Family Fun Cookbook: 250 Irresistible Recipes for You and Your Kids [Hardcover-spiral]

Deanna F. Cook (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 1 and up

A whole-family, breakfast-to-dinner resource is filled with creative advice and healthy, quick recipes that include Oven-Baked Home Fries, Three Bears Porridge, Breakfast Pizza, and Peanut Butter and Jelly Surprise Muffins. Tour.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Disney's FamilyFun magazine has a readership base of more than 500,000; here are recipes, tips, and projects, most from the magazine, presented in a lively format with lots of four-color photographs. The recipes are usually easy, designed to appeal to kids whether they are finicky eaters or not; most chapters include a special cooking lesson for parents and children to do together. There are also FunFacts, suggestions and anecdotes from readers, and many ideas for mealtime and kitchen activities. Sure to be popular.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 1 and up
  
• Hardcover-spiral: 256 pages
• Publisher: Disney Editions (May 2, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786861126
• ISBN-13: 978-0786861125
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #507,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Cooking With Kids!, July 4, 2003

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L Smith "acozylover" (Macomb, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Family Fun Cookbook: 250 Irresistible Recipes for You and Your Kids (Hardcover-spiral)

Originally I picked up this cookbook to cook with my young sons, but quickly realized that there were wonderful grown-up recipes available in this book too. Hardcover, with a binding that lies flat on the counter, this book offers colorful graphics and pictures of the majority of the recipes presented. It is arranged in the following categories: Getting Ready, Breakfast: Rise & Shine, Lunch Specials, After-School Snacks, Soup's On, Breads we Love, Dinner's Ready, Side Dishes & Salads, Can I have Dessert, and Home for the Holidays.

Some of my family's favorite dishes include: Banana Split Waffles, PB & J Surprise Muffins, Strawberry Butter, Hummus, Falafel Flying Saucers, Nuke-able Nachos, Sneak-It-to-Em Broccoli Soup, Potato Chip Chicken Fingers, Baked Sweet Potatoes with Orange Sauce, Rock Candy, Leaning Tower of Oreos, Blueberry Fool, and Red, White, & Blueberry Freeze Pops. Also nicely included are some recipes for Play Doughs, with ideas on how to even make your own scented dough!

This was an excellent addition to my cookbook collection and my family has fun selecting and trying new recipes out of this extensive cookbook. If you want to teach your kids to cook, or want to find recipes sure to please even the finicky eater, then you should try this cookbook. Enjoy!

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource, but some recipes are hit-or-miss, August 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Family Fun Cookbook: 250 Irresistible Recipes for You and Your Kids (Hardcover-spiral)

I love this cookbook and use it almost exclusively because the ideas in it are so creative and child-friendly, and it's so easy to sit down with this colorful book to plan meals. It's also great because it encourages you to cook from scratch and makes doing so a lot less intimidating! Although many recipes in it are wonderful, a lot of recipes are, in my opinion, very mediocre. In my house, for example, the broccoli soup and the Bat Wings chicken wings were flops, and I wondered how on earth they made it into the cookbook. Through much trial and error, I now prefer to use the recipes as general guidelines and make changes wherever things seem a little weird. It's forgivable because of the terrific emphasis on having your kids help in the kitchen, and the simple fact that the entire FamilyFun series, especially the magazine, is FANTASTIC! My family life has been greatly enriched by the ideas in FamilyFun magazine and the Parties book, and I think it's the best source of original and creative ideas for families available today. Enjoy :-)

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best cookbook I've ever bought, November 20, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Family Fun Cookbook: 250 Irresistible Recipes for You and Your Kids (Hardcover-spiral)

The recipes are simple and wonderful tasting. My kids eat fish now. What's up with that. I haven't been disappointed by anything I've tried. My kids now fight over who's going to help Mom or Dad in the kitchen. We used to eat out at least twice a week. Now we rarely eat out. I plan the menu over the weekend, do all my grocery shopping and we're set for the week. What great fun and even more fun because my 7 and 9 year old are eager to help cook and to try new things. This is a rarity for my 7 year old. I highly recommend this book!!