Think your kids won’t eat raw oysters? Do they turn up their noses at liver and onions? You need to read this post.

I had the most interesting conversation with Ceci, the woman who owns our daughter’s daycare. She has a few secret tricks up her sleeve to get kids — any kid — to eat anything.

Yes, liver. And yeah, tripe. And, yep, pretty much anything else you can imagine that you think a child would never eat. Octopus. Natto. Pancreas. You name it. All those super-nutrient-dense foods that are going to give your kiddos high cheekbones, a wide, beautiful face, and perfectly straight teeth.

We just got back from our Christmas trip to visit family in Texas. I had the most interesting talk with the woman sitting next to me on the plane. I feel compelled to share it with you all.

I love talking to immigrants from so-called “developing countries”. I can spend hours talking with them. Why? Because I want to know how they did things in their country, how they ate, how they cooked, what their family’s health was like.

I took my daughter her to the pediatrician the other day for year two-year check up. I was shocked to find out that she is slightly anemic. 10-12 is normal; she’s an 8.

This was surprising to me, considering that Kate is the only toddler I know who loves raw oysters (high in iron) and eats them every chance she can get. Still, she eats oysters only occasionally — once a week or once every two weeks. And she never eats liver anymore. I tried giving her some chopped liver the other day and she spit it out.

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If you read my blog regularly, you know we eat a lot of shellfish. Particularly mollusks, such as oysters, clams, and mussels. I try to feed my family mollusks (usually oysters) once a week. It was after I read Nina Planck’s wonderful book, Real Food, that I decided that we needed to eat more shellfish. [...]

I have decided to get serious about menu planning. It makes life so much easier when you know what you are going to cook every night and you have all the ingredients you need on hand. From now on, I’m going to be posting my weekly menu plans every Sunday night. I’m really excited about [...]

I have so many pictures from the WAPF conference last week in San Francisco, I wasn’t sure how to post them all. So I’m going to break this up into a few posts. This first one will be about the food I ate. There was so much good food there. The lunches and dinners were [...]

What Kate Ate Today: Breakfast: Eggs and onions scrambled in butter and duck fat Two pieces of bacon Lunch: Leftover bacon Homemade mushroom soup (made with homemade chicken stock and shiitake mushrooms) with raw cream Homemade sauerkraut Local organic grapes Dinner: Chicken livers sauteed in bacon fat and butter Salad of tomato, Italian parsley, arugula, [...]