Food Dress-Up: Crafty Ways to Get Kids to Eat What's Good for Them

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Summary: Tricks of the trade for crafty parents.
Review: This book was written by a 6-year old (Devin Kopp) and his father (Erik Kopp), and aims to answer parents' concerns that they cannot get their kids to eat healthy food.

The book is a collection of tasty, healthy recipes which contain some "special" ingredients to add nutritional value to kid-approved favorites. Sometimes these ingredients are "undercover veggies", sneaked in without anyone realizing. The recipes taste good and are good for you. They are easy to make and fun to eat, and appeal to kids.

"Under-Cover Veggies" are vegetables in disguise, masked by tasty treats. The recipes in this book all contain nutritious ingredients, and taste pretty good. The recipes include chocolate chip zucchini cookies and yam burgers. The recipes taste good, are good for you, and appeal to kids.

Healthy foods that are appealing to kids appears to be a contradiction. But as Devin and Erik point out, "To be appealing, food must look good and taste good. Beyond that, kids don't care one bit what's in the food they are eating; you already know that. In the battle to win over kids, presentation and taste win". These are some of the tricks of the trade for crafty parents.

These recipes are also great for adults who may not be big vegetable fans.