Best Bento Boxes for Kids School Lunch – an expert review of our favorite tried-and-true lunch boxes! I tested out the top 9 bento boxes to help you find the perfect lunch box for your toddler, preschooler or big kids that can go anywhere they go - school, preschool, a school pod, have lunch at home, a playdate or a fun outing. Plus, there are great options at all price points! Kids Bento Box I've spent the last 5 years packing my girls school lunches, as well as buying and trying almost every bento box on the market. I had quite the storage situation happing in my house for a while🙈, but I was hellbent on getting the perfect lunch box for my kids 💪. My determination (and messy cabinets) is your gain! I narrowed the field down to my favorite 9 bento boxes 🍱, and then came up with 6 different categories to test them against each other. I packed my 5 and 7-year-old lunches in each of the bento boxes and like all kids, they gave me their very honest thoughts and ...
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Best Baby Food Storage Containers – Plus 6 Tips on Freezing and Thawing
The Best Baby Food Storage Containers for storing and freezing homemade baby food purees. Plus - 6 expert tips on how to store baby food as well as a how-to guide on freezing and thawing your own baby food. 6 Expert Tips on Storing Baby Food Do Not Overfill: it's important to not overfill any baby food storage container as the purees will expand slightly when freezing. Label Purees: in order to know what you are feeding baby, it's important to label your purees while they are freezing in the storage containers and when they stored in freezer bags. Make sure you put the name of the puree as well as the date you made it on. Putting the date on it helps you remember when the puree will expire. Keep Some/Freeze Some: whenever you make a puree, put several ounces in the fridge for your little one to enjoy that week, then freeze the rest of the batch for her to finish up at a later date.Dedicate Space in Freezer: I found it helpful to dedicate a certain space in the ...
6 Best Subscription Boxes for Baby + Toddler
These 6 Best Subscription Boxes for Baby + Toddler are a fun and easy way to get toys, books and surprises sent right to your door. Each of the boxes below are curated to meet the needs of your baby's developmental stage. These subscription boxes also make great Christmas, baby shower or birthday gifts! 6 Best Subscription Boxes for Baby + Toddler The subscription box scene has exploded over the last couple of years and while I have dabbled in subscription boxes for myself (hello 4 years worth of brightly colored nail polish), it wasn't until I had my little ones that I realized how amazing subscription boxes could be. Having experts curate boxes for your babe that include books, toys, games, and activities that are just right for their development stage is priceless. These subscription boxes have saved me a ton of time researching and shopping for toys and educational materials for my own baby, so now I have time to research the latest and greatest minivan, because ...
6 Best Probiotics for Infants, Babies + Toddlers (plus, why they need them)
6 Best Probiotics for Infants, Babies + Toddlers that will help with colic, gas, diarrhea, constipation, eczema and even baby acne! This is my expert review on the best tried-and-true brands that I personally tested for taste, ingredients, price and features. Great guide for 0-4 years of age. Probiotics for Infants, Babies + Toddlers Why Infants, Babies and Toddlers Need Probiotics The gut is made up of trillions of live microorganisms that are responsible for 80% of our immune system, so having good gut health is extremely important for baby and toddlers health for years to come. The gut also plays a huge role in digestion, skin health, brain chemistry, hormones as well as immunity and is often referred to as a second brain. A healthy gut makes for a healthy life! And while you would think that baby comes into this world with a perfectly balanced little gut, that just isn't the case. Baby's gut bacteria (both the good and bad bacteria) is influenced from mom's gut ...
9 Best Organic Baby Food Pouches (expert review)
9 Best Organic Baby Food Pouches - an expert review of the best tried-and-true brands! I tested all 9 baby food pouches for consistency, taste, ingredients and price and come up with my 4 winners! Easy guide on the best store-bought baby food pouches to serve baby! Best Baby Food Pouches I get it. You may not want to make all of your own baby food, or you are in a pinch and are traveling or heading to a playdate without a stash of puree on you. You need a go-to brand of store-bought baby food that's as delicious as it is nutritious. So I rounded up 9 of the top brands of store-bought organic baby foods and put them through my rigorous testing. I tested them for consistency, taste, price and ingredients <------ yes, you read that right, I tasted each and every baby food puree in this post! And I was actually surprised what I discovered. More than half of them I would feed to my own babies! But a couple of them I would pass up in the market in a heart ...
3 Things My Toddler Takes Everyday to Stay Healthy
These are the 3 Things My Toddler Takes Everyday to Stay Healthy - fish oil, probiotics and elderberry syrup. Over the years, I have found these 3 supplements are life savers for helping my toddler have overall optional health as well as keeping them from getting the common cold and flu during the winter months. Does your toddler eat all of their meals including a second helping of their green veggies? Does your toddler pick at everything and anything you put in front of them? Does your toddler eat nothing one day and then everything in sight the next day? Or maybe your kiddo falls somewhere in between. My toddler is notorious for skipping meals, sometimes only eating a bite of an apple for an entire day (not even sure how this is possible) and then pigging out the next day on literally everything and anything I put in front of her. Toddlers are a tricky bunch. I swear, if you keep feeding them healthy and colorful food, then when they enter the kid years, they will start to ...