Working Mom's Guide to Kid-Friendly Meals : Over 200 Fast & Easy Recipes That Will Have Your Whole Family Begging for More Review

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(More customer reviews)I was a bit disappointed. There are some good ideas but most of the stuff is using all premade stuff bought at the grocery store that I don't need a cookbook to use, though the book gave me some good ideas. I couldn't believe there is actually a recipe for heating up a store bought apple pie and putting some spiced whipped topping on it. To give it some credit there are a couple of good recipes but I'm not sure if I would give this book to someone else.

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After a long day at the office or at home with the kids, the next-to-the-last thing you want is to fix a time-consuming meal. And the last thing you want is to hear your kids complain about what you've cooked! To the rescue are these 175-plus breakfast, lunch-box, and dinner recipe winners. All these recipes are easy to prepare, and clean-up afterwards is a snap. From contemporary to classic, vegetarian to international, these dishes will please you, Dad, and especially the kids.You'll find suggestions for entrées you cook once and serve for three more healthful meals, as well as recipes your kids can make. Each recipe lists a preparation time-from 5 to 15 minutes-and a baking time. Give your kids food they'll love-and yourself the time you crave-with Working Mom's Fast & Easy Kid-Friendly Meals!Your kids will flip for dishes such as: Turkey-Berry Sandwich Treats Chicken Confetti Pitas In-a-Flash Chicken Empanadas Breakfast Bread Fruit and Easy Mousse Surprising Taco Pizza Fast Potato Pancakes Cranberry-Orange Bars Almost Homemade Cherry Pie Almond Chicken Cups Hearty Oat Bread And Many More!About the AuthorElise Griffith is a freelance writer, a food counselor, and Ph.D. candidate in nutrition, and the author of Busy Mom's Lowfat Cookbook and Every Child Is a Genius (both from Prima). She makes kid-friendly meals for her two children and husband.

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The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is truly amazing. I have two children who won't eat a mini-carrot between them, and they are now downing veggie after veggie without suspecting a thing!! Here is the funny thing- it works on my husband too! He claims he doesn't like sweet potatoes, but he has eaten them in so many things now- I just wait and tell him afterwards (haha, guess what you just ate?!). Do I feel guilty about sneaking veggies? Not at all! Whatever I can do to help my family be healthier, I would do in a heartbeat. I have a couple of hints- first of all, buy all of your veggies at once and spend about 3 hours one afternoon once per month making the five most common veggie purees. Pour them into individual serving size freezer bags and then put all of the little bags into a gallon bag (one per type of puree), label them, and you are good to go! This is much easier than trying to puree veggies for each meal, it would become so time-consuming that you would be tempted to change your mind at the last minute and make something easier (and less healthy). I grab a bag out of the freezer, quickly defrost and then stir it in with the kids mac n' cheese, chocolate pudding, and all sorts of other "treat food" that all of a sudden become vitamin-rich dishes. I also pre-make some of the breading and flour mix too, and keep them vacuum-packed...it really simplifies things at dinnertime. Likewise, I make the breakfast cookies in a triple recipe, and save them and freeze them for a quick, easy and healthy breakfast. The meat recipes in this book are also excellent- the sloppy joes, meatballs, and the meatloaf- as well as the baked ziti and the pizza- are especially fabulous. This is the first book that I have felt compelled to write a review about, but I felt I absolutely had to do it! We have been eating almost exclusively on recipes from this book for a month now and we all feel so much healthier. Kudos to Missy Chase Lapine! Thank you!

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Parents will do almost anything to get their kids to eat healthier, but unfortunately, they've found that begging, pleading, threatening, and bribing don't work. With their patience wearing thin, parents will "give in" for the sake of family peace, and reach for "kiddie" favorites-often nutritionally inferior choices such as fried fish sticks, mac n' cheese, Pop-sicles, and cookies. Missy Chase Lapine, former publisher of Eating Well magazine, faced the same challenges with her two young daughters, and she sought a solution. Now in The Sneaky Chef, Lapine presents over 75 recipes that ingeniously disguise the most important superfoods inside kids' favorite meals. With the addition of a few simple make-ahead purees or clever replacements, (some may surprise you!) parents can pack more fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants in their kids' foods. Examples of "Sneaky" recipes include: No Harm Chicken Parm Power Pizza Incognito Burritos Guerilla Grilled Cheese Brainy Brownies Health-by-Chocolate Cookies Quick fixes for Jell-O(R)

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