Kid Friendly Food Allergy Cookbook: More Than 150 Recipes That Are Wheat-Free, Gluten-Free, Dairy Free, Nut Free, Egg Free, Low in Sugar

Rating:
Summary: misrepresented
Review: After reading thru this book, I wished I had saved my money. This IS a recipe book with kid favorites in it. At the end of each recipe is a note how to make it dairy free, egg-free, nut free, etc. Let me save YOU some money. In the book, if a recipe calls for milk, cheese, or butter - soy milk, soy cheeses or vegetable margarine is the substitute. If it calls for eggs - use egg replacer. If it calls for a nut oil - use olive oil. If it calls for pasta - use gluten free pasta. If it calls for wheat flour - use rice flour instead. You now have the basis for this books food allergy cooking. (we also have soy allergy so all the replacements of soy and margarine are of no use to me.) The only saving grace for this book is the shopping hints in the front of the book, about 10 pages.

Rating:
Summary: misrepresented
Review: After reading thru this book, I wished I had saved my money. This IS a recipe book with kid favorites in it. At the end of each recipe is a note how to make it dairy free, egg-free, nut free, etc. Let me save YOU some money. In the book, if a recipe calls for milk, cheese, or butter - soy milk, soy cheeses or vegetable margarine is the substitute. If it calls for eggs - use egg replacer. If it calls for a nut oil - use olive oil. If it calls for pasta - use gluten free pasta. If it calls for wheat flour - use rice flour instead. You now have the basis for this books food allergy cooking. (we also have soy allergy so all the replacements of soy and margarine are of no use to me.) The only saving grace for this book is the shopping hints in the front of the book, about 10 pages.

Rating:
Summary: Fun helpful book with dishes my kids actually ate
Review: I have a ton of food allergy cookbooks,I usually find two or three recipes that I can actually use in them. This book was so fun to read, easy to make the recipes, and had such a variety of foods to choose from. I love the helpful hint section in the back. I never knew playdough had gluten in it! I have made all the muffins for my family and everyone loved them. I gave this book to my day care provider, she enjoyed reading it and the great kid recipes too! Thank you. I thought the format of the book was easy to follow.

Rating:
Summary: read this book
Review: I liked the recipes, the information, and the ideas. I would tell anyone with kids to read this

Rating:
Summary: More than a cookbook, a source of information
Review: I was beyond frustrated, now I feel so empowered to take on the world. My children are allergic to everything they love. I have not tried any of the recipes yet, but just the up-to-date information in this cookbook is amazing.

More than telling you the recipes, it tells you how to find the ingredients. It was well thought out and worth every penny!!! Leslie & Lynne, I love you.

Overall, it's a great feel-good type of book. Just like my new beverage of choice called s o y f e e. It's made from soybeans that you brew just like coffee. Caffeine-free, you'll find it at www. S oycoffee.com.

Thanks for all of the blood and sweat that you poured over these pages. And most of all, for giving me the power to make them feel normal and just like everyone else!

Rating:
Summary: Really only for wheat allergies
Review: I was pleased to see at least two other people mentioned this, but thought I'd throw in my two cents.

With a non-allergic 4 year old and a 2 year old allergic to wheat,dairy, eggs, fish and nuts, I was hoping to find some recipes that would please both kids. Almost all the recipes have dairy or eggs in them. The dairy-free and egg-free options are just to omit them. Great! Pick up any cookbook for that.

I made one recipe from this book and it was awful. (A cake recipe that I had to use 3 substitutions for). There are much better cake recipes out there.

This book is on its way to the used bookstore . . .

Rating:
Summary: real recipes
Review: My kids and my husband liked the recipes I used from this book. I actually got some good food ideas that I will use for my husband's birthday party. The Doughnut Cake is awsome! My teenagers couldn't believe it was made from rice flour. Finally, an allergy cookbook that I will use more than one recipe in it! Thanks

Rating:
Summary: Bait 'n' Swich Title. Very dissapointed!
Review: My kids are allergic to wheat, gluten, dairy, nuts, AND eggs (in addition to many other things). Most recipes in most food-allergy books only focus on one or two allergens - finding recipes friendly towards multiple-food-allergies is a huge challenge since substituting multiple common-food-item allergens in 'normal' recipes usually cause the recipe to self-implode. I bought the book based on the title, expecting to get REAL multiple-allergen-free recipes, only to be hugely dissapointed. The majority of recipes in this book include one or (typically) more of the allergens in the 'title'. At the end of each recipe are suggestions for 'allergen'-free variations, some of which are questionable. For example, a pizza recipe will say "Dairy-free variation: use Soy Cheese" (even though the foreword correctly states that most Soy Cheeses contain Milk protiens and are potentially unsafe for people with milk allergies!!!!). For eggs, suggestions are, "Omit eggs or use egg replacer"! For nuts: "Omit Nuts"! Hello?!? I did not pay money for this 'common-sense' advice which any parent of food-allergic children already knows and can tell you for free. I paid money with the hope of getting 150+ well-tested, palatable recipes that do not contain ANY wheat, gluten, dairy, nuts, AND eggs. From this perspective the book is a major disappointment and I feel I've been 'baited-and-switched'. Had I had a chance to look inside this book before buying, I would not have bought it. Wheat is the only item that most recipes seem not to have - if you're just allergic to wheat, you may get your money's worth. I certainly didn't.

Rating:
Summary: Misleading title and disheartening recipes
Review: The title of this book states that the recipes are dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free, wheat-free, etc... I bought this book because my children have dairy, egg, and nut allergies and am looking for recipes that do not merely use substitions, but are thoughtfully tested to taste good without these ingredients. The majority of the recipes in this book contain dairy and/or eggs and then at the bottom of the recipe, it simply says to omit or substitute a non-dairy ingredient or egg replacer. Who needs an allergy cookook to tell you to do this? It was depressing to read a book full of supposedly allergy-friendly recipes and find that I had to substitute something in each recipe. The title is totally misleading and the book is useless and disheartening if you have anything but a wheat allergy. I have had MUCH better success with vegan cookbooks in which the recipes are actually planned and tested to avoid dairy and eggs. I would NOT recommend this book to anyone searching for allergy-free recipes if the allergies include dairy and eggs.

Rating:
Summary: Great book, very helpful
Review: This book is great, it has let me cook things that my kids will actualy eat, and not make them sick from their allergies. It has a lot of fun info in it too. I pretty much only cook things that come from this book now, all of the recipes are good. Highly recomended.