family expects to eat dinner every night. Like, every. single. night. All the nights. They want dinner!  It doesn’t even seem …

Katania Venegoni-Taylor shows how to use an Instant Pot for chicken curry and all the other amazing things about the Instant Pot.

This entry is part 26 of 26 in the series Feed the FamThis is the easiest (healthy) pancake recipe you’ll find out there! I have two boys – one who is almost 4, and one who is 16 months. They both DEVOUR these pancakes every time we make them. I …

This entry is part of 1 in the series 2If you haven’t read my first article about the state of health of our our nation since the inception of the USDA Food Guidelines and the Fear of Fat era set in, please do so here. As I discussed in the …

When I talk to patients that are expecting a baby, the first thing I make sure they know is that unfortunately, it’s not “Eating for Two”. Whoever came up with that saying should be jailed, I swear! I actually vividly remember thinking when I was young, “I can’t wait to get …

We have all experienced the challenge of getting a child to eat anything that resembles a vegetable. We have a tear-free solution to your daily veggie battles—one that doesn’t involve hours in the kitchen or countless added ingredients. The hands-on education kids receive through school garden programs makes eating veggies …

Now that we are finally getting into the groove of the school year, one area starts to fizzle out… the school lunch. It’s difficult to keep the creativity up all year long, but I thought I would provide a few little tips and ideas that might spark some new menu …

About two years ago, I approached my husband about my stress over our mountain of debt. “Something has to happen, we have to pay off this debt! It’s keeping me up nights!” I told him. We resolved to start paying them off, one by one, and living on a strict …

Blood, guts, dust, and sagebrush. Those words sum up some of my favorite family moments. Strange, huh? See, my husband grew up hunting and somehow turned this tree-hugging hippie into a hunter too. I’m still trying to figure out where and when that happened. I think it was after I …