Healthy Lunchbox: The Working Mom's Guide to Keeping You and Your Kids Trim

by Rallie McAllister

As a mother you want to be sure your kids eat healthy and stay fit, but as a working woman you don't have time to eat nutritiously yourself, let alone monitor every morsel your child consumes. Dr. Rallie McAllister offers all working moms a solution to their dilemma.

Genres: Food, Parenting

250 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Kristen Barenthaler]

The book is repetitive, insulting, and grossly mislabeled. Targeted specifically at mothers of overweight children, most of the book is spent telling mothers what they do wrong and how to be better mothers. Originally published in 2003, I would’ve expected better from a book about living a healthy family lifestyle. There are times when the writing made me want to stop reading because it was so strangely written and insulting to working mothers and overweight children.

[Penny McGill]

A much better book than it looked like at first glance. Rallie McAllister has pulled together solid research and practical suggestions in a book that would be a valuable resource to parents and anyone interested in improving their diet. She takes on recipes, snacking ideas and even makes recommendations for changing the way you shop and organize your fridge and pantry and it is fairly easy reading.

The recipes and meal planning ideas are good and she doesn't overpower her pages with endless detail about ingredients you can source through the Internet or specialty stores so that raises my opinion of the book instantly. There are a few too many 'theme nights' or suggestions that you cut up sandwiches using shaped cookie cutters but the good ideas far outweigh the bad. Faced with the kind of melancholy reactions we have at our house right now (to all meals other than breakfast) I am extremely pleased with the information she shares in this book and will keep it on the kitchen desk as a reference for as many weeks as my renewals will allow.

[Megan]

Really was hoping for unique ideas on lunches, not the scientific evidence behind bad food choices. Also dated info as author suggests aspartame, margarine and even olestra. Also some of the hyperbole irritated me.

[A]

This book speaks to MOTHERS (not fathers) of over-weight children. Only Chapter Ten, fewer than 10 pages, addresses lunches. Not what I was expecting