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Princess Party Cookbook by Annabel Karmel
Includes more than 100 recipes and ideas designed to feed your little girl’s imagination and encourage her participation in the kitchen. From flower-shaped sandwiches and butterfly cookies, to emerald pizzas, ruby-glazed chicken, jewelled jellies, pink prawns and chocolate kisses, this title features delicious dishes fit for a princess’ banquet.
Hardback, 160 pp, $36.95. Buy
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CSIRO Wellbeing Plan for Kids, The by Manny Noakes, Jane Bowen
In response to this growing need for information, the CSIRO presents a step-by-step healthy eating and activity plan for families, based on extensive research. Packed with easy-to-follow advice and over 100 delicious recipes for stress-free family cooking this book.
Paperback, 288 pp, $34.95. Buy
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The Gastrokid Cookbook: Feeding a Foodie Family in a Fast-Food World by Hugh Garvey and Matthew Yeomans
Dedicated foodies Hugh Garvey and Matthew Yeomans saw no reason to abandon adventurous eating once they had kids. Between them, they and their wives now have four children under five-all of whom eat “adult” fare and gladly try new foods. In this lively full-color cookbook, Garvey and Yeomans share their strategies for raising fearless, unfussy eaters. They don’t try to hide vegetables or trick kids into eating healthy food. Instead, they show how to broaden kids’ tastes-and put together simple but sophisticated meals that the whole family will love. From Orange and Ginger Soy Ribs to Spinach Mac and Cheese and Watermelon and Feta Salad, the book’s 72 recipes have plenty of kid appeal, but are stylish enough to satisfy food-loving parents.
, 160 pp, $27.95. Buy
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Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook by Emma Jane Frost
As parents, we all know that children can be notoriously difficult to cook for. Many of us fall into the habit of cooking the same dishes over and over again, simply because we cannot bear the idea of scraping wasted food into the bin at the end of a meal. However, a child’s formative years are when they learn to accept and like new foods, and it is therefore of great importance to encourage them with new tastes and different textures as often as you can. “Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook: 200 Recipes for Kids” has been put together with this in mind, but also with the knowledge that children are generally fussy creatures and like their food to be simple and to look good. Each recipe has been photographed to show you exactly what you will be cook
Paperback, 240 pp, $12.99. Buy
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Fay’s Family Food by Fay Ripley
For the past 5 years, Fay Ripley has been cooking for her growing family. Spurred on by the lack of inspiration out there, she has written this cookbook full of recipes for all the family. The vital ingredient is that you only need to cook one meal. She was fed up of having to cook separately for her 1-year-old, then having to knock up something for her 5-year-old and then, with the kids in bed, finally think about cooking something to enjoy with her husband. So she started working out meals that all of them could eat together – not separate ingredients, age dependent.This book offers suggestions and inspiration to feed your family. It’s there to get you in the swing so that you can find 15 minutes to knock up something that you’re proud to
, 256 pp, $49.95. Buy
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Easy to Make! Kid’s Cakes and Party Food
Have you got a kid’s birthday party coming up but your cake making skills are not up to scratch? Or are you simply struggling for ideas? This title provides the complete know-how to cakes, snacks and nibbles essential for a successful birthday party. It covers the basics, simple cakes and numbers from 1-10, recipes for wheat- and gluten-free cakes and time-saving tips.Over 100 triple-tested recipes included in a new full-colour cookery series, featuring the most popular recipes from the GH Institute Kitchens – tried tested and, trusted recipes that are guaranteed to work first time every time. Each title in the series contains: step-by-step photography of essential cooking techniques nutritional advice – clear information where recipes are
Paperback, 128 pp, $12.99. Buy
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How to Start a Home-Based Children’s Birthday Party Business by Amy Jean Peters
From a $250,000 fete for a seven-year-old Florida girl, complete with helicopter rides, to $100,000 first birthday parties as reported in the New York Times, this is rapidly becoming the gilded age of children’s birthday parties. The cost of these events now averages between $200 and $400, fueled by pressure to keep up with the Joneses. Couple this surge in interest with the fact that births in the United States have exceeded 4 million each year since 2000, and you have a waiting and growing market. Planning such events has become a profession in itself. More and more, parents are turning to event consultants to plan their children’s celebrations. If you’ve dreamed of your own home business, planned parties for your own children, and want t
