One site that’s become part of my daily routine is Twitter. In fact, now it’s almost an addiction. It took me a while to understand it and get into it, but now I find it fun, useful and informative, as a parent, and an entrepreneur.

If you’d like to follow me on Twitter ( I post about interesting articles I find, bits of my daily life, special sales and new arrivals of eco family products at Kai Kids), check it out: www.twitter.com/greenmum !

It is from the October issue of Chatelaine magazine. One caveat: the kids really loved it, but my husband and i found it a little bland. I think you could safely add a lot more salt and maybe some coconut cream or a little more coconut milk and perhaps some fish sauce too. I was going to type the recipe in here, but then I realized it was in the mag’s online recipe database! I hope your kids like this recipe as much as mine did (one note, i halvedthe amount of jalapeno it called for).

We just added two new lines to www.kaikids.com: Earth Friendly Baby and South of France. Since our son Kai was born three years ago I’ve struggled to find natural soaps, bubblebath and chemical-free skincare for our family that smelled nice and were affordable. It’s been particularly tough to find bubble bath that passes the judgement of both me and Kai! A lot of the natural, organic bubble baths just don’t foam up, and you end up wasting a lot of it trying to work up some bubbles. Earth Friendly Baby is a popular, award-winning natural baby skincare line from Australia that we are proud to now carry at Kai Kids. They do not contain any artificial colouring, parabens, sodium lauryl sulphate, petroleum-based ingredients, or any synthetic fragrance and detergents. And no animal testing has been conducted on any of their products. So we’re going to use their bubble bath and see! We are also stocking their Organic Shampoo & Body Wash formulas in two scents: Lavender and Chamomile. This line is quite new to Canada so we are looking forward to hearing what you think of it!

South of France isn’t a baby line, but we thought we’d stock their quality, natural soaps nevertheless. They are quite a good value as they are large, very hard bars of 100% vegetable soap that last and last. With lovely scents like Lavender, Honey and Lemon Verbena, each bar contains soothing olive oil and moisturizing Shea butter infused with natural fragrances and essential oils. Although made in the U.S., these rich lathering, bars are produced using a traditional recipe from Provence. And the company ensures their soap is not tested on animals, is biodegradable and they also use recyclable packaging.

-N