Q & A with Catherine founder of Weelicious

Q1: Your website Weelicious, has become a go-to for easy, fast, nutritious meals and recipes for may families. What inspired you to get started on this cooking path?

A: I wanted to inspire my kids to be great eaters. I have always been fascinated how some children love good food--- why some are great eaters and some are picky. The idea of how much impact do you as a parent have on your children’s eating.

Q2: What do you love about cooking?

A: Beginning, middle and end. I love finding the produce at farmer’s markets that have fresh seasonal produce. I love cooking it and finally feeding my family.

Q3: What is the most popular dish people love from your website?

A: Oh so many-- Raspberry Cream Cheese Tart, Kale Chips, Cinnamon Roasted Chick Peas, Crock-pot Mexican Lasagna.

Q4: What is your all-time favorite recipe?

A: Parchment Fish. Cut pieces of parchment and your ready to go. You can throw in anything vegetables, fish, shrimp, tofu (for vegans), sauces and bake. It is great for a dinner party as everyone has a hand-in-creating what the are eating.

Q5: What is you son Kenya’s favorite hands-on dish to make?

A: Anything and everything. My children will eat anything when they help-out. Pick it at the farmer’s market or from a garden and chances sky rocket of them eating it. My son will actually say this pizza needs kale. Have them stuff the blender for smoothies. Really just get them involved.

Q6: Any tips on how we should stock the refrigerator and pantry?

A: Fruits in season, bananas, avocados, chicken, make pancakes or waffles and double, pasta rice beans, oatmeal, parmesan cheese.

Q7: Because we love green juice at the Littlest Tumor Foundation, what is a great smoothie you like for kids.

A: Get the kids to make. Super Juice-- kale, water, agave and lemon. It gives super-powers.

Q8: Daily recipe posts, weekly video clips, and much more on Weelicious. What is in the future for Weelicious?

A: Two books! One next summer --it will have 30% content of philosophy on how kids become great eaters. The second will be in 2013 a school lunch cookbook.

We at the Littlest Tumor Foundation cannot wait!

Neurofibromatosis and Green Juice

Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:40pm

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I was moved this week when I read an article written by my friend's sister. I wanted to use my blog this week to share it with you for two main reasons.

First, I wanted to give some publicity to the rare condition of Neurofibromatosis as it is something that many of us know nothing about. Briefly, it affects 1 in 3,000 children and causes tumors to grow anywhere in the body including the brain and spine and can cause a series of other significant health issues. They range from serious skeletal abnormalities, to endocrine issues, to difficult-to-treat cancers. Much is not understood.

Tracy Wirtanen, the author of the article I read, and my friend's sister, is the mother of an 8-year-old boy, Sami, who is diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis. You can read her blog here, where she wrote as a guest on Kriss Carr's website crazysexylife.com and you can find out more information about Neurofibromatosis at the website of the foundation she created at www.littlesttumorfoundation.com

Secondly, in her article, Tracy talks about the changes she and her family have chosen to make with regard to their nutrition, both for Sami and the other members of her family. She talks about the fact that Sami drinks green juice every day, and loves it, he even asks for it! I bring this up, because it highlights something that can get forgotten when we talk about juicing. This stuff is really good for you, at a cellular level. There is a real theraputic benefit in drinking vegetable and fruit juice. Our bodies can use the nutrients provided by the juice to both prevent future tumour growth, and help the body deal heal itself.

Yes, juice is a great vehicle to boost health and vitality, and help us to clean our systems when we have overindulged, but there is a more serious side to its benefits as well. If incorporating it into your diet will allow your body to battle cancer tumours, or give your body the tools it needs to prevent them developing in the first place, then what an incredible gift you can give to yourself, and your children every day! The gift of good health!

For those of you with juicers, then try the following Green Juice recipe, packed full of antioxidants, chlorophyll and good health.

Green Delight

3 kale stalks

1/4 pineapple (not peeled)

1 apple

1/2 piece ginger (not peeled)

1 stick celery

1/2 lime (not peeled)

Pack the kale into the juicer chute, and put the apple on top, then whizz every thing through the juicer. If you want to add some extra nutrients, then add a spoonful of spirulina to the juice and blend it with some ice.

Please do click on the link to both Tracy's article and her foundations website, she is doing terrific work to educate us about this potentially devastating disease.

If nothing else, give Tracy, Sami and her family a thought or a prayer over the coming weeks, and if you are lucky enough, be thankful for you and your families good health.

Happy Juicing,

Jx

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We Love Green Juice!

We Love Green Juice!

We have posted about green juice in the past. Yet, I will share again our love of green juice. My 6 year old son loves green juice and asks for it all the time. I must admit nothing makes me happier than when my kids love and consume healthy organic super powerhouse foods. Here is his favorite recipe--so simple to make.

Taavi Loves Green Juice:

1 head of organic romaine lettuce (any green leaf will do)

2 organic celery stalks

1 granny smith apple

Juice and serve over ice with a fun straw. Guaranteed to instill a smile and a big “yum”.