FamilyFun Cookbook

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Summary: Best cookbook I've ever bought
Review: I have this book and really enjoy it!!! It has the BEST meatloaf and fried rice recipes!!! I also pull this cookbook out for pizza night. Get this book - it's well worth the price!!!

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Summary: great recipes, poor construction.
Review: I love the cookbook and have found it immensely helpful in terms of feeding a family of four. However, I wish that it was put together a bit more carefully as the cover has torn off after only a year of use. More solid construction of the book, especially if little ones are using it, would make sense.

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Summary: Excellent resource, but some recipes are hit-or-miss
Review: I love this cookbook and use it almost exclusively because the ideas in it are so creative and child-friendly, and it's so easy to sit down with this colorful book to plan meals. It's also great because it encourages you to cook from scratch and makes doing so a lot less intimidating! Although many recipes in it are wonderful, a lot of recipes are, in my opinion, very mediocre. In my house, for example, the broccoli soup and the Bat Wings chicken wings were flops, and I wondered how on earth they made it into the cookbook. Through much trial and error, I now prefer to use the recipes as general guidelines and make changes wherever things seem a little weird. It's forgivable because of the terrific emphasis on having your kids help in the kitchen, and the simple fact that the entire FamilyFun series, especially the magazine, is FANTASTIC! My family life has been greatly enriched by the ideas in FamilyFun magazine and the Parties book, and I think it's the best source of original and creative ideas for families available today. Enjoy :-)

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Summary: Family Fun's Cookbook
Review: I was given the book by a friend and my children, husband and I have enjoyed the food. It is presented in a way that my children love to eat as well as help prepare. It is also appetizing for my husband and I. We have made the recipes for guest with children and they never know it came from a childs cookbook tell we tell them. We love it so much we are giving it at christmas in a basket with cooking ingrediants to our little friends.

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Summary: Making memories
Review: My two year old loves this book. We've already had many special afternoons together baking homemade scones. She is so proud when company arrives and she can serve them something she helped make!The recipes in this book are wonderful, we all love the turkey meatball subs and the pb &j muffins!

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Summary: Great Cooking With Kids!
Review: Originally I picked up this cookbook to cook with my young sons, but quickly realized that there were wonderful grown-up recipes available in this book too. Hardcover, with a binding that lies flat on the counter, this book offers colorful graphics and pictures of the majority of the recipes presented. It is arranged in the following categories: Getting Ready, Breakfast: Rise & Shine, Lunch Specials, After-School Snacks, Soup's On, Breads we Love, Dinner's Ready, Side Dishes & Salads, Can I have Dessert, and Home for the Holidays.

Some of my family's favorite dishes include: Banana Split Waffles, PB & J Surprise Muffins, Strawberry Butter, Hummus, Falafel Flying Saucers, Nuke-able Nachos, Sneak-It-to-Em Broccoli Soup, Potato Chip Chicken Fingers, Baked Sweet Potatoes with Orange Sauce, Rock Candy, Leaning Tower of Oreos, Blueberry Fool, and Red, White, & Blueberry Freeze Pops. Also nicely included are some recipes for Play Doughs, with ideas on how to even make your own scented dough!

This was an excellent addition to my cookbook collection and my family has fun selecting and trying new recipes out of this extensive cookbook. If you want to teach your kids to cook, or want to find recipes sure to please even the finicky eater, then you should try this cookbook. Enjoy!

Rating:
Summary: Great Cooking With Kids!
Review: Originally I picked up this cookbook to cook with my young sons, but quickly realized that there were wonderful grown-up recipes available in this book too. Hardcover, with a binding that lies flat on the counter, this book offers colorful graphics and pictures of the majority of the recipes presented. It is arranged in the following categories: Getting Ready, Breakfast: Rise & Shine, Lunch Specials, After-School Snacks, Soup's On, Breads we Love, Dinner's Ready, Side Dishes & Salads, Can I have Dessert, and Home for the Holidays.

Some of my family's favorite dishes include: Banana Split Waffles, PB & J Surprise Muffins, Strawberry Butter, Hummus, Falafel Flying Saucers, Nuke-able Nachos, Sneak-It-to-Em Broccoli Soup, Potato Chip Chicken Fingers, Baked Sweet Potatoes with Orange Sauce, Rock Candy, Leaning Tower of Oreos, Blueberry Fool, and Red, White, & Blueberry Freeze Pops. Also nicely included are some recipes for Play Doughs, with ideas on how to even make your own scented dough!

This was an excellent addition to my cookbook collection and my family has fun selecting and trying new recipes out of this extensive cookbook. If you want to teach your kids to cook, or want to find recipes sure to please even the finicky eater, then you should try this cookbook. Enjoy!

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Summary: Wonderful pictures, but not always practical
Review: There are quite a few good ideas in this cookbook, but there are also some duds. As a mom and a daycare provider, I've found that many of the recipes have not been received well by kids, and many have been a downright pain to make. The lasagna recipe turns out runny and tasteless, and a recipe for chocolate pie turned a dessert that could have been made in 10 minutes with instant pudding into a long stove-top ordeal I will never repeat. Overall, I think it was overpriced and prettier than it was useful.

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Summary: Hats off to Deanna Cook!
Review: This is my favorite cookbook - I discover something new everytime I open it. The recipes are simple and geared for kids. We love Wild Oatmeal Cookies, the Giant Puffed Pancake, Cubcakes and Wagon Wheel Mac and Cheese.