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Author: Jessica Seinfeld
Creators: Steve Vance, Lisa Hubbard
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book

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Pages: 204
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 8.4 x 1.2

ISBN: 006176793X
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5973
EAN: 9780061767937
ASIN: 006176793X

Publication Date: October 14, 2008
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Review
It has become common knowledge that childhood obesity rates are increasing every year. But the rates continue to rise. And between busy work schedules and the inconvenient truth that kids simply refuse to eat vegetables and other healthy foods, how can average parents ensure their kids are getting the proper nutrition and avoiding bad eating habits? p As a mother of three, Jessica Seinfeld can speak for all parents who struggle to feed their kids right and deal nightly with dinnertime fiascos. As she wages a personal war against sugars, packaged foods, and other nutritional saboteurs, she offers appetizing alternatives for parents who find themselves succumbing to the fastest and easiest (and least healthy) choices available to them. Her modus operandi? Her book is filled with traditional recipes that kids love, except they're stealthily packed with veggies hidden in them so kids don't even know! With the help of a nutritionist and a professional chef, Seinfeld has developed a month's worth of meals for kids of all ages that includes, for example, pureed cauliflower in mac and cheese, and kale in spaghetti and meatballs. She also provides revealing and humorous personal anecdotes, tearout shopping guides to help parents zoom through the supermarket, and tips on how to deal with the kid that "must have" the latest sugar bomb cereal. p But this book also contains much more than recipes and tips. By solving problems on a practical level for parents, Seinfeld addresses the big picture issues that surround childhood obesity and its longterm (and ruinous) effects on the body. With the help of a prominent nutritionist, her book provides parents with an arsenal of information related to kids' nutrition so parents understand why it's important to throw in a little avocado puree into their quesadillas. She discusses the critical importance of portion size, and the specific elements kids simply must have (as opposed to adults) in order to flourish now and in the future: protein, calcium, vitamins, and Omega 3 and 6 fats. p Jessica Seinfeld's book is practical, easytoread, and a godsend for any parent that wants their kids to be healthy for a long time to come. p bBob Greene, author of iThe Best Life Diet/i:/bbr "I found the techniques for adding vegetables to meals extremely creative and the recipes fantastic! iDeceptively Delicious/i is a must have for your healthy kitchen." p pp p align=left span class="h1"strongQuestions for Jessica Seinfeld/strong/span p strongAmazon.com:/strong My seven-year-old inspects the food on his plate like a hawk (if there was a hawk that only ate bagels and macaroni). Anything with the least bit of color goes untouched. What's a mom or dad to do? p strongSeinfeld:/strong Two of my three children were exactly the same way. The vegetables, which I worked hard to prepare, not only went untouched, they were often insulted ("Eeewww...!"). And the harder I pushed them to eat good food, the harder they pushed back. We were literally ruining each other's meals. p That conflict was the inspiration for the book. I realized I wasn't going to win the power struggle, so I decided to join them on their turf. I started with the foods they would eat (chicken nuggets, tacos, macaroni and cheese) and I added a pureed vegetable of the same color. So if your child only eats macaroni and cheese (or noodles and butter), you should add cauliflower or yellow squash puree, which utterly disappears. Everyone wins: they get the nutrition they need and you get the satisfaction of doing a better job as a parent. p strongAmazon.com:/strong That same picky second-grader will often try something new one time and declare he likes it, but the next time we serve it, he seems to have lost his spirit of adventure and won't eat it again. Any advice? p strongSeinfeld:/strong First and foremost, remember that not every meal you prepare for a child will be a success. Kids at this age are naturally testing preferences, pushing boundaries, and changing their minds. That's part of their development and those are urges not worth battling. As I learned the hard way, the more pressure you apply, the more kids will "hate" certain foods. And, while it would be nice if kids had a "spirit of adventure" when it comes to food, I've found it's best to eliminate adventure and stick to the basics--foods they already love, laden with added nutrition they don't know is there. Finally, be consistent, firm and patient. I have a rule in my house: you don't have to eat what's on the plate, but what's on the plate is all that's being served. Eventually, they come around. pstrongAmazon.com:/strong Are your kids interested in cooking yet? Are there ways to introduce healthy eating habits with the child helping in the kitchen? pstrongSeinfeld:/strong My children are interested in baking because they love any excuse to be around sweets. But I make sure whatever we bake has pureed veggies in it and is actually low in refined sugar. So my children actually think baking cakes, brownies, and cookies with sweet potatoes, carrots, or beets is the proper way to cook. p strongAmazon.com:/strong What are your kids' favorite recipes in the book? p strongSeinfeld:/strong Every recipe in this book is a favorite. I've tried out countless creations on my kids, and if they didn't love them (which happened frequently!), they didn't make it into the book. But, if pressed, I will say they are crazy about the tacos, the chicken nuggets, the brownies, the pancakes, and my birthday cakes. strong[See her recipe for delicious brownies made with carrot and spinach.]/strong p strongAmazon.com:/strong I have to ask it, since I know many readers will: do these recipes require a squad of personal chefs to prepare, or can a busy mom or dad without seven years of iSeinfeld/i residuals put them together by themselves? p strongSeinfeld:/strong I'm a busy mom with three kids, a job, and a husband who travels constantly, but I'm uncompromising when it comes to my kids' health and nutrition. Leaving that to someone else is out of the question. My parents had three kids and both worked too, and we always managed to eat healthy meals as a family. That's the standard I've always wanted to meet. So when I started creating recipes from my pureed veggie experiments, I had three criteria: my kids had to love the food, the preparation had to be quick, and the process had to be simple. Believe me, if I can do these recipes quickly and easily, ANYONE can. p strongAmazon.com:/strong How are the reading skills of Sascha, your oldest child and pickiest eater? Have you blown your cover by publishing your secrets? p strongSeinfeld:/strong My daughter is almost seven and she not only can read, she's fully aware that her mother cooks with vegetables all the time. Two years ago, she was a picky four-year-old who thought she hated vegetables. But once she was converted and started seeing those purees going into the desserts she loves, she started to ignore the fact that they were going into the rest of her foods as well. Now it's the only kind of cooking she knows. So, to anyone with young children--start cooking Deceptively Delicious food when they are young! It's much easier than trying to change habits later on. ppp table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" tr align="center" valign="top" td width="33%"img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/a-plus/Seinfeld_Jessica_spaghetti.jpg" border="0" align="center"/td td width="33%"img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/a-plus/Seinfeld_Jessica_author.jpg" border="0" align="center"/td td width="33%"img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/a-plus/Seinfeld_Jessica_yogurt_pop.jpg" border="0" align="center"/td /tr /table ppp align="left"

