The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook, 3rd edition: The Ultimate Guide to the Most Effective Diets -- What they are - Why they work - How to do them

by Pamela J. Compart, Dana Laake

The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook, 3rd Edition explains the best diets for children with food intolerances and hypersensitivities that stem from altered biochemistry and which may be causing problems in learning, behavior, development, attention, sensory responses, sleep, and digestion. The authors provide guidelines to help parents determine which diets may be helpful for their child’s specific symptoms and needs. One of the challenges that parents face is coping with children who have picky appetites and crave the very foods that negatively affect their behavior, focus, and development. Linked to this is the challenge of finding ways to get their children to eat the healthy foods that will improve their nutrition. This book provides suggestions for feeding picky eaters, including those with texture issues. The 3rd edition of The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook provides a current and greatly expanded review of the most commonly used diets that are important in the treatment of ADHD and autism. There are recipes appropriate to specific diets as indicated by icons and descriptors with each recipe. The authors share details about just how and why each diet works, examine specialty ingredients in-depth, and provide extensive resources and references. The specialty diets covered casein-free, soy-freeFeingold low phenol, low salicylate diet Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) and Gut and Psychology Syndrome Diet (GAPS)Anti-yeast/candida diets, or Body Ecology DietLow Oxalate Diet (LOD)FODMAP (Fermentable Oligo-, Di- and Mono-saccharides, And Polyols)Anti-inflammatory dietRotation dietDespite the restrictions of these diets, this cookbook offers an array of tasty choices that kids and the whole family will love, including shakes, muffins, breads, rice and beans, vegetables, salads, main dishes, stews, and even sweets and treats. You’ll also find recommendations for school lunches and snacks. This comprehensive guide and cookbook is chock-full of helpful info and research, and includes more than 150 kid-friendly recipes, suitable to the variety of specialty diets.

352 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 28, 2020

Reviews

[Savannah Jackson · Rating 1 out of 5]

I’ve been terrible about reviews and tired but this one needs some notes of caution.
The book ranges from times of just “ehhhh that’s a bit off” to full on ableist territory. I can’t find the authors being autistic, or adhd or being in the nuerodiverse community at all. When you write any book, especially when it’s full of pages and pages of diets to keep “silliness and hyperactivity under control”-which is vaguely how it is put. Mind you these are children. It just rubbed me really really off. In addition, you see the author even bringing up things like fodmap diets and those can be quite scary to just lunge your child into which they offer as a solution for those with of course one but SIBO while negating the book again being for kids. They also propose anti candida diets, low phenol diets and other highly restrictive diets.

Idk maybe I expected something else. I expected a book where I had sensory friendly and healthy foods put in a recipe book. This book looks like at the worst, it could hurt someone severely. The language and vibe is about curing and suppression of neurodivervse traits and I felt it read gross. I would recommend taking this book and tossing it into the largest fire you have.

The recipe pages also become apparent that not even neurodiverse people were involved in creating the those. They’re hard to read, and really don’t say anything of value, especially after you have to read the really horrible bunk diet culture and woo in the beginning.

[Emma Cussatti · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ableist crap 👎

[Lisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

It gave me food for thought and some ideas on how to better manage my sons condition, but it was very dry and boring. I also thought the book was more directed to kids with autism which my son does not have. The recipes had too many specialized and hard to find ingredients and were too involved. I like simple recipes with not too many ingredients.

[Michael Moreno · Rating 1 out of 5]

Save your time reading this book. It will only confuse you even more than you are about food choices. Here's my take: cut your kid's sugar and processed food intake.

[Terrence · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very unhelpful recipes. The anti-inflammatory section goes against every single other thing I've read. Seems to be aligned more with autism speaks than with actual autistic people