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Eating, especially recently, has become one of the most difficult areas of my life. In a lot of families, difficulties around eating are due to the children of the family. However, in our household, challenges around eating have always revolved around me and my chronic illnesses. I was recently, finally!, diagnosed with gastroparesis, which, in […]

When I don’t feel like cooking, which is at least once a week, I pull together a hodgepodge of whatever I have in the fridge and pantry. Charlie and Olive have always loved the bento-style of food, so they love the variety, and I can pull it together in 5 minutes. My kids usually eat everything, […]

I originally wrote this post on avoiding raising picky eaters 6 years ago, and I think it’s still relevant today. Charlie and Olive are now very nearly 7 and 9. They still aren’t big eaters and have days where they eat like birds and days where I wonder how they fit so much into their tummies, […]

Originally, I titled this post, “Dinners For When I Give Up,” because that’s often what it feels like. I have many inadequacies as a mother, but one thing that I do try really hard on is making sure the kids have home-cooked, healthy meals every day. Most of the time I succeed, in some part […]

Ace does not eat fruits. Or vegetables. It isn’t that he doesn’t like the flavor, he just can’t get over the texture. He was in feeding therapy for nearly a year, and by the end we still struggled to get him to take a single bite of watermelon. He will sometimes eat bananas (which aren’t […]

I love sharing food and recipes. Cooking and baking has always been a passion of mine, and I’m on the eternal quest for the best recipes. One thing I love about food is how it brings people to together. I remember when my husband and I were on our babymoon and we went out to […]

I love cooking and try hard to make a home-cooked dinner for the Dolphin family every night. After we had kids, I tried to scale back some of my more elaborate dinners and started relying on meals that I could make quickly or throw into the slow cooker/pressure cooker before going to work. As I’ve […]