Product Description
It has become common knowledge that childhood obesity rates are increasing every year. But the rates continue to rise. And between busy work schedules and the inconvenient truth that kids simply refuse to eat vegetables and other healthy foods, how can average parents ensure their kids are getting the proper nutrition and avoiding bad eating habits? A mother of three, Jessica Seinfeld wages a personal war against sugars, packaged foods, and other nutritional saboteurs, she offers appetising alternatives for parents who find themselves succumbing to the fastest and easiest (and least healthy) choices available to them.With the help of a nutritionist and a professional chef, Seinfeld has developed a month's worth of meals for kids of all ages that includes, for example, pureed cauliflower in macaroni cheese, and cabbage in spaghetti and meatballs. She also provides revealing and humorous personal anecdotes, tear-out shopping guides to help parents zoom through the supermarket, and tips on how to deal with the kid that 'must have' the latest sugar bomb cereal.

Customer Reviews: Read 95 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

LOVE IT! December 2, 2008
I bought this book at ROSS for $8 and I was a little skeptical about all the purees but I have loved everything I have tried so far. I made the buttered noodles, the hamburgers, the banana french toast and the yogurt popsicles. They have all turned out really tastey although I would use vanilla yogurt instead of plain so that the popsicles will not be so tart.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Ideas December 1, 2008
I was struggling with my toddler's picking eating. I anguished over her lack of interest in veggies...this book REALLY helps! I have now been inspired to be creative with my own recipies now that I now how different vegtables puree differently. Great book, try it..You'll love it!

4 out of 5 stars

Wonderfully Delicious November 29, 2008
This book as so many good ideas for little ones and not hard to make. Some of the ideas sound horrible to me, but my daughter ate it up! She loved the applesauce muffins (that had carrots)that I had to take them away from her. Worth every penny!br /br /Stephanie, West Virginia

5 out of 5 stars

cookbook for mothers with young children November 29, 2008
i purchased this for my daughter with my 1 yr old grandson. this is a very creative cookbook and really helped with a variety of ways to cook veggies for the young ones.

5 out of 5 stars

Good Encouragement November 28, 2008
I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend who has really enjoyed it. Even aside from the recipes, this book has some good reminders for me about kids and what, when, and how they need to eat. br /br /An example is that often we're out and I forget that my kids really do need to eat on a schedule. I'll stretch them so we can eat when we get home, but what I really need to do is take snacks and sippy cups with us. And I need to be better about doing that. br /br /So, the recipes in this book sound and look great (my friend recommends the donuts and the cupcakes, which I've tasted and were good), but the other dietary information is also encouraging. br /br /And as for the celebrity inference since she's Jerry Seinfeld's wife, I try to forget about it because it bugs me. The value of the cookbook is not because she's someone in particular's wife--rather, the real value of her authorship is that she's a mom of three kids and a husband who all have different likes and dislikes.

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