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Would you like to watch videos specific to adoption nutrition and feeding?  If so, what kinds of videos would you be most motivated to watch?  Family stories?  Tips from experts?  Information about special needs feeding?  Or, maybe you have an idea we haven’t thought about….. We want to create some educational and entertaining videos, but [...]

Each day of the year, we at SPOON have our hearts set on reaching as many children as possible with the nutrition resources that will help them thrive — we know you’re with us each step of the way, so on this Valentine’s Day, we want you to know that our hearts are full of [...]

Each month, TanQ partners up with a non-profit organization and designs a unique tee to reflect the mission of the organization. They then sell those tees and donate 100% of the net profits for the first 12 months back to the organization.  And guess who benefits from TanQ this month?  SPOON!  And you, too, if [...]

In continuing with our series on transitioning kids to the diet of a new culture, today I’ll share some of the information gleaned from our parent survey from parents who adopted from Ethiopia: The transition diet is one you develop to help bridge the gap between your child’s native diet and what eventually will become [...]

We often get emails from parents who are having difficulty transitioning their children from their native diet to the diet of their new home, region, and country.  As a result, we surveyed a couple of hundred parents last summer about what foods and techniques were the most helpful during the transition.  I thought I’d share [...]

Even though Carrington was born over 4 years ago her story truly began just a mere 10 months ago. My husband Brian and I had already completed one international adoption of three 5 1/2 year olds with Down Syndrome from an orphanage in Eastern Europe and we thought our family was complete. We knew there [...]

Dear friends -This holiday season, all of us at SPOON have been fortunate to celebrate with family and friends – we hope that you have also enjoyed such sweet times!As the year draws to a close, though, we are also eager to return to our work – we are so excited by what we will [...]

Please watch this short video of some of the little ones that are benefiting from SPOON’s Orphan Nutrition programming.  I love the caregiver’s enthusiasm!

SPOON and Boon are teaming up again – this time with gifts for two lucky readers! Boon recently supported SPOON by donating a gift basket of feeding items for one of the orphanages where SPOON is working to implement new nutrition solutions for these vulnerable young children. Now, Boon is offering a gift package of fun feeding [...]

Part of SPOON’s work with the Kazakhstan Orphan Nutrition Project has been the development of a new menu for kids living in Baby Houses.  The new menu, developed in conjunction with our in-country partners the Kazakh Academy of Nutrition, has a greater variety of foods which are higher in micro and macronutrients than foods from [...]