Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Ok, so first off, I loved the format- it's fun and simple, will grab child's attention and is fun to read. One star. But that's it. If you are a parent feeding your kid processed dinonuggets, or McWhatever for breakfast lunch and dinner, then this book could offer a dietary improvement. But I for one have a huge problem with the ingredients used in the recipes. Tons of them include highly processed ingredients and even call for "low-fat" cream cheese, cheese, milk, etc. Low fat means food is more highly processed. Period. Low fat/ no fat as a benefit is a total diet myth. The fats naturally found in foods are often necessary for the proper balance of proteins, fats and sugars to be best digested and utilized by our bodies. When you see low fat, you should think high sugar!! Fat isn't your enemy. If something is a calorically-dense food, it should simply be ingested in moderation. Not morphed into something else so we can eat more quantity of less quality food!!! Which brings me to my next point. They call for low fat, but tons of recipes are extremely high in refined sugar. Which is insane and terrible for any human being, most of all, kids. They even call for "tube yogurt" in a recipe, which I find appalling since it is the worst choice you could make with yogurt. Full of refined sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup AND packed with artificial coloring, it IS NOT yogurt, but creamed candy of the worst variety. Choose natural, cultured, Greek yogurt for a protein-packed, enzyme-rich delicious snack for kids. Sweeten it yourself with real fruit and natural sweeteners. Would it be so hard to introduce things even parents could learn from like pushing natural sugars- dates, dried fruits, honey, real maple syrup? And whole foods ingredients? I mean come on. The fact that kids would even be made to think about "low fat" anything is obscene to me... I'm torn. I want to spark an interest in cooking in my kids. But with the very limited number of kids' cookbooks out there, it looks like I'm going to have to write one myself. I'll be returning these promptly.