Food Babe Family: More Than 100 Recipes and Foolproof Strategies to Help Your Kids Fall in Love with Real Food: A Cookbook

by Vani Hari

New York Times best-selling author Vani Hari inspires you with over 100 recipes and everything you need to feed your family in a way that will foster a love for REAL food for life.

The multimillion dollar food industry has used their vast resources to target parents, convincing them that it’s difficult to feed their children good food. But here’s the parenting is difficult, but feeding your children simple, healthy, real food shouldn’t be.

In Food Babe Family , Vani dispels popular myths about feeding our kids; offers more than 100 delicious recipes that make it simple to put healthy, real food on the table; and helps parents start children on a lifelong path of making good food choices.

From Pumpkin Muffins to Taco Salad Cups, Zucchini Pizza Bites, “Chick-fil-A” Chicken Nuggets and Waffle Fries, and even Homemade “Oreos,” Food Babe Family proves it’s not only possible, but fun to eat real food without artificial dyes, high fructose corn syrup, and other nasty ingredients.

Includes tips and tricks, such as how

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Health, Cooking

328 pages, Hardcover

Published October 17, 2023

Reviews

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

5.0 stars. My hats off to the author for trying to fight the good fight. But it's an uphill battle. Health & Wellness for our families against the FDA and Big Food companies. On top of that, how to get parents to ditch the chemically laden disease causing foods to real food for their families. She does an excellent job here with the easy step by step way to introduce healthy real foods to your kids.

Being a strong supporter of health & and wellness, I only wish I'd had this knowledge when my son was a baby. I often tell him now that if I knew then what I know now, he'd crave an entirely different diet. But as a parent, you try to do your best only to be undermined by the schools & the mainstream mindset. I always watered down my son's apple juice. He came home from his first day of preschool to tell me their apple juice tasted WAY different. 🙄😖 Yea, he got the full strength sugar shock. 😔. The author has had similar experiences but describes how she navigates her way through with her kids.

On a sad note, the author tells a story at the beginning of the book how she got her daughter's school to switch pizza day from crap food chain/Domino's to a local company that used organic ingredients. Unfortunately, after the book was released, the school reversed their decision the next school year and went back to the Domino's chain. 🤦‍♀️ This was even after the author had been paying the difference in the cost and using it as a donation to the school. 🤯

This book was a pretty easy quick read with about 40 percent "how to" and the rest easy delicious real food recipes for your family. There's even an incredibly helpful list of swaps for the worst foods in the grocery aisles to their healthier counterparts for your kids. There is no need to deprive your kids or the convenience for parents. Just trade out the disease causing chemical brands for their real food brands with ingredients you can pronounce. Everything from cereals, mac n cheese, chip and crackers, pop tarts, waffles, juices, candies, etc.

She even has great ideas on how to feed your kids when you're on the go, restaurants, traveling, kid's parties etc.

Thought this was an incredibly helpful read. The family friendly recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner include meat/poultry, eggs and dairy along with fruits and veggies. She does give an occasional side note to make them a vegetarian option, but most recipes you can use your own swaps should you choose to make them vegan or plant based.

Health and wellness jingles my jam, so I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one. Highly recommend.

[Alexandria Irwin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this perspective! The part 1 of this book was my favorite- so many actionable tips for clean eating with kids. So much interesting information too! I feel a lot more informed on the ingredients in my food, and I was already pretty informed before I read this. It’s pretty inspiring.

I don’t agree with her entire food philosophy… mine differs from hers a bit, but there’s still so much good to take from this. Really made me want to spend even more time, money and effort on cleaner food for our family.

The recipes look pretty simple and most have reasonably accessible/common ingredients too, which always helps. Excited to try a few.

Good add to my cookbook library. (Got this hard copy as a gift.)

[Keesah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Can’t wait to try the Strawberry Immune Booster Smoothie and Key Lime Pie parfait!

[Crystal · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think she is a little too far out there for me - you cannot convince me that eating goldfish will ruin my children or enjoying a piece of candy will doom them forever. That clickbait is not my jam. (She hates jam if you were wondering)

So if we set aside the fact that my children will eat snacks from packages and enjoy movie theater popcorn and still grow into perfectly lovely adults -

Her meal ideas are good. I tend to cook meals from real whole ingredients - so I did see lots of fun meals I want to try.

I will skip the baking section because I don’t think real sugar or eggs is going to be the death of modern civilization but girl, you do you. 🤣

[Jillian Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great ideas for starting kids off with proper eating habits!