Category: Lunch
Food & Your Family – 6 Ways to Serve Up Hard-Boiled Eggs
Let’s face it. There’s a pile of hard-boiled eggs in our refrigerators destined for the garbage unless something really inventive comes along. Really, how many of those things can you eat before they go bad and you learn to hate them? Then divide it by nine and that’s how many the kids will eat. Unless… [...]
Quick, Healthy Eats – Cheesy Roasted Broccoli Patties
We are always on the hunt for tasty, fast, healthy recipes that result in lunches that are gobbled up by our kiddos around here. Cheese and broccoli are a super delish combination. So, when we recently whipped up this vegetarian recipe for our picky kiddos and watched them eat it up and ask for more, [...]
5 Easy Kid Lunches in 15 Minutes
In the land of the pre-schooler, lunch time can be akin to pulling teeth. Getting our kiddos to sit down at the table and chow down on healthy meals that they love and don’t take us ages to make is a modern parental priority. It’s also a monumental modern parenting accomplishment. Picky kids are par [...]
Six Weeks of Canadian Soups – Week 1, Maritime Seafood Chowder
It’s cold. When the chill starts inching its way down your spine, ski pants are a non-optional clothing and you spot kids skating on the local pond down the road it is time to start thinking about warming, tasty, hearty dinner options. This time of year as adults we are all trying to think about [...]
Summer Eats – Hearty Middle Eastern Supper Salad
The blazing heat of August, all we can think about when it comes to making dinner is what will be healthy and something the kids will eat that we don’t have to turn the stove on to make. While the grill is a decent option, even that seems to hot to handle when it’s 40 [...]
Healthy Bites – Caprese Salad Sandwiches
If there’s one food that most families can agree on, it’s sandwiches. There’s nothing like those two slabs of fresh bread, bagels or even a tortilla filled with deliciousness to win the heart of even the pickiest of eaters. Now salad, that’s a different story. Kids are legendarily tough sells in the veggie department. But, [...]
20-minute Soup for the Sick Family
Our family has been battling this evil, satanic virus that is ripping through the Valley right now for almost two weeks. We’ve been in and out of school, lost voices, watched our noses run away, coughed up a lung, you get it. Being sick is one of the worst things I could ever come up [...]
Easy Kids Lunchbox Eats – Mini Calzones
Getting our oldest daughter to eat all of her lunch these days is a serious challenge. I swear they give those kids about 2 minutes to eat their lunch and she is about the slowest eater on the planet. So, that combination means that most of the time almost the entire lunch comes home with [...]
Easy Kids Lunchbox Eats – Cheese, Apple & Ham Quesidilla
It’s the day after Thanksgiving in Canada and all of us are in turkey overload. My husband made a bet that at least one-third of the kids in our daughter’s class would have some sort of turkey dish in their lunchbox today. While it’s an excellent use of leftovers, moms are still on the hunt [...]
Lunchbox Ideas – Go For The Thermos
Editor’s note: Good Morning, I’m always looking for lunch ideas to keep us interested instead of eating the same thing day after day. Thank goodness Christy Aune from Kids Konserve is here today with some great ideas on how to trade the lunch box for the thermos during the winter to jazz up those noon-time [...]
The Kid-Friendly Gourmet – 5 Ways to Use Thanksgiving Leftovers
Editor’s Note: You may be thinking “What are they talking about, Thanksgiving?” But, believe it or not, the big day for Canadians is less than two weeks away and if there is one thing we all suffer from as parents, it’s whattodowithleftovers-itis. So, The Kid-Friendly Gourmet’s Christine Buchholz is here today to share some great [...]
Back-to-School 2010 – More Easy Lunchbox Eats
Getting back into the habit of packing a house full of lunches every day is, well, possibly the least fun part of the whole back to school gig. It’s a routine which can make your kids groan at the thought of “What could possibly be in there today?” Or, it can be an exercise in [...]
Homemade Crackers, Muffins & Bars Fit for A Lunchbox
Editor’s Note: The lovely local foodie Sarah Stromquist is with us today. She’s serving up some ideas that are sure to rock the lunch box. Check them out: It’s that time of year again, when the weather starts to cool down, the days get shorter and, as school starts, parents everywhere are making lunches for [...]
Family Eats – Summer Soups
Editor’s Note: Ah, Wednesday. Yummy day. Family chef Sarah Stromquist is here today offering up some tasty insight into Summer soups. delish. Anytime of year soups are a wonderful way to enjoy a healthy and generally quick meal. Paired with a wrap, sandwich or some such delight they become a full meal. But I usually [...]
Family Eats – A Day of Local Food Meals
Editor’s Note: Good morning. There are some seriously exciting events going on today as a part of the Eat Real. Eat Local 30-Day Food Challenge. Join us out at Simms Park near the Kiwanis BBQ for NeighbourWood Eats where families gather for a potluck lunch and are learning how to Winter garden with the Comox [...]
Veggie Puff Pillows
Good morning. As we wind down here on Comox Valley Kids and gear up for the launch of Our Big Earth-Comox Valley (next Wednesday, Wow!) it is my honour that our final Food & Your Family entry comes from one of my favourite food bloggers, Mohini from Mango Power Girl. Her wonderful, delicious treats make [...]
The Dreaded Lunch Box Goes Bento
There is nothing I hate doing more than packing lunches. When I was a kid, my job was to pack everyone’s and, frankly, I would have much rather packed the $1.25 (oh…my…god… I am old) it cost for hot lunch back in the 1970s into everyone’s pocket. But, nooooo. My mother had this theory that [...]
Simple Lunch Box Salad Rolls
When I was in elementary school, I found myself endlessly envious of the other kids packed lunches. I would go out of my way to trade anything from my box for something that someone else’s parents had gone to the trouble of preparing. Today, of course, as a parent of one (who is a couple [...]
