Allergy-Friendly Food for Families book description:
Allergy-Friendly Food for Families is the most practical and kid-friendly collection of recipes that exists for the important, ever-growing audience of allergy-aware families. When you’re desperate for ideas for what to make for dinner (or lunch, or snack time), you want recipes from someone you can trust, that don’t require a lot of fancy ingredients, and that include food the whole family will love to eat. The five most common allergens in kids are covered: wheat, dairy, eggs, nuts, and soy. Food should be delicious; family time should be fun. With this book you’ll find both. For more information visit allergyfriendlycooking.com.
About the publisher:
Kiwi is the premier, bimonthly magazine about raising families in the natural and organic way. The magazine supports and encourages parents to make green, healthy choices when it comes to food, home life, and more. It helps families balance their green ideals with their busy lives and schedules, and helps parents raise their children the healthiest way possible.
My thoughts:
Allergy-Friendly Food for Families is a beautiful, colorful recipe book that features many fun recipes for a variety of ideas. The tag-line reads 120 gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, egg-free and soy-free recipes everyone will love. The way I read this was that the recipes were friendly to all of the allergens, but I was incorrect. That’s okay though because this recipe book has a wonderful (and I do mean wonderful), easy-to-read, color-coded labeling system that allows readers to quickly see at-a-glance which recipes will fit your family’s specific allergy needs. I have to say that this was the best system that I’ve seen, and I totally appreciated it.
The recipe book has a brief into into allergy-friendly living and some helpful hints for those who are new to the lifestyle. The recipes are broken down into 6 sections: breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, snacks, and parties. In addition, Allergy-Friendly Food for Families gives ideas and tips on how to build a natural, allergy-friendly pantry. It includes a handy metric conversion and equivalents chart which is helpful. Also included is your typical alphabetical recipe index in addition to a recipe index by allergen. Throughout the cookbook, there are Cooking with Kids segments that help you bring your kids into the kitchen.
At the back of the book, there is a coupon for one free year of Kiwi magazine. You’ll want to pay attention to the expiration date on it if you want to take advantage of the offer. (My expires October 15, 2012.)
I found that quite a few of the non-gluten-free recipes could easily be converted to gluten-free such as the carrot cake breakfast cookies. (Can you say yum?) The ones that couldn’t easily be converted normally revolved around yeast bread type recipes. The only thing that I would have liked to see more of in this cookbook would be pictures, but that’s mainly because I really like to see pictures with most recipes. (I’m a very visual person when it comes to food.) The pictures that are in the book are beautiful. The cookbook had a nice variety of recipes, and even though they were considered kid-friendly, they were still great adult recipes.
Would I recommend this cookbook to someone who needs an allergy-friendly cookbook? Yes – especially if you’re looking for fun, kid-friendly recipes. Would I recommend this cookbook to someone who doesn’t need an allergy-friendly cookbook? Yes! The recipes in here are great whether or not you need to be allergy-free.
***Giveaway***
One of my readers will have the opportunity to win a copy of Allergy-Friendly Food for Families. Rafflecopter giveaway ends July 31st.
