Quick Meals for Healthy Kids and Busy Parents : Wholesome Family Recipes in 30 Minutes or Less From Three Leading Child Nutrition Experts

Customer Reviews

A Winner

I have recently purchased several books with the same theme of making quick and easy meals, that are healthy and appeal to a wide varety of ages. This book has been the best of the three so far. I consider myself a good cook and other reviewers have critized the ingredients used in this book. True, the recipes do use some conveience items such as canned soup or baking mixes. But when I have just gotten home from work and want to prepare a decent meal quickly, I don't mind a few shortcuts. These shortcuts do not sacrifice taste. The recipes are easy to read, so the lack of pictures does not bother me either. It makes the book more affordable.

My only gripe with this book is the title. Don't expect all of these recipes to be done in 30 minutes or less. About a third require longer cooking or baking time. I save those for the weekends.

Very useful, practical cookbook

I really like the Quick Meals book - true, no pictures, so if that bothers you, don't get it. As for some of the recipes starting with time-savers like cans of soup or pancake/biscuit mix instead of making it from scratch, that didn't bother me either. I thought the recipes were, for the most part, on the healthy side. (This was important to me, too... I've been careful with what my 14 month old son eats so far - no overly processed foods, etc. He hasn't even had chocolate yet.)

The book has practical, easy recipes using stuff I usually have around the house anyway. I'd been stuck in a rut, feeding my son the same stuff everyday. The Quick Meals book gave me a lot of new ideas... For example, there's a "fun with tortillas" page and "parmesan chicken nuggets" (which aren't fried but are baked), and "basil broccoli and mushrooms" (made with frozen broccoli.)

In short, this book gave me a lot of new ideas, none of the recipes take long to prepare, and I usually already have the ingredients for something from the book at any given time. Most importantly though, my son has enjoyed everything I've made so far!

Not a great book

I bought this after reading the reviews here. I was looking for quick meals for families. I own many cookbooks. This was not worth the money.

One thing that really bothered me was one of the soup recipes starts with using a can of soup. I don't care for cookbooks that use canned soup to start a soup recipe. Why bother!

I think betty crocker offers better cookbooks for the money.