Binding: Spiral-bound Brand: Harper Collins Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5973 EAN: 9780061251344 ISBN: 0061251348 Label: Collins Living Manufacturer: Collins Living Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: October 01, 2007 Publisher: Collins Living Release Date: October 05, 2007 Sales Rank: 627 Studio: Collins Living
Cheryl in Cleveland, OH
Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food is fantastic - I absolutely love it. Mrs. Seinfeld is pure genius!
An very experienced home cook, very disappointed
The idea behind Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food 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 puree. They were total mush inside and I couldn't even serve them. We had sandwiches that night!
Chicken nuggets- You can TOTALLY see and taste the spinach puree. They look nothing like the picture. And as ... Read More
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 everyday dishes.
Recently, I reviewed Deceptively Delicious, by Jessica Seinfeld, wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld. The author has been plagued with the same complaints all mothers have--"One won't eat! The other is picky! They ... Read More
The brownies are for everyone
I've made the chocolate brownies from Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food. 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 Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food, plus my 5 year old wouldn't eat anything anyway.
I do not recommend it. I think kids need to learn eat their vegetables through honesty and consistency. It comes with age. Plus don't provide the un-healthy alternatives/empty calories.
