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Simple & Savvy Strategies for Creating Healthy Eaters [Paperback]

Beverly Pressey MS (Author), RD (Author)
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June 24, 2008
How do you ensure your child's health and interest in a variety of foods without fighting or spending all day in the kitchen? Registered Dietician and mom Beverly Pressey gives parents simple, constructive tips and information to create healthy, smart eaters.
In Simple and Savvy Strategies for Creating Healthy Eaters, you'll learn more than nutrition basics for children. You'll discover how and when to introduce solid food, how to continue introducing new, healthy foods into your growing child's diet and how to deal with all of your child's food issues, challenges or demands. Most importantly, you'll gain the confidence of knowing you're feeding your child appropriately and are providing the environment and responses children need to learn to eat well.
Additionally, Beverly Pressey coaches parents through menu planning, deciphering nutrition labels, once-a-week grocery shopping, food safety and how to handle those ''fun foods'' on holidays and special occasions. Best of all, Pressey's approach is reasonable and practical. From one mom to another, she understands the parental pressures of daily life.
Use Simple and Savvy Strategies for Creating Healthy Eaters as a guidebook, a reference manual, and a shared experience between two parents. The information is priceless and the instructions are coming from a friend who's been in the trenches of family feeding. Pressey shows us that raising children with healthy emotional relationships with food can be fun and simpler than expected.


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''Simple and Savvy Strategies for Creating Healthy Eaters needs to be on every parent s bookshelf. It's got tons of important information for parents to absorb. From sound eating behavioral advice to precise nutritional information, this is a book parents will refer to year after year.'' ---Jan Faull, M.Edl, Unplugging Power Struggles: Resolving Emotional Battles with Your Kids Ages 2-10 and Seattle Times Parenting Columnist

''A wonderful, easy to read road map for parents. This book answers all the essential questions from first baby foods to tips on getting kids to enjoy meals, plus an essential guide for food shopping and quick food preparation. Additionally, this is the only book addressing the emotional aspects for encouraging healthy eating habits.'' ---Julie M. Soto, M.S. Director: Parent Education/Early Learning Programs, Bellevue Community College (Bellevue, WA), Author of Infant, Toddler and Preschoolers: Best Resources for Parents

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''A wonderful, easy to read road map for parents. This book answers all the essential questions from first baby foods to tips on getting kids to enjoy meals, plus an essential guide for food shopping and quick food preparation. Additionally, this is the only book addressing the emotional aspects for encouraging healthy eating habits.'' --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 130 pages
  • Publisher: Two Harbors Press; 1 edition (June 24, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0980245516
  • ISBN-13: 978-0980245516
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,268,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, great content, lousy editing, January 2, 2010
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The book delivers what I expected from the title, and more. For the size of the book, Beverly presents an enormous amount of information related to feeding a family, covering details from the max number of days to store breast milk to the proper cooking temperature of a beef roast. All the factual information she presents aligns closely with the latest research on the subjects, lending the impression that she isn't just a nutritionist, but a good one.

The book is very readable. My wife picked it up and read through it in an evening, and I did the same. Our children are 3 and 5, so the sections regarding infant feeding weren't relevant. I read them anyway, because I wanted to compare her advice with what we experienced. Everything presented was spot-on, describing situations better than I would have. For example, when first time parents ask me when to introduce solids, I've always answered, "don't worry, you'll know." Beverly describes it perfectly, "...moves his head easily and watches intently as you eat. He may reach for your food or make sounds while you eat. Your child is telling you..."

We found ourselves bargaining with our 5 year old to get her to eat foods that were not her favorites. My wife and I have differing inclinations for dealing with it. I lean towards punishment, "no vegetables, no dessert." She goes out of her way to present them with only foods they will eat. We know both inclinations have negative future returns and we needed some fresh strategies. This book delivered.

I'm withholding the fifth star because the book is filled with grammatical errors, starting in chapter 1, sentence 3. Most of the errors would have been caught by a text editor with grammar checking enabled. Even a final pass by a proofreader should have caught most of them. While the writing and content is excellent, the editing of the book is amateur.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gotta Have if if you have kids...PERIOD!, September 9, 2009
This review is from: Simple & Savvy Strategies for Creating Healthy Eaters (Paperback)


I use to tell people the only baby book you WILL ever need is Baby411, now I tell them to buy Simple and Savvy TOO! I have a 5 year old and a 3 year old and I attribute all of their FANTASTIC eating habits to Beverly! They eat hummus, veggies, fruits, SALAD, brown rice, seafood, sushi, edamame...pretty much everything. (Not big fans of carrots but then again neither are their Mom and Dad!)

Beverly's book is wonderful and we refer to it often, but long before her book she was a lifesaver. She was the nutritionist in my 5 year old's infant class. I could not understand why we needed a nutritionist when we were all holding babies who were breast-feeding or drinking formula...but 5 years later I can tell you it all makes sense! Healthy eaters are created YOUNG with first foods and introductions (and repeated introductions) to a wide variety of foods.

I had no idea hummus could be baby food. Or that I could scoop avocado into my child's mouth right from the source! Beverly takes the guess work and headache out of feeding your little ones...makes it fun...and most of all makes great sense!

We are not perfect and our kids get their fair share of sugar and what we call "fun foods" (like McDonalds) but it sure nice to not have to rely on chicken nuggets and hot dogs in order to get my kids to eat.

Beverly also has lots of tips and tricks for those who missed the window early on....it is never to late to start your kids on a healthy path and relationship with food!

You will love this little gem of a book!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you need to know about feeding your kids!, September 8, 2008
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This book is a great resource for parents looking for guidance and information about feeding their young kids. It is full of facts and helpful tips about all things kids and eating and is organized in a way that allowed me to return to sections of particular interest, such as introducing solid foods and avoiding food battles, when needed. The subjects and ideas are presented in a parent-friendly, easy-to-implement, non-judgmental way. The book has had a great positive impact on my family meals and my kids eating habits!
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