Being a healthy home cook is one of the best gifts we can give to ourselves and our family! Preparing fresh, well-balanced meals is a proven way to maintain our overall health and wellbeing. It is cheaper, tastes better, and is better for us than dining out or driving through. And yet sometimes getting a meal… Read more »
Posts Categorized: After School
The Benefits of Going Screen-Free
Screen-Free Week is an annual, week long challenge and celebration of the joys of life beyond the screen. From May 2nd to May 8th, 2016, kids, families, and communities including Let’s Go! will collectively unplug from all TV, phones, tablets, computers, and video games as entertainment. Yes, for the entire week! We’ll be spending our… Read more »
The Let’s Go! National Nutrition Month Challenge
One of our favorite months of the year is here! It’s National Nutrition Month (NNM – otherwise known as March), an annual nutrition education celebration created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Much like the daily work of 5-2-1-0 Let’s Go!, NNM is focused on the importance of developing smart eating and physical activity habits. … Read more »
Making the Most of Your Next Winter Adventure
By now we’re typically in the thick of winter, with snow as the mainstay of our daily forecast. But when there aren’t inches of powder to cover the downhill slopes, cushion the sledding hill, and provide for our backyard snowmen, what are we left to do to get our families outdoors and active? Break out… Read more »
What To Do About Winter Dehydration
Summer is typically the season associated with dehydration. With warmer weather, our bodies heat up and we sweat more visibly—and so we’re more inclined to pick up that glass of water to cool us off and quench our thirst. During cooler months, we don’t get as hot and sweat evaporates into the cold air instead… Read more »