Product Description

How do you ensure your child's health and interest in a variety of foods without fighting or spending all day in the kitchen? Registered Dietician and mom Beverly Pressey gives parents simple, constructive tips and information to create healthy, smart eaters.
In Simple and Savvy Strategies for Creating Healthy Eaters, you'll learn more than nutrition basics for children. You'll discover how and when to introduce solid food, how to continue introducing new, healthy foods into your growing child's diet and how to deal with all of your child's food issues, challenges or demands. Most importantly, you'll gain the confidence of knowing you're feeding your child appropriately and are providing the environment and responses children need to learn to eat well.
Additionally, Beverly Pressey coaches parents through menu planning, deciphering nutrition labels, once-a-week grocery shopping, food safety and how to handle those ''fun foods'' on holidays and special occasions. Best of all, Pressey's approach is reasonable and practical. From one mom to another, she understands the parental pressures of daily life.
Use Simple and Savvy Strategies for Creating Healthy Eaters as a guidebook, a reference manual, and a shared experience between two parents. The information is priceless and the instructions are coming from a friend who's been in the trenches of family feeding. Pressey shows us that raising children with healthy emotional relationships with food can be fun and simpler than expected.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #672651 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 130 pages

Review
''Simple and Savvy Strategies for Creating Healthy Eaters needs to be on every parent s bookshelf. It's got tons of important information for parents to absorb. From sound eating behavioral advice to precise nutritional information, this is a book parents will refer to year after year.'' ---Jan Faull, M.Edl, Unplugging Power Struggles: Resolving Emotional Battles with Your Kids Ages 2-10 and Seattle Times Parenting Columnist

''A wonderful, easy to read road map for parents. This book answers all the essential questions from first baby foods to tips on getting kids to enjoy meals, plus an essential guide for food shopping and quick food preparation. Additionally, this is the only book addressing the emotional aspects for encouraging healthy eating habits.'' ---Julie M. Soto, M.S. Director: Parent Education/Early Learning Programs, Bellevue Community College (Bellevue, WA), Author of Infant, Toddler and Preschoolers: Best Resources for Parents

Review
''A wonderful, easy to read road map for parents. This book answers all the essential questions from first baby foods to tips on getting kids to enjoy meals, plus an essential guide for food shopping and quick food preparation. Additionally, this is the only book addressing the emotional aspects for encouraging healthy eating habits.''

About the Author
Having a love for food and a concern for children, Beverly Pressey started her career in nutrition by cooking at a Seattle child care center and a kitchen catering to child care centers. After graduating from Bastry University with a Masters Degree in Nutrition and becoming a Registered Dietician, she worked for the Seattle-King County Healthy Department. Beverly Pressey traveled around the Seattle area, consulting with child care center staff and parents. Currently she is in her 7th year as the Nutritionist for the Infant-Parent Lab at Bellevue Community College and her 4th year at the Jewish Community Center's Parenting Center.
As an experienced teacher and speaker, Beverly Pressey has presented at many conferences and taught classes at Bastyr University, North Seattle Community College, Puget Consumer Cooperative and Seattle Conservation Corp. After 12 years of practice she has observed thousands of children eating in different environments and enjoying a wide variety of foods. This has given her a realistic understanding of infant/child eating patterns and behaviors. She has also had opportunities to hear the personal and emotional frustrations some parents experience around food and meal time issues.
Beverly currently lives in Washington with her two young children and her husband, Chris.

Customer Reviews

Everything you need to know about feeding your kids!
This book is a great resource for parents looking for guidance and information about feeding their young kids. It is full of facts and helpful tips about all things kids and eating and is organized in a way that allowed me to return to sections of particular interest, such as introducing solid foods and avoiding food battles, when needed. The subjects and ideas are presented in a parent-friendly, easy-to-implement, non-judgmental way. The book has had a great positive impact on my family meals and my kids eating habits!

Gotta Have if if you have kids...PERIOD!


I use to tell people the only baby book you WILL ever need is Baby411, now I tell them to buy Simple and Savvy TOO! I have a 5 year old and a 3 year old and I attribute all of their FANTASTIC eating habits to Beverly! They eat hummus, veggies, fruits, SALAD, brown rice, seafood, sushi, edamame...pretty much everything. (Not big fans of carrots but then again neither are their Mom and Dad!)

Beverly's book is wonderful and we refer to it often, but long before her book she was a lifesaver. She was the nutritionist in my 5 year old's infant class. I could not understand why we needed a nutritionist when we were all holding babies who were breast-feeding or drinking formula...but 5 years later I can tell you it all makes sense! Healthy eaters are created YOUNG with first foods and introductions (and repeated introductions) to a wide variety of foods.

I had no idea hummus could be baby food. Or that I could scoop avocado into my child's mouth right from the source! Beverly takes the guess work and headache out of feeding your little ones...makes it fun...and most of all makes great sense!

We are not perfect and our kids get their fair share of sugar and what we call "fun foods" (like McDonalds) but it sure nice to not have to rely on chicken nuggets and hot dogs in order to get my kids to eat.

Beverly also has lots of tips and tricks for those who missed the window early on....it is never to late to start your kids on a healthy path and relationship with food!

You will love this little gem of a book!

Packed with great information!
I'm amazed every time I open this book at how chock full of fantastic information it is! Beverly Pressey lays it all out in a clear, concise, and highly readable way - everything from snack ideas and healthier treats to serve at birthday parties to strategies for picky eaters and translations of food labels. She provides a wealth of information about proteins, carbohydrates, and different types of fats, as well as clear guidelines for milk and juice. Within the first few pages of the book, infant feeding is fully covered, then allergy issues are quickly addressed, and the rest of the book is devoted to eating strategies, nutritional information, and meal ideas. This is not a recipe book, since Ms. Pressey is keeping it simple for parents with busy schedules. Instead she offers suggestions for grocery planning and quick-serve foods that can be combined to make healthy meals.

The rules around eating are clear as Ms. Pressey lays them out: you as the parent decide what to serve and when to serve meals, and your child decides what foods from the selection to eat and how much. There is no force-feeding, deception, bribes, or trickery in the eating strategies she discusses. If you don't want your child to eat a particular food, you don't offer it. If the child decides not to eat much at a meal because he doesn't like the food, then he will be hungry and will make up the calories in the next meal. You don't have to give in to their favorite foods just to get your children to eat. This is marvelous news!

I haven't seen any other book on this topic that covers so much material, gets to the point so quickly, and is so easy to read. I think every new mom and a lot of frustrated moms would use this book again and again. It's a great gift for baby showers and also a good 1st birthday gift idea.