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Eating good-tasting and healthy foods is something that eludes many families but with childhood obesity rates at an all-time high, it's time to try and slow this epidemic down.44 Things Parents Should Know About Healthy Cooking for Kids provides a plan that will make it fun and feasible for everyone to have flavorful, healthy food in their lives, and doesn't overwhelm readers with recipe after recipe. Stop sneaking in vegetables and start teaching children to make conscious food decisions that will last them a lifetime!

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Vie de famille

Santé familiale

Children's Health

Parenting

Health

Fitness

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	28 octobre 2010
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781618581143
Langue	English

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Praise for 44 Things
“Rock’s personal stories offer heartfelt insight into the dining relationship between parents and their children while addressing today’s most important issues. Raising awareness about childhood obesity and a general disconnect between healthy eating and today’s American household is just the beginning of changing the livelihood of a generation. I found his stories very relatable to my own life and how I eat.”
—Stephanie Izard, Season 4 winner of Bravo’s Top Chef, Executive Chef/Co-owner of Girl and the Goat in Chicago
To Tamara, Leah, Elijah, and Jaiden. I am and this book is and because you are. With peace and love, I dedicate this to you.

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44 Things Parents Should Know About Healthy Cooking For Kids

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Harper, Rock. 44 things parents should know about healthy cooking for kids / Rock Harper. p. cm. Forty-four things parents should know about healthy cooking for kids
9781618581143
1.Children--Nutrition. I. Title. TX361.C5H37 2010 613.2--dc22
2010032034

Printed in China 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17—0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
In America, a parent puts food in front of a child and says, “Eat it, it’s good for you.” In Europe, the parent says, “Eat it. It’s good!”

