The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals

The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals | Missy Chase Lapine | WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW WON'T HURT THEM

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	The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals Missy Chase Lapine Running Press, 2007 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 250 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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)

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I've heard some strong opinions about this book being about deceiving own children and that no matter what good intention a mother has, she should never deceive her own children. Although this could be a good ground for a longer discussion about ethics, here are some points that, in my opinion, make `Sneaky Chef' a good buy:

1. Children only eat what they find attractive to their eyes and their taste buds. Any reasoning about food nutritional value is blocked and absolutely ignored. So if you have a case of a child absolutely abhorring vegetables then the only way to make vegetables a part of daily meals, is to sneak them in to the dish under some disguise.
2. Any reasoning about nutrition is simply not possible in case of small children. It's better to feed them now with the help of Sneaky Chef and teach them later to eat more variety of foods.
3. Many of the recipes provided by the author are also very useful in case of stubborn adults who, like big children, are only guided by the physical appeal of meals rather then by their nutritional content.
4. In the first part of the book the author provided a lot of valuable information about selecting the proper ingredients for making meals, about organic foods, as well as about food contamination, etc.
5. The variety of healthy food recipes in this book is tremendous!
6. Last, but not least, the meals are tasty and appealing to the eye.

`Sneaky Chef' is a great book for anyone who makes his or her meals at home, not only for mothers concerned about properly feeding their children. I also suggest reading about Proper Food Combination in this other book that I highly recommend for all people concerned about healthy life style and longevity.

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WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW WON'T HURT THEM

Because kids rarely like vegetables and healthy foods, this book fills an important need. The main useful emphasis of the book is the idea of sneaking pureed vegetables into kid-friendly dishes. In addition to sneaking in the vegetables, the recipes take some of the unhealthy ingredients out. The book offers traditional recipes with purees or healthier replacements that add fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants to meals. The book is easy to read and presents a practical guide for parents.

Contents:
Introduction by Anastassios Koumbourlis, M.D. MPH
Chapter 1: Keep `em Happy and Healthy
Chapter 2: For Their Own Good
Chapter 3: My Philosophy About Food
Chapter 4: The Lists (Organic foods, Contaminated foods, "In" and "Out", Staples)
Chapter 5: The Sneaky Chef Bag of Tricks
Chapter 6: Make-Ahead Recipes (Purees, Juices, etc)
THE RECIPES
Breakfast Recipes
Lunch Recipes
Snacks
Dinner
Treats
Drinks
Index

I like the idea of sneaking in healthy purees, but after kids decide they like one of the dishes, tell them that what they liked contains healthy fruits or veggies! Then kids learn that healthy foods don't have to taste icky. If you also need to slim down (a child's most important role models are his/her parents), I also recommend THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams. I hope people will buy Sneaky Chef rather than the celebrity copycat.

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incredible well written original! i love it!

i love this book, the style in which is was written, the recipes, the whole enchilada. i have bought several copies as gifts AND i think it's much better than seinfield's wife wanna be who copied it.

sneaky chef

Love the nutritional info! The recipes are easy and practical. I am very pleased with this purchase.

Good Book

I know a lot about whole foods and was a little suspicious about this book but it gave me some new info. and some great, inspiring ideas for my 2 year old!

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