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Title: Healthy Foods : An Irreverent Guide to Understanding Nutrition and Feeding Your Family Well by Leanne Ely ISBN: 1-891400-20-7 Publisher: Champion Press, Ltd. Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (30 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Light-hearted, healthy, delicious fun!
Comment: I have a tendency to collect cookbooks. I love to read 'em, look at 'em, touch 'em ... but I don't always USE them. But I've discovered that this new book, Healthy Foods, has actually become a well-used addition to my kitchen and not just another pretty face cluttering up my bookshelves. The book contains excellent (and often funny!) text on adjusting to healthier eating habits. And the recipes are fun as well as tasty! You'll find everything from Manic Meatloaf, Mama's PMS Cake, Not Your Mother's Tuna Casserole, and much more. The general contents of the book includes: Realistic healthy eating ideas, tips for introducing kids to healthier eating, making mealtime manageable, breakfast recipes, soups and salads, homemade fast foods, main dishes, dips and snacks, desserts, substitutions, hints and even a short chapter about the author's penchant for chocolate. ;-) This is healthy food for REAL people! You don't have to switch over to nothing but sawdust textured bread and bean sprouts. Another title for this book could've been "Healthy Foods Your Kids Will Love!" cuz I'll tell you, my kids have loved every recipe I've tried from this book so far! Highly recommended. Q
Rating: 5
Summary: Easy, healthy and delicious
Comment: I have tried many of the recipes in this book and have yet to find a dud. The pistou soup is warm and filling; the rubber chicken is easy to prepare, delicious, and frugal; and I have never made an easier or tastier pizza crust than the Kneadless Pizza Dough. Even my picky family has raved over everything I've prepared from this book. Leanne's style is unpretentious and her advice is practical. I had to get over the need to have exact measurements (she occasionally refers to using a 'blob' or a 'little bit', basically relying on you to adjust for your own tastes). It is well worth the time to read the first chapters about general nutrition, written in an easily understandable form and chock full of important advice. Her chapters on food allergies and eating disorders could be lifesavers. This cookbook has quickly become the most favored one on my shelf, and I'm sure I'll have to get another one eventually because this one will be tattered and covered with food stains. It's that good.
Rating: 3
Summary: Perhaps the author should seek a new editor
Comment: This book give great advice on how to provide healthy meals for your family without making yourself crazy at Whole Foods. Much of her advice were points I had read elsewhere, but for most people, I think its great to have it all in one easy-to-read book.
My problem, and the reason this book didn't get 5 stars, is the recipes. They are great! If they work... I have found several of the recipes leave out steps or just simply don't turn out (the Peanut Butter Cookie recipe left out when to add the eggs and vanilla, and though I am an experienced baker who can figure out when to add these things, the cookies didn't end up as cookies. The PMS Cake leaves out the step of adding wet ingredients to dry, crucial for an unexperianced baker).
The Pumpkin Munmpkins and the Mayberry Blueberry Muffins (which I have made with both blueberries, and other assorted berries) are fabulous and will forever be a constant in my house. The snacks and dips section also gets heavy useage.
Hopefully, these problems are just with my printing, or will be resoved in future printings, because Ms. Ely's other books are spectacular.
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Title: Saving Dinner : The Menus, Recipes, and Shopping Lists to Bring Your Family Back to the Table by LEANNE ELY ISBN: 0345464869 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Frantic Family Cookbook: Mostly Healthy Meals in Minutes by Leanne Ely ISBN: 1891400541 Publisher: Champion Press, Ltd Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Healthy Foods Unit Study : A guide for nutrition and wellness (Grade K-5) by Leanne Ely ISBN: 1891400150 Publisher: Champion Press, Ltd. Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Sink Reflections by MARLA CILLEY ISBN: 0553382179 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Life Skills for Kids : Equipping Your Child for the Real World by Christine Field ISBN: 0877884722 Publisher: Shaw Pub. Date: 07 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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