The Healthy Lunchbox

Dozens of easy menus and tips to help you give your children healthy lunch-on-the-go alternatives. This upbeat guide is full of healthy alternatives to junk food–laden lunches. Drawing on her years of experience as both an educator and a mother, Marie McLendon has created a book loaded with recipes, menus, tips, and suggestions. This resource rescues you from the mundane and stressful task of figuring out how to pack a healthy lunch that your kids will actually eat.

Baby Greens

The typical American diet is a major factor in the epidemic of obesity and poor health in the country's children. Baby Greens helps parents establish healthy eating habits in their children -- and themselves -- through a diet rich in raw foods. A lively mix of education, philosophy, recipes, and activities, the book adapts the living foods approach for all ages and lifestyles. The first part of the book explains the principles of bioenergetic nutrition and shows how cutting-edge nutritional practices -- including nutritional individuality, pH balance, terrain testing, and homeopathy -- can dramatically improve a child's health. In addition to recipes and resources, the second part offers insights into the holistic approach to pregnancy, breastfeeding, extended breastfeeding, weaning, food experimentation, play, and other daily activities. Written in reassuring, easy-to-understand language, Baby Greens empowers parents to step outside the fast food box and take a proactive approach to maintaining their family's health and well-being.

Lunch Lessons : Changing the Way We Feed Our Children

Packed with step-by-step activities including 100 recipes arranged by season--this family resource brings parents and kids together in the kitchen to learn exciting and wholesome meals ands an empowering approach to food and health. This recipes-filled guide offers delightful alternatives to the school lunch frustrations, and helps parents help kids learn how to identify and appreciate healthy foods and make better choices about their lives in the future.

Superfoods for Children

Few American children go to bed hungry but millions are malnourished by even the most modest nutritional standards. Recommending 100 super foods and offering over 150 tempting, nutritious, and easy recipes, this book is the answer for caring parents who are short on time.

Superfoods for Babies and Children

With increasing public interest in the value of children's nutrition. Britain's celebrity chef Annabel Karmel has emerged as an international bestselling author and a crusader for healthier lifestyles for children and babies. As a trained cook and mother of three, Annabel has developed Superfoods to bring her wealth of knowledge to parents everywhere.

Naturally Delicious Meals for Baby

Learning to eat well and educating the palate are as important for kids as learning their abc’s. In Naturally Delicious Meals for Baby, author Gerrie Hawes has created over 150 fabulous organic, easy-to-prepare recipes—ranging from the first taste of puree to tempting toddler meals—that will help parents give their babies the best possible nutritional start in life. Hawes also includes vital information on weaning babies and toddlers, such as: how to spot the signs that show babies are ready to wean; when to introduce certain foods; allergy indicators; ways to encourage good eating habits, and much more. Complete with comprehensive meal planners for each stage and reassuring hints and advice (did you know that fennel is a good remedy for colic?), Naturally Delicious Meals for Baby will show parents how to stimulate their babies’ palates so they will develop a love for all kinds of healthy foods and great life-long eating habits.

Favorite Family Meals

Approximately 15 percent of children and adolescents are now considered overweight. The unhealthiness of family diets has generated concern about excessive fatty food and nutritionally suspect, mass-produced ready-to-eat meals in children's diets. Bestselling children's food author Annabel Karmel applies her signature fresh, fun cooking style to focusing on the family and shows how to go about enhancing everyday home-cooked family meals in her new book Favorite Family Recipes. For busy parents, stuck in a rut serving the same meals week in week out, Favorite Family Recipes offers realistic an delicious ways to improve your family diet and enjoy your time spent in the kitchen. If you are tired of making different meals for each member of the family, this book is for you. Here is a collection of all-time favorite recipes with that key ingredient, child-appeal. Parents will find inspiration for meals for all occasions, from brain-boosing breakfasts, healthy junk food like homemade burgers and chicken nuggets, low-fat recipes, nutritional lunchboxes, family suppers, and even adult dinner parties. Every recipe has been taste tested by a panel of children, because it's not enough to prepare healthy foods for kids--they have to want to eat them too! Annabel Karmel offers realistic guidelines designed to give families a healthy makeover in the form of organizing a healthy cupboard, refrigerator, and freezer. She also gives advice on how to promote good nutrition to children and make life a little easier for all parents with time-saving and planning tips.

