little foodie : from scratch corn dogs

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This month’s Little Foodie is all about breaking down a classic kid’s favorite and using only the freshest ingredients. We teamed up with Chef Marco and The Kitchen Classes and the results were delicious! The frozen microwaveable corn dog is pretty awful nutrition-wise, but the concept is so perfect for little hands! While making it from scratch isn’t a time saver, it was such a fun process with even our littlest ones. With Kielbasa sausage, homemade ketchup, and a spicy mustard adults will love it, too! While the recipes are saved for Kitchen Classes members, this online recipe looks similar … Read more

pop rock sugar cookies

Happy Independence Day our fellow Americans! We are spending our day at the city parade standing with pride with our hands over our hearts while our service men and women walk by with the flag, cooling off by the pool, barbecuing, getting choked up listening to America the Beautiful, laying on blankets under a sky full of fireworks. You can see why it’s a favorite over here! We just wanted to pop in and share this tasty sugar cookie recipe with a little kick added just in time for the 4th! You can’t really go wrong with a knock-off Swig … Read more

oh so delicioso!

Today we’ve got a guest recipe by the lovely girls over at Oh So Delicioso, welcome ladies! Oh So Delicioso is a cooking experience comprised of six awesome friends who bring their passion for food to their blog each and every day. Doling out tips and advice, best gadgets and gear, it’s the perfect landing spot for the newbie home cook to a party throwing veteran chef. Today they’re sharing the perfect mobile dessert for your next bonfire! All you need is a boxed chocolate cake, some hollowed out oranges, Nutella, and an open flame… And in twenty minutes you’ll … Read more

cinco de mayo: churro chips

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Sometimes, as mothers who strive to celebrate our kids everyday, and in turn running a blog that is all about celebrating childhood, we feel personal pressure to go above and beyond, over the top, whenever a holiday comes our way. Sometimes though, we just want to sit on the couch and eat Churro Chips! That’s okay too, right? These delectable little morsels are perfect for a sweet snack or if you’re feeling festive, that upcoming Cinco De Mayo party! (Can we be invited?) Start with uncooked tortillas (we get ours at Costco, they make killer burritos and quesadillas and only … Read more

little foodies: NatureBox

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Feeding our kids in a healthy way is constantly on our minds over here, and a source for a lot of stress and guilt. With busy schedules and the convenience of the drive through restaurant, that guilt grows exponentially. We’ve been on the hunt, mostly for selfish reasons, for healthy to-go snacks and NatureBox is a definite must-share! (Keep reading for a special discount for Small Fry readers!) The purpose and mission of NatureBox is simple: They deliver better choices for snack food options to members on a monthly membership basis. They are the perfect addition to the everyday family’s busy … Read more

Easter Egg Hunt Brunch

Photography by Small Fry Contributing Photographer Lindsey Orton. Jenna has thrown our boys and their friends an Easter Egg Hunt now for three years running and we love getting to watch all these tiny friends play together, hunt for eggs, munch Awful Waffles (not awful in the slightest), and enjoy the fickle Spring weather. Luckily the sun was shining and we could shed our winter coats just in time! Because food is generally what makes our world spin ’round, here’s what we ate: We were so grateful to the Awful Waffle for setting up their shop at our party and … Read more

kitchen sink cookies

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We love a good cookie, and of course so do our kids. If you have a great recipe they love, why not throw in some healthier additions? We call this the Kitchen Sink cookie because it has just about everything in it… except the kitchen sink, as they say. To give these delicious cookies a little healthy edge we added apple juice, raw oats, carrot shavings, and ground flax seed! They’re definitely not good for you, but they’re a little bit better with these additions! Recipe and step-by-step instructions after the jump! Even better, you’ll hear all about Emily’s super … Read more

little foodies: pizza

Images by Small Fry Contributor Alyssa Vincent Photography. Cooking with kids is a topic we are excited to explore in our new “Little Foodies” series each month! Our boys enjoy it so much, and we love finding delicious recipes that they can get their hands on. We’ve found if they play a part in the process they also can’t wait to eat it, which gives us opportunities to introduce them to new ingredients and cuisines! Case in point: Our Juicing 101 post, (yep, that’s Hayes drinking beets.) For this month’s Little Foodies adventure, Culinary Crafts had us over to make every … Read more

eggs in a zap.

We were talking earlier about how lazy each of our mornings usually are. We very slowly work up to starting the day with our kids, and unless we have something pressing scheduled, here’s the agenda: the boys come in each of our respective beds for a little morning snuggle. Eventually they start asking for a beverage of some sort, so we stumble out to our kitchens to start up breakfast. In the next couple hours eventually we will give them a bath and then maybe an hour more they’re finally dressed. Lazy mornings are the best, aren’t they? Maybe a … Read more

honey pops

One of our goals for Wellness Week was to come up with an easy treat for on the go than can also provide an increase in, you guessed it, wellness! Our underlying hope was to make it sugar free, but after a few failed attempts using healthy sweeteners we finally gave in that good old cane sugar might be the healthiest option for successful sucker making, or they aren’t so much suckers as they are puddles of jelly. We will be talking all about essential oils here soon, but for this honey pop we used lemon, which contains natural cleaning … Read more

juicing 101

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Welcome to wellness week! With a fresh new year ahead of us, we wanted to focus on creating healthy habits and best practices for ourselves and our kids! A huge thank you to Jylare Smith Photography for these beautiful images, she shoots in Utah, Idaho and California and is a real artist! Emily’s two-year old, Hayes, is a pretty picky eater. If you have one of these at your house, you know how frustrating it can been to get them to try new foods, let alone feeding them a well-balanced diet. A little over a year ago, she started juicing … Read more

frozen yogurt dots

Frozen Yogurt Dots

In the earliest stages of Small Fry, we had the opportunity to lunch with Jillee of the incredibly genius blog One Good Thing by Jillee. Each day Jill posts a trick, shortcut, or best practice that makes life easier. She is a blogging phenomeon and beyond generous as our mentor, and as we read through her archives we found ourselves with dropped jaws at the easy things we could do to make our households run more smoothly. Things like unloading a 12-pack of soda in seconds, to unshrinking our clothes, to the reason for this post today: frozen yogurt dots! Surely … Read more

healthy halloween lunch

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With all the Halloween festivities we’ve been attending this month our kids are all sugared out and the 31st hasn’t even arrived yet! Here is a pretty healthy and festive Halloween lunch that is low on sugar, but not on fun. Our kids are still talking about this lunch and there wasn’t a single fun-size candy bar for miles! Keep reading for the full menu and instructions!

food art

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If you need to entice a picky eater, or just want to surprise your kids with an exciting lunch, today’s food art is your guy! You can’t beat the vibrant colors that come from fresh produce, so these are especially healthy options. A whale PB&J (whale cookie cutter found at Copper Gifts), rainbow fruit salad, and a red pear hot hair balloon were on the menu one day a couple weeks ago and the boys haven’t stopped asking for whale sandwiches ever since! As always, if you make food art (or any of our other projects) post them to our … Read more

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