Product Description

How are you supposed to get your kids to eat the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day? How are you supposed to get them to eat even one or two? The answer is simple: you trick them into it. This book tells you how to conceal healthy food in the unlikeliest looking ways so that your children don't ever have to know they're eating it. Co-written by a nutritionist, this book is a godsend to frustrated parents everywhere.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87936 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
"As a working mother, this is just the book I need. It's packed with great ideas which are clever, practical and simple to use." Melinda Messenger "A frontline guide to concealment and disguise... it offers a fresh - not to say underhand - weapon to parents who find themselves staring into the jaws of defeat." Daily Telegraph

From the Publisher
Introduction

A balanced diet with at least five portions of fruit or vegetables every day - we all know the theory and it sounds so easy, but putting it into practice is another story ...

Many of us struggle to get just one or two portions into our fussy little darlings; this is, after all, the `fast food generation'. The closest some kids get to greens is the football field and they wouldn't know a cabbage if it passed them on a bicycle.

There can hardly be a parent in the western world who hasn't at least once (if not once a day) felt guilty about their child's diet. Working parents without time to cook are especially guilt prone. We may feel that every other parent in the world is carefully selecting organic veg, preparing home cooked meals and serving them to their healthy, fresh faced children, who clean their plates, say thank you and offer to clear the table. Maybe families like this do exist, but this book is for real parents of real children living on planet Earth in the 21st century - hard working parents who struggle daily to get their children to eat anything remotely healthy, let alone the five whole portions children should eat a day.

We will make your life much easier.

This book is not about having super healthy kids who eat tofu and sprouts every day; it is a realistic guide for busy parents of normal children - a step in the right direction towards healthier eating. Neither is this book intended to scare, lecture or bully parents into guilt and unnecessary hard work - most of us feel guilty enough and work hard all the time anyway.
Guilt isn't hard to understand when articles about the state of our children's health appear in the press almost daily, usually with dramatic headlines such as:

-One in five UK kids overweight
-The return of rickets: Vitamin deficiency disease figures up
-Additives cause behavioural problems in our young
-Diabetes: Kids are getting it too
-Packed lunches fail the nutrition test
-Is low fibre a problem for your child?
-One toddler in eight has anaemia
-Parents may outlive unhealthy kids
-Meet the children who NEVER eat vegetables

According to recent government figures, a whopping 96% of children in the UK don't get enough fruit and vegetables. Whilst articles and statistics like this do scare many parents (and of course make them feel guilty), what is often missing is practical advice on how to improve the situation. In this book we focus on how to get more fruit and veg into your child's diet ... without them batting an eyelid.

It isn't easy being a parent today with convenience food, kiddies' menus, a multitude of sweets and snacks, takeaways and soft drinks wherever you go. Almost every child wants to have the same as their friends and to eat things that look and taste familiar.

About the Author
Karen Bali is self employed and married with two children aged 12 and 9. Fearing her children were becoming 'chicken nugget junkies' she teamed up with Sally Child to develop a book that will help busy working parents offer a healthier family diet. She hates cooking and is definitely not a domestic goddess. An ex - health visitor, Sally Child currently practices as a nutritional therapist, is a lecturer and a practitioner for HACSG (hyperactive children's support group) and Foresight (a fertility charity). She is author of 'An A-Z of Children's Health' published in 2002 by Argyll. Her 27, 23 and 18 year old daughters inspired her to retrain in nutrition. "It's amazing what you learn living with a miniature Houdini and Attilla the Hun!"

Customer Reviews

Really excellent self-help book
I think this book really is the best on the market. My two children are really fussy eaters, but after consulting this book I tricked them into eating cabbage, spinach and brocolli! There are loads of useful tips and some delicious recipes. I can image that the lady who wrote the book is really speaking from first hand experience. Thank you

Does what it says on the tin!
This is a fabulous little book. It takes a realistic view about children's and parents' attitudes and does it with humour and style. The authors acknowledge that no one solution is going to work for all children; What puts one off will enchant another and only an individual parent will know what's worth trying and what will be a waste of time. It therefore give plenty of options and some very useful advice too.

it's definitely worth it even if it only gets your kids eating one more portion of fruit or veg a day.

Healthy eating
This excellent book is packed with useful and imaginative ideas for busy parents who are concerned about giving their children a healthy diet.I thought the book was entertaining to read as well as being informative and practical.