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Sneaky Veggies: How to Get Vegetables Under the Radar & Into Your Family

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Wow, what a fun, fascinating, fact filled font of easy ways to fill your family with easy to make and, dare I say, "healthy" foods. Chris Fisk has a knack with nouishing snacks and meals, and her breezy writing style leaves the reader confident in their ability to re-create her conconctions. I have already tried and tasted some of these recipies, I keep a ziplock bag of veggie detritus in my freezer which I periodically turn into organic vegetable stock, sooooo many other easy tips and hints which will CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I mean it. This book is a must-have, not only for the purpose of getting more veggies into your cooking, but for general healthy, inexpensive and easy ways to relate to food and cooking. Transform your Life. Begin here.

Whoever thought it could be fun simply to browse through a cookbook? Well, apparently it can. This cookbook is purportedly designed to allow the adult cooks of the family to slip veggies 'under the radar' into their veggie-resistant family. But I think that if the veggie-resistant eaters take a look at this book they'll be asking "Oh, try this one out! This one looks good!" I'm pretty much a take-or-leave it person when it comes to a lot of vegetables, but as I run through this kooky cookbook I'm folding down page after page for recipes I want to try out. Tasty fun!

The recipes are really short and don't require a lot of ingredients! The instructions are simple; even I can follow them :-) Not to mention that I appreciate the sense of humor that is peppered throughout (pun intended). I'm buying copies for my friends, who like me, appreciate simple, yummy recipes.

When I brought home this book, my daughter browsed through it. She is not a veggie fan, but knows she needs to eat more of them. She dog-earred some pages and we've been making the recipes. She's eaten them all and loves most of them, especially the polka dot burgers, which we made with turkey. I love reading this book! The recipe titles are hilarious and the initial pages are fun to read and filled with practical advice. I've already given 3 to my friends with finicky eaters and I've got a few copies stashed away to give as baby shower gifts. I highly recommend this book! It's a kick and a painless way to get veggies into you and your family.

There are a few unusual recipes in this book, but the overly "cute" writing style is annoying to read through--would rather have had more recipes.

Some of the recipes call for so little in the way of added "sneaky" vegetable (e.g. 2-4 T of pumpkin puree to a purchased spaghetti sauce) that it is hardly worth the effort. Other recipes have a rather high sodium content (as you read through them--there is no nutritional information on any recipe in the book). And considering the publishing date, it is surprising that none of the recipes call for whole wheat flour as a substitute for some (or all) of the all-purpose flour in the baked goods.

Borrow this book from your library, or buy used.

Mollie Katzen's books are much better if you're looking for different and healthier ways to fix vegetables that everyone, including children can enjoy, without the "My children are in charge of what we eat" mentality.

I met Chris at the airport waiting for our respective luggage and she told me about this book. Bought a copy this morning and already I'm hooked. I don't even cook and I'm looking forward to enjoying many of these recipes. It's always difficult to get vegetables into my daily menu but with this book, it just became a lot easier. Bravo and thanks for a great book!

simple, yet good information. I like the recipies and I know my kids will like them. And I am happy to have some fresh ideas to bring to the dinner table.

Often a cookbook is full largely of recipes one could easily find just about anywhere. That is not the case with this book. Although there are some old standbys here (with sneaky modifications, of course), there are some original recipes, as well. The dip and spread recipes, in particular, were different from what I have seen elsewhere and appealed to me. The writer's style is light and her philosophy free from extremes. Some of the recipes found here are "sneakier" than others, but even those which present veggies more overtly looked to me - a mom who is not, myself, a big vegetable fan - like palatable options.

Its a really great book but if you can borrow it, or get it from the library, I'd recommend that. Once you read through and see some of the ingredients, you can add it to your usual repertoire of food, and just add them in. Plus, from what I've read, when you cook veggies you lose some of the nutrition, and for this book you're cooking it twice. So it defeats the purpose of sneaking veggies in, when they aren't getting the nutrients anyway.

I have never had a problem getting my family to eat veggies. I liked this book because it gave me ideas for new ways to incorporate veggies into dishes that I commonly cook for my family anyway. The chef is really down to earth and gives instructions even a novice in the kitchen can use.