About
Feeding your kids healthy food can be a challenge, but so rewarding! My name is Amy, and I am a mother of three kids, a graduate of Health Education, and I love food. This blog is about putting into practice everything I learned in college and throughout my years working in the community health field to find healthy foods my kids will also enjoy.
What keeps you busy: I worked part time for the Department of Health for over 10 years, counseling with state employees about improving their health. I currently head up the healthy lifestyle program at my kids elementary school. I’m active in our church children’s group and I’m also president and developer of the Super Healthy Kids, Healthy Habits Plate. Recently I received an award from Hilary Weeks titled, "Because I have Today." My plans are to start a Masters of Nutrition program at the University of Utah. I’m currently taking the pre-requisites to get accepted.
Are your kids picky eaters? They used to be! When I started this blog in Sept. 2007, they were extremely picky. I was careful to only prepare meals I knew they would eat and wouldn’t cause any significant fighting at the dinner table. However, blogging about new and healthy food has changed their palates. In being persistent for almost 2 years, they will try almost everything I make.
What is your food philosophy? Fruits and vegetables are half of a balanced meal! If at each meal my kids know they are consuming adequate fruits and vegetables, we are pretty easy going on the occasional treat. We keep processed food to a minimum and where we do eat processed, try to keep it to the 5 ingredient rule. If a package has more than 5 ingredients (or ingredients that don’t sound like food), we leave it on the store shelf.
What does your family like to do for fun? We love hiking, biking, running local races, swimming, and roller blading.
Visit the blog daily for new ideas on getting your kids to eat fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, more protein, or just getting active as a family.
The kids in this blog are Nathan, 11 years old. He’s polite as they come and will eat most foods I make, even if it causes him to “throw up a little in his mouth.” Then Erica, She’s 9 years old. Erica is my fickle one. Some days she will like one food, the next day she won’t like the same food and vice versa. Then there is TJ. He is 7. He will only try new foods if I add ketchup to it. He’s asked for ketchup on his pancakes and last night he asked for ketchup on his cheese Tortelini.
Wade is my husband. He’s a nurse. Wade likes a good steak and fresh vegetables. He doesn’t care for dessert, but he’ll eat it if there is nothing else around.
To send me a message, ideas for this blog, what you like and what you don’t, or advertising rates, my email is amy@superhealthykids.com
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Comments
Comment from Amy
Time August 9, 2008 at 3:46 am
These are fabulous ideas! I truly love it. Especially more points for trying new food. Last summer my son (who is 9 now) started a book club with 3 of his friends. It was a blast. We rotated who hosted and provided activities that corresponded with the book. At our house we did “nate the great” and I made a treasure hunt for the kids. They loved it.
Comment from Kerry Williams
Time August 18, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Amy,
Thank you for the great site. Your site caught my attention while doing a google search. I had a lot of fun reading all the comments. Please forgive my ignorance with blogging. I hope that it is ok that I am writing to you. My husband has warned me to be very careful about spamming. I am writing to you because I think I can offer a healthy eating tip. However, I am not going to leave my website due to I am afraid of being that dreadful spammer. So… please write me back if you think your readers will be interested.
I am a mom of two young children. Offering them healthy food options has also been very important to me. I feel that convenient healthy food options are extremely lacking at our grocery stores. I partnered up with a mommy friend and we are now manufacturing and competing with huge food companies. We are VERY proud of our nutrition labels. It was very important to us that parents can recognize every ingredient that we use. no added sugars, preservatives, salt, hormones…..
I whole heartedly believe that Pitter Patties will help parents by offering a healthy, convenient, alternative to the standard chicken nuggets and mac-n-cheese.
If you are interested, I would love to share our nutritional label with you.
Mid September we will be available in Whole Foods Northern and Southern Ca, along with many other natural food stores. We are also getting very close to being available in stores located in Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Florida, & the Midwest.
Thank you for your time,
Kerry
Proud mommy of 2 beautiful girls
Comment from Fariella
Time September 2, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Hi Amy,
your site is fab! just love it and bookmarked it right away.I have few concern about yogurt and milk since i read some articles in http://www.notmilk.com.Since youare a graduate of Health Education and love food, what do you think of notmilk.com?
sincerely,
Fariella-Indonesia
mother of 2 (Annisa 5, Fadhillah 2)
Comment from Amy
Time September 3, 2008 at 6:30 am
Kerry; thank you for making healthier choices for our kids!
