Customer Reviews

Sugar-Free Toddlers: Over 100 Recipes

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I almost wasn't interested in this book because the title made me think that this book would have bland and boring recipes. But after flipping through it I saw lots of things that sounded good to try. And almost every recipe so far has been a huge hit with my 18 month old son. This is amazing to me because I thought he was picky. I guess I just wasn't giving him the kind of foods he likes. This book is, as other critics have noted, NOT sugar free. Fruit juice is a sugar. But I do not consider this a drawback because I think that people who don't eat any sugar of any kind are kidding themselves. The key is to use healthy forms of sugar and not too much. The main reason I was anxious to try these recipes is that nearly all of them use whole-wheat flour or some other whole grain flour and I am a big believer in using whole grains. So nutritious and full of fiber. Best recipes so far that I can highly recommend: Orange-date snack cake, Pilgrim pancakes, and Toddler date bread stix. The Coconut Pineapple cookies, however, were not very good. They were not even remotely sweet enough and were more like a pancake than a cookie. But I heated them up and buttered them and my son ate them for breakfast! So really, what it comes down to is that toddlers DO like these recipes. My son prefers them over the white flour, preservative laced stuff from the store. You can't protect your kids from sugar their whole lives, so give them a healthy alternative.

My 15-month-old loves the Applesauce-Raisin Muffins, and they were even a hit with my husband! I have several more on my list to try in the coming weeks.

The only thing I don't like is that several recipes (frozen desserts, shakes/smoothies) use raw eggs, which is generally considered a no-no these days (at least without a warning in the recipe about the risk - however low it may be - of salmonella poisoning). I may try these recipes using pasteurized egg-substitute in some cases, but the book should probably be revised to say something about that.

Besides that one complaint, I'm very pleased with this cookbook and looking forward to making more healthy snacks for my son!

This is a good, easy-to-follow jumping off point for parents and teachers searching for natural alternatives to all the processed, sugar laden foods out there. One thing I don't necessarily agree with is the strong urging to use milk (which has contibuted to so many health problems in children like asthma). Recipes are simple enouth to let your toddlers help out!!

I'm no fanatic or anything, but I'm looking for some healthy sugar-free recipes. HOWEVER, this book doesn't seem to understand that adding fruit juice concentrate is THE SAME THING as adding sugar. I couldn't actually come across many actual sugar-free recipes at all.

Ok, sure, maybe apple juice concentrate is somewhat better than pure refined sugar, barely.

Also, the ratings are useless because of the author's lack of understanding that sugar is sugar is sugar, be it fructose or glucose. In fact, interestingly enough, she talks about how bad fructose is THEN PROCEEDS to use it in most of her recipes in one form or another.

How about some recipes with unsweeted apple sauce or something like that? Is this too much to ask from a book with a tittle like "Sugar-Free"?

This book contains plenty of tasty treats to help you cut back on your childs sugar consumption. They will be eating healthy without even knowing it and build good eating habits for a lifetime.

I'm really glad to have this book. It's my favorite recipe book for baking with and for my toddler. Some of the recipes have been disappointing, though (because they taste rather bland), but some are really good. My suggestion would be to start these before your child ever tastes table sugar, and then they'd probably all taste good. The pumpkin muffins, called "Peter's Favorite Mini Muffins" are my 3 yr. old son's favorite. He'll eat 5 or more in a day, if I don't pay attention. I've found that they act like a laxative if he eats more than a couple. The handy thing is that we've substituted all kinds of ingredients (apple sauce combined with any fruit juice for the apple juice concentrate, other fruits for the raisins, etc.) and they still turn out great! We also like the Apple-Raisin Oatmeal Cookies. And the recipes are mostly easy to make and quick, which I really appreciate.

This book is a blessing! All of the ingredients used are normal and easy to have on hand. The recipes are delicious. My five year old loves them and so do my husband and I. We are trying to eat real food and still maintain a healthy weight. This book is a great help!

I was really dissapointed with this book. I own hundreds of cookbooks and have never actually hated one until now. First, the majority of these recipes are made with fruit concentrate. In my book, that is still sugar, just under a different name. Fruit concentrate isn't even good for you. In the process of concetrating this fruit they strip it of everything before adding things back, so it is quite processed, even though it says 100% juice. Also, fruit concentrate still has all the same effects on your body that sugar does. I prefer using Agave Nectar in recipes for a sweetner if I have to use one because it doesn't give my 2 year old a sugar rush. I wasn't impressed with this book at all, don't recommend it, and am just sorry I bought it.

We discovered that both my daughter and I are Sugar Sensitive and needed to start cutting refined sugars out of our diets. I got this book from the library and ended up using almost daily so I had to buy a copy. Many of the recipes use concentrated fruit juice or real fruit to sweeten things up. This cookbook saved me when I started cutting out sugar and allowed me to still look forward to baking!

As a mom committed to a low/no sugar way of life for my family, I was excited to try the recipes in this book. For the most part, I was largely disappointed. The textures were strange and the food was quite bland. I would not recommend this book.