Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family: How to Eat, How to Raise Good Eaters, How to Cook

by Ellyn Satter

Book Overview

This readable, entertaining, and light-hearted book by Ellyn Satter, based on solid scientific evidence, will transform your life. In writing about eating, feeding, and cooking, Satter also writes about emotional health and positive family relationships. Satter encourages you to celebrate eating. Eating is okay. Eating enough is okay. Enjoying eating is okay. Eating what you like--and discovering the joy of cooking--is okay. Raising...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967118921
• ISBN13: 9780967118925
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Kelcy Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent for parents of all cooking abilities

Ellyn Satter seems to direct this book at parents with minimal cooking experience or desire. This is probably justified based on her topic, but I am a happy and experienced home cook and I really enjoyed the book too. She explains useful tips for adapting foods for little eaters and how to round out meals with appealing vegetables and desserts. I love this book! A great companion to Child Of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense, because it provides lots of recipes to help apply the very sensible eating principles from Child Of Mine.

Put the pleasure back in mealtime

If you've been grappling with the Food Pyramid for the past 20 years, this book will put the pleasure back in mealtime, eliminate guilt, and get you back in touch with your own feelings of hunger, satiety, and fullness. Have you ever noticed how people who are worried about their own health are no fun, and often less healthy than those with a more relaxed attitude? Read this book, relax, and enjoy your food!

Common sense and recipes to boot!

Ellyn Satter understands kids, parents and the pressures of modern life, and shows us how to navigate our way to a healthier diet! No guilt here, either. Just common sense and good advice.

Great ideas - practical too.

This book is a must have if you are interested in feeding your children well. I think the style is friendly and easy to read and the ideas are terrific. I would recommend to anyone who has trouble knowing what to feed their family.

a fine valuable resource for parents in the 90's

This is a treasure of a resource. It is a comprehensive guide that, as a parent, I find myself turning to regularly. We are Californians who cook with fresh food for our family, and Ms. Satter's book speaks to us as well. I have learned so much from it!