Gimme Five!: Kid-Friendly Recipes and Tips for Helping Your Child Enjoy Eating Fruits and Vegetables [Paperback]

Nicola Graimes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2006

When children learn how to eat right at an early age, they take pleasure in it for the rest of their long, healthy lives. This guide shows parents how to involve youngsters in planning and preparing meals, so that eating right becomes a hands-on family activity. Colorful page design and mouth-watering photography are supplemented by solid nutritional information and practical advice. Author Nicola Graimes, a mother of two, highlights one fruit or vegetable at a time. She explains portions and nutritional values, and provides simple recipes—including Leek and Potato Soup, All-in-One Tuna Risotto, Chinese Rice with Salmon Kebobs, and Toffee Apple Cinnamon Buns—that families can prepare together. At the end of the book is a pull-out calendar and happy-faced vegetable and fruit stickers. As children eat fruits and vegetables during the day, the stickers give them a fun way to keep track of their daily intake, while they reduce the risk of cancer, diabetes, obesity, and other health problems.

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About the Author

Nicola Graimes is a mother of two who has written several books about raising healthy children. Known for her unpretentious, contemporary style of cooking, Graimes has helped make healthy, organic eating accessible to time-strapped parents and their children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (June 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155643586X
• ISBN-13: 978-1556435867
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 0.4 x 7.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,604,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Resource!, May 6, 2007

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Kelly "kelly" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gimme Five!: Kid-Friendly Recipes and Tips for Helping Your Child Enjoy Eating Fruits and Vegetables (Paperback)

This is a really neat book on getting kids to eat more fruits and veggies. It is very bright and colorful, very appealing to the eye. All parents face the challenge of teaching their children to eat well and eating an abundance of fruits and vegetables is key to healthy eating.

This book provides a wealth of information - the author begins with basic instruction on why fruits and vegetables are important and nutrition information. She has many tips on how to get children to eat more fruits and veggies. Then she has a section for every fruit and vegetable imaginable that includes specific information on that particular food, ideas on getting kids to eat more of it, and at least one recipe using that food item.

This book is extremely helpful, thorough, and just beautiful - filled with bright, cheerful photos and illustrations that really do make you want to go eat a bunch of fruits and vegetables! It should be a frequent reference in any home with children [and even those without them!]!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This one is a winner!, December 11, 2006

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Melanie "mongoliamel" (Cass Lake, MN, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gimme Five!: Kid-Friendly Recipes and Tips for Helping Your Child Enjoy Eating Fruits and Vegetables (Paperback)

I recently used this book to lead a nutrition talk on getting more fruit and vegetables in a child's diet. While it seems pretty straightforward, the truth is that most Americans eat less than three servings of fruit and veggies per day on average. Considering all the benefits of a high-produce diet (high nutrient-density, fiber, phytochemicals, lower risk of death from food related diseases), most people are still either unconcerned or unsure how to change their diets. Enter Gimme Five!, a colorful, kid-friendly book that virtually invites your children to learn along with you.

We all know that the key to getting kids to eat right is to start from the beginning. This superb manual briefly explains the whys of five (World Health Organization recommendation); offers tips and tricks for incorporating fruits and veggies into individual meals and the daily menu plan; and provides useful, easy-to-understand nutrition information with plenty of delicious vegetarian recipes. One of my favorite things about the book is the bright, colorful pictures and that each fruit and vegetable featured has its own detailed page.

This would be enough for me to recommend the book, but add to this that it comes with a pull-out chart and fruit and veggie stickers to help kids (and parents!) track their daily serving intake, and you've got a winner in my book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful, health-conscious cookbook to share with the whole family, September 8, 2006

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

This review is from: Gimme Five!: Kid-Friendly Recipes and Tips for Helping Your Child Enjoy Eating Fruits and Vegetables (Paperback)

Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs Gimme Five! is more than an ordinary cookbook - it's a resource for parents, babysitters, and caretakers for helping children learn to enjoy eating more fruits and vegetables. The recipes are kid-friendly and ideal for teaching young people how to prepare their own nutritious snacks and meals. From Orange & Mango Sherbet, to Root Vegetable Nests, All-in-One Tuna Risotto, Grow-Your-Own Alfal, and so much more, these recipes and accompanying tips about the nutrients and culinary history of various delicious plant foods make for a wonderful, health-conscious cookbook to share with the whole family.