No Deception, Just Real Food For Kids

Lately, there's been a lot of buzz about deceptive healthy recipes for kids. Jessica Seinfeld told us to puree veggies and hide them in cupcakes. Which is fine if you're going to be serving cupcakes anyway, but really not the greatest strategy for teaching your kids to appreciate healthy foods. If you only serve squash in macaroni form, when will they ever enjoy actual vegetables?

This article expresses the concern well:

Two parent cookbooks came out last year touting the philosophy of hiding good-for-you-foods in not-so-good-for-you-foods, like adding spinach puree to brownies. As a mother of twins and a food professional, I was appalled by this deceptive and sneaky idea. Not only are we teaching our kids to "eat your brownies, they're good for you" (in a country where a third of kids are obese or overweight and perhaps the first generation to not outlive their parents), but we are lying to our kids and signaling, either implicitly or explicitly, that vegetables, in particular, are so yucky, they have to be hidden.

So instead of hiding veggies, why not cook great tasting healthy food with real, non-hidden ingredients? Check out Real Food for Healthy Kids, a cookbook tried and tested by kids and nutritionists alike (with a nutritional analysis for each recipe, so you know what you're putting into your loved ones).

Pick up your copy here. And happy (and healthy) eating!

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