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Colorful Cooking: Healthy and Fun Recipes that Kids Can Make
- Hardcover: 80 pages
- Publisher: Cedar Fort (November 11, 2014)
- ISBN-10: 1462115209
- ISBN-13: 978-1462115204
- Cover price $17.99
Finally, a fun and easy way to get your children to eat more fruits and veggies — and cook everything themselves! Youngsters will learn all about nutrition and healthful living as they cook their way through the rainbow with yummy recipes like blueberry pancakes, sweet potato fries and pineapple sherbet. Each recipe includes nourishing, colorful ingredients and step-by-step photos to guide your child to a lifetime of wholesome eating.
This cookbook is set up a bit differently then most others. It’s important to read the introduction, so you understand why the book is set up the way it is. Along with information on what the different colors of food mean, the introduction also contains some information on food safety, and grocery shopping and cooking with children. Then come the recipes.
Chapters include:
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue and Purple
- Brown
- Colorful Foods
The recipes are all very easy to understand. The level of difficulty of each recipe is noted. The levels of easy, medium and hard are noted as such depending on what tools or adult help might be required to complete the recipe. Not only are the instructions for making each dish clear, each recipe is accompanied by a number of color photos that make up a step-by-step photo tutorial. Along with the list of ingredients, a list of necessary tools is listed, along with a list of the food groups that each ingredient belongs to. The only suggestion I have for improvement is that I would like to see cooking and prep time listed separately. I use cooking and prep time to help me decide what recipes I am going to make. I find it very inconvenient to have to read through a recipe just to find out how long it will take to make. This cookbook would be a great for anyone that would like to help their child start to learn to cook and do more in the kitchen.
maria
Tuesday 30th of December 2014
My daughter would love this book. she loves to cook and loves to try new things out in the kitchen.
patricia Marsden
Tuesday 30th of December 2014
Kids love to cook--the reason why Easy Bake typo ovens have been around since my own childhood days.
Rebecca Swenor
Monday 29th of December 2014
This sounds like a great cookbook for kids. My niece and nephews would love to be able to make meals as well as desserts. I think it is great that there is books out there like this one. Thanks for sharing.
Athena
Monday 29th of December 2014
What a great way to get children interested in cooking. And in a healthy way!
Michele
Monday 29th of December 2014
This looks like a great cookbook to start children out on a healthy life style and how to learn to cook!