Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food

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Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food
by Jessica Seinfeld
from Collins Living

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• An very experienced home cook, very disappointed
  The idea behind this book is great, although not entirely original, but the recipes are NOT great. Let me just say that I have been cooking meals for my family since I was around 13 years old so I know how to prepare simple and complicated meals at home and I also bake. My feedback on the recipes:
  Banana Bread- Collapsed in the middle, was gummy throughout and tasted like vegetable puree. No one in our house wanted to eat it.
  Quesadillas- Never crisped up because the recipe calls for too much... more info

• Jessica Seinfeld is Deceptively Delicious
  From: www.BasilAndSpice.com
  When my son was a toddler, he ate everything, even wood! I was constantly alert for anything other than food entering his mouth. As I prepared meals in the kitchen, he would sit in his highchair and taste-test my culinary creations. Time passed and David entered school. Peer pressure regarding dietary habits hit back at my efforts to feed my family healthy meals, and I was forced to resort to creative cooking--hiding the vegetables, fruits, and whole grains in common... more info

• The brownies are for everyone
  I've made the chocolate brownies from this book. The brownies use carrot and spinach puree. They are wonderfully moist and great tasting. I've made the brownies for children and for the poeple with whom my husband works.
  Everyone raves about the brownies that are "good for them"

• Nice presentation but content isn't that great
  I was excited at first, getting my kids to eat veggies! Wow!
  But I found out that every single thing there is made un-healthy due to either frying or being mixed with tons of other fats (like chocolate!) what's the point in sneaking veggies to the kids if all the rest is not so god. I am not sure how all the vitamins and minerals from vegetables and other ingredients survive the heat of frying pan/oven.
  I gave up on this book, plus my 5 year old wouldn't eat anything anyway.
  I do not... more info

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