The Paleo Cookbook for Kids: 83 Family-Friendly Paleo Diet Recipes for Gluten-Free Kids Paperback – December 18, 2013

My grandchildren have been eating paleo all their life. They are six and eight and learning how to cook and are excited about the new cookbooks

The Paleo Cookbook for Kids: 83 Family-Friendly Paleo Diet Recipes for Gluten-Free Kids is an insightful resource guide and recipe book geared toward instructing parents on how to make the Paleo diet (e.g. the Paleolithic diet, the presumed diet of Paleolithic humans) work healthfully and effectively for kids and the family. The diet, which mainly consists of seafood, grass-fed pasture raised meats, eggs, vegetables, and nuts, excludes legumes, dairy products, potatoes, refined salt, refined sugar, and processed oils. In short, the diet uses whole and unprocessed foods as its foundation. Because this type of diet can be difficult to accommodate most adults’ appetites, it can be that much harder for kids to work with. However, the book offers interactive recipes and helps parents make delicious, gluten-free foods (great for children with celiac disease) packed with nutritious and fresh ingredients. Best of all, the book has recipe ideas that are delicious and nourishing alternatives to traditional school lunches, and will keep kids going throughout the day with plenty of energy. Parents can read up on a 7-Day Paleo Cookbook Meal plan, which will help everyone in the family organize and plan out a week’s worth of great foods that everyone will love. Verdict: The Paleo Cookbook for Kids is a must-have because it gives you 83 simple recipes tailored to kids' palates and even offers ‘Paleo Substitutes,’ which is detailed information on how to trade processed snacks and foods for quick Paleo substitutes, making it easier for kids to adjust and excel with new eating habits.

"The Paleo Cookbook for Kids" follows, of course, the Paleo diet which is based on the foods that were available to those living in the Paleolithic era, or Stone Age. This diet emphasizes real food and natural flavors, colors and textures, and consists of fruits, vegetables, nuts and meat. There were no grains and legumes in that era, and so the diet does not include them. There are many health benefits, including weight loss, associated with this diet.What I find so compelling in this cookbook is the sense of joy and adventure that seems to leap out at you from every page. For instance, the list of meats includes goat, rabbit and buffalo, and the list of poultry and eggs includes emu and ostrich. Are you ready to join in the hunt and stalk your prey?!The aim of the book is not just for an adult to provide children with food, but for the parent to involve the children in any and every way possible so that the kids become invested in the Paleo diet. Part of this is education, and part is participatory as the child may be encouraged to plan the menu, pick out the freshest and best-looking ingredients at the grocery store, set the table and help in the meal preparation. Kids can even make thin veggie strips and then use them to tie the wraps shut.In the seven-day meal plan I liked the column for notes where it was suggested that one meal's leftovers might become part of another meal the next day. The bulk of the book is the collection of recipes for the main meals, snacks and dessert. I found the appendix very helpful, with a section on Paleo substitutes (for instance, almond or coconut flour instead of wheat flour) and a final section on Kid-Friendly, Paleo-Friendly Snacks. This follows the format of "If you want a snack that is ______________, try _____________." And here we have many possibilities for whatever mood we are in, whether we want crunchy and savory, savory but creamy and rich, frozen and sweet, sweet, sweet and creamy, or hot and spicy.To sum it up, this book has everything you need for a healthy family adventure.

I am a mother. I am also a pretty big food addict. Most importantly, as an online lifestyle consultant for my own website, I teach about nutrition and give tips on transitioning to alternative diets including raw vegan, macrobiotic, and of course PALEO which is the subject of this book. I appreciated this books' introduction, although much of it was information I had already researched but for the average beginner, the introduction is very persuasive and gives excellent, common sense reasons why to switch to a more whole foods diet, whether vegan or paleo. The interesting commonality between both subcultures-- "raw vegan" and "paleo"-- is that they both espouse the dangers of GRAINS, gluten, and the hard to digest starches that lead to literally all of the degenerative diseases on the rise today. The book has wonderful meals and delicious recipes. My favorites SO FAR that I've experimented with (the first night of reading, no less) were the sweet potato pancakes and the almond butter brownies. My husband, on the other hand, his favorites were the curried tuna nori rolls and the breakfast burritos (we substituted ground lamb instead of the ground turkey in the book's recipe). I look forward to implementing more of these meal ideas into our family diet.

Overall, great for those dedicated to healthy diet. Here are my pro's and con's of this cookbook.Pro's:Provides a seven day meal plan to introduce dietProvides a list of substitutesUses a healthy, diverse array of foodsCon's:Ingredients are expensive, which could break your food budgetRecipes are often time consuming in preparationIn some cases, recipes call for multiple appliance uses (i.e. stove top, to oven, to stove top)In trying Sweet potato pancakes it said pumpkin could be substituted, but failed to offset for moisture content of pumpkinIf you can overcome the con's, this book is great. Personally, I don't believe it's one I would use as often. This book was given to me for a honest review.

This is a Christmas gift, so only briefly looked at recipes but they seem to be easily understood & ingredients common for a Paleo cupboard.

Shame this isn't illustrated. Although recipes in this slim volume are very basic, they seem to be well written and offer some well balanced, tasty meals, BUT it's the photos in recipe books that really inspire me to cook, so this will likely be another book donated to the charity shop. Disappointed.

Some good recipe ideas but was really disappointed that a KIDS cookbook had absolutely no photos of the actual recipes...kids are very visual, and it's hard to get them excited about something new when they have no clue what it looks like.