Photo: Palette Plate from SkipHop

Food News, Things We Crave, Resources, Green Your Eats, and Tips, Tools & Techniques. Check out this week’s picks. And our latest feeding hack.


Food News

(a few oldies but goodies in honor of our launch)

• Support for the 5-second rule: A little dirt is good for babies (via the New York Times)
• New study finds BPA lingers in the body (via the Detroit Free Press) 
• Obama’s new chef laments school lunch programs (via the New York Times Well Blog)
• The science of developing taste buds from in utero onward (via the Calgary Herald)
• Is organic really better? (via the New York Times)

 
Things We Crave

• Chopstick gadget: Fred’s Chopstick Kids (via Babble)
• SkipHop Palette Plate divided plates for picky eaters (yes, almost all kids get picky for a while—don’t worry) (via Skip Hop) 
• Resusable Stainless Steel Lunch Kits (via Kid’s Konserve)
• Colorful and cute melamine Plastica Little Bento Box available (via Ohdeedoh)
• Sustainable Bambu Mini Me Handcoiled Bamboo Bowls (via Sprout Soup) 

Resources

• Top foods to eat organic (via Greenopolis and GreenThinkers

 Green Your Eats

• Eliminate plastic in your family’s sippy cups, food storage containers, and more with help from Life Without Plastic

 Tips, Tools & Techniques

• These are both great for chopping food right in your little one’s bowl to create an age-appropriate texture: Wutshof kitchen shears and KitchenAid kitchen shears

Bonus: Feeding Hack
Need a natural solution to soothe a teething toddler? Frozen unsulphered dried organic mango sliced into thin strips offer lots of relief (not to mention vitamin A) as they cut those two-year molars. Let her hold one end and work the other right into the sore spot—it’ll defrost as she gnaws away. Cool!