Cookbook: Cooking Time Is Family Time by Lynn Fredericks

A book far ahead of its time, this 1999 debut from then food journalist and our FamilyCook founder, Lynn Fredericks, pioneered concepts that are now common place among parents and educators alike. Such concepts and other must-haves for parents of picky eaters in the book include:

• When children take part in cooking healthy foods, they will eat them
• Children are never too young to have a roll in the kitchen at mealtime
• Create your own holiday traditions
• Use whole grains
• Make dessert count – focus on fruit desserts
• AND over 120 recipes, all orchestrated for cooking with all ages of children

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For Parents & Educators: Simple Secrets of Family Cooking by FamilyCook Productions

Use our inter-active tools to get the whole family excited about shopping for, cooking and eating food that is healthful & delicious!  Family nutrition is simple enough, but navigating the health claims of new products in the grocery aisles or the latest new nutritional research in the news is a daunting task for professionals let along parents!  Enter our 2009 updated and expanding Simple Secrets of Family Cooking. addition to providing the basics on nutrition that parents need to know, the new guide offers:

• How to get started cooking safely with your kids
• Navigating food labels made easy
• Understanding the function of the basic nutrients
• Common family nutrition issues (e.g. picky eaters, unhealthy snacking) and how to talk to your family about them
• Key nutritional needs for the age & stage of your children as they grow
• Myths about what kids don’t like
• AND delicious, field-tested recipes the whole family will love!

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For Parents & Educators: Did I Eat My Colors Today? Fruit & Veggie Refrigerator Magnet Tracker, Clip & Pen

Developed in 2005 for parents of young children, this tool has been a smash hit for kids, teens and adults alike ever since!  Here are some of the creative ways it has been utilized:

• Tool for all ages at home
• Tool to reinforce FamilyCook program fruit & vegetable consumption that happen at school in the home
• Teen’s self-monitoring of improved fruit & vegetble intake
• Quantitative program research tool
• Health Fair give-away
• Farmers’ market give away

The magnet come with it's own wet-erase pen and a clip that adheres to the upper right corner

or the magnet to attach it.  A great gift for a teacher!

Buy the magnets for your family, class, program or farmers’ market.

For Farmers Markets & School Gardens: Vegetable ID Tool

Developed in 2006 for our Farm, Fresh & Fabulous farmers market curriculum & training, this newly re-dsigned and updated tool has become an essential for school gardens and our Teen Iron Chefs who work in farmers markets.   The colorful photos of some of the more unfamiliar roots, shoots, greens and herbs that are loaded with nutrition, help market staff or  your students learn to identify these foods as they grow!  The tool includes:

• Photos and information about over 30 common veggies and herbs
• Parts of the plant commonly consumed
• 2-sided, rigid and durable lamination
• Healthy preparation tips & recipe concepts for each veggie

Buy the tool for your market or school garden program.