Product Description

Make Healthy Meals as Fast as You Can Have Them Delivered In a world of frozen dinners and fast food drive-thrus, nutrition has taken a backseat to convenience. And for working parents, finding the time to cook wholesome dinners is no picnic. Finally, here’s help for parents in a pickle—a cook-book full of healthy and delicious recipes you can make in 30 minutes or less. Quick Meals for Healthy Kids and Busy Parents is the perfect solution for tight schedules and empty stomachs. With over 140 tasty recipes for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, desserts, and snacks, it’s easy to prepare food the whole family feels good about. Here are just a few of the delightful dishes that will please parents and captivate kids:Beefy Turnovers • Fruited Rice • Garlic Chicken Stir-Fry • Mexican Corn Pudding • Apple Biscuits • Porcupine Meatballs • Pumpkin Pancakes • Spicy Oven Fried Potatoes • Peanut Butter Play Dough • Frozen Yogurt Sandwiches This Indispensable Guide Also Includes:

• Timesaving ideas for organizing your grocery shopping and your kitchen.
• Suggestions for snacks, lunch boxes, feeding picky eaters, and eating out.
• Information on the food pyramid and nutrient labeling system.
• Nutrition analysis and exchange values for each recipe.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42432 in Books
• Published on: 1995-08-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780471346982
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From the Back Cover
Make Healthy Meals as Fast as You Can Have Them Delivered In a world of frozen dinners and fast food drive-thrus, nutrition has taken a backseat to convenience. And for working parents, finding the time to cook wholesome dinners is no picnic. Finally, here’s help for parents in a pickle—a cook-book full of healthy and delicious recipes you can make in 30 minutes or less. Quick Meals for Healthy Kids and Busy Parents is the perfect solution for tight schedules and empty stomachs. With over 140 tasty recipes for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, desserts, and snacks, it’s easy to prepare food the whole family feels good about. Here are just a few of the delightful dishes that will please parents and captivate kids:Beefy Turnovers • Fruited Rice • Garlic Chicken Stir-Fry • Mexican Corn Pudding • Apple Biscuits • Porcupine Meatballs • Pumpkin Pancakes • Spicy Oven Fried Potatoes • Peanut Butter Play Dough • Frozen Yogurt Sandwiches This Indispensable Guide Also Includes:

• Timesaving ideas for organizing your grocery shopping and your kitchen.
• Suggestions for snacks, lunch boxes, feeding picky eaters, and eating out.
• Information on the food pyramid and nutrient labeling system.
• Nutrition analysis and exchange values for each recipe.

About the Author
SANDRA NISSENBERG, M.S., R.D., MARGARET BOGLE, PH.D., R.D., and AUDREY WRIGHT, M.S., R.D., are all mothers and registered dietitians experienced in infant and child nutrition. Audrey Wright is president of the American Dietetic Association Foundation and director of the Father Walter Memorial Child Care Center in Montgomery, Alabama. Margaret Bogle is a former board member of the American Dietetic Association Foundation and is on the faculty of the University of Arkansas pediatrics department. Sandra Nissenberg is a nutrition consultant in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. They’re also the authors of How Should I Feed My Child?

Customer Reviews

This is the cookbook I use when I don't feel like cooking!
I must admit I'm a cook book junkie--always at the library and book stores looking for healthy, "kid-friendly" recipes. I purchased this book on a whim five years ago, and would rate it my all time favorite "family" cookbook. Recipes are in chapters: Soups, Chicken & Fish, Ground Beef (Turkey), Vegetables, Grains, Tortillas, Potatos, Pita Pockets, Stir-fry, Salads, Breads, Finishing touches, Snacks & Lunch treats for kids, and finally Beverages. At the end of all recipes are suggestions to "balance your meal." Many of these suggestions are other recipes in the cook book. There are also several microwave recipes throught the book. The tortilla recipes (Bean Burrito--micro & fast!) and pita recipes (Chicken Parmesan Pita)are especially good. The Chocolate Pudding (micro) recipe is a great after school snack. The bottom line is that my kids will eat almost everything I cook from this book, and I can't say that about any other cook book I own.

Cheese Whiz?
Someone tell me, is instant rice, chopped frozen broccoli and CHEESE WHIZ really healthy? If so, I have been doing family meals all wrong!

The book does have some so-so recipes, but they aren't anything that I cant come up with on my own. There are no pictures which makes searching it as exciting as watching paint dry. It is just a major disappointment. I think people who would benefit from this book are people who tend to do fast-food or frozen food a lot, because these recipes are very easy and quick and a whole lot better then a happy meal. But for me, who loves to cook for the family, its just too boring and doesn't deliver on the healthy aspect.

Pros: Quick easy recipes
Has suggestions how to balance the meal (the key to a healthy dinner)
Recipes are much better then fast food

Cons: Not so healthy sometimes
No pictures

Pretty Good, But not Great
Decent recipes. Not gourmet by any stretch of the imagination, but they're pretty good (the Chunky Apple Muffins are *very* delicious!). However, some recipes do use heavily processed stuff like cream-of-whatever soup, cheez whiz, etc. Ick. :( It's very easy and takes just a few minutes to make a white sauce instead of using a can of cream soup. Not sure why the authors didn't do that instead, as it's much better - both for flavor and health - than the processed stuff.

My biggest complaint is that the cover says that the recipes can be made in 30 minutes or less. Not true for all of them! I can think of several off the top of my head that take anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. I wish they wouldn't have advertised what they couldn't deliver.