The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals
February 8th, 2010
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- ISBN13: 9780762430758
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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)
It’s a book chock-full of strategies that will help any parent incorporate better health for the whole family.
The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals
February 8th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
I don’t love the concept of lying to your children and not teaching them to eat like socialized humans.
But I hope Jessica Seinfeld loses her shirt. What a witch.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 9th, 2010 at 12:34 am
I bought this book at a yard sale only to later learn about the author’s lawsuits against Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld. I was ashamed to have supported this author even through the secondhand route. I used this book for tinder at my last summer BBQ. This book ended up being the best $0.50 bargin from this year’s garage sales (a can of lighter fluid runs over $3). I highly recommend this book as a means to get charcoal started.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 9th, 2010 at 12:55 am
I appreciate the good intention of the author but I do not understand why any mother would like to deceive her own children. The whole idea of “sneaking” is just wrong. What kind of message are you sending to the kids? That it is OK to deceive? Why not simply educate the kids about what is good for them? Why not make them acquire the taste for healthy foods? Being sneaky might work in the short term but it is absolutely preposterous idea to suggest to any mother. Beside that, sneaking veggies into junk food gives only the impression that junk food is acceptable.
My mother does not sneak any veggies into my meals. She made me acquire the taste for carrot juice rather the coke, and for fresh salad rather then fries. But in order to do that, each mother needs to educate herself first. I suggest replacing Sneaky Chef with more reasonable literature, such as for example `Can We Live 150′ with a lot of great advice about proper eating habits, proper food combination, and much more.
Rating: 2 / 5
February 9th, 2010 at 2:23 am
If you like Sneaky Chef- then you’ll love Benny’s Burgeritis~ a hilarious little story about a stubborn little boy (sound familiar?) who refuses to eat anything but hamburgers until one day the unexpected happens that changes Benny Buttons’ life, and appreciation for vegetables, forever! Meet Dr. K. Chupp, the family doctor, who pays Benny Buttons’ a visit, and gives him the advice he needs ~ a good ‘ol reality check about “burgeritis”!! What a hamburger hoot!
Rating: 5 / 5
February 9th, 2010 at 2:37 am
The premise of this book is great: make several healthy ‘puree’s’ ahead of time to be used in a myriad of different kid-friendly recipes. The beginning of the book is all fluff, and the recipes, while i’m sure tasty, are too much for a quick weeknight meal. I don’t know about anyone else, but I have absolutely no time to make 9 puree’s ahead of time with ingredients that I really don’t keep on hand that often. This book is not for a busy working mother that needs to prepare a quick healthy meal for her family in twenty minutes time.
I’m thrilled that so many people have found this cookbook to be helpful and so many kids are eating vegetables that have been “snuck” in to their favorite meals. For my family, this book was a complete waste and very impractical.
Rating: 1 / 5