Feeding the Kids: The Flexible, No-Battles, Healthy Eating System for the Whole Family (Fork and Spoon Field Guides) [Perfect Paperback]

Pamela Gould (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 10, 2007 | Series: Fork and Spoon Field Guides

Feeding your family a healthy diet (in the real world with real kids and real food) can be a challenge! Parents are trying to follow current nutrition guidelines, teach their kids healthy eating habits--and avoid too much junk food. But these goals are hard to meet when kids (and adults!) have strong food preferences; if there are daily fights over what, when, and/or how-much kids should eat; and because meals must to be fit into a super busy schedule. Feeding the Kids solves these problems with a new, easy-to-use system for feeding the entire familly well every day...all while enjoying eating more.

This system makes it easy to:

• Find kid-friendly, healthy food easily using simple label-reading tricks that classify all foods into three categories: Smart foods (super healthy foods packed with nutrition); Empty items (junk food that provides little nutrition but fill kids up); and In-Between choices (partly Smart and partly Empty). Using this new system, anyone can pick out the healthiest versions of snacks, drinks, breakfast cereal, pasta, lunch meats, chicken nuggets, or any other food.
• Eat enough Smart and In-Between food. Feeding the Kids includes a customized routine that makes meal planning incredibly easy. Even better, the plan insures that the whole family gets into the habit of eating enough Smart foods each day, including: vegetables, fruits, whole grains, dairy foods and protein-rich foods. But this plan doesn't follow pre-set menus and certainly doesn't include eating foods the family dislikes. Instead, this plan can be adapted to include favorite foods, meals out and family food preferences.
• Stop feeling guilty about junk food. Empties are a fun part of life, and everyone (adults and children) should be allowed to really enjoy them. The Feeding the Kids approach to these foods is to: recognize which foods are Empties (especially the sneaky ones that look healthy), eliminate less-loved Empty food, then really enjoy, guilt-free, the Empties the children do love.
• Serve great-tasting, healthy meals, and fun, nutritious snacks...fast. Feeding the Kids includes over 50 mini-recipes and lots of simple menus ideas that are kid-tested and extremely easy to make. Recipes include healthy versions of: chicken nuggets, milkshakes, cookies, pancakes, sorbet, hot chocolate, hamburgers, popsicles and many more family favorites.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Have you had it with unrealistic, contradictory and condescending books on children's nutrition? Finally, a fun-to-read and easy-to-use book for parents, written by parents, on feeding your children well... without going to extremes. Instead of lecturing parents on the dangers of obesity and making them feel guilty about what they are doing, Feeding the Kids focuses on taking action with realistic strategies for gradually improving the family diet. Instead of focusing on all the "bad" food out there, this book focuses on adding in great tasting, healthier foods. Instead of expecting parents to eliminate junk food, this system removes the guilt to make eating all kinds of food fun again. And instead of expecting parents to spend lots of time and money hunting down fancy healthy foods, this guide explains how to quickly and easily find healthy food in any store.

About the Author

Pamela Gould has experience as a published research scientist and a teacher, having taught preschool, middle school and high school. Currently, she is a professional writer specializing in health and children's issues. She is the mother of two.

Eleanor P. Taylor, M.S., R.N., C.D.E., has developed and taught wellness classes on subjects ranging from weight loss to chronic disease management and parenting. She holds a master's degree in Family Health Nursing and is a registered nurse and certified diabetes educator. She has three grown children and four grandchildren.

Katherine Cason, R.D., Ph.D., is a professor and lead researcher at Clemson University's Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition. Dr. Cason is a registered dietitian, holds a PhD in Human Nutrition and is also a mother.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Mancala Publishing, LLC; 1 edition (March 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978938542
• ISBN-13: 978-0978938543
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #487,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #92 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Whole Foods

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best everyday manual for feeding your entire family, May 2, 2007

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C. Langley (CO, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feeding the Kids: The Flexible, No-Battles, Healthy Eating System for the Whole Family (Fork and Spoon Field Guides) (Perfect Paperback)

I love this book. It has been a wonderful way to help our family eat healthier and fun meals. This book is an everyday manual for easily feeding your family nutritious meals. It's easy to follow and will ease any family into healthy eating. It has wonderful tips and ideas to help even the pickiest of eaters to be a healthy eater and to enjoy it. Finally, a guide to reading lables and what they mean. I also enjoyed the recipes, they were quick, easy and healthy, my kind of meal! Good Job ladies on an easy to follow plan for ANYONE.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful, May 7, 2007

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l mccain (washington dc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feeding the Kids: The Flexible, No-Battles, Healthy Eating System for the Whole Family (Fork and Spoon Field Guides) (Perfect Paperback)

This book is well organized (you don't have to read it all at once), well written (it includes some funny anecdotes), and easy to follow. I would reccomend it to anyone with or without children. Very helpful advice laid out in a useful way.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An important and strongly recommended addition, July 9, 2007

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feeding the Kids: The Flexible, No-Battles, Healthy Eating System for the Whole Family (Fork and Spoon Field Guides) (Perfect Paperback)

Pamela Gould is an experienced research scientist and educator specializing in health and children's issues. Elanor P. Taylor is a registered nurse, a diabetes educator, and has taught wellness classes on issues ranging from weight loss to chronic disease management. Katherine Cason of a Professor and Lead Researcher at the Clemson University Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition. All three of these distinguished women draw upon their many years of experience and expertise in "Feeding The Kids: The Flexible, No-Battles, healthy Eating System For The Whole Family", an instruction manual for parents of children ages 3 to 11 on how to not only prepare healthy meals, but get their kids to eat properly without resorting to arguments over food, avoiding 'food-guilt' mechanisms, and be able to truly enjoy family meal times. This 256-page, medically approved, non-extreme, user-friendly, do-it-yourself field guide with its thoroughly 'parent friendly' text is enhanced for the non-specialist general reader with the specific, action-oriented tools, lists, charts, 50 recipes, and 80 menus. An important and strongly recommended addition to community library collections, any parent who has ever had to deal with a reluctant child resistance to eating properly (including the avoidance of junk food) will want to give a careful reading to "Feeding The Kids".