Customer Reviews

The Eat-Clean Diet for Family and Kids: Simple Strategies for Lasting Health and Fitness

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I'm a big Tosca Fan! Maybe I had the wrong idea, but I thought this was more of the 'Clean Eating Diet Cookbook'directed toward creating meals with your children and still being healthy. It actually resembles 'The Clean Eating Diet,' with it's Half guidance, Half recipes format. Both have recipes in them not included in her other books. She also has great recipes in 'The Butt Book' (we love to create the soups especially). I own them all and have tried many recipes from each. The Family edition is 327 pages not including the index. pgs 200-327 are recipes and a large picture page (so about 63 recipes). There are of course some recipes my son (8) is ready to try like mac and cheese, chicken 'nuggets,' and the 'fish sticks,' and some I'm ready to try like the 'baked ziti.'
Now she just needs to come out with a recipe group for the series. I'll buy that, too.
Only 4 stars because I wanted more recipes and less chat.

I have the original eat clean cookbook and these are both outstanding books on how to incorporate clean eating into your life. The recipes are easy to follow and once you have embraced the clean-eating lifestyle, you will have most of the ingredients already on hand. About half of the Eat-Clean Diet for Family and Kids is an attempt to educate why the current eating trends are dangerous to ourselves and our children and how to make changes for out better health. I was a little disappointed as this meant that really less than half of the book is recipes. I believe Tosca has tremendous insight into how to correctly fuel our bodies for health and wellness. It's not a diet, it's completely changing the way you eat to include only non-processed, fresh and whole foods to your diet. I highly recommend this book for families who are tired of the way they eat and the way they feel about themselves, and are looking to fully reshape their lives, health, and bodies.

This book is for the beginner- someone who knows nothing about healthy eating. I was looking for recipes not text about how to eat and other families experiences. I was very disappointed in the number of recipes in the book. I feel it was a waste of my money.

I've added the latest edition of the Clean Eating series to my collection...I'm so glad I did! My kids 13, 10 and 9 yrs old have each marked pages of recipes that they would like to try. We've tried about 5 or 6 so far and we haven't been disappointed by any of them...My kids have learned a great deal from the Clean Eating series and they have taken an active role in researching what they are eating. Its a great buy.

I have all Tosca's books, and the only thing I could say that I don't care for is that they are a bit repetitive. HOWEVER, basic facts about nutrition don't change!! So, if the basic facts are going to appear in each book I guess it will get repetitive. I LOVE the recipes in here. My family has taken better to these than some in her earlier books. They are definetly more kid-friendly. The nutritional info is great, and explained in an easy to understand way. We will be using this book as the basis for a nutrition unit in our homeschool science class. Great job Tosca!!

This is a great book but it's a bit similar to the Eat Clean Diet book. It's really all of the same information but with a family spin on it. This book is quite a bit thicker than the first book and has some great recipes and information. I'm glad I bought it and am enjoying it but I wish it had been more of a cookbook.

Great Book!!!!!! Great recipies and very informative. My kids love the recipes too! and that's the point, show them that eat healthy doesn't mean eat food that doesn't taste good.
I LOVE IT!!!

I love her tips on cutting out sugar in a child's diet. The home made ketchup especially. It's been good to teach my children that eating healthy doesn't have to be boring.

I recently picked up the Clean Eating magazine and got interested in the topic. This book was good for beginners to gain an understanding of the concepts of the diet. It was an easy book to read. However, I was more interested in finding friendly meal ideas for my family. It did not offer any new concepts or information to me.

This will not stop me from reading her other books.

My husband and I decided to set a goal for 2011 - to eat 'cleaner' and feed our children better. I bought this book after reading some of the recommendations and I have to say it's not exactly what I was expecting/hoping for.

The first 2/3 of the book consists of information on what clean eating is and why we should choose to avoid certain things. It made sense, but it wasn't anything amazing or ground-breaking. Perhaps that's because I've already read books such as the Omnivore's Dilemma and Food Rules, and I've watched episodes of Jamie's Food Revolution. So I already had a pretty good idea on most things - eat lots of fruits and veggies, whole grains and lean meat while avoiding sugar, processed foods, and white carbs (bagels, white bread, etc). She did have some good tips on how to involve the kids in the switch to clean eating such as letting them help plan and prepare meals, only preparing one meal for the family, etc.

The final 1/3 of the book is recipes. This is where I was most disappointed. I was hoping for good recipes that have actual ingredients and will be tasty and nutritious WITHOUT having to search for a bunch of 'freak food' (as my husband would call it). There are only a few of those. I saw quite a few recipes that call for all sorts of ingredients that I would have to search for and am certainly not familiar with - and neither are my kids.

I am a reader of Cooking Light and Food magazines, and that is more what I expected - recipes that use simple, basic, fresh ingredients without relying on lots of processed helpers to make them into tasty meals. Instead I got recipes that require lots of things I would not have in the pantry and which would require a trip to a specialty supermarket. Perhaps that works for a parent who has lots of time to go on search of things like this, but I need something quicker and easier, just not so 'unclean.' I'm sure that it's entirely possible to eat clean without switching over to things nobody has ever heard of, but this cookbook isn't really a big help in that.

So while this book was OK, I would say that out of maybe 60 recipes there were only 2-3 that I would likely make.