Kid Food: Rachael Ray's Top 30 30-Minute Meals [Spiral-bound]

Rachael Ray (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 21, 2005

Rachael guarantees, Yes, your kids will eat it! These Top 30 kid-friendly meals, a collection of her greatest hits, will have the whole family asking for seconds. Break the weeknight routine with hassle-free cooking and delicious results.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 144 pages
• Publisher: Lake Isle Press (September 21, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1891105221
• ISBN-13: 978-1891105227
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #284,170 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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92 of 96 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the best bang for your buck., December 11, 2005

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Megan Romer (Lafayette, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kid Food: Rachael Ray's Top 30 30-Minute Meals (Spiral-bound)

If you want bang for your buck, pick up Rachael's 365 book instead of this one. The recipes here are mostly found in that book as well. These recipes really aren't all that innovative, as far as kids recipes go (you already know how to cook hot dogs and grilled cheese sandwiches, right?), and the Rachael Ray 365 book has lots more information about altering recipes to suit your needs and other really helpful hints.

75 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Rachael Ray becomes a brand., November 30, 2005

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B. Marold "Bruce W. Marold" (Bethlehem, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kid Food: Rachael Ray's Top 30 30-Minute Meals (Spiral-bound)

This title and three others like it by Rachael Ray in the 'Top 30 30 minute meals' series are, for the content, relatively expensive and inconveniently sized volumes of recipes reprinted from Rachael's previous books. Looking through two of the titles I recognize every recipe I see from earlier books. While Rachael is the nominal author of these books, I fully believe they were assembled by her publisher and a copy editor with maybe a day's input from Miss Rachael for all four books together.

This is becoming a common practice among major cookbook authors, with Mark Bittman's re-releasing his 'How to Cook Everything' in three volumes, cumulatively more expensive than the original book.

One may for a moment equate these books with the music world's 'Best of' releases, but the experience is simply not the same. A 'Best of' album's tracks are based on a genuine audience vote with their purchases and air play. These recipes are simply Rachael's opinion and that of a few of her colleagues. The parallel also breaks down in the sense that listening to, for example, 'The Who's top twelve hits introduces you to a whole new experience of listening to 'My Generation', 'I'm Free', and 'I Can See for Miles' on the same album.

My 3 star rating is not based on the quality of the recipes. It is a warning that these volumes are, in fact, reprints and not new recipes. So, if you already own many or most of Rachael's books already, you may be disappointed if you buy these books.

One other consideration if you do NOT own any of Rachael's books is that for not too much more money, you can get 10 times as many recipes in her 'No Repeats' book of almost all new recipes.

In every way, this is a better purchase than one or all of these minibook samplers. With this kids book, you would also do much better in getting the similarly priced but larger 'Cooking Rocks' book.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My daughter likes it!, November 26, 2005

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Tina (Honolulu, Hawaii USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kid Food: Rachael Ray's Top 30 30-Minute Meals (Spiral-bound)

I got this book a week ago and tried two of the recipes (tomato/basil soup and the 4 cheese grilled sandwich) they were great! So far the book has lived up to it's name. My daughter is 15 months and LOVED the soup and sandwich. This was the first soup that she would eat without spitting some of it out. She kept wanting more and ate 1/2 a sandwich as well. I can't wait to try the other recipes.