Fariella;
Thank you for reading my blog.
I have noticed in the health field, for every study that shows a particular food is bad, there is another study showing why that food is good. So I choose to follow my heart. My heart tells me, there is “good”, “better”, and “best”. I think dairy is a great way to get calcium into our diet, and I LOVE many dairy foods. However, whole milk, milk with hormones, cheeses, and high fat cream, is not part of a healthy diet. A “Better” choice for my family is low fat milks, hormone free milk, and yogurt. The “best” choice is to get calcium from green vegetables. We love food too much to cut out this food group! Thanks for asking.
Comment from Gloria
Time September 26, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Very groovy blog. Inspiring, too. Thank you for putting so much time and effort into it. BTW… love the idea of sneaking the spinach in the blueberry smoothie. Just awesome.
Comment from Nicole Meadow
Time September 30, 2008 at 12:53 pm
What a great website! I will definately tell my clients about it. I am a pediatric dietitian and also a mom… would love to chat more about your blog and my practice!
Warm & Healthy Regards,
Nicole Meadow, MPN, RD
http://www.nicolemeadow.com
Comment from Momma B
Time March 4, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Love your blog and ideas. I would love to see more non-wheat options for us celiac families! Thanks
Comment from Wilson
Time December 10, 2009 at 11:01 am
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Hello,
I would like to avail the advertising opportunities on your website.
Can you please do contact me as soon as possible and give me more details.
Eagerly waiting for your reply.
Best Regards,
Wilson
Comment from Marin Sandholdt
Time January 10, 2010 at 2:14 am
Just found this awesome site and bookmarked it right away. Your blogs, stories, and recipes are fantastic! (I was also wondering if you had a cookbook out? and if so, under what name? thanks!)
Comment from Amy
Time January 10, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Thanks Marin! You are so kind. I do not have a cookbook, but would love to write one someday. I’m glad you are finding some things you can use!
Comment from Judith Natelli McLaughlin
Time January 21, 2010 at 8:10 am
Great site, Amy! I came across it while searching out my book Poems on Fruits & Odes to Veggies – Where Healthy Eating Starts With a Poem. I think you will enjoy the fun and lyrical poems and vibrant water color pictures. This book is a great tool to introduce kids of all ages to their fruits and veggies. Check it out at http://www.judithnatellimclaughlin.com and keep blogging! Great stuff here.
Comment from Aletha Noonan
Time February 9, 2010 at 9:43 am
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Comment from Gina Fit by 41, Maybe 42
Time February 26, 2010 at 4:57 pm
I am SO happy to have found your blog! I found it through another blog, Susie’s Fit in the 40′s (we comment on how similar our blog names are). I’m in the beginning of my own fitness journey. My main goal right now is learning about nutrition and replacing poor eating habits with healthier ones for the whole family. I have 3 little kids and am always looking for tried-and-true recipes kids like. You are going on the front of my blog page. Thank you for doing this.
Comment from Vladimir
Time March 12, 2010 at 4:01 pm
I like your blog, real, healthy, clean, beneficial, and unique 
Comment from Alicia Moulton
Time August 25, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Hi! I am the mother of one green toddler and a very green beekeeper. Could I send you a sample of our honey to try and possibly blog about? If so, would you email your shipping address to info@thehoneycompany.com?
Alicia Moulton
Comment from Laura
Time August 8, 2008 at 5:36 pm
I love your website dedicated to healthy foods. In our house, a family with four rowdy boys- uh FIVE if you count my husband, I try to introduce new foods or vegetables in a fun way.
First- whenever I feel we need a jump-kick back into a healthy lifestyle (like after a vacation or holiday) we make fitness teams. Part of our fitness teams is drinking more water, eating our vegetables, we get points for excersising, etc… but at dinner I’ll have a “food challenge”. I try to offer a new food and our teams get points for trying.
We’ve tried V-8 juice to cauliflower and eggplant.
I love your ideas and thinkthis is a great resource for other moms!
thanks!