Tag archive for ‘healthy’
Hand Sanitizer – Not Every Germ Killer is Equal
While I was in Vancouver last week, one of the pervasive concerns amongst the crew – none of whom were Canadian except for me – was not getting sick.
This was especially true for the moms in the group who, even though they were in professional mode and sans kids, found themselves seriously concerned about taking [...]
Mom Poll – Tips to Sneak In Food Kids Won’t Eat
It’s the ultimate parenting dilemma – how to get your kids to eat healthy foods.
There’s always the theory that if you never give things like candy and cookies, pizza and McDonalds to them that kids will never know what they are missing – until a friend of yours catches your kiddo in the corner [...]
Best Family Food of 2008
I love to eat great food. My mother, brother and father all duked it out over time in the kitchen when I was a kid. So, I enjoyed being out of the mix, eating rather than creating.
(there’s a pattern surfacing here. My parents suspected I came out of the womb a career girl)
But, as usual, [...]
Diet Is Key to Keep Children’s Ear Infections Away
Editor’s Note: With the Comox Valley nearly on the eve of the municipal election, we received a timely letter (now posted in our Letters section) about school trustee races from Valley parent and educator Brent Reid offering his perspective on critical races that are in voters hands.
Brent’s is one opinion on a very heated [...]
Mommy Talk – Behavioural Modification
Editor’s Note: Good Morning! If you are looking for some fun social time today where you can check out some new businesses in the Valley, make sure to hit the grand opening parties over at Firefly: New Beginnings on Fifth Street in Courtenay and Dark Side Chocolates on Dunsmuir in Cumberland.
These mom-owned businesses are AWESOME…and [...]
Homemade Butter/Buttermilk
Today we have with us, all the way from Wisconsin, the delicious family-focused food adventures of Mom In Madison’s Denise Cusack who also writes up her foodie ways over at Cook.Eat.Think
I really dig Denise for so many reasons and absolutely L-O-V-E her take on getting her little people involved in every aspect of food, from [...]
Mom-P-Inc. – Kyla and Marussia Nesling
Motherhood, it changes you.
For four weeks now, we’ve been taking a look at moms across the Comox Valley who have taken the ingenuity thrust upon them by parenthood and turned it into businesses.
Today, we get to know two local mamas who took their passion for health, the environment and family and worked together to build [...]
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