Better Baby Food

There are almost 4,000,000 babies born each year in America. Every one of these babies needs nourishment from day one. Providing a healthy diet through proper nutrition and good recipes is one of the most important needs in our society; not just for today but for the rest of each baby's life. The introduction of both solid and transition foods (which begins at approximately 8 months) is discussed in detail and eventually leads to toddler food and meal planning. Vegetarian diets, snacks, caring for teeth, food and travel, and allergies are just some of the topics covered. Every section is full of nutritional information, tips and common sense guidelines on how to promote a healthy beginning for a child. Extensive comparisons on prepared and homemade foods is featured, along with sections on vitamins and minerals. Each section is broken down by age category and then accompanied by the age appropriate recipe. This is truly the most complete guide to baby and toddler food for today's parent. The advice and guidance is authoritative and complete. Presentation is accessible and most importantly, user friendly for parents. Packed with tips, hints and 250 everyday recipes that can be easily prepared, Better Baby Food is a must have for every parent.

Healthy Kids

The ultimate guide for parents to feeding, nurturing, and inspiring their children in a culture dominated by junk food, inactivity, and childhood health problems. Healthy Kids includes fun and fabulous recipes, time-saving shopping lists, and a special for kids only section. Marilu's newest work is an invaluable resource that provides compelling insights, testimonials, and stories, and grounded guidance on this vital aspect of childrearing.

From Animal Crackers To Wild West Beans

In today's fast-paced, fast food world, providing a child with an interesting and healthy diet on a daily basis is one of a parent's more challenging tasks. From Animal Crackers to Wild West Beans meets that challenge by presenting parents with an exciting collection of more than 100 delicious, easy-to-prepare vegetarian recipes for healthy babies and children. Vegetarian and non-vegetarian parents alike will find that this one-of-a-kind cookbook features meals that even the most finicky child will enjoy. Each delectable dish featured in From Animal Crackers to Wild West Beans contains nutritious ingredients such as fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes--helping a child learn to like these foods from the beginning of his or her life.

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Clueless in the Kitchen

You're young, you're hungry, you're clueless! The kitchen looms before you like something from a bad horror film. There's food in there, but then what? It'll have to be cooked... or at least peeled. Probably both. It's enough to scare even the foolhardy, but then so is a diet of macaroni and cheese. And you can't afford to keep ordering pizza. Aaarghh! Relax! You're not alone. Author Evelyn Raab (mom to two teenage sons) understands that the kitchen is alien territory, and she is going to teach you everything you need to know to produce something deliciously edible out of actual ingredients -- in other words, cook -- and live to tell the tale. Incredibly thorough, never condescending, and with a dash of humor, Clueless in the Kitchen leads culinary neophytes through the entire range of kitchen experience -- from cleaning a stove and outfitting a first kitchen (cheaply), to unplugging a drain and identifying that stuff in the bulk-food bins. Two hundred easy-to-follow recipes show how to make all kinds of simple and scrumptious dishes for every meal and occasion, beginning with Breakfast: A Cruel Joke and ending with Snacks and Munchies. There's even a chapter devoted exclusively to the Vehemently Vegetarian. And there's more! Each recipe is coded with an icon symbolizing vegetarian meals, cheap eats, couch potato, mom, or family food, food to impress, and snacks and munchies. And useful menu planners will help you tailor the perfect meal to every guest, whether that guest is your shallow but fun boy/girlfriend, your aunt Gladys, or (gasp!) your entire family. Whether you're living on your own for the very first time or you're just on your own for dinner, Clueless in the Kitchen will be the first and -- hopefully -- only guide you will ever need. You may never eat macaroni and cheese again!

Enchanted Cakes for Children

Containing over 20 endearing characters and scenes, including familiar characters from favorite fairy tales such as the Snow Queen, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella and over 250 color photographs, this book will enable cake decorators of all levels of experience to produce delightful cakes that will enthrall children and adults alike.

50 Ways to Take the Junk Out of Junk Food

A collection of 50 recipes for snacks and treats that are nutritious and simple enough to be prepared in 15 minutes or less. This book offers tasty (even to kids!) alternatives to the sugar- and fat-rich snacks that nutritionists tell us form far too large a part of the diets of many American children. It provides creative ideas to reverse the unhealthy diet habits of kids who may suffer from obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, mood swings, and tooth decay. These recipes are fun, simple, and fast, and can be the start of a new tradition in family healthy eating.

Semi Homemade Cooking With Kids

Cool kids' cuisine and nothing is made from scratch. With Sandra's guidance throughout the book, kids learn to have fun and succeed at cooking in the kitchen – with nothing made from scratch! Cool kid cuisine includes recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, after-school, snacking, desserts and drinks. Chapters speak directly to kids with Bright Breakfasts, Movie Munchies, Smart Snacks, Sleepover Sensations and more. Plus, each chapter is filled with lively illustrations to draw kids into the book and into the kitchen.