Blog — easy healthy meals

By Mareya Ibrahim When you have 5 mouths to feed, thinking about food is a full-time endeavor.  Even though it’s a big part of my career, making from-scratch sauces and foraging for ingredients is not part of my daily routine – especially with voracious teenagers and athletes in the family. Forget about 30-minute meals.  When they start circling the kitchen like a pack of wolves, I’ve got 10 minutes tops before they start bearing their canines. As the owner of two businesses, mom of 5 and designated family chef, meal prep has made a monumental impact on my sanity and...

How to get your kids to love veggies  By Mareya Ibrahim, eatCleaner Founder   Ask most kids what their favorite food is and 10 times out of 10, it’s not going to be a vegetable. Somewhere between baby food and most children’s menus, when our little ones start making the transition to solid food, things go sideways. They begin with fruit and veggies – peas, carrots, spinach, green beans and veggie blends yet, somehow, from that point until they reach children’s menu age, the color fades from the plate like a person about to faint.  From a palette of red, orange, green,...