They are working with 4th, 5th and 6th graders on a food adventure that involves meal planning, food preparation, food safety, and, of course, nutrition fun!

Hingham, 12:00-3:00, Saturday, August 22.

Friday, July 17 – Roche Bros, West Roxbury, MA from 4:00-6:00

Saturday, July 18 – Whole Foods Market, Hingham, MA from 12:00-2:00

Sunday, July 19 – Whole Foods Market Providence, RI/Waterman St. from 1:00-3:00 – Annual Block Party!!!

Making smart choices and staying food safe is no easy task when you or someone you love has a food-borne allergy.  For many in the allergy community, the terms “Nut Free” and “Gluten Free” indicate production in a designated facility.

In order to empower consumers to make the best decisions for their families with greater ease, we are clarifying even further Indigo Rabbit’s allergen program. 

With regard to our cookie varieties that are free of nuts (Heavenly Chocolate Pillows, Gingerlicious, Luscious Lemon Chewies), great precautions are taken within our shared facility to eliminate the risk of cross-contamination with nut ingredients.  Items that contain nuts are stored apart from non-nut items and production runs that involve nuts are produced apart from non-nut production.

Indigo Rabbit cookies that do not contain gluten by formulation are randomly tested for gluten.  Our Perfectly Peanut Butter and Seriously Cinnamon Almond varieties are tested for gluten pre-bake, post-bake, and pre-packaging in order to ensure that they are negative for gluten.  Due to the shared facility, however, Indigo Rabbit labels for these flavors will read “Wheat Free” instead of “Gluten Free” in the near future.

Second, share your opinion. You can leave comments to any of my posts. Tell me what you like, what tricks work for you, and what other information you’d like to see. For the next four weeks, we will give away one free box of Indigo Rabbit Cookies each week to a lucky, randomly-chosen “commenter” – just be sure to leave your email address when you comment.

Visit Rainbow On Your Plate today for great advice AND your chance to win free Indigo Rabbit Cookies.

Good nutrition is critical in the fight against cancer. For this reason, Indigo Rabbit has been invited to support the effort by presenting an estimated 500 guests with delicious and healthful Indigo Rabbit cookies, all-natural, chock-full of phytonutrients, and free from High Fructose Corn Syrup and hydrogenated oils. Visit radiationcream.com/events.html to learn more.

The Junior League of Worcester, MA sponsors an annual event called “Kids in the Kitchen”. We invite girls from this urban area to Girls Inc. where we cook together and learn how to care for ourselves and our environment. My partner (Amanda Graves of “Amanda Cooks”) and I teamed up to introduce new foods and food preparation techniques while discussing healthful alternatives to unhealthy foods the girls encounter every day.

When making chicken enchiladas, as we did tonight, we discovered the best tortillas to include based on the data we discerned from comparable nutrition panels. We discussed whether frozen or canned corn was better to include in our salad. We wondered about whether fruit juice or “fruit flavored drink” was a wiser selection. We talked about how many foods are marketed to kids by way of brightly colored commercial images on packaging and how devastating the health effects can be, especially when we noted how much sugar and trans fats were in these items.

I commend the girls at Girls Inc. for their eagerness to learn and their appetite for new things – especially the young woman who claimed she would never touch a vegetable and then devoured her salad and asked for seconds. Thank you for your poise – and for thinking I was 25 years old!