At Home With Lauren Feldman & Serenity Kids
Written by Katie Hintz-Zambrano
Photography by Senay Inanici
Emma Lipp and Stephanie Reagor
food and wine world
Isla, 2 years old
food important from the very beginning
“I think my love of restaurants greatly influences how we eat together. I like us to eat real, whole foods and I try to make snacks as healthy as possible—sneaking in green things and unique flavors that aim to broaden her palate with as little resistance as possible.”
“We always try to eat at least one meal a day together—whether it’s at the house or one of the restaurants. I try to have her involved with the preparation of the meal—see, touch, and taste the ingredients as we go. And then I try for us to eat the same thing when we can, and have her wait for her food as long as the rest of us wait. We talk a lot about patience and that it’s ok to be bored and to learn to ‘wait with kindness.’ That’s what patience means in our household. I think that’s incredibly important. To Slow Down. Slow Food is a core of my own food philosophy and I want her to understand it.”
“Serenity Kids was one of the first real foods I felt comfortable serving Isla. I was concerned about her first flavors being sweet, and so many pouches and snacks are all about fruits and sweet things. I knew Isla would love fruit and love sugar, so I tried to keep her from letting that flavor overwhelm her post-milk palate. Many of the Serenity Kids pouches and snacks focus on savory flavors, which was incredibly important to me.”
“We did the chicken pouches and squash and beets were early favorites. Now she is mostly out of her pouch phase, but she still loves the snacks—and I love that they have hidden veggies in every bite.”
“Savory flavors, ethical sourcing, the need to not refrigerate—SO easy on the go! I love a product that makes my life easier but that I feel is only doing good for my daughter’s body and palate.”
sustainable is about making decisions that we all can SUSTAIN—the child, the parent, the planet. All of it. It’s about the balance that makes our lives work.”
“My husband and I have recently come to the realization that ‘work life = life’ and we’re finding the joy in the reality that work always is happening. We try to carve out family time and time with friends that is separate from work, but our work really is so joyful and we recognize that there are certainly worse worlds to have to be in all the time.”
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I absolutely love the honesty & vulnerability in this. As a mom who started an organic, cold-pressed juice business in London, UK, when my daughter turned 1… without any family around (they live back in Canada), it was this amazing, tumultuous journey. Balance was non-existent, but my husband (who worked a 9-5 to support this endeavour / our life!) did our very best and it is one of the best experiences to date. So lovely to see your successes ❤️