It's a simple little book with cute illustrations, aimed at children who like to get into the kitchen.
There's a little about nutrition and lots of recipes illustrated with little cartoons to help those who are not yet competent readers.
Help your children make fresh fruit salad, honey and seed bread, mini-pizzas, tuna pasta, lamb kebabs, chocolate bananas and many other simple, wholesome recipes with this - cooking the food themselves may help them get a taste for real food.
By nutritionists Kaye Foster-Powell, Anneka Manning, Philippa Sandal and the promoter of the low glycemic diet, Jenny Brand-Miller, it has plenty of good nutritional advice and recipes for food based on vegetables, whole grains, fruit, legumes, eggs, fish, milk, yoghurt and meat, rather than biscuits, cakes, white bread, sugar and high-fat dairy products.
Healthy diets like this are more filling, reduce the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, acne, and promote energy and health, and can help behavioural problems.
If you are into charts, lists and explanations, J. Price and J. Davie's Star Foods (ABC, pbk, $40) will appeal.
It tells you what to avoid as well as rating what is good and why, and includes some enticing recipes, although some are for Australian fish and kangaroo.
Canadian cancer researchers Richard Beliveau and Denis Gingras explain the preventive effect plant food has on disease and particularly the modern lifestyle diseases such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Particularly effective foods (not supplements) are seaweeds, mushrooms, flax or linseeds, spices, herbs and vegetables, probiotics such as in fermented dairy foods such as yoghurt, cheddar cheese and cottage cheese, the cabbage family, the onion family, soy products, tomatoes, berries, citrus, green tea, and, as treats, red wines and dark chocolate.
There's a collection of recipes from Canadian chefs.
