Awesome Food for Active Kids

Improving a child's diet can improve mood, health, and concentration, helping even the most energetic child get the most out of life and do his or her best in sports or other activities. Awesome Foods for Active Kids contains all the information and suggestions needed to ensure any active child from five to 16 is getting a healthy diet. Author Anita Bean explains the basics of nutrition, with notes on how to easily incorporate optimal nutrients into the diet. Tables and charts show how much of each nutrient children need, and where they can get it from. There are notes throughout on what youngsters will need if they are particularly active. Monthly menu plans are included, both vegetarian and non-vegetarian, plus a list of healthy after school snacks, lunchbox treats, and after-sport snacks. Separate chapters cover overweight children, children in sports, fussy eaters, and eating at school, making this a book useful for every parent.

Healthy Foods, Healthy Kids

The most up-to-date information parents can find! Parents know that healthy eating habits are important. But in today's fast-paced world, guiding children's food choices can be a full-time job! What's a busy parent to do? In Healthy Foods, Healthy Kids, nutritionist Elizabeth M. Ward offers easy-to-follow guidelines for health-conscious parents. This comprehensive guide is packed with nutritional information critical to a young child's formative years. From a detailed look at sound food choices to helping establish a lifetime pattern of healthy living, this book has it all!

Healthy Start Kids' Cookbook

Kids Can Now Have Their Mudcake and Eat It, Too. The Healthy Start Kids’ Cookbook shows 6- to 10-year-olds that making nutritious food they love can be just as fun as eating it. With a little help from an adult, children can create delicious, easy, and imaginative concoctions that are surprisingly good for them. Each recipe includes step-by-step instructions, preparation and cooking times, utensil listings, and complete nutrition information. In all, this illustrated cookbook contains 90 fun kid-tested recipes fully approved by parents and nutritionists alike. Included are fun-to-make recipes you’ll feel good about that kids eat-up, such as: Painted Pancakes Fruit Kabobs Oven Baked Chicken Nuggets Kids’ Quick Chili Friendly Fowl in Foil Gingerbread Muffins The book also offers kitchen safety tips and recipes for special occasions like birthdays and the last day of school. Lively and kid-friendly, (this book) incorporates all the elements of healthful eating into a simple guide for kids. — Mindy Hermann, R.D., Consulting Nutrition Editor, Child Magazine

Entertaining Edibles

You’ve seen them decorating plates at the toniest restaurants, admired them at weddings, and marveled at the chefs who designed them—and now you can produce a dazzling array of ornamental fruit and vegetable centerpieces at home. Turn peppers, peas, and ginger root into a festive holiday reindeer, or transform squash, potatoes, olives, and berries into a laughing leprechaun for a St. Patrick’s Day feast. Simple instructions and dozens of photographs in a concealed spiral-bound volume make it easy to achieve terrific results. From creating a workspace and choosing tools to finding supplies and designing your own projects, the information here will have you producing playful, charming, and elegant food creations in no time.

Healthy Family Cookbook

Eating together as a family makes for stronger families and more responsible children. Hope Ricciotti of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and her husband chef, Vincent Connelly, tell you their secrets for making family meals a time of joy and good eating. Dr. Ricciotti gives the latest nutritional advice for babies, children, and adults, so you know what your family's needs are. She includes advice on how to get the whole family up and exercising. Easy and fast-to-cook recipes (such as Pan-Fried Chicken Sandwich with Avocado and Jack Cheese) make meeting everyone's nutritional needs a delicious delight. The authors suggest how to entice even picky eaters (Oven Baked Tacos) and provide recipes where vegetables can be put as side dishes for children or combined for a more sophisticated dish, suiting everyone's tastes (Rice Noodles with Peanut Sauce and Broccoli). They finish off dinner with luscious desserts, such as Real Chocolate Pudding

One Bite Won't Kill You

Hodgman brings together more than two hundred recipes that everyone in the family can agree on, like Nonthreatening Cheese Fondue, Taco Bake, and Roast Pork Loin with Apple Crust, many of them gathered from fellow parents. One Bite Won't Kill You also includes menus for holiday meals, recipes for birthday parties, suggestions for in-flight and car-trip snacks and, sections on feeding toddlers, preschoolers, elementary school kids and adolescents.

Fat-proof Your Child

Supportive source book & diet & exercise guide spells out why of problem & offers simple, easy-to-implement solutions. 100+ recipes. 512 pgs. Spiral (List 15.95)

Gimme Five!

When children learn how to eat right at an early age, they take pleasure in it for the rest of their long, healthy lives. This guide shows parents how to involve youngsters in planning and preparing meals, so that eating right becomes a hands-on family activity. Colorful page design and mouth-watering photography are supplemented by solid nutritional information and practical advice. Author Nicola Graimes, a mother of two, highlights one fruit or vegetable at a time. She explains portions and nutritional values, and provides simple recipes — including Leek and Potato Soup, All-in-One Tuna Risotto, Chinese Rice with Salmon Kebobs, and Toffee Apple Cinnamon Buns — that families can prepare together. At the end of the book is a pull-out calendar and happy-faced vegetable and fruit stickers. As children eat fruits and vegetables during the day, the stickers give them a fun way to keep track of their daily intake, while they reduce the risk of cancer, diabetes, obesity, and other health problems.

