$3 Meals Your Kids Will Love: Delicious, Low-Cost Dishes for the Whole Family

by Ellen Brown

Overview

Trying to raise your Kids to eat and enjoy healthy foods? Good luck! It's a constant battle, especially on a tight budget. Often it seems that the most affordable "happy meal" options are laden with fat, sugar, salt, and chemicals, and almost devoid of nutrients. Think again. Think $3 Meals Your Kids Will Love.

Drawing on advice from a wide range of real moms and dads across America who have children ranging in age from toddlers to teens, Ellen Brown presents 250 tried, true, and tasty recipes-from snacks, soups, pasta, pizza, and all-American favorites to Hispanic and Asian dishes and guilt-free desserts. None take more hands-on time than listening to the evening news-and all cost less than $3 per serving for your whole meal.

Cheddar Potato Chowder

Chili Soup with Beans

Chocolate Banana smoothie

Super-Crunchy Raisin Granola Bars

Cheeseburger Meatloaf

Oven-Baked Fish Sticks

Baked Apple Chicken

Southern Barbecued Pork Sandwiches

Vegetable Enchiladas

Tex-Mex Tamale Pie

"Green Eggs and Ham"

"Green-fried Beef with Broccoli& Orange

Peanut Butter Mousse Pie

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762762156
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Press
Publication date:	03/02/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	557 KB

About the Author

Ellen Brown, who gained the national limelight in 1982 as the founding food editor of USA Today, is the author of twenty-five cookbooks, including $3 Meals: Feed Your Family Delicious Meals for Less than the Cost of a Gallon of Milk and the five-volume series Great Year-Round Grilling (Lyons). 

Table of Contents

Preface v

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 Saving Money at the Supermarket 1

Chapter 2 Cooking Healthy Meals for Happy Kids 18

Chapter 3 Soup for Supper 34

Chapter 4 $1 Snack Attacks 60

Chapter 5 Yankee Doodle and Noodles, Too 79

Chapter 6 Say iOl?! Hispanic and Southwestern Dishes 113

Chapter 7 Mediternean Madnss 138

Chapter 8 Pizza Power 172

Chapter 9 Dishes with Asian Accents 195

Chapter 10 (Almost) Guilt-Free $1 Goodies 220

Appendix A Metric Conversion Tables 248

Appendix B Table of Weights and Measures of Common Ingredients 251

Index 253