Paperback, 180 pp, $27.95. Buy
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Picture Yourself Cooking with Your Kids by Beth Sheresh
Picture yourself in the kitchen with your family, taking pleasure in the everyday fun of good, healthful food, prepared by hand. Picture Yourself Cooking with Your Kids shows parents and children how to prepare tasty and nutritious food from scratch that they can share and enjoy with family and friends. Designed to involve children in all aspects of cooking, from the grocery store to the kitchen, the book teaches simple, fundamental cooking skills and techniques including food safety, basic equipment and tools, nutrition, and how to read a recipe. All of the recipes included in the book feature healthful, fresh ingredients and nutritional information and are laid out in a clear, step-by-step format with full-color photos to illustrate new s
Paperback, 264 pp, $27.95. Buy
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Pink Princess Tea Parties by Barbara Beery
More than just tea and cakes, Pink Princess Tea Parties includes perfect little bites and tiny treats to keep kids busy in the kitchen and having fun with friends! This work helps you enjoy such delights as the Pink Princess Smoothie, Sweetheart Shortbread, Royal Raspberry Tarts, Princess Candy Crunch, and Gingerbread Tea Loaves. Filled with easy-to-follow instructions and full-colour photography, Pink Princess Tea Parties is ideal for tea parties, birthday parties, or any playtime, and is sure to delight the little princess in all of us!
, 64 pp, $22.99. Buy
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Eat This, Not That! For Kids by DAVID ZINCZENKO and Matt Goulding
It’s no secret that children are getting fatter: 45% of the US’ youth are overweight or obese, and the number of diabetic children has nearly quadrupled in the past 30 years. Now, to help combat the problem, David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of “Men’s Health”, and co-author Matt Goulding have created ‘Eat This, Not That! For Kids!’. This must-have guide for concerned parents offers detailed analysis and nutritional tips on thousands of the most popular food choices for kids. Covering the best and worst options available at the most popular restaurants in the country as well as the healthiest – and most harmful – foods in the supermarket aisles, if kids are eating it, this book is probably analysing it.
Paperback, 320 pp, $27.95. Buy
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Cooking Italian with Kids by Liz Franklin
In Cooking Italian with Kids, Liz Franklin gets your children into the kitchen and whipping up deliciously easy meals in no time. Pasta includes Liz’s easy guide for how to make it from scratch, with easy recipes like pasta parcels stuffed with pumpkin. Bread and polenta can be made into snack-tastic breadsticks or beautiful bread – try sweet plum focaccia. Children are often hungry, so let them make their own antipasti, easy lunches and snacks. Healthy bites like crispy garlic toast are perfect for munching on. With main courses like meatloaf and easy sausage and onion calzone, your children will soon be getting stuck in. There are also vegetables and salads such as rosemary potatoes and crispy crumbed cauliflower. Finally, Liz gives ideas
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Great Big Veg Challenge by Charlotte Hume
‘Take one seven-year-old boy named Freddie and his mother as they face the challenge of turning him from a vegetable-phobic into a boy who will eat and even enjoy some of life’s leafier pleasures. Join us as we work through the A to Z of vegetables’ are the opening words of a blog started by Charlotte Hume after another dinner table drama involving her seven year old son and peas. She called it the Great Big Vegetable Challenge and opened it to ‘all of you parents out there who have tried and succeeded to introduce your offspring to the joys of carrots, peas, lettuce, spinach, asparagus, beetroot, green beans – in fact any vegetable. Any idea gratefully received.’ The strategy of the challenge was simple.As Freddie systematically refused ne
Paperback, 320 pp, $55.00. Buy
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The Children’s Party Book by Anne Thomas and Peter Thomas
Now in its second edition, The Children’s Party Book has become an invaluable reference for parents and carers short on time and ideas. It contains 240 ideas for games and craft activities that will make any children’s party, from 3 to 12 years, go with a swing. All the activities are clearly presented with illustrations, diagrams and step-by-step practical descriptions, and are coded for age-suitability. Special topics covered include: how to celebrate that special birthday how to make and perform a simple theatre for young children how to organize parties with a seasonal theme and, how to make attractive decorations
