I’ve been spending a lot of time with Eat Like a Dinosaur: Recipe and Guidebook for Gluten-free Kids (ELaD) by the Paleo Parents lately. It’s filled with kid-friendly paleo/primal recipes that are easy to make. The Boy is notoriously picky and sometimes won’t eat any of the food he helps me to make. I think seeing the ingredients sometimes specifically makes him not want to try the food…but we give it a try anyway. He and The Girl have both been very interested in ELaD and have spent some time themselves thumbing through the book dog-earing the pages that have food they’d like to try. That in and of itself has made this one of my favorite cookbooks right off the bat.
Seems like people everywhere are going gluten-free. Those who have made the transition to a gluten-free diet will tell you they never felt better. For the uninitiated, the biggest obstacles to a successful switch are often fear of boredom, complicated recipes, and expensive ingredients.
But Tammy Credicott, author of The Healthy Gluten-Free Life: 200 Delicious Gluten-Free, Diary-Free, Soy-Free and Egg-Free Recipes, says gluten-free food can be delicious, easy to make and budget-friendly. In her cookbook, she offers everyday recipes that are gluten-free as well as egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, white rice flour-free and bean-flour-free. We asked Credicott to talk about her family’s adventure in special diets, her philosophy in the kitchen, and her favorite recipes from her book.
In keeping with our banana theme this weekend, we had these amazing pancakes for breakfast. The goal of the book where we got this recipe is to get the kids involved in the cooking process so they have a better understanding of where real food comes from. They are then more likely to want to eat the foods they had a hand in preparing. Hope you enjoy these. We had some hazelnut butter to put as a topping and macadamia butter was really good as well with these. The boys added a touch of maple syrup and they were in heaven…great treat for breakfast.
The SDSU Center for the Study of Children’s Literature doesn’t often review cookbooks, but when I saw the pre-release notice of this one, I simply couldn’t wait to review it. “Paleo” (ironically) is a fairly new movement, and while there are excellent primer-like books for adults such as Mark Sisson’s The Primal Blueprint, Robb Wolf’s The Paleo Solution, and Loren Cordain’s The Paleo Diet, and excellent adult cookbooks such as Melissa Joulwan’s Well Fed, Haley Mason & Bill Staley’s Make It Paleo, and Julie & Charles Mayfield’s Paleo Comfort Foods, nothing yet written speaks to the specific needs of children. Sarah Fragoso’s Everyday Paleoaddresses the challenges of raising a Paleo family, but in a literary manner aimed exclusively at adults.
Finally, the need is met; Paleo kids have a book written with them in mind!
In the Feb/Mar 2012 issue of Paleo Magazine, we told you about the latest book from Sarah Fragoso, Paleo Pals: Jimmy and the Carrot Rocket Ship. Recently we brought this great book into our test kitchen to try a couple of the kid-friendly recipes. The first to catch our eye were these delicious sounding pancakes.
Light and fluffy with a wonderful hint of banana, as you can see, these pancakes cook up perfectly. They were incredibly easy to make and there are plenty of steps the kids can help with (mashing bananas, pouring the milk, adding the cinnamon, etc). You definitely need to try these the next time you get a craving for a tasty stack of pancakes. Special thanks to Sarah for letting us post the recipe here!
If you are a regular visitor of the gluten-free blogging world, it is likely you have heard a lot of buzz about the new cookbook from Paleo Parents titled Eat Like a Dinosaur.
Well let me tell you, this book is worth buzzing about.
I was honored to work with Stacy and Matthew, the paleo parents, back in August, when they privileged me with a guest-post and some amazing Healthy Lunchbox ideas. So when I received a message that they wanted to share their cookbook with me, I jumped at the opportunity!
While this book is loaded with lots of wonderful tips, ideas and suggestions to help get your kids involved in preparing meals, easy to read allergy labels and great recipes; it was the opening story that really got my kids excited.
We all know how hard it can be to get kids to internalize healthy eating habits. They groan and grumble. Then, when you do finally get them eating right more often, they may be in the minority among their peers, which doesn’t help your cause much. Now, for the first time, parents have an entertaining tool they can use with younger kids to introduce them to paleo eating (a diet of fresh and natural non-processed foods, including meat, eggs, fish, vegetables, fruits and nuts) and even make it fun.
The Healthy Gluten Free Life is a cookbook written by. It contains more than 200 recipes that are not only gluten free, but they are also soy free, and egg free, which makes them an excellent option for people who are following a restricted diet for allergy purposes. If you are looking for recipes to work into your diet, read this book review to see what to expect from this book before you buy it.
Coming on the heels of her debut book, Everyday Paleo, Sarah Fragoso’s new bookPaleo Pals, Jimmy and the Carrot Rocket Ship is designed to help kids and their parents learn all about the Paleo Diet and its many benefits. The Paleo Diet, as some of you may know, is short for Paleolithic and is based on the eating habits of our ancestors. This means lots of real food like meat, veggies, fruits and nuts and no processed foods, added sugar, grains or dairy. Since a Paleo Diet is grain-free it is also gluten-free. Although this type of diet may provide many health benefits for the entire family, a huge lifestyle change like this can be extremely hard for children to understand.
One of the questions I get the most by email and in the forum, is how to help kids make a switch to healthier eating in a world where unhealthy options are marketed to them and pushed on them constantly.
Certainly, it seems that many take the position that kids “just won’t eat” the healthy foods or vegetables, so they just pacify them with junk food until the kids get old enough to somehow make good food choices themselves. Unfortunately, this theory wouldn’t work with discipline or education, and it doesn’t work well with nutrition either.
I received my advance copy of Eat Like a Dinosaur the other day and I am so excited to review it! This book is a labor of love from Stacy Toth and Matthew McCarry, AKA The Paleo Parents. Stacy and Matt’s story is truly inspiring. They are the parents of 3 boys (6, 3, and 1) who turned their family’s life around through making good decisions around food.
At the time that Stacy discovered the principles of a paleo lifestyle, she had just given birth to their 3rd son. Desiring to give up dairy and get her health under control, she began reading about paleo. She soon converted Matt, and then they realized that their children could benefit from this way of eating too.
(ELaD) by the Paleo Parents lately. It’s filled with kid-friendly paleo/primal recipes that are easy to make. The Boy is notoriously picky and sometimes won’t eat any of the food he helps me to make. I think seeing the ingredients sometimes specifically makes him not want to try the food…but we give it a try anyway. He and The Girl have both been very interested in ELaD and have spent some time themselves thumbing through the book dog-earing the pages that have food they’d like to try. That in and of itself has made this one of my favorite cookbooks right off the bat.
. Recently we brought this great book into our test kitchen to try a couple of the kid-friendly recipes. The first to catch our eye were these delicious sounding pancakes.