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Cooking with Kids

The Vegetarian Family – Begginings

November 22, 2011

Recently my 13-year-old son announced he wanted to be a vegetarian. I was shocked, surprised and thrilled! I had been a vegetarian since at 16, when I quit my first job at McDonald’s in Boulder, Colorado at the behest of my Hare Krishna sister, Narada. My vigilant vegetarian streak lasted 13 years, until I married [...]

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The Old Man in the Cabana – Cultivating Seva and Compassion in Children

September 12, 2011

I believe that there are many things that can be taught to children only by example. Healthy eating, a personal yoga and meditation practice, and discipline must come from your own example of practice before it can be emulated by children. I believe that compassion and serving one’s fellow human is also taught by example [...]

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Ayurvedic Cooking with Kids Using Staples

March 4, 2011

One thing I really learned to do while my family lived in Argentina was to cook from scratch with staples. Here in St. Croix there are the American-style supermarkets and warehouse-style shopping with hoards of imported, frozen stuff, but I shake my head at my kids and say, no way! That’s junk, it’s expensive, and [...]

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Basic Ayurvedic Cooking for Kids

October 27, 2010

We are on a cooking rampage in Argentina, and attempting to adapt the local diet to ayurveda. Although my daughter is vata, my son pitta, and I am tri-dosha, we are working on the simple basics of ayurveda in every meal we eat here. The entire city of Buenos Aires was shut down today because [...]

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Cinnamon and Honey for Kids’ Ayurvedic Health

October 26, 2010

All of my life I have eaten honey. Mixed in plain yogurt or with tea, it’s a great alternative to sugar. I’ve always found that by regularly eating raw, local honey, I have fewer allergies, so encourage my kids to do the same. While in Villa Gesell, Argentina on the coast visiting my Dutch friend, Karin, [...]

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Yoga Home Schooling

September 21, 2010

We started our Yoga Homeschooling! It’s been going well these past few weeks. Yoga home school has a regular curriculum, yoga asana and philosophy curriculum as well as yoga home economics, such as cooking healthy, ayurvedic food and using ayurvedic herbs and vitamins. It also emphasizes sustainability and contributing to the household community with mindfulness [...]

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Recipe for Argentine Torta in Two Languages

September 18, 2010

Cooking from scratch is fun, saves money and is an essential skill to teach children. It will help children in the future as we live in an uncertain economy where jobs  for teenagers and young people have all but disappeared. In Argentina, after the economic collapse, service skills enabled people to start their own businesses, [...]

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Milanesa Madness and Finding Meaning in Food to Fight Childhood Obesity

September 6, 2010

Laura is our tutor extraordinaire. She teaches my kids Spanish and Argentine culture through cooking. Besides learning such a valuable skill, my kids are learning to have a better relationship to their food by learning about it and preparing it. While in Mexico they learned first hand about the history of chocolate. Where it came [...]

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Quinoa – a Super Food for your Family

September 6, 2010

I love quinoa. It’s easy to prepare, super high in protein and vitamins, and is great for a main dish. I lugged some quinoa with us to Buenos Aires for a high-protein staple, although I’m finding that it’s readily available in most supermarkets and special health food stores here, called Dieteticas. Quinoa is a grain [...]

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Deprogram, Radically Change your Family’s Diet with Natural Food and Ayurveda.

August 15, 2010

We have been on the island of Montserrat for almost a week now. This small island in which the capitol of Plymouth was destroyed by volcano in 1997, has slim pickings in the small grocery stores scattered throughout the island. My kids would love to have the candy, chips and other junk imported from all [...]

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Indonesian Ginger Drink to Make With Kids

August 2, 2010

My father was born on the island of Java in Indonesia, so we grew up with his amazing cooking! Since I’ve been switching my diet and our family’s to mostly vegan and gluten free eating, I came across an old recipe of Ginger Tea that I remembered from childhood. Ginger is a favorite of mine [...]

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