Appetite for Life: The Thumbs-Up, No-Yucks Guide to Getting Your Kid to Be a Great Eater—Including Over 100 Kid-Approved Recipes – The Practical Nutrition Cookbook for Parents

by Stacey Antine

“Stacey Antine understands kids, nutrition, and the joys of good food, and knows how to bring them all together.”—David L. Katz, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, and Editor-in-Chief of Childhood Obesity

“I love this book!" —Curtis G. Aikens Sr., Food Network chef and author of Curtis Aikens’ Guide to the Harvest

Appetite for Life is a fun, practical, and proven guide to raising healthy eaters, from Stacey Antine, founder and CEO of HealthBarn USA.  Filled with more than 100 nutritious, easy-to-prepare, kid-approved-thumbs-up recipes, Appetite for Life will transform the way your family eats by getting them off the pre-packaged, fast-food path. This essential cookbook and nutrition guide is a must-own for mothers whose kids have been rejecting their vegetables for years; for readers of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Jamie Olliver; and for supporters of First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative to fight obesity.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking

275 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 11, 2012

About the author

Stacey Antine, MS, RD, is the founder and CEO of HealthBarn USA, a leader in proven hands-on healthy-lifestyle education for children and their families, and a registered dietitian with over twenty years of experience as a nutrition counselor, speaker, and media spokesperson. HealthBarn USA has served over 30,000 kids and their families and has been featured on the Rachael Ray Show and CNN's House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

Reviews

[Julia Farthing Kitay · Rating 2 out of 5]

A lot of these recipes my picky kid wouldn't even touch.

[Liss Carmody · Rating 2 out of 5]

There wasn't anything actually wrong with this book, and I espouse most of the author's feelings as far as whole foods, kid menus, etc. go. I'm rating it 'meh' mostly because I was underwhelmed, and didn't find as much as I was hoping for in terms of specific concrete ways to broaden the taste buds of a slightly picky eater. Lots of information about why kids should eat whole, real foods (which I totally believe!), but there were only a few specific ideas that I might add to my arsenal. Maybe I'm just already doing everything right? Maybe this book is just a little spare. Most of the space is taken up with recipes, which was fine, but I don't really need a lot of kid-friendly recipes. I did appreciate that she included specific suggestions about steps in the recipes that kids of different ages could do.

I had a couple of minor quibbles, the first being her insistence that low-fat dairy products are the way to go (I totally disagree), but it's not a deal breaker. You could definitely make her recipes with full-fat dairy products and they would still taste fine, you'd just have to adjust the nutritional info accordingly. My second complaint is that her side-by-side comparisons of some of her recipes vs. a similar standard commercial product seemed disingenuous - like, it was a nice idea and I see what she was trying to do there, but at the same time she included parenthetical ingredients in the commercial products (i.e.: "enriched macaroni product (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), but not in her homemade recipes. Sorry, but the pasta she used for her spaghetti is full of ingredients too, and probably even a couple of preservatives. Not that I'm saying that she should have made every single thing from scratch (I, too, use commercial pasta products!), but it's not really a fair comparison to leave that info out.

Anyway, this would probably be more useful to a family that didn't already really have a predominantly whole-foods diet, or who needed coaching into that transition.

[Brittney · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this book as an ARC from Goodreads Giveaways.
I really enjoyed trying these recipes. I have a picky eater at home and the recipes i have tries have almost all worked in my favor! I can get my child to eat good for you things that taste good as well.

[Reading For Sanity · Rating 3 out of 5]

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