I got this cookbook for Christmas:
<img src="http://funcrazylife.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/511odl8h0ul__aa240_.thumbnail.jpg" alt="511odl8h0ul__aa240_.jpg" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Deceptively-Delicious-Simple-Secrets-Eating/dp/0061251348/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199743723&sr=8-2">Deceptively Delicious, by Jessica Seinfeld</a>
I was so excited. I really like feeding my kids healthy food, so I was super pumped to get a bunch of recipes that would share "Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food."
Not. What. I. Thought.
Every recipe calls for some type of pureed fruit or vegetable. As in brownees made with pureed beets or chicken fingers with pureed cauliflower in them.
What??
Firstly, <em>who</em> has time to cook and basically make baby food from scratch to add to the food you're already cooking?
Secondly, what about that is "simple?"
Thirdly, how is this "teaching my kids to eat good food"? This is hiding good food in food that looks like 'bad' food. Wouldn't it be much, much healthier for them to keep eating the salads they love rather than sneaking beets and yams into desserts? Wouldn't that teach them that they like desserts rather than the 'good' food that is hidden in the dessert? And isn't this doing the <em>opposite </em>of teaching my kids healthy eating habits for life, by getting them used to having healthy food disguised as bad food?
Anyway, I am highly disappointed and will be returning this cookbook for something I will actually use. Like maybe <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Giadas-Family-Dinners-Giada-Laurentiis/dp/030723827X/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199744309&sr=1-6">this one</a>...
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