Feeding Your Allergic Child: Happy Food for Healthy Kids [Paperback]

Elisa Meyer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 1997

Forty-eight million children in the United States suffer from food allergies. For their parents, mealtimes can be difficult to plan.. Now, with Feeding your Allergic Child, there's a solution to the dilemma of what to prepare for the food-sensitive child.

Eliza Meyer's creative, fun and delicious recipes will get your kids to eat, and keep them happy and healthy at the same time. These nutritious dishes will tempt even the most finicky child, wile avoiding the four ingredients kids are most frequently allergic to: corn, wheat, dairy and eggs. They can also be modified for other food allergies.

Recipes include:
Fruit shakes, "Small coke", Squash soup, No-vinegar viniagrette, mock ceaser salad, fish they'll eat, stuff cabbage, vegetable kugel, rice salad, sweet potato chips, almond lace cookies, coconut-almond muffins, and dozens more.

A complete section on how to tell if your child is allergic and tips on coping with the challenges of feeding an allergic child introduces the recipes.

Free of the chemical additives and artificial flavorins of prepackaged and processed foods, the dishes in Feeding Your Allergic Child will make your kitchen table a happier and healthier place to be and will show you hoe to put your food-sensitive child on the road to healthy eating--and living.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

A number of books have been written about food allergies (or sensitivities), but these recipes are directed specifically at allergic children, though they could be used for adults as well. Both books offer recipes that avoid your child's particular food allergies. Meyer, the mother of allergic children, is the more health-conscious and offers unique, varied recipes. She includes suggestions for outfitting the basic pantry and kitchen when cooking for an allergic child and a section on how to tell whether your child is allergic. Harris and Nachsin, a home economist working toward certification as a nutritionist, have also raised allergic children. Because their recipes are for desserts, they contain a fair amount of oil and sugar, though fruit sweetening is also used. The authors indicate where special ingredients may be purchased and explain how to create an allergy-free home. Both books have merit, especially because little else is available on the subject, and are recommended for all health collections. (Indexes not seen.)?Lorraine F. Sweetland, Information Problem Solvers, Laurel, Md.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Eliza Meyer, the mother of two children with food allergies, has been cooking creatively for more than fifteen years. She concentrates on creating allergen-free recipes for her children. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (February 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312146124
• ISBN-13: 978-0312146122
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,563,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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57 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good resource for substitutions, January 30, 2000

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Barbara Kaser (Southeast United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feeding Your Allergic Child: Happy Food for Healthy Kids (Paperback)

This book has helped the most when I need a substitution or need help reading labels for all the many names which food allergens hide under. In this respect, I think the book is the best. I did find the authors writing style to be somewhat offensive to those of us who are entering the cooking scene. She has a way of making readers feel bad for not homecooking every morsel our children ingest. Also, I found that many of the main and side dish recipes were pretty standard fare. Like I stated earlier though, her substitution list and label names under which the allergens are hiding is very helpful as I read labels at the supermarket. I find alot of prepared products which are allergy free for my child by reading labels carefully and the lists and resources in this book are indispensible for that purpose.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, funny, informative and the food is great!, August 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Feeding Your Allergic Child: Happy Food for Healthy Kids (Paperback)

A particularly good book for parents who are just starting to diagnose and/or attempt to deal with a child's allergies. The author has crammed this book full of helpful advice and references as well as delicious and easy recipes that kids (and adults) enjoy. Recipes for basic items like baking powder and ketchup are included. This is one of the three books we recommend to other parents of kids with food allergies.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice but not enough, January 22, 2000

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Carla (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feeding Your Allergic Child: Happy Food for Healthy Kids (Paperback)

It's not a bad start for feeding kids with allergies, but it didn't go very far. We can't have almonds, so many recipes didn't work for us. Moreover, there wasn't even a hint at the broad range of ethnic foods which might be great to try.