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Get Your Family Eating Right: A 30-day Plan for Teaching Your Kids Healthy Eating Habits for Life
Learn to Eat Healthy for Life--in Just 30 Days!
Are you concerned about the amount of sugar, processed meals, and low-nutrient foods that you and your family consume each day?
Has mealtime solely become about getting something (anything!) on the table and getting it done?
Has family meal-planning become an overwhelming chore of trying to balance limited time, money, and different tastes?
If you answered yes to any of these questions then Get Your Family Eating Right! can help you reclaim family mealtime. Studies are clear. Poor nutrition sets your children up for conditions like obesity, diabetes, and other illnesses as well as poor performance in school and activities. Families that consistently share nourishing meals together are healthier and happier. You can cook a healthy dinner but how do you ensure that healthy eating becomes a regular practice for you and your family and not something that ends when you get up from the table? Based on the award-winning program used in New York City public schools, 30 Days to Get Your Family Eating Right gives day-by-day nutritional advice, recipes, and meal concepts that are adaptable for everyone in the family--from young children to adults. Broken down into strategies such as "Prioritize Whole Food Snacks," and "Eat All Your Colors," and "Plan Meals Around Seasonal Foods" you and your children get healthy eating lessons that can be used to make smarter food choices at home, work, and school--today and for life. Eating better is doable and it isn't complicated, expensive, or time-consuming. Family nutrition pioneers Lynn Fredericks and Mercedes Sanchez give delicious recipes such as Quinoa Breakfast Cereal, Scandinavian Barley Salad with Apples and White Bean and Chorizo Spanish Stew that let you put the strategies into practice tonight, get the kids cooking with you, and your family eating better effortlessly.
Are you concerned about the amount of sugar, processed meals, and low-nutrient foods that you and your family consume each day?
Has mealtime solely become about getting something (anything!) on the table and getting it done?
Has family meal-planning become an overwhelming chore of trying to balance limited time, money, and different tastes?
If you answered yes to any of these questions then Get Your Family Eating Right! can help you reclaim family mealtime. Studies are clear. Poor nutrition sets your children up for conditions like obesity, diabetes, and other illnesses as well as poor performance in school and activities. Families that consistently share nourishing meals together are healthier and happier. You can cook a healthy dinner but how do you ensure that healthy eating becomes a regular practice for you and your family and not something that ends when you get up from the table? Based on the award-winning program used in New York City public schools, 30 Days to Get Your Family Eating Right gives day-by-day nutritional advice, recipes, and meal concepts that are adaptable for everyone in the family--from young children to adults. Broken down into strategies such as "Prioritize Whole Food Snacks," and "Eat All Your Colors," and "Plan Meals Around Seasonal Foods" you and your children get healthy eating lessons that can be used to make smarter food choices at home, work, and school--today and for life. Eating better is doable and it isn't complicated, expensive, or time-consuming. Family nutrition pioneers Lynn Fredericks and Mercedes Sanchez give delicious recipes such as Quinoa Breakfast Cereal, Scandinavian Barley Salad with Apples and White Bean and Chorizo Spanish Stew that let you put the strategies into practice tonight, get the kids cooking with you, and your family eating better effortlessly.
418 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2013
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About the author
Lynn Fredericks
5 books2 followersLynn Fredericks is the founder and guiding force behind FamilyCook Productions. Author of Get Your Family Eating Right and the acclaimed, Cooking Time Is Family Time, she is an award-winning pioneer in the field of obesity prevention and family nutrition. After a successful career as a food and wine journalist and top restaurant publicist in the early 90s, Ms. Fredericks found her calling in 1995 when she brought her own lessons about cooking with children as a single parent, into culinary and public elementary schools of NYC. Since 1995, these educational efforts under FamilyCook have reached over 150,000 families. Ms. Fredericks's work in New York City public schools was recognized in 2002 with a Leadership Award, from the New York City Council of Administrators. In 2001, she was presented with a PRIDE award for her contribution in family nutrition to the NYC public school community. In 2006, Gourmet Magazine saluted FamilyCook’s efforts to bring cooking skills to inner city families. Such messages as family togetherness and moderation are the fulcrum of the FamilyCook educational approach, where families practice multicultural meal concepts that make dinnertime an adventure! Ms. Fredericks’ understanding of family dynamics and its relationship to food and health is a binding element of such FamilyCook curricula as Nibble with Willow (preschool); Look Who’s Cooking (K- 5); Teen Battle Chef (middle & high school). Collectively, these programs empower children -- and parents, to transform their relationship to food and enjoy more home cooked meals using fresh ingredients.
Through partnership with HealthCorps, founded by renowned cardiologist, author and television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, her Teen Battle Chef program has grown to over 100 schools across the US, empowering youth to make measurable improvements in their eating habits and ‘stir up change’ in their communities by sharing their cooking skills and teaching others.
Together with her FamilyCook Productions’ team of dieticians and chefs, Ms. Fredericks has developed family-focused food & nutrition programs (curricula, learning tools & activities) for such state and local health departments, non-profits, and companies such as: Share Our Strength, HealthCorps; NY State Department of Health; CT State Department of Public Health, Public Health Solutions, YMCA’s the USA; Preferred Care (HMO); NYC Workforce Development Corporation; Montefiore School Health Program; The After School Corporation; FDNY, Wegmans Food Markets, Disney's Family.com, C-CAP (Careers Through Culinary Arts Program), StarChefs.com, AIWF Days of Taste. In addition, Ms. Fredericks has served as spokesperson for brands such as Barilla Pasta, Tupperware, Reynolds® Oven Bags, 3-M Post-It Flags, O-Cello Sponge Scrubbers, and The National Pasta Association among others.
A popular lecturer, television personality, and cooking demonstrator, Ms. Fredericks and FamilyCook programs have been featured on such national television shows as NBC’s Today, Cooking Live, and the Food Network’s Chopped, as well as numerous local radio and television programs around the U.S. Ms. Fredericks is also an avid outdoors enthusiast with a special love for cross-country skiing and fly-fishing. She resides in Manhattan with her two sons, Alex and Stephan.
Through partnership with HealthCorps, founded by renowned cardiologist, author and television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, her Teen Battle Chef program has grown to over 100 schools across the US, empowering youth to make measurable improvements in their eating habits and ‘stir up change’ in their communities by sharing their cooking skills and teaching others.
Together with her FamilyCook Productions’ team of dieticians and chefs, Ms. Fredericks has developed family-focused food & nutrition programs (curricula, learning tools & activities) for such state and local health departments, non-profits, and companies such as: Share Our Strength, HealthCorps; NY State Department of Health; CT State Department of Public Health, Public Health Solutions, YMCA’s the USA; Preferred Care (HMO); NYC Workforce Development Corporation; Montefiore School Health Program; The After School Corporation; FDNY, Wegmans Food Markets, Disney's Family.com, C-CAP (Careers Through Culinary Arts Program), StarChefs.com, AIWF Days of Taste. In addition, Ms. Fredericks has served as spokesperson for brands such as Barilla Pasta, Tupperware, Reynolds® Oven Bags, 3-M Post-It Flags, O-Cello Sponge Scrubbers, and The National Pasta Association among others.
A popular lecturer, television personality, and cooking demonstrator, Ms. Fredericks and FamilyCook programs have been featured on such national television shows as NBC’s Today, Cooking Live, and the Food Network’s Chopped, as well as numerous local radio and television programs around the U.S. Ms. Fredericks is also an avid outdoors enthusiast with a special love for cross-country skiing and fly-fishing. She resides in Manhattan with her two sons, Alex and Stephan.
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