From the creators of the popular ChopChop Family magazine, this colourful cookbook features more than 250 recipes and cooking tips that make it fun and easy for families and kids to learn to cook and enjoy delicious, nutritious, affordable meals together. This colourful, easy-to-follow, beginner cookbook from ChopChop Family magazine, a James Beard award-winning publication with a mission to get families to cook real food together, features more than 250 recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Specially designed to appeal to both adults and kids in budget- and time-strapped families, the recipes include favorites like Overnight Oatmeal, Double Vegetable Fried Rice, Free Form Lasagna, and One-Ingredient Banana Ice Cream, along with simple cooking and meal-prep instructions. The book is packed with inspiring introductions to popular whole foods, such as All About Carrots (or Broccoli or Kale!), kitchen skills, such as How to Chop an Onion or Cook Rice (and why brown rice is better than white rice), Mix & Match charts (sandwiches, smoothies, and beyond), and nutrition sidebar (What are Omega-3's anyway?). Every page of this rich resource is designed to help families develop the know-how and confidence to cook with whole foods and the many benefits of making and eating homemade meals together. AUTHOR: Sally Sampson is the founder and president of the award-winning ChopChop: The Fun Cooking Magazine for Families? which reaches three million families nationwide and in 23 countries. She is the author or coauthor of 26 cookbooks, including ChopChop: The Kids' Guide to Cooking Real Food with Your Family, The Olives Table (with Todd English), The $50 Dinner Party, and Souped Up! She has contributed to numerous publications, including The New York Times, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, The Boston Globe, and Cooks Illustrated. She lives in Belmont, MA. SELLING POINTS: . From ChopChop Family magazine, acclaimed for making real-food eating accessible to all. This cookbook features more than 250 favorite recipes from the highly respected ChopChop Family magazine, a James Beard award-winning publication that is distributed widely to families, pediatricians, and schools. The look and feel of the brand is bright and doable, the photographs are colourful and clear, and the recipes and food and nutrition education are delivered in an easy-to-follow format for beginner cooks of all ages . Focus on accessible, budget-friendly meals. Using common pantry ingredients (and many ingredients included in food bank distributions), the recipes are specially designed to be easy for beginning cook and kids and economical for budget-strapped families . Teaches healthy eating habits. ChopChop Family magazine is a highly trusted source for guidance on healthy eating, endorsed by the American Pediatrician Association. With a mission to establish good eating habits from childhood up, ChopChop has designed this book to be a friendly, one-stop reference for introducing families and kids to healthy eating habits, with a strong emphasis on fruits and vegetables that are affordable and easy to prepare
