Happy Valentine's Day!

Color Me Fruity

If you've had as much rain as I've had in the past month, you're probably looking for some new rainy day activities. Why not get out your box of Crayolas, sharpen your Raw Umber and Burnt Sienna, and color some food with eyes? To get you started, here are some pages from Mambo Sprouts (click for a larger version to print and color). First, the Veggie Friends (and some fruit, too):

Veggie circle:

Circle of Fruits:

If crayons are too old-fashioned, get your mouse ready for some on-line coloring. Check out this coloring contest from Produce for Kids:

Click here to color your very own picture of the Produce Pals (Mindee Melon, Sammy Snax, and Vita MC) on-line. Submit it to the gallery and your artwork will be on display for all the world to see.

Green Saturday

If you're like most Americans, you overindulged on pumpkin pie, candied yams, and mashed potatoes on Thursday then gorged on shopping on Black Friday. Today, Green Saturday, you can make up for your excesses by returning to a healthy diet of food with eyes. Here are a few activities to remind you what you should be eating (click for full size image):

These activity pages are courtesy of the children's activities table at the year-round Schenectady Green Market.

Recipe for Success

I recently got a baggie of old recipe booklets and clippings at a flea market that had a few great food with eyes finds inside:

This little pamphlet, "How to put Variety in your Milk Beverages" was produced by Carnation Evaporated Milk. Variety would be a sun bathing orange and an Eskimo pineapple complete with snowshoes and igloo. Kind of a Heat Miser and Snow Miser in fruit form.



This low-budget cook booklet was produced by the New York State Department of Agriculture to extol the many virtues of eggs. Not only are they incredible and edible, but they are also economical, plentiful, rich in Vitamin D, combine well with other foods, etc., etc.


A close-up of the top illustration:

And the bottom:

The rich egg doesn't look very happy about it.


This newspaper clipping recipe for creamed vegetable soup must be from the World War II years as it mentions using veggies from your Victory Garden (and provides a bit of trivia about tongue).

The veggies and milk bottle all look so friendly, but that cauldron is really terrifying!

Happy Birthday Curly Wurly!

Special Happy Birthday Greetings to Maria at Curly Wurly today!

The Trouble with Fat

Here are more anthropomorphic foods doling out nutritional advice:

This time fruits, veggies, and whole grains are looking at the butter with concern and dismay. The poor butter is absolutely mortified. Well, he may be full of saturated fat, but at least he has no trans-fat like margarine! The original article is here.