Tastybaby’s own “Proust Questionnaire"-- Calling all moms! We’d love to hear your answer to our Tasty 10 Questionnaire!

TASTY 10: STEPHANIE, MOTHER OF TWO (HOUSTON, TX)

1. What's your favorite family meal?
Baked chicken with mozzarella on top, broccoli and pasta!!

2. What sports & activities do you enjoy with your children?
laying Hide & Seek and “I’m going to catch you”!!  We also love walking up and down the street to pick the wild flowers (aka weeds) that grow in all my neighbors’ yards.

3. What are the most important ways you keep your family healthy?
We eat organically and drink lots of water.

4. How do you teach your children to be kind to the planet?
No picking leaves off trees!!!  We recycle too. 

5. What's the best gift you can give your child?
Love and kindness.

6. Whats your favorite thing your husband does with your kids?
He loves to take them to the Museum of Natural Science on the weekends so they can see the dinosaurs.  They have a blast.

7. What do you do to make your kids feel beautiful?
I kiss on them and love them all day long!

8. What do you do to make your kids feel powerful?
I give them choices all the time. 

9. What trait do you hope your kids DONT inherit?
My inability to unwind and relax!

10. Whats the tastiest thing about your children?
Their smiles!!

TASTY 10: NICOLE, MOTHER OF ONE (LOUISVILLE, KY)

1.  What defines “family” to you?
 A group that spends time every day enjoying each other's company, and will be there for one another.

2.  What is your fondest childhood memory?
 My dad telling me he loved me

3.  If you could make one healthy lifestyle change, what would it be?
 Exercise more often

4.  What is the most recent planet-friendly thing you did?
 plant flowers 

5.  What’s your favorite getaway?
 France

6. What is your favorite family meal?
 a nice strawberry salad and chicken parmigiana with pasta

7.  What keeps you up at night?
my baby

8.  Who is the Tastiest person you know & why?
my grandmother, she is a health nut and grows all of her own vegetables

9.  On what occasions are you “Wasty”?
using the dishwasher, eating fast food occasionally

10.  What makes you Tasty?
 I recycle everything, use fluorescent lightbulbs, make my baby food

TASTY 10: TAMA, MOTHER OF ONE (HOUSTON, TX)

1. What's your favorite family meal?
Veal scaloppini with lemon butter sauce and pasta

2. What sports & activities do you enjoy with your children?
Swimming, zoo, children's museum, playgrounds

3. What are the most important ways you keep your family healthy?
No sweets at all other than fruit, no sodas, limited processed foods

4. How do you teach your children to be kind to the planet?
Not sure we are there yet...only 3 and 1.  My son knows about recycling,
but that is about it.

5. What's the best gift you can give your child?
Myself--time together!

6. Whats your favorite thing your husband does with your kids?
Play with them and read to them.

7. What do you do to make your kids feel beautiful?
Tell them how much I love them and give them lots of hugs and kisses!

8. What do you do to make your kids feel powerful?
Same thing!

9. What trait do you hope your kids DONT inherit?
Not sure on that one...

10. Whats the tastiest thing about your children?
Their sweet smiles and chubby cheeks...the tushy is not bad either!

TASTY 10: KATIE, MOTHER OF TWO (HOUSTON, TX)

1.  What defines “family” to you?
Togetherness, tender moments, sticking together through thick and thin, loving unconditionally.

2.  What is your fondest childhood memory?
Being with my folks and grandparents at our Texas beach house, crabbing and fishing for trout.

3.  If you could make one healthy lifestyle change, what would it be?
EAT MORE ORGANIC VEGGIES!

4.  What is the most recent planet-friendly thing you did?
Drove a hybrid for a week?   

5.  What’s your favorite getaway?
Cabo, Aspen.

6. What is your favorite family meal?
Lasagna!

7.  What keeps you up at night?
My health and that of my family.

8.  Who is the Tastiest person you know & why?
MY DAUGHTERS!!! (and Daniel Craig).

9.  On what occasions are you “Wasty”?
I own two cars, including a Suburban.

10.  What makes you Tasty?
I am beautiful on the inside, healthful and happy!

Estela with her family in Aspen, CO

TASTY 10: ESTELA, MOTHER OF ONE (ASPEN, CO)

1.  What defines "family" to you?
A God-centered relationship of LOVE, support, safety, patience, kindness, humility and tenderness.

