Feeding the Whole Family: Cooking with Whole Foods
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Feeding the Whole Family starts with the basics of creating a whole foods diet, from understanding grains and beans to determining what meats are acceptable to eat. Author Cynthia Lair then applies these lessons to cooking for young children and babies aged six months and older. She explains how to adapt each recipe separately for both children’s and adults’ palates. This updated edition includes the most current nutritional research along with 65 delicious new recipes, including meat dishes…. More >>
Feeding the Whole Family: Cooking with Whole Foods
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I wanted to like this book. I don’t like the idea of making a bunch of baby food purees and I’d rather just feed the baby what I’m eating. But… when I got the book, I read that the author is vegetarian and most of the recipes were veggie with all of that weird stuff that entails. Like eating a bunch of dried seaweed to get the vitamins and minerals us meat-eaters get by eating meat. There were a few meat recipes, but it’s sort of too crunchy (a la Laurel’s Kitchen) for me. I think I’ll be using this more when my kid is older.
This is the best cookbook I’ve ever come across. Meals are simple to make, delicious and healthy. I make so many meals from it often. It’s so nice to see a whole foods cookbook that isn’t vegetarian or filled with recipes made with tofu/soy. I haven’t had any problems finding the ingredients, although, we do live in a city in California. My favorite recipe is the Quick Lemon and Garlic Quinoa Salad. It makes a great dish for a potluck. I’ve turned so many people onto it.
This is the one cookbook I always recommend to people.
This cookbook has some really great ideas, and I think I will use it more when my son is eating a more varied & textured diet (7 months now), there aren’t a ton of recipes that can be adapted for a baby mainly eating purees. Most of the recipes use basic ingredients, but there are several with ingredients that are harder to find.
This is a fantastic book for every family! Not only is the book full of information to grow on, it’s packed full of recipes that are wonderful. I could not imagine not having this book on my shelf! It’s a mst!
Feeding the Whole Family: Cooking with Whole Foods I like this book! As a lover of all foods collard, I was browsing on U Tube when I ran into Cynthia Lair’s presentation of her method of cooking collards. Her style is fresh like her food. I’m talking about fresh in the nice sense. She balances convenience with common sense. And she presents the information we need in a light pleasant way. Now I am the delighted owner of her cookbook.
Starting with the cover, it is neat and informative. The picture shows a lively little fellow bringing flowers to his mother or grandmother while she is chopping some fresh greens. The title and the subtitle yield much information and manage to do so with continuity: FEEDING THE WHOLE FAMILY; RECIPES FOR BABIES, YOUNG CHILDREN, AND THEIR PARENTS; COOKING WITH WHOLE FOODS.
Cynthia Lair, a wise and practical nutritionist, gives us the facts about food we need. She emphasizes the value of eating food in the setting of family or friends. She shows that wholesome does not mean dull. In fact she demonstrates quite the opposite.
She shows how to determine whether a food is whole by answering the
following questions:
Can I imagine it growing?
How many ingredients does it have?
What’s been done to the food since it was harvested?
Is this product “part” of a food or the “whole” entity?
How long has this food been known to nourish human beings?
The section entitled “A Well-Balanced Whole Foods Diet” contains a simple but sensible illustraton of a wise method of eating. Following the illustration are explanations of the diet concept.
Cynthia is a brilliant dietician who knows her greens and beans. This book is one to be studied and followed. Every mother of a baby needs to read “Including Baby” and keep going through the book to learn about rearing healthy children and feeding a family appropriately.
There are endless intriguing recipes. Two of my favorite foods are basmati rice and chickpeas. She has included curry-like flavors in a recipe called Golden Spice Rice with Chickpeas. My mouth waters at the thought.