I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Barefoot Books store and if you read this post you will remember how I described it as walking into a box of crayons, not only the store but also the beautiful books that are throughout.
Just as fabulous as the store, they have a great online shop where you can view and step inside their books. They also have free digital content which includes Podcast Story Time , Videos and Arts N’ Crafts. If you’d like to subscribe to the videos, you can find them on YouTube and iTunes.
I had the pleasure of reviewing Kids Kitchen which is a set of forty recipe deck cards that are fun and healthy, come in a thick sturdy box and are coated so they can be easily wiped off. These forty recipes are broken down into five food groups; Eggs & Beans, Fantastic Fruit, Milk & Dairy, Spuds & Grains and Vital Vegetables. Along with these cards comes a folded card that contains information about each food group, vitamins and minerals
This is a great way to introduce your children to cooking and making healthy choices in the kitchen. Your children will be having a blast as they will be learning many things such as, useful skills, how to be safe in the kitchen and learning all about foods from around the world.
These recipes are easy to follow and fun to make, here are some pictures of my girls making the Breakfast Friends and Apple Volcanoes. They did a great job and the food was delicious! And best of all they were so proud of themselves!
Let me tell you, I have one of the pickiest girls in the world (the one on the left) and she devoured her food! Kids Kitchen is a great way to get kids excited about food and to teach them how to make healthy choices. I give this a two thumbs up!!
“We have to eat to live; by learning to cook, we also learn to live well.” ~Barefoot Books
Keep in mind that all these recipes are vegetarian and can be an accompaniment to any meat, fish or poultry. Speaking of vegetarian, don’t forget to check out this book while your browsing the store online! It’s about Herb, a peace-loving vegetarian dragon who lives in a forest with carnivorous dragons! He is captured by the knights…will he eat meat in order to save his own life?? You’ll have to wait and see for yourself!
Barefoot Books also has an Ambassador program which was featured on Good Morning America, you can see the video here. This program is a great way to make some extra money for your family or fundraise for your child’s school by selling their fabulous books! Go here for information on how you can become an Ambassador.
Now for the part you’ve been waiting for, the give-a-way!!!
Barefoot Books has been gracious enough to send one lucky reader their very own Kids Kitchen! In order qualify for this give-a-way you have to live in North America and please keep in mind that they can’t ship to PO boxes.
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This giveaway will end on January 2, 2011 at 9pm EST. The winner will be notified by mail and has 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen.
Good Luck!
**Kids Kitchen and Herb the Vegetarian Dragon were given to me for review, the opinions and comments are all mine.
Hi everyone, how was your weekend? Getting your holiday shopping done? I am slowing crossing things off my list, I can’t wait to be done so all I have to think about is cooking!
Just wanted to thank everyone who entered the Old El Paso Giveaway! The lucky winner is….
Keli from Feeding Four!
She said: “I’d like to try Southwestern Chicken Taco Salad! That just sounds wonderful!”
Congrats Keli!
Since I hate doing posts with no pictures and I haven’t been baking or cooking lately I thought I’d share a picture Kailey took of her breakfast that she made over the weekend.
She couldn’t decide if she wanted cereal or nut butter on toast so she had both! Love how she is thinking outside the box!
‘Night!
Happy December 1st, the official countdown to Santa’s arrival has begun in our household!! The house is decorated inside and out, the stockings are hung and the baking has continued.
Last week was the annual holiday fair at school so Jordyn’s class was assigned to make some cookies and Kailey’s class, sweet bread. It will come to no surprise that Jordyn picked her favorite cookie, Peanut Butter Blossoms. In fact, rumor has it that these are Santa’s favorites also! 
For the sweet bread I knew just where I was going to look for a new recipe. I’ve always had great success with Tina’s from Carrots N’ Cake sweet breads and I’ve been meaning to try the Chocolate Pumpkin Loaf . Can I just tell you how easy and delicious it was! I love recipes where you just measure out the ingredients, mix and pour! I divided the wet and dry ingredients up for the sake of taking some pictures but you can just put everything in one bowl, simple cleanup!
OK! I know, I swore to myself I was not going to open up another can of pumpkin but I just couldn’t resist! This WILL be my last pumpkin recipe post…fingers crossed! lol
I love the hint of nutmeg in this bread!
I poured mine into two mini tins, I think they are the perfect size.
Packaged up and ready for the holiday bake sale!
‘Night!
