"The Cleaner Plate Club" comes to the rescue. Mummy-bloggers Beth Bader and Alison Benjamin offer simple solutions, recipes, meal suggestions, and tips to help parents get kids to eat non processed food that's been grown locally or organically and guess what? enjoy it. They recognize that cooking real food isn't difficult, but it does require some know-how, which they supply with humour and compassion. Beth and Alison show readers how to prepare foods found at the farmers' market (and how to substitute, say, asparagus for string beans if need be), plan ahead and estimate prep time, and get used to cooking food that doesn't come with printed directions. Their fresh advice will help parents eliminate food waste, plan for leftovers, present foods that are appealing to kids, and quit fighting with their children - finally -about food. "The Cleaner Plate Club" offers kid-tested recipes for every meal, basic vegetable preparations for farmers' market finds, and more healthful recipes for sweets and snacks. Readers will also find shopping strategies, the reasons kids like the foods they do, and vegetable profiles (including nutrition information and tips on selection, storage, and preparation). Expert advice and innovative ideas about feeding kids make this book a must-have for any parent. Fresh, funny, and nonjudgmental, "The Cleaner Plate Club" is a recipe for healthier kids and happier parents.
I really really like this book...It's a very thorough book, very readable, very friendly...ultimately, it gives you tons and tons of strategies, recipes, instructions for how to use whole foods -- which of course don't come with instructions -- to make mealtime not only more pleasant, but more healthy for the kids and for the rest of the family.--Jeff McIntire Strasburg "Sustainablog "
"If your offspring don't devour the zucchini-bacon fritters and pumpkin white-cheddar soup, you most certainly will."
"Check out "The Cleaner Plate Club" by Beth Bader and Ali Benjamin, two moms that strive to feed their families fresh vegetables and whole foods. Before you roll your eyes, these authors do seem to understand that all children are different and admit that theirs are not aliens that would reject fried chicken strips when given the chance to eat them, so many of their recipes have a bit of a sweet edge to appeal to the younger palate. One hundred kid tested recipes and profiles of 25 different veggies that include nutritional info and tips on selecting and preparing them are included. There is also a seasonal index of recipes that enables you to cook freshest items in your market. With all of the above this book will have you well on your way to improving the nutritional content of your next delicious meal. "
"If your offspring don t devour the zucchini-bacon fritters and pumpkin white-cheddar soup, you most certainly will.""
A down-to-earth guide for busy parents trying to raise healthy kids.
--Jeff McIntire Strasburg "Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe "
"If your offspring don t devour the zucchini-bacon fritters and pumpkin white-cheddar soup, you most certainly will."
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"Check out
The Cleaner Plate Club by Beth Bader and Ali Benjamin, two moms that strive to feed their families fresh vegetables and whole foods. Before you roll your eyes, these authors do seem to understand that all children are different--and admit that theirs are not aliens that would reject fried chicken strips when given the chance to eat them, so many of their recipes have a bit of a sweet edge to appeal to the younger palate. One hundred kid tested recipes and profiles of 25 different veggies that include nutritional info and tips on selecting and preparing them are included. There is also a seasonal index of recipes that enables you to cook freshest items in your market. With all of the above this book will have you well on your way to improving the nutritional content of your next delicious meal."
"If your offspring don't devour the zucchini-bacon fritters and pumpkin white-cheddar soup, you most certainly will."
