Anyone who has children understands the daily struggle with food. We want our kids to be healthy and they want food that tastes good. The struggle really gets real when one of your children has an allergy to a certain food type. This brings on a whole other struggle and adds more pressure to your day.
Fearless Food by Katrina Jorgensen is a cookbook that is geared towards children's tastes. It steers clear of the "Big 8" food allergens and each recipe is supposed to be easy enough that your child could make it with little help from an adult.
I decided since this review is focused on recipes for kids that I would let my 10 and 12 year old boys help me review it. We all agreed that the overall look of the book was great. The colors are bright and vibrant and the pictures of each dish are very appetizing.
I wanted each boy to pick out a recipe for us to possibly try and each of them struggled with this task. When I read through the Table of Contents I found many recipes I would love to try but from a kids point of view they were just not feeling it. When I asked them what it was about the recipes they didn't like they couldn't really say. I think it could be that many of the dishes are out of our normal daily eating and that could be what was scarring them off.
As they flipped through the book they would point out a certain recipe that they thought might be interesting but then then would read the ingredients and there would be one item they don't like so they would dismiss it. Gotta love picky eaters.
What I really liked about Fearless Food was that it had an explanation on what a food allergy is as well as a conversion chart right at the beginning of the book which is very handy. What I wasn't too happy about was that I thought this book was focused on children as a whole but upon further inspection realize that though the recipes are formatted for children, many of them I would not trust my boys to cook on their own.
All in all, I would say that this is a decent cookbook for what it is. The layout is clean and easy to read and the recipes are appealing but I wish there would've been more tips for getting your children involved with the cooking process.
*I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review
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