Lunchskins Blog

guest blogger Liz Stanley shares her tips for getting kids to try new foods

Lovely and Healthy Fruits and Veggies

This week’s blog post is from guest blogger, Liz Stanley, whose lifestyle blog, Say Yes to Hoboken is chock-full of inspirational ideas for stylish living.  Face it, the day-to-day grind of kids, work, making dinner, doing laundry, cleaning the kitchen and just LIFE can be pretty mundane.  Well, Liz thinks we can make all of these things stylish and fun – and we can’t agree more!  Thanks, Liz, for these great ideas to get kids to be more daring in their food choices.  My son Henry’s pediatrician had advised us that instead of forcing young children to eat veggies, we should try either sneaking them into foods (like soups, quesadillas, green smoothies) or playing games to make it fun for the kid to eat them. We’ve stuck to the latter since Henry’s a very observant eater and it has worked pretty well. Here are a few tricks we’ve tried… Trick 1. Henry is big on identifying colors and shapes, and of course any kind of game makes everything easier. Trying to eat a rainbow of veggies is a great way to make it fun. Sometimes he’ll try that pepper he wouldn’t normally try because he needs to get a yellow
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Kirsten, Cris and America’s Sweetheart, Katie Couric

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Kirsten and I just returned from one of the most exhilarating 24 hours that we’ve spent as LunchSkins co-founders. We were up in New York for the taping of a segment on the Katie Couric show!   I’m going to share a gallery of images from our trip.     First, we hit the streets of New York early in the morning to grab a bagel, a coffee and a hairbrush at Duane Reade.   I guess Kirsten thought that she wouldn’t need a brush for an appearance before millions on national television!  Here we are taking the first of many selfies that day.  Notice the “deer in the headlights” expression on my face.  We were both suffering a quiet case of butterflies! Then, we made our way back to the hotel to get ready.  After a few last-minute wardrobe adjustments, we agreed it was time to head out the door! When we arrived, we were shown backstage. . Cris Backstage    Next, we were sent to hair and makeup.  Imagine the busiest hair salon you’ve ever been to – then imagine that all the women in there need to be out in 5 minutes to appear on TV looking
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