Young Chefs Nutrition Guide and Cookbook

Here is a guide to the best foods for the best health, including plenty of recipes which demonstrate that healthful food is also good-tasting food.

Here is a junior cookbook that teaches about nutrition and healthy eating habits before offering recipes that put those facts to use. The emphasis is on balancing meals and choosing a lifetime healthy food plan. Ingredients, equipment, nutritional information, skill level required, and the number of servings are clearly stated for each recipe. Advanced recipes include soup and stew; intermediate includes salsa, muffins, and tart shells; beginner recipes involve no cooking or baking, only mixing. The one drawback may be that serving sizes are not given. The book includes a section on kitchen safety and how-tos, plus a very nice section on the nutritional value of some of the popular fast foods served by national chains. Although no menus are given, it would be easy to create a meal or weekly plan. Eminently suited to beginning cooks. --Carole B. Kirkpatrick, Terminal Park Elem. Sch., Auburn, WA
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