Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food by Jessica Seinfeld Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food
Book Review: Great for Children's Dishes
Summary: 4 Stars
Since my toddler will not eat vegetables, I purchased this recipe book to give me "tried-and-true" recipes that hide veggies. Of the recipes I have tried, they have been successful and my family has enjoyed the outcomes. I recommend this book to anyone who has the time and patience to make purees, and is concerned about children eating fruits and vegetables.Book Review: deceptively delicious
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this book because my grandchildren don't eat right and my grand daughter has a digestive problem. The recipies and quick and easy and so far everything is eaten and they are none the wiser and their health is better. Book Review: This book belongs in every mom's kitchen!
Summary: 5 Stars
This well-done, thoughtful book is absolutely fabulous! I thought I had tried everything to get my very picky two-year-old to eat his veggies, then this book came along. My son just loves the french toast, pancakes, mashed potatoes, and pasta with bolognese sauce....just to name a few. The recipes are delicious enough for adults to eat and appreciate too.
The book also explains how to get your kitchen equipped, how to make the purees, and lots of nutritional advice. All this info is laid out very simply and clearly. There are great pictures as well.
I don't understand some of the negative reviews and the comparisons with the sneaky chef. This book is just so much better.
Book Review: Deceptive, indeed....
Summary: 2 Stars
I currently have no trouble getting my daughter to eat her vegetables. But I had bought this book in the hopes of making some classic not-so-healthy recipes in ways that made them healthier.
I am rather disappointed in this cookbook. Now, I've only tried out 3 recipes, but they have all been great let-downs. Here are the things I dislike about this book:
1. There are fewer recipes in the book than you think there will be. About half the book is dedicated to discussing the health benefits of eating vegetables or encouraging healthy eating habits. Though this is nice, it's not new information for a lot of folks, and I find it useless in a book where I expect lots of recipes.
2. The cooking instructions aren't "quite right." For instance, in the meatloaf recipe, she instructs us to saute the finely-chopped onions for 7-10 minutes on medium-high heat, then add the finely-chopped celery, and saute for another 3-4 minutes. So, that's a total of 10-14 minutes for the onions. At minute 4, my onions were already crisping. I can't imagine following those instructions as written, and then tossing the blackened onions into a meatloaf to be baked for 50 minutes! This was true of the other recipes I tried....the times seemed to be way off.
3. She lists ingredients I would never use, like the low-fat margarine. Cooking with butter can actually be quite healthier, as long as the recipe doesn't call for an extreme amount. I prefer using natural ingredients when possible. Sure, it's easy enough to just substitute the real for the low-fat, but I just find it odd that these artificial and chemical-filled ingredients would be found recipes that encourage healthy eating. Healthy eating isn't JUST about cutting out the fat.
4. The recipes just didn't deliver. The meatloaf, though flavorful, was total mush. My husband was able to eat it with no problems a day after having oral surgery! The mashed potatoes weren't terrible, but the texture was too light. The grilled cheese sandwich was tasty, but had I grilled it for as long as she instructed, it would have been as black as an 8-ball. Having cooked it for a fraction of the time, the filling was very runny...not like a grilled cheese sandwich at all. Oh...and there was no disguising the sweet potato used in there. Fortunately for me and my daughter, we like sweet potatoes.
5. I can't help wondering if these recipes are aimed at folks with non-discriminating palates. The cauliflower flavor was very evident in the mashed potatoes, as were the sweet potatoes in the grilled cheese sandwich.
Overall, I'm disappointed in this book, and feel as though I've been deceived by all the hype. I'm willing to try a few more recipes...if only to use the purees I've already made. I'm not optomistic, though.
Book Review: Deceptively Delious..
Summary: 5 Stars
Great way to get kids to eat most vegetables & fruits! Also wonderful for adults like me who still don't like all vegetables!