Best 100 Smoothies for Kids: Incredibly Nutritious and Totally Delicious No-Sugar-Added Smoothies for Any Time of Day
Best 100 Smoothies for Kids: Incredibly Nutritious and Totally Delicious No-Sugar-Added Smoothies for Any Time of Day book cover

Best 100 Smoothies for Kids: Incredibly Nutritious and Totally Delicious No-Sugar-Added Smoothies for Any Time of Day

Paperback – Illustrated, May 19, 2015

Price
$22.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
192
Publisher
Harvard Common Press
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1558328471
Dimensions
7.15 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Weight
1.04 pounds

Description

Deborah Harroun is the cook, writer, and photographer behind the popular blog Taste and Tell, which she started in 2007. Her recipes and writing have been featured in print in Every Day with Rachael Ray magazine and online at The Kitchn, Huffington Post, Babble, and the websites of Bon Appetit and the Salt Lake City Deseret News. She has written two books: Best 100 Smoothies for Kids and The Red Velvet Lover's Cookbook. She appears frequently as a cookingxa0expert on local television in Salt Lake City, where she lives with her husband and three children.

Features & Highlights

  • We all know how important it is to give our kids a healthy, balanced diet. But how best to make sure they are getting all the vitamins and nutrients they need when fruits and vegetables are some of the least favorite items on their plate? Popular food writer, blogger and mother of three Deborah Harroun has the answer in 100 delightfully flavorful and nutritious recipes for kid-friendly smoothies. Her newest cookbook, BEST 100 SMOOTHIES FOR KIDS offers up kid-test and kid-approved recipes that are sure to please everyone in the family. The book includes recipes for fruit- and vegetable-based juices, as well as a variety that combine fruits and veggies or get their flavor and nutrients from things other than produce. The chapters include Breakfast Smoothies, Lunch and Lunchbox Smoothies, Snacktime Smoothies, Smoothies for Dinner, and Dessert Smoothies. Two special chapters cover Holiday Smoothies, such as pumpkin-flavored smoothies for Thanksgiving or Christmas, and Bedtime Smoothies, made with tryptophan-rich milk bases and with soothing ingredients like chamomile, cinnamon, vanilla, and lemon. What's better than a well-fed and happy child who falls asleep easily after a busy day? Harroun also provides a variety of different options for creating the perfect smoothie, with recipes that include milk- and yogurt-based smoothies as well as dairy-free options made from juice, water, rice milk, almond milk, and soy milk. There are even numerous gluten-free and vegan options as well. Harroun serves up a hundred bright and colorful, healthy and satisfying drinks in this new four-color and photo-rich cookbook. The emphasis throughout is on providing a wide range of flavors, colors, and nutrients, guaranteed to broaden the horizons of any child who thinks carrots or apples are the only acceptable items from the supermarket's produce section. Parents - and doctors and dentists - can take heart in the fact that Harroun uses no processed or white sugar for sweetening her smoothies. With all these options for creating inspired smoothies, parents no longer have to worry about making sure their children are getting all the nutrition they need. The only challenge is figuring out which of these delicious recipes to try first!

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Not as healthy as I’d hoped

is it really accurate to say on the cover “no sugar-added” when about half of the recipes call for honey, maple syrup or juice? I was hoping for something a little healthier but these smoothies are generally, very, very sweet. Otherwise I’m enjoying it - my kids and I are working through it, leaving out the added sweeteners and substituting soy milk for the juice. I find I also have to reduce the solid stuff it calls for, like oats, because the smoothies often end up not having enough liquid. I do like the layout and pictures.
11 people found this helpful
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Not that good

I got this book for my daughter as she loves smoothies. This book had most of their recipes with stuff you normally wouldn't buy. I was just looking for a basic recipe book.
10 people found this helpful
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This book makes a great gift. Kids love it and parents love it ...

This book makes a great gift. Kids love it and parents love it too. I have given away more than twenty books . The pictures are colorful and appetizing. Beside creating delicious smoothies the recipes are easy to read and encourage healthy eating. Kids are also encouraged to learn fractions. No sugar is added to any of the recipes. Get your blender ready.
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Yum!

Everything I've made has been yummy, however have learned that the under ripe bananas some recipes call for is too "green banana" tasting for my family, so I just substitute ripe bananas in those recipes. Lots of variety to get fruits and veggies in kids!
9 people found this helpful
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Good recipes and pictures

Good recipes and pictures. Gave me some smoothie ideas that I would never have thought of. Even some recipes I just want to try for myself. My son has loved all the ones I have tried so far.
8 people found this helpful
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Great pictures and easy

My kids looked through the book and picked out a bunch of smoothies they wanted to make. Every single one we've made so far has been delicious! Great pictures and easy, healthy recipes.
8 people found this helpful
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Use this book every day

I've had this book for a few months now and make 1-3 smoothies a day. We haven't tried every recipe but we've tried a lot. Some of our favorites are the grape slush, the ones that call for pomegranate juice (now a staple in our house), snickerdoodle, the vanilla honey nut that tastes exactly like a bowl of honey nut Cheerios, the watermelon slushies, and most of the ones with strawberry. There's enough variety that I don't really need to look up recipes on the Internet and plenty of ways to customize the liquid portion. The only one we really didn't like had broccoli in it and was gritty because our very heap blender couldn't break the broccoli down enough. The carrot juice smoothies are yummy, too.
6 people found this helpful
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Actually Gr8 Smoothies & Variety

This is the BEST smoothie book. The recipes have so much variety and every one we've made has been super tasty. Great for filling up hungry boys.
5 people found this helpful
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Make wonderful gifts for the mothers of all my beautiful grandchildren

Make wonderful gifts for the mothers of all my beautiful grandchildren. Recipes are easy to follow and yummy. Even grandpa likes them!
4 people found this helpful
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Five Stars

My kids loved this book and were excited to try out recipes.
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