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| The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids Favorite Meals | 
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| Manufacturer: Running Press
Category: EBooks
List Price: $15.95
Buy New: $9.99
You Save: $5.96 (37%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  269 reviews
Sales Rank: 836
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 271
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5622
ASIN: B000XPPVHY
Publication Date: April 7, 2007
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Product Description
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, Popsicles, 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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| Customer Reviews: Read 264 more reviews...
 Goog Choice July 18, 2008
410 out of 411 found this review helpful
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.
I can't say enough good things about this book!! May 30, 2007
343 out of 360 found this review helpful
This book is truly amazing. I have two children who won't eat a mini-carrot between them, and they are now downing veggie after veggie without suspecting a thing!! Here is the funny thing- it works on my husband too! He claims he doesn't like sweet potatoes, but he has eaten them in so many things now- I just wait and tell him afterwards (haha, guess what you just ate?!). Do I feel guilty about sneaking veggies? Not at all! Whatever I can do to help my family be healthier, I would do in a heartbeat. I have a couple of hints- first of all, buy all of your veggies at once and spend about 3 hours one afternoon once per month making the five most common veggie purees. Pour them into individual serving size freezer bags and then put all of the little bags into a gallon bag (one per type of puree), label them, and you are good to go! This is much easier than trying to puree veggies for each meal, it would become so time-consuming that you would be tempted to change your mind at the last minute and make something easier (and less healthy). I grab a bag out of the freezer, quickly defrost and then stir it in with the kids mac n' cheese, chocolate pudding, and all sorts of other "treat food" that all of a sudden become vitamin-rich dishes. I also pre-make some of the breading and flour mix too, and keep them vacuum-packed...it really simplifies things at dinnertime. Likewise, I make the breakfast cookies in a triple recipe, and save them and freeze them for a quick, easy and healthy breakfast. The meat recipes in this book are also excellent- the sloppy joes, meatballs, and the meatloaf- as well as the baked ziti and the pizza- are especially fabulous. This is the first book that I have felt compelled to write a review about, but I felt I absolutely had to do it! We have been eating almost exclusively on recipes from this book for a month now and we all feel so much healthier. Kudos to Missy Chase Lapine! Thank you!
 This only encourages lifelong habits to foods that aren't healthy June 30, 2007
250 out of 377 found this review helpful
While I commend the author for trying to get veggies into the American diet, she fails to educate on healthy foods.
Adding veggies to sweets may trick your child, but it also teaches them that sweets are food to eat for life!! Fish sticks, french fries, etc are not healthy food choices. So your child eats well at home. But in school those fish sticks aren't healthy. But this author sends the message that they're okay. Kids won't learn to tell the difference.
Far too much of the food in this book is still traditional junk food dressed up. It's still sending the message that junk food is okay to eat!! Kids don't care about the veggies but they are learning eating patterns for life.
Good idea for more veggies, not crazy about the delivery system October 16, 2007
192 out of 237 found this review helpful
I looked through this book at a bookstore and thought it was very good in spirit, but a bit poor in execution. I am not down on the book because I think any effort to increase veggies in a diet is commendable, but I wanted to supply an alternative to being sneaky with your children about their daily diet.
I only offer the following as advice for those who are interested, I do not pose an expert or anything like that. It is also not a knock on anyone's parenting skills or anything like that...
I have to say that growing up I was never tricked into eating veggies or anything else. My brother and I grew up loving veggies because my mom took 2-4 extra minutes to make them look extra appealing to a child's imagination. I think if you have time to puree veggies, maybe you could use the time to just make the veggies look better. My mom would stand our broccoli on end like tiny trees in a small bit of mashed potatoes and sprinkle a bit of parm on top for snow and call it the "tasty forest" She'd do the same thing with cauliflower and say it was winter time. She'd sometimes make a salad using a small cookie cutter for the bell pepper to make stars, which looked awesome. (I've done this too and it is really fast) If my brother and I were reading a book that had veggies in it, she'd make those veggies -- like jack and the bean stalk -- we happily ate green beans for a week! We had a TINY garden and were asked to go pick out what we wanted for dinner, she'd usually find us out there a few minutes later just eating the raw carrots or radishes. I know very few parents have the luxury of huge amounts of time or a garden, but maybe try to just get a little more creative to get the kids to like the actual veggies themselves. Japanese mothers make adorable bento boxes for their kid's lunches filled with veggies in all kinds of appealing ways. Who wouldn't love to have a 4 year old who loves bok choy?
All that said, I didn't like mushrooms until I was in college and I still hate sprouts -- tastes are tastes. But I attribute my love of a lot of other veggies to my mom's creative ways of introducing them to me as a tiny kid. For some parents, that kind of approach may work well with their kids too -- it definitely couldn't hurt :)
How to get Undetectable Vegetables in your kids!!!! March 15, 2007
83 out of 100 found this review helpful
You can not believe how great this book is!!! I have made several recipes thus far and my kids have no idea they are eating zucchini,cauliflower,wheat germ,tofu,spinach and more...The book is genius. I laugh all the way to the dishwasher...
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