Meals Without Squeals: Child Care Feeding Guide & Cookbook [Paperback]

Christine Berman MPH RD (Author), Jacki Fromer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2006

Finding a balance between convenience and providing nourishing food for children, this book gives authoritative answers about how to make good, nutritional food for children. Age-specific and child-tested, it takes a simple, straightforward approach to topics like children’s growth, common feeding problems, and how to offer children positive experiences with food. This newly updated edition contains sample menus that combine the latest nutritional information with favorite foods updated listings of the best resources, and handy forms and checklists.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Berman and Fromer demonstrate their wonderful and caring attitudes toward children and providing food for children. Feeding is more than getting food on the table. It is the whole nurturing environment that the parent or child care provider sets up around food."  —Ellyn Satter, author, Child of Mine

About the Author

Christine Berman, MPH, RD, is a registered dietitian and nutrition consultant for Marin Head Start and the owner of Feeding Frenzy, a nutrition consulting and educational product business. Jacki Fromer was a licensed Family Day Care provider for 10 years and program coordinator of Family Day Care training and support services at the Marin Child Care Council.

Product Details

• Paperback: 420 pages
• Publisher: Bull Publishing Company; 3 Rev Upd edition (March 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933503009
• ISBN-13: 978-1933503004
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #667,275 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars INSTITUTIONAL; NOT TOO HELPFUL FOR PARENTS, June 4, 2000

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Ellen J. Krumm - See all my reviews

This review is from: Meals Without Squeals: Child Care Feeding Guide and Cookbook (Paperback)

I guess the title should have warned me: CHILDCARE feeding guide. This book is not for parents trying to feed their own kids healthy meals; it is geared toward a daycare setting. Most of the book centers on the logistics of meal preparation (e.g. sanitary food-handling) and common sense dietary information (eat lots of vegetables!). The few recipes that are included don't sound very appealing, plus they feed 8-12 children. If I were a daycare provider I might have given this book 5 stars, but it's not very helpful for a family.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful for Parents and Teachers, February 23, 2001

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Mrs R J Norwood (Mountain View, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Meals Without Squeals: Child Care Feeding Guide and Cookbook (Paperback)

This is an excellent book for Childcare Providers and parents. The book includes helpful information on child development and nutritional needs, educational and community resources on child nutrition as well as information on cooking for medium sized groups of children in the childcare setting. It's a helpful resource for the teacher, the parent asked to run the 'cooking corner' in the weekly programme as well as the parent at home. Meals can easily be adjusted to a family sized group (although 6 preschoolers eat about the same amount as a family of two adults and two children). It's also helpful in educating parents as to what they should expect from their child's school meal programme.

Its companion book, 'Teaching Children About Food' has great ideas for educating kids about food, cultural diversity, consumerism and where food comes from. It's also an excellent resource for the parent wishing to enrich the home kitchen as well as the teacher.