Kid Food


Book Description

In Kid Food, nationally recognized food writer Bettina Elias Siegel (New York Times, The Lunch Tray) explores the cultural delusions and industry deceptions that have made it all but impossible to raise a healthy eater in America. Combining first-person reporting with the hard-won understanding of a food advocate and parent, it presents a startling portrayal of the current food landscape for children -- and the role of individual parents in navigating it.




Plantiful Kids


Book Description

Plantiful Kids is a healthy plant-based recipe book, written to help transition children and families from convenience food to a whole-food, plant-based diet. In addition to almost 90 recipes geared towards picky eaters, Kiki shares her knowledge and experience in transitioning her own family to this way of eating. The recipes and pictures are designed to entice children and all people that eat with their eyes first. Between the beautifully staged food and lifestyle images in nature, this book is sure to inspire all that read it to connect more with their food and the beautiful world around them.




French Kids Eat Everything


Book Description

French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North American eating habits while they were all living in France. At once a memoir, a cookbook, a how-to handbook, and a delightful exploration of how the French manage to feed children without endless battles and struggles with pickiness, French Kids Eat Everything features recipes, practical tips, and ten easy-to-follow rules for raising happy and healthy young eaters—a sort of French Women Don’t Get Fat meets Food Rules.




Real Food Kids Will Love


Book Description

Annabel Karmel brings you a mouth-watering batch of never before seen recipes featuring delicious ingredients with serious nutritional credentials. With beautiful photographs and fresh design, this is an essential book for every modern parent. Chapters range from Fifteen Minute Meals to Healthy 'Fast Food', via Holiday Cooking with Kids and Lunchbox Snacks, and fresh, easy and modern dishes include Quinoa Chicken Fingers, Crispy Baked Cod, The Best Buttermilk Pancakes and Carrot Cake Balls. The chapters are designed to make choosing a fuss-free dish simple. Many recipes include swap-outs to cater for those with food allergies, intolerances or particularly fussy eaters! There is a huge range of meat-free and vegan meal options as well as recipes including meat and fish. Real Food for Kids offers everything today's parents are looking for once their babies are ready to start joining in with family mealtimes. Each dish is designed to be enjoyed by the whole family, while remaining simple, healthy, and not too salty or sugary for young children.




$3 Meals Your Kids Will Love


Book Description

It is not your imagination playing tricks on you if you are in sticker shock in the supermarket check-out lane - food prices are skyrocketing. And not only is food more expensive than ever, but we all have less time than ever before. The solution to the problem is $3 Meals Your Kids Will Love. This collection of 250-plus recipes has main course entrees that are less than $3 a serving to prepare and all are guaranteed to put a smile on the faces of your children. That's less than the cost of a decent-size burger at a fast-food drive-through. And all can be prepared in less time than it takes to have a pizza delivered!




Proud to Be Latino: Food/Comida


Book Description

Did you know that there are over 5000 types of potatoes sold in South America? Or that in Honduras, a song about conch soup reached the Billboard Top 100 Charts? Latino culture spans Southern and Central America as well as the Caribbean, but often when we think of Latino foods, we think tacos, burritos, and other common Mexican dishes. Proud to Be Latino: Food/Comida teaches children how different Latino countries use similar ingredients to create unique regional dishes. The dishes and their descriptions are given in both English and Spanish, and parents will enjoy the sidebars with additional fun facts about Latino food and culture. This bilingual board book takes the reader beyond a basic language primer and dives deep into the heart of Latino culture . . . which is the food, of course!




Get Your Kids to Eat Anything


Book Description

'This is a great kids cookery book. Emily is a star' - Simon Rimmer 'The book I'd like to force into any mother's kitchen' - Prue Leith "A fab book with a plan." - Jane Devonshire, 2016 Masterchef UK winner 'Emily has managed to combine her mummy knowledge and passion for food to make a truly helpful and brilliant cookbook' - Priya Tew, RD, BSc (Hons), Msc Get Your Kids to Eat Anything is an achievable 'how to' for parents in the battle to overcome picky eating and 'make new the norm'. Emily Leary's unique 5-phase programme looks at the issue of 'fussy eating' in a holistic way that links imagination with food, and which situates parents alongside - not in opposition to - their children. You'll embark on a food discovery which will change the way you look at food and bring healthy variety into every meal for years to come. You will ease away from the same four-to-six staple meals most families fall back on, towards truly varied meal plans from day to day, week to week, to the point where introducing your whole family to new flavours, colours and textures is a breeze because new is the norm. Each phase includes a clear explanation of what you're going to learn and achieve, clear advice/commentary, two weeks of delicious tried and tested recipes, and hands-on activities to try out with your family, all of which will help bring that phase to life and help you and your family to progress forward. The 5-phase approach: Phase 1: Unfamiliar into the familiar. Introducing unfamiliar colour, flavour or texture into familiar favourites. Phase 2: Educate. Experimenting with food, and understanding where it comes from and why it's important. Phase 3: Fun. Putting the fun back into food and building enthusiasm for food variety. Phase 4: Into the unknown. Discovering new ingredients and flavour combinations. Phase 5: Cementing variety. Learning techniques to keep your family meals varied long-term.