Paperback, 128 pp, $34.95. Buy
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Feeding Made Easy by Gina Ford
Gina Ford’s bestselling The Contented Little Baby Book established Gina as one of the UK’s most influential voices in baby and childcare issues and her groundbreaking routines have been the salvation of hundreds of thousands of parents around the world. In Feeding Made Easy, Gina tackles one of the most problematic areas of parenting: how to give children a healthy, nutritious and tasty diet without mealtimes becoming a battleground. Her one-stop feeding guide is a parent’s lifesaver offering delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes for the whole family as well as rotating menu planners and shopping lists that enable time-strapped mums and dads to shop for and plan a month’s menus in advance.Gina covers food for every occasion from quick and easy
, 272 pp, $36.95. Buy
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What’s in This? by Clare Panchoo and Emma Izaby
For mums and dads in a rush, buying convenience foods is a reality but ingredient labels often read like a complicated science experiment. Somehow parents are meant to decode the complex terminology, additives and E numbers to provide healthy food. So this book is for today’s concerned parents who want to know what really goes into the food that they feed their children. Revealing exactly what can be found in over 500 of the top foods that target children, as well as any side effects that the ingredients have been found to cause, this colourful, easy to use A-Z reference guide demystifies the complex jargon for parents, from the definition of ascorbic acid to what is actually in brown sugar
Paperback, 272 pp, $21.95. Buy
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Cakes for Kids by Matthew Mead
Now you can make picture-perfect, fun and whimsical cakes for children of all ages, right at home. Matthew Mead presents 35 decorated cakes that anyone can do. Divided into easy, medium, and difficult projects, each cake has step by step instructions, detailed diagrams, and a photo of the final cake that make each project totally doable. Introductory sections include basic cake recipes and suggestions for decorations and icing
Paperback, 132 pp, $27.95. Buy
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Easy Peasy Baking by Mary Contini
The Easy Peasy philosophy is based on the passionate belief that children can get enormous pleasure out of learning to cook real food. Easy Peasy Baking focuses on the most popular area of kids’ cooking – baking – with over 80 recipes to tempt kids into the kitchen. Mary Contini draws on her experience running teaching sessions for children of all ages to provide a book that shows children how to cook for real. Starting with basic techniques and preparation, she then moves into recipes that not only taste delicious, but are also enormous fun to cook, from breads and buns to pizzas, cakes and pastries. She never loses sight of the fact that it should be fun – giving helpful hints, humorous advice and taking a fuss-free approach that cannot f
Paperback, 128 pp, $35.00. Buy
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Toddler Cafe by Jennifer Carden
In a world of fast food and an ever widening array of processed snacks, it’s getting harder to get children to eat healthy foods or even know what the healthy foods are. When it came time for their daughter to eat real food, Jennifer and Matthew Carden wanted to show her that healthy food can taste great and can be just as fun to eat as a bag of crisps. Toddler Cafe presents over 50 imaginative recipes that are perfect for children aged 2 to 6 (though they are sure to appeal to older children and even adults). Including recipes focusing on veggies, pasta and rice, beans, proteins, sandwiches, and fruit (plus some tasty snacks!), the emphasis is on real ingredients and having a good time eating them
Paperback, 132 pp, $20.95. Buy
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Good Food by Angela Nilsen and Jeni Wright
Preparing fresh and healthy dishes and then getting your child to eat them can seem far from an easy task for busy parents. With this inspirational collection of recipes taken from Britain’s top-selling BBC Good Food Magazine, the Good Food team prove you don’t have to devote hours to a hot stove to give your children home-cooked meals, and fast food doesn’t have to mean deep-fried or mass produced. Full of quick, easy and nutritional food options using practical ingredients, a nutritional breakdown so you know exactly what you’re giving your child and full-colour photos of each dish, this compact cookbook is a must
