Earth Day/ Tu B'Shevat

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Monkey CupcakesElevate any cupcake within minutes with just 4 simple ingredients! 🙊 🙈 Perfect for a themed birthday or just to celebrate those animals in your life (aka the kids). 🌎 April 22 is 𝓔𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓱 𝓓𝓪𝔂, an annual celebration that focuses on promoting clean living that can protect our habitat for people and wildlife (like those monkeys!) alike Some ways we celebrate year-round are by ⭐️ eating organic foods that are good for the soil (and our own health) since they don’t use harmful pesticides ⭐️ growing our own organic fruits and veggies ⭐️ teaching our kids about recycling ⭐️ eating less meat and a more plant-based diet ⭐️ buying a stainless steel water bottle instead of using single-use plastic ⭐️ buying silicone reusable food pouches instead of plastic baggies 🌍 A little change can go a long way!
Earth Day Apple PopsEarth Day is coming up on April 22 and we’re celebrating with these yummy chocolate covered apples! 🌍 We sliced an apple in 4 pieces, popped a popsicle stick in, and used dye-free plant based food coloring mixed with white chocolate to create our blue oceans and green continents.
Dirt Cups🌳 These dirt cups are the cutest way to celebrate Tu B’Shevat, the birthday of the trees (or save it down for Earth Day! Or even Valentine’s Day… they’re flowers people!) 🍇 My kids loved trying some of the seven species like dates + figs. While they weren’t a fan of those dried fruits on their own, paring them with chocolate pudding was a definite YES for both of them.
Pretzel FlowersWant to eat chocolate without all the guilt? 👇🏼 🍫 Often my friends ask how do we stay fit when we’re constantly eating chocolate. I’m happy giving my kids sugary foods as long as it’s a) in moderation and b) made with real, clean ingredients that we can pronounce and understand. 🍓 A great way to increase the nutritional content of a sugary snack like chocolate is to add fruit + nuts/seeds to boost the fiber, vitamins, protein, and healthy fats of the snack. It’s a win-win for both mama and kids. 🌳 Bookmark this recipe for Tu B’Shevat (or Earth Day!) and share with a fellow mama
Trail Mix Chocolate BarkEasiest way to introduce dried fruits to your kids 👇🏼 🤚 Before anything, bookmark this post to come back to later! 🍊 I’m all about food exposure and introducing new foods to my kids’ palettes that they normally wouldn’t try on their own. 🫚 Did you know it takes kids about 10-20 times of repeated food exposure before they’re even interested in trying the new food? 🍌 We explored new fruits in honor of the holiday Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish celebration of the trees (think of it like Earth Day), and the kids made it clear they weren’t fans of banana chips, apricots, figs, or dates. So guess what?? We made chocolate bark with these exact fruits so they can learn to like them. And guess what? I’ll keep exposing them to these fruits over, and over again. 🍫 This trail mix chocolate bark tastes like my favorite fruit and nut bar of my childhood (Cadbury’s used to be my fave!) but with much cleaner ingredients and nothing artificial.