Clean Eating for Busy Families, revised and expanded


Book Description

Satisfy your whole family with nourishing meals they’ll love. In this revised and expanded version of the top-selling Clean Eating for Busy Families, you'll find even more recipes and photos, streamlined weekly grocery lists, and practical tips for healthy family eating. All parents know what a struggle mealtimes can be—you want to prepare healthy dishes for your family, but picky eaters, busy schedules, and way-too-long cooking times and ingredient lists always seem to stand in your way. Clean Eating for Busy Families takes the challenge out of putting delicious food on the family table on a nightly basis by providing you with a clear plan for dinner success. How does this book work? It’s Quick: From easy sautés and casseroles, to slow cooker and one-pan meals, all the recipes you’ll find inside list both mode and length of cooking time, so there’s no time wasted trying to calculate the timing for your schedule. Plus, most recipes can be prepared in 30 minutes or less! It’s Clean: The ever-growing “clean food” movement, which focuses on a healthy, whole foods-based approach to eating, lies at the foundation of this book, so you can be sure you’re feeding your family the very best. From wholesome ingredient lists to nutritional analysis on every recipe, you can feel confident that every meal you prepare is both nutrient-rich and calorie-conscious. Options for plant-based, gluten-free, and dairy-free alternatives are also listed wherever possible. It’s Green: Featuring eco-friendly tips, along with information on how to go green while shopping and cooking, you’ll find it a cinch to keep your family happy and stay eco-conscious. And most importantly…it’s delicious! From Orange Peel Chicken & Broccoli Stir-fry with Brown Rice to Baja Fish Tacos with Pico de Gallo and Summer Berry Slump with Vanilla Greek Yogurt, you’ll enjoy night after night of delicious home cooking—without any of the hassle. Get started creating new and exciting dishes for your family today!




How to Nourish Yourself Through an Eating Disorder: Recovery for Adults with the Plate-by-Plate Approach®


Book Description

Overcome your eating disorder and repair your relationship with food, starting today If you struggle with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or another form of disordered eating, the path to normal eating may seem impossible. This is why Wendy Sterling and Casey Crosbie created the Plate-by-Plate Approach®: a simple, numberless, exchange-free program to restore your relationship with food. In this practical, easy-to-use guide—complete with sample plates, example schedules, and helpful tracking logs—they teach you to take control of your nutrition with nothing more than a 10-inch plate. Learn to use the Plate-by-Plate Approach® at home. Understand common patterns and behaviors to restore your relationship with food. Adapt the Plate-by-Plate Approach® to your own dietary and cultural needs. Overcome common barriers on your journey to healthy eating. How to Nourish Yourself Through an Eating Disorder transforms the challenging path to recovery, simplifying your treatment plan and provide a straightforward, intuitive, tried-and-true method for a better life.




Teaching your children how to eat healthy food


Book Description

This book is written to solve the one of the biggest problem of mothers of today's world i.e. how to teach kids eat healthy food themselves. This book provides you with the insight of what actually you are feeding to your kids. Food is the basic need, there should be no such fuss about it. Yes, we should take care of our child but besides taking care we have to make them independent individuals as well. Think for yourself if your kid can't eat food themselves how will they survive in the society. Most of the mothers think kids are not eating enough food but data shows that child obesity is on the rise. These are two contradictory statements which prevails in the society. This book will help you in finding the solutions of all these questions. In present times there is a need for change in the lifestyle of a whole family then only we can deal with the lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity. The purpose of this book is a very direct and simple one. This is simply a practical, direct action, personal improvement manual. It is written with the sole objective of helping the reader to achieve a healthy lifestyle for themselves and then to the future generation i.e kids.