2.  What is your fondest childhood memory?
Packing up and going to my grandmother?s for long weekends.  Going on family trips.  Swimming in our pool.

3.  If you could make one healthy lifestyle change, what would it be?
Using aluminum-free deodorant, taking my vitamins all day... there are too many to list.

4.  What is the most recent planet-friendly thing you did?
I recycled a container 5 minutes ago.

5.  What's your favorite getaway?
Home in Colorado because we are usually out of town so I am always ready for our mountain abode.  Otherwise, Africa, which is surreal!

6. What is your favorite family meal?
When Daddy makes chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast or homemade chicken pot pie.

7.  What keeps you up at night?
Nothing, usually.  If I am awake in the middle of the night, I better be seeing butterflies ? Lunesta butterflies, that is!

8.  Who is the Tastiest person you know & why?
It is a tie. My husband because he has an incredible zest for living life to the fullest everyday and every minute!  My son because he laughs for no reason and he has the most insatiable cheeks, eyes, and mouth!

9.  On what occasions are you Wasty??
All day in every way (i.e. driving my big SUV, using individually packaged items for my convenience, ordering everything on-line so that it ships, using Styrofoam cups ... the typical things that make us WASTY Americans).

10.  What makes you Tasty?
I LOVE everything about my life.  I love my husband, my son, my family and my friends.  I love to laugh and make real connections with people I come encounter ... Every situation provides me with such an experience and memory that I take with me everywhere.  Now that is Tasty!!

Wanda with daughter, Tara on the beach in Hawaii

TASTY 10: WANDA, MOTHER OF TWO (HONOLULU, HI)

1. What defines “family” to you?
"Family” to me means a strong bond of unconditional love that is woven between human beings who may or may not actually share DNA. As a parent I try to remember the adage “a family that stays together plays together” and try to have as much fun with my children as I can. As kids get older its great to get them interested in “family” activities such as golf, tennis and skiing which they and you can share at any age but equally a good game of scrabble or cards can be just as enjoyable.

2.  What is your fondest childhood memory?
I have lots of fond childhood memories but high among them has to be our family tradition of picking strawberries each summer. I remember we would pack an enormous picnic and spend the day with family and friends in the glorious English countryside running wild picking and eating as many strawberries as we could. By the end of the day we would literally be sick of strawberries so our brimming baskets that we returned home with would usually be given away to the old folks or neighbors.

3.  If you could make one healthy lifestyle change, what would it be?
If I had the will power I would give up everything that contains sugar (the fact that this includes chocolate and champagne makes this so much less realistic).

4.  What is the most recent planet-friendly thing you did?
I insist on only buying “Seventh Generation” household cleaning products. They are all made with ingredients that do not pose any chronic health risks and are safe for the environment. If every household in the US replaced one 25 oz petroleum based dishwashing liquid with one 25oz Seventh Generation vegetable based product we could save 81.000 barrels of oil, enough to heat and cool 4,600 US homes for a year!

5.  What’s your favorite getaway?
Hanalei Bay in Kauai, Hawaii.

6.  What is your favorite family meal?
Anything my mom makes especially her mulligatawny soup!

7. What keeps you up at night?
I’m generally a good sleeper but if someone close to me was seriously ill or in need, that would trouble me.
 
8.  Who is the Tastiest person you know & why?
I would say my great grandmother. She had 14 children, raised another five step children, immigrated to England in her 70’s and died beautifully and peacefully with all her faculties intact at the age of 102.

9.  On what occasions are you “Wasty?”
Much to the condemnation of some friends I still drive a Range Rover Sport...this may be one of the last things to go!

10.  What makes you Tasty?
Now that’s a really hard one ... love of life, I’d probably say.