Kids' Baking

With a little help from Mom, Dad, and this mouthwatering collection, it’s amazing what kids can create in the kitchen! From Chunky Herb Focaccia to Triple Chocolate Brownies, these yummy recipes for sweet and savory treats will have junior chefs measuring, mixing, pouring, and of course, licking the spoon. Some are simple enough so that even a tiny toddler can join in the fun, while older kids can experiment with the more advanced ideas for cakes to impress—including a Very Berry Cheesecake. The equipment and ingredient lists will keep children organized and each step is clearly set out. Cheerful color photographs capture young cooks in action, as well as the final luscious-looking results.

KidShape Cafe

KidShape is one of the few successful programs in America that deal with childhood obesity by focusing on nutrition education, physical activity, and mental health counseling. Out of this experience, Dr. Naomi Neufeld and her staff have created healthy meals for parents who want results, not theories. The book’s tried-and-true recipes, food tips, and menus make it a fun, one-of-a-kind resource for healthy living. It includes: More than 150 kid-tested healthy recipes Daily menus at four different calorie levels: 1200, 1500, 1800, and 2200 Three weeks’ worth of menus, complete with weekly shopping lists Healthy alternatives to foods that are not good for children How to involve children in making healthy eating decisions for themselves All recipes in this book meet the dietary guidelines of the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society.

Junior Cook Book : 1955 Classic Edition,

The cover of the popular 1955 edition of the Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cook Book says it is for the Hostess & Host of tomorrow. The host and hostess of today will be delighted to get a brand-new copy of this timeless classic. A deliciously exact reprint of the red plaid 1955 cookbook for kids. Original vintage illustrations, full-color '50s-style images, and pages that appear gently aged. The book has a practical side too! Easy-to-use tabbed chapters including beverages, breads and sandwiches, candy and cookies, desserts, main dishes, and vegetables and Sides. This fun heirloom gift is perfect to give to children who are just beginning to cook-the new Hostesses & Hosts of tomorrow.

Pillsbury Kids Cookbook

The fun and friendly way to get kids cooking Mealtime really can be family time with Pillsbury Kids Cookbook in the house. This easygoing guide gets kids up and running in the kitchen with homemade meals they can make on their own or put together with a little help from mom or dad. Geared to first-time cooks ages eight and older, the book includes 66 recipes divided into chapters for every meal of the day, plus festive food for Halloween, tea parties, and slumber parties. Each recipe has a list of necessary tools and clear how-to instructions, plus a color photo and a kid-friendly tip. A special icon flags recipes that need an adult to chip in. Everyone’s favorite kitchen companion, the Pillsbury Doughboy, pops up throughout the book to lend a hand and add to the fun. And it’s serious fun, as children learn the basics of cooking and baking along with food safety, terms, and techniques. Best of all? They’ll be able to say I did it! while digging into treats like Bunny Rabbit Pancakes, wowing adults with Chicken Wraps or Skillet Nacho Chili, and scaring friends with Ghosts on Broomsticks.

America's Best Cookbook for Kids with Diabetes

Healthy, tasty food that the whole family can enjoy. Imagine a child with a diabetes-restricted diet and you understand the need for America's Best Cookbook for Kids with Diabetes. Over two million children and teenagers along with their families are currently managing diabetes with diet. As the incidence of Type 2 diabetes increases, this number will continue to grow. This book has been developed to help parents of children with diabetes provide delicious and nutritious kid-friendly food that the whole family can enjoy. Whether it's Chocolate and Strawberry Waffles or Spaghetti and Meatballs or Peanut Butter Chip Muffins, these are recipes kids will enjoy and parents will feel confident serving. All the recipes help to deliver the supervised diet that children with diabetes require without making them feel deprived or left out in some way. Over 125 recipes provide outstanding meal ideas for everything from after school snacks to main meals and desserts. Each recipe includes a complete nutritional breakdown and has been extensively reviewed by top diabetes educators.

The Disney Bakery

With this book, you can bring magic from your imagination into your kitchen: each recipe is vividly inspired by one of the classic animated Disney films. Turn piecrusts into Aristocats and puff pastry into Aladin's lamp, or, best of all, turn a rainy afternoon into a mouthwatering memory to treasure!

Better Food for Kids

Every parent understands the importance of providing their children with nutritious, well-balance meals. But that's just part of what kids need to grow up strong and healthy. Between the ages of 2 and 6, children develop many of the attitudes to eating, nutrition and lifestyle that will carry through to their adult lives. As a parent, there may never be a time when you have a greater influence on your child's future well being. Better Food for Kids. This comprehensive guide provides over 100 pages of age-specific nutritional information, as well as 150 recipes that are specially designed to appeal to young appetites -- although parents will love them too! Here you'll find useful answers to the questions most parents have about feeding young children, including: What vitamins and minerals are most important? Is a vegetarian diet healthy for a child? How much milk is good for children? What about juice? What are the signs of food allergy? Are organic foods safer or more nutritious than conventional types? Should overweight children be put on a diet? Do daycare or school meals provide adequate nutrition? What's the best way to encourage physical activity in children? Written by the same authors as the bestselling Better Baby Food, Better Food for Kids has also been developed with the world-renowned Hospital for Sick Children, so you can be sure that it provides the most expert, up-to-date information available. Of course, being knowledgeable about healthy food is one thing, preparing it is another. In this book you'll find recipes for everything from speedy breakfasts to hearty dinners. And just in case your kids think that nutritious food isn't fun to eat, just wait until they try the snacks and dessert recipes! For professional advice and great-tasting recipes, Better Food for Kids is a resource you'll use every day.