Book Review: Cooking Healthy With The Kids in Mind by Joanna Lund

Need a cookbook that helps you create healthier more appealing meals for your children? Want to know how to create meals from packages off the grocer's shelf? Then Joanna Lund's "Cooking Healthy With The Kids in Mind" is perfect for you!

Joanna M. Lund was once close to 300 pounds. She was tired of diets that would initially help, but could not keep the wait off. She developed Healthy Exchanges. This process helped her lose 130 pounds! She is the author of numerous bestselling Healthy Exchanges cookbooks.

She has been in national publications such as People and the New York Times. She has made hundreds of appearances on radio and television, including the shopping station, QVC, where she has been on regularly for 10 years! She is a speaker on weight-loss, diabetic and cardiac support groups. She runs the Healthy Exchanges business and publishes the Healthy Exchanges newsletter.

The Healthy Exchanges program gives you examples of serving sizes needed from each group each day to live a healthy life. For example, protein, breads, fruit, skim milk, vegetables, fats, free foods (herbs, spices, mustard etc.), optional calories (sugar-free gelatin, fat-free mayonnaise etc.) and sliders (an extra 80 calories that can be used in any group)!

This cookbook also gives you tips on substitutions, needed pantry items and equipment for your kitchen. She explains cooking terms she uses in this book, how to shop for healthy food, as well as a section on sodium, fat and processed foods.

Each recipe gives you the nutritional information for each serving, as well as the diabetic exchanges, and Joanna's Healthy Exchanges.

This cookbook is very easy-to-read. The recipes are easy-to-prepare. This book is perfect for someone who is tired of taking the guess-work out of healthy eating. The recipes are not time-consuming either.

This book is packed with over 200 recipes. The recipe chapters included in this book are: Get-Out-Of-Bed Breakfasts, Super-Super Soups (and Sandwiches, too), Veggies and Salads, Fill-'Em-Up Main Dishes, Delicious Desserts for Good Girls and Boys, Scrumptious Snacktimes, Special Occasion Spectaculars and The Tiny-Tot Top Ten.

Cherry Almond Tarts
Reprinted with permission.

This is my version of a healthy cherry cheesecake-in-a-cup, one I just know your family will love. If you haven't got a biscuit cutter, you can use a small glass to cut out the curcles of dough.

Go To Page: 1 2