The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals
by Missy Chase Lapine
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Author: Missy Chase LapineBrand: Baker and Taylor
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-04
ISBN: 0762430753
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Running Press
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Book Review: A Good Buy
Summary: 5 Stars
I consider myself a cookbook-aholic and I am usually disappointed, but I like this book. The recipes are good and convincing. I grew up in a vegetarian family (eew!)and found solace in fruits and veggies. I still have a hard time with rice and I will not eat "toe-food" no matter what you do to it. But being married to a man that only eats "kid vegetables", having one child with an extremely limited menu, and a second that was a good eater until she started taking cues from her brother, I am confounded about a healthy menu that my entire family will eat. I am not particularly secretive about using the book and it has become a very popular dinner game trying to guess what mom hid in the meal. Which, by the way, is another good way to keep their mind off what is on their plates. I have found that my seven-year-old doesn't really care what I put in the food as long as he likes the taste of the end result. I think the book does a good job of introducing tastes and textures of whole grains and I am anticipating the release of the adult version of the book, because it will make it alot easier to incorporate the foods we "should" eat or just to really boost the nutritional content of whatever you make.
Another fundamental point about this book is the puree concept. Mainly, the purees are actually recipes, you aren't just pureeing carrots and dumping them into something. Since I also own "Deceptively Delicious", I am speaking from experience when I say that. These recipes work because effort has been taken to make the purees disappear into the food (for the most part). That said, I don't care for the "chocolate donuts", but my kids love them and my older one knows there is spinach in them. I also love that I can send the donuts and cookies in my son's school lunch and he knows he is having a healthy treat (otherwise he doesn't sweets in his lunch)and the crunchy corn chips are his first choice over any other chip or snack food in his lunch box.
I also recommend Beginner Dinner Games and Dinner Games as a very good way to not have to watch your child push his food around on his plate. Mine accidentally ate an entire bowl of chili and asked for seconds thanks to this game and the crunchy corn chips.
Beginner Dinner Games
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