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| Quick Meals for Healthy Kids and Busy Parents: Wholesome Family Recipes in 30 Minutes or Less From Three Leading Child Nutrition Experts | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sandra K. Nissenberg, Margaret L. Bogle, Audrey C. Wright
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 18413
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471346985
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5622
EAN: 9780471346982
ASIN: 0471346985
Publication Date: August 6, 1995
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Condition: Brand new! May have a remainder mark.
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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 This is the cookbook I use when I don't feel like cooking! November 18, 2000
168 out of 169 found this review helpful
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? August 22, 2005
107 out of 113 found this review helpful
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 January 31, 2006
38 out of 38 found this review helpful
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.
 Too much sugar, processed food.... June 13, 2006
34 out of 35 found this review helpful
This book was disappointing. For starters, if you're cooking healthy recipes you should not be using instant rice, or canned cream-of-whatever soup. And just because you're cooking for children doesn't mean you have to add sugar to vegetables!
There are a few good recipes but borrow from your library first. I think the early Mollie Katzen cookbooks (Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Moosewood Cookbook) have much healthier recipes.
A Real Lifesaver - Changed How My Family Eats for the BETTER August 28, 2001
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
I absolutely love that I found this book. Everynight I would toil over something easy and quick to make and always ended up with something frozen, coated in shake and bake and following with rice a roni or the like. Now, all has changed! Every recipe I've tried so far is remarkably easy and much healthier! A special note - my 16 month old LOVES the homemade chicken nuggets!!! Who knew wheat germ could taste so good?? I HIGHLY recommend this book for any family on the go, or anybody who doesn't want to spend all day in the kitchen! Oh, and the desserts and breads are sooooooo easy and very delicious!
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