We eat a lot of fruits and veggies at our house, sometimes that means we need to change up the way we prepare our produce as a way keep things interesting!  My husband is the more adventurous cook in the house so he’s always on the lookout for creative recipes!  A friend of ours suggest breaded broccoli so we decided to give it a try.  It was SO good!!!!

Our daughter did most of the prep work and had a blast dipping and rolling the little broccoli trees!

We didn’t have a precise recipe to follow so this is what we came up with:

1.5 pounds of broccoli – trimmed into the crowns
1 cup breadcrumbs
salt and pepper to taste
2 egg whites
2tbsp milk
1tsp dried basil
1tsp dried oregano

1.       preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit
2.       trim the broccoli into the crowns
3.       put the egg whites and milk into a container and whip till mixed well
4.       put the bread crumbs, salt and pepper, basil and oregano into another bowl or a large Ziploc baggie.
5.       dip the broccoli crowns into the egg and milk mixture
6.       place the dipped crowns into the bread crumb mixture and coat the crowns with the mixture
7.       place the breaded crowns onto a cookie sheet – make sure that they are flat on the sheet to ensure that the breadcrumbs get crispy!
8.       place into the preheated oven for 20 minutes

Happy Healthy Eating,
Kia

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!

When we think about eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables it’s fairly easy to get in your green, red, orange and yellow…but the blue/purple color group can be trickier to work into your diet every day!  I am always on the lookout for purple produce. Purple happens to be my daughter’s favorite color so when we go grocery shopping she is always the first to spot anything purple!  We were both excited when we came across some purple kale!!  We’ve been enjoying our green kale that we turn into chips…yum!  It’s a healthy and easy snack to make!

This is what we plan to do with our lovely purple kale!  If you’ve never made kale chips before here is a great video by my friend Dani Spies

Happy Healthy Eating,
Kia

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!

When my daughter comes home from school she’s usually ready for a snack, and in our house, that means either fruits or veggies!  We like to make it a little fun buy using mini cookie cutters, toothpicks, cute dishes and most importantly we make it colorful!  We like to think of fruits and vegetables as being part of an edible rainbow so everyday we aim to eat a variety of fruits and veggies that are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green and Blue!  The phytonutrients in fruits and vegetables give them their bright color and each color group provides our bodies with unique health benefits which is why we want to eat all the different colors of the rainbow!

Here is a an example of a Rainbow Fruit Snack!

Red: Grapes     Orange: Oranges     Yellow: Bananas     Green: Kiwi     Blue: Frozen Blueberries

Snack time is the ideal opportunity to get your kids eating fruits and veggies!  Have fun creating healthy rainbow snacks for your kids!

Happy Healthy Eating,
Kia

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!

Rainbow Fruit Sticks

Need a colourful, tasty, healthy item to bring to your next potluck or school event?!?  Try these easy to make Rainbow Fruit Sticks!  They are a huge hit at any event with kids of all ages.

All you need is a collection of colourful fruit and some skewers! I like to use: Raspberries, Cantaloupe, Pineapple, Honeydew Melon and Blackberries to give the skewers a nice rainbow effect!

1. Wash your fruit and let dry a little so that they are easy to work with.
2. Arrange your fruit and skewer them in the same order.
3. Display your Rainbow Fruit Sticks on a platter and get ready for the compliments!

Happy Healthy Eating,
Kia

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!

We like to find ways to incorporate fruits or veggies into all our holiday celebrations!  There tends to be quite a lot of candy and sweets during holidays so we like to add extra produce in ways that compliment the festivities.  At Easter my daughter and I like to make this cauliflower bunny as part of our centerpiece…add a little dip and it’s gone by the end of the evening!

We just cut up a head of cauliflower (we buy two and cut up both and serve the extra in a veggie tray), use extra long tooth picks and stick on end into a small 3 or 4 inch Styrofoam ball, then you add the rest of the features with whatever produce you like and have on hand!  When you’re guests are ready to dig in, they just pull out a piece of cauliflower and use the tooth pick to hold on as they dunk the cauliflower into their favorite dip. It’s cute, fun and healthy…you can’t go wrong with that combination!

Happy Healthy Eating
Kia

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!