The Wonder of What We Eat Cookbook

What if your kids were excited to eat healthy new foods, felt confident in their kitchen skills, and helped create wholesome meals the whole family could enjoy?

For busy parents, making healthy meals can already feel like a challenge—but when kids refuse to eat them, it’s discouraging and disheartening. Over time, it can start to feel like a waste of time and effort, and healthy eating can turn into a daily battle.

But when kids are invited into the kitchen and take part in preparing meals they enjoy, everything shifts. They become more open to trying new foods, more invested in what they eat, and more confident in their abilities. Cooking becomes a joyful, hands-on way to build real-life skills, healthy habits, and meaningful family connections.

The Wonder of What We Eat Cookbook is a beautifully designed, family-friendly recipe collection that brings the Head Heart Hands philosophy to life—helping families turn healthy intentions into delicious, shared experiences.

Written by a physician and mom, this cookbook offers:

• Wholesome, nourishing recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and snacks—made with real ingredients to support growing bodies, sharp minds, and steady moods

• Kid-approved meals that even picky eaters can get excited about—so healthy food feels fun, not forced

• Step-by-step instructions that empower kids to cook independently or alongside a parent

• Built-in nutrition learning moments that show how food supports health, energy, and focus in ways kids can see and feel

• Joyful, confidence-building experiences that turn the kitchen into a space for creativity, curiosity, and connection

Part of a 3-part system inspired by the Head Heart Hands method:

• The Book (Head) builds knowledge and a healthy mindset about food and nutrition

• The Workbook (Heart) transforms lessons into reflection, practice, and real life skills

• The Cookbook (Hands) the tools to bring it all together—healthy, family friendly, kid-approved recipes, for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack and dessert

If you want to raise kids who love healthy eating, understand where their food comes from, and take pride in making meals that nourish themselves and the Earth—
this is your invitation to make it happen with The Wonder of What We Eat Cookbook.

Dr. Ritu Saluja-Sharma, MD, is a double board-certified physician in Emergency Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine, and the founder of Head Heart Hands-a comprehensive, holistic wellness program for individuals and organizations. She is also a devoted mother and a passionate advocate for food-based health education.After years of practicing Emergency Medicine on the frontlines of our healthcare system and seeing many of her patients suffering with diseases that could likely have been prevented, (and many which could potentially still be reversed), Dr Saluja-Sharma created Head Heart Hands to help people prevent and reverse disease by targeting ROOT CAUSES.While searching for ways to make her programs accessible to all, she expanded from individual coaching to working with corporations and school systems, offering her online and corporate programs to people of all demographics and education levels, to help people lower their blood sugars, blood pressure, and cholesterol, increase their energy, improve their mood, decrease their pain, and improve their quality of life.After witnessing incredible transformations in adults, she expanded her focus to children-knowing that the earlier healthy habits are formed, the more lasting they can be. Through her book, companion workbook, and cookbook, she's empowering a new generation to understand the power of food, build healthy mindsets, and fall in love with their bodies and the nourishment that fuels them. She is currently working to improve the health and nutrition curriculum in public schools and serves as an expert advisor on state-level curriculum standards.

Serena Sharma is the co-author of The Wonder of What We Eat Cookbook. Serena helped to create kid-approved recipes and take photos of our creations. Serena's interest in cooking and taking photos inspired her to work on this project. Serena also enjoys soccer and art.