~ John Levee, Another Way of Living: A Gallery of Americans Who Choose to Live in Europe by John Bainbridge
Table of Contents
Praise for 44 Things Dedication Title Page Copyright Page Introduction 1 - Skip commercials 2 - Eat in full meals as opposed to entrees only 3 - Enjoy a healthy breakfast 4 - Move your butt! 5 - Ciao down! 6 - Take a toll at the end of the week 7 - The “d” word 8 - iPod, blindfold, and a spoon 9 - Pitch a tent and pack a picnic basket 10 - Stouffer’s has it half right 11 - Mommy, who put this tertiary butylhydroquinone in my chicken? 12 - “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a . . . !” 13 - “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” 14 - Greasy food bad, fried food good 15 - “Be the change you want to see in the world.” 16 - Put another bun in the oven! 17 - “Why, back in the 30s, children as young as five could work as they pleased; from textile factories to iron smelts. Yippee! Hurray!” 18 - Eat out! 19 - Put it in one pot 20 - Don’t be fooled 21 - Remember, breakfast pizza is okay to these people 22 - You’re in a rush, I get it 23 - Sorry, sweeties, you have to share me 24 - “You can’t show up at someone’s house with Ring Dings and Pepsi!” 25 - “I don’t like potatoes but I love Tater Tots!” 26 - “Return to the root and you will find the meaning.” 27 - Let them cook! 28 - “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.” 29 - This doesn’t taste good, but it’s healthy for me? 30 - “Let there be work, bread, water, and salt for all.” 31 - “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” 33 - Hire a personal chef! 33 - Just don’t get caught. 34 - I never say never, but . . . 35 - Go raw 36 - Never hide food in food 37 - Hide food in food 38 - Lights, camera, YouTube! 39 - Travel with a kitchen 40 - “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” 41 - Horror-movie food 42 - To whom it may concern: are you trying to kill our children? 43 - Ban trans fats in your world 44 - Smile, give hugs, and love
Introduction
Everybody’s doing it. Every television station and every magazine you flip through, you can’t help but see the evidence of someone talking about living a healthy lifestyle or promoting sustainability. Healthy eating has reached or is on the verge of a “tipping point,” to borrow the phrase from Malcolm Gladwell.
When we see celebrities doing something, we generally want to do it also. However, we, the regular people of the world, need help doing it. If Jay-Z has a watch that I covet, chances are after a few minutes on the Internet I can figure out what kind it is. If not, I’ll just call my young nephew Rick, and I’m in good shape. When Sarah Jessica Parker shows up in heels that make women’s jaws drop, chances are that you can find out how to get them. When Jamie Oliver has a reality show that tells you that your kids are dying eating the food you and their schools feed them, where do you go to get the good stuff? Ebay or GQ can’t help you on this one.
You are left to tons of advice from tons of “experts” on eating healthy. I don’t claim to be a nutrition expert, but these 44 Things can help you on your journey. Too many times we are given instructions on healthy eating that don’t address specific concerns. You won’t find that here. Having trouble introducing new foods to your kid? The chapter “iPod, blindfold, and a spoon” may be the Thing for you. If your kid eats one or more meals at school, I suggest you read “Remember, breakfast pizza is okay to these people.”
Yes, I am a chef. But this book isn’t loaded with recipes, and I don’t think you need them. As a matter of fact, I know you don’t. I have tons of cookbooks, and none of them gives you specific instructions or the actual “how-to” when it comes to making a change towards healthy cooking. 44 Things will do just that—give you the “how-to.” If you’re looking for recipes, we can pull those up on our phones while shopping in the store!
Use this book as guide for now and years to come. You may take one Thing and have that be your focus for months. That’s okay. “Success is achieved by those who are always willing to take the next step, whatever that step may be.” Beautiful words from Ralph Marston to keep you encouraged while you change for you and your kids.
As you embark on this new journey, you will come across an enormous amount of information. Keep this Julia Child quote close to your heart; it always helps me: “In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.”
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Skip commercials
So, I may kill a couple of my endorsement deals on this one, but who cares?
I was sitting in my living room last night with my family watching Martin, when this woman just burst into my house and began rapping about how excited she was when she purchased her $1 breakfast sandwich from McDonald’s! This woman was young, attractive, and very fashionable, someone my daughter might want to resemble when she gets older. A couple of other people in her entourage were rapping also. As you can probably guess, they were pretty good-looking people too. I imagine they knew I was watching a program laden with an African-American cast and figured I had an affinity for rap music, which would help convince me to buy the garbage she was selling.
Well, I just sat there in disgust as they totally interrupted my family time with something I wasn’t in the market for. I wasn’t buying it, and they left a few seconds later. But they didn’t leave without giving me the impression that they would return. The female rapper showed me an image of her company logo that read underneath “Billions and Billions served,” and followed the nifty rap with a jingle that went a little something like “ba da ba ba ba . . . I’m lovin’ it!” That darn jingle was stuck in my head, and my kids were singing it. She had to be stopped, and I had to get her from getting to my kids. So I switched over to the Science Channel to watch How It’s Made, and just when we thought we had found our refuge, she was back in my living room! Only this time she had a different pitch with animals, a different song, and different people.
Some of these companies use my favorite celebrities and my kids’ favorite animated creatures—cunning little tricks to try to get my family to buy garbage. I mean, this is my living room, in my house! How dare they? I called the cops and asked if they could get the intruders out of my house. They laughed for about thirty seconds straight before hanging up on me. I did get some good advice through the laughter though: “Just mute the television, idiot!” I totally agree with that statement—well, except for the idiot part, of course.
I hope you can see what I’m getting at. I hate commercials. I am even known to turn to a channel when a program comes on, pause the show for about ten minutes, and then come back to watch it so I have some fast-forward buffer room. This really annoys my family, but cheap, corny, obvious attempts to get my family to purchase crap that I am not asking for really, really annoys me too.
What does this have to do with nutrition? The big boys that are selling the horrible food have many tricks up their sleeves. You couldn’t begin to imagine the research that goes into making a commercial, let alone the millions and millions of dollars spent to get your family to buy garbage. In an hour-long TV show, about twenty minutes can be for advertising. That’s almost half of the actual show! How much time do you have to spend trying to convince your kid that drinking Coca-Cola every day isn’t cool? If you gave me twenty minutes of every hour to sell you and your kids something, I could make you buy your own car from me, especially if I hired Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, Michael Jordan, and Justin Bieber. When is the last time you saw your child’s favorite celebrity eating kale, broccoli, apples, and quinoa?
We as parents fight this fight, and we have to control what is within our world, which is at home. It’s hard to fight these people—the stuff on TV looks good! Of course your kids are going to hear about ju