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"While she's an actress with a PhD in neuroscience, at the end of the day Mayim Bialik is a mom, one who knows what it's like to be a busy parent with little time to spend in the kitchen. She shares the concerns of parents everywhere: when it comes to nutrition and feeding your family, you want healthy meals, but also food that everyone can enjoy, and a balanced lifestyle that's inexpensive and fuss-free. Not only does this book shares more than 100 easy plant-based recipes, but Mayim has also teamed up with pediatrician Jay Gordon to offer: basic nutritional information about a plant-based diet; the real deal on raising kids on a plant-based diet (myths and misperceptions, debunked); vegan family essentials (including a list of what to always keep in the pantry); tips and strategies for easy meal planning and healthy eating out."--Page four of cover.… (more)
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This is a book I’d like to own. I found quite a few enticing recipes and it’s a book I’d use. I expect to borrow it from the library multiple times.
There is some useful information
I was surprised at how much sugar there was in some of the savory dishes and there was way too much white flour for my tastes, but substitutions would be easy, and the way the recipes are written perhaps for some kids they’d be more appealing, though some kids would like healthier tweaks too.
I love the many veganized Jewish and Jewish holiday themed recipes. Yum. There are many other sources (cookbooks, websites, magazine articles, etc.) for these kinds of recipes, but these versions do look delicious and not too hard to make.
Recipes I’m especially eager to make/eat, with a couple tweaks here and there, and I admit I had to avoid the temptation to photocopy pages, are, in general order of interest: Matzoh Ball Soup, Latkes, Root Vegetable Latkes, Quinoa Burgers, Mac N Cheez, Baked Ziti, Winter Vegetable Risotto, Creamy Enchilada Casserole, Creamed Corn Bread, Vegetable and Tofu Curry, Thai Pasta, Udon with Edamame and Peanut Sauce, and these desserts, some of which would be fun to make WITH kids, also in a general order of interest: Halloween Candy Bark, Candy Cane Winter Bark, Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies, Cocoa Brownies, Hamantaschen, Rugelach, Chocolate Fudge Cake, No Fail Vanilla Cake.
These are my tastes. There are many more recipes in various categories but hopefully this will give a bit of information about the types of recipes. There are also pizzas and several customize/make your own type dishes. There aren’t photos for every recipe and the photos included are in the center of the book, but they’re glossy color and make the food look scrumptious.
4 ½ stars