The Great Big Veg Challenge: How to get your children eating vegetables happily
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‘Take one seven-year-old boy named Freddie and his mother as they face the challenge of turning him from a vegetable-phobic into a boy who will eat and even enjoy some of life’s leafier pleasures. Join us as we work through the A to Z of vegetables’ are the opening words of a blog started by Charlotte Hume after another dinner table drama involving her seven year old son and peas. She called it the Great Big Vegetable Challenge and opened it to ‘all of you parents out there who have tried and succeeded to introduce your offspring to the joys of carrots, peas, lettuce, spinach, asparagus, beetroot, green beans – in fact any vegetable. Any idea gratefully received.’
The strategy of the challenge was simple. As Freddie systematically refused nearly every single vegetable, his mother was going to introduce him to the entire alphabet of vegetables cooked in a variety of original and tempting ways and post the results – successes and failures on her blog. And so began a delightful exploration of the world of vegetables. From artichokes to zucchinis, broad beans to yams, every aspect of this family vegetable adventure is lovingly chronicled in Charlotte’s book The Great Big Veg Challenge.
As well as being highly practical containing over 100 delicious child-friendly recipes, this fully illustrated book is also the funny and touching story of how a mother changed her son’s eating habits for good.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Ebury Digital (5 Dec. 2008) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 3331 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 320 pages |
by Miss Sarah K Whelan
A great book to get the kids to eat veg. As a adult that doesn’t like veg herslf this has lots of great recipes that make veg more appealing. Also great for providing decent vegitarian options at bbq’s.
Must have book
by Teedeetee
Great idea, great book, exactly as described by seller, can’t wait to get started on it! My son doesn’t eat any vegetables, but is open to the idea of this book so I’m sure we’ll find something he can eat!
by Pickwickpapers
I bought this book full of hope that it would get my daughter to at least try vegetables. I gave up after trying two of the recipes. It is more like a diary of how it worked for the author which made me even more frustrated. Not worth the price and a bit of a gimmick. I would only recommend you buy it if your child will at least try new things, certainly do not expect miracles.
by Zoe Gervaise-Brazier
I brought this for me because I am poor at eating my 5 a day, it did help and I now use it for my kids
by stuff 13
I really like this book, and my children do too, and will happily sit down and read it as if it were a novel. They were quite good at eating vegetables when they were very young but as they got older the range of things that they would eat got narrower. The principle of the book is to try new and interesting ways of introducing children to vegetables, instead of just insisting that they try the same boiled peas over and over again. It is not a huge book, so it is never going to be your only vegetable cookery book, but it has some really nice recipes that our children will eat regularly, and it has encouraged me to be braver in what I offer them. It helped to hear that Freddie also hated peas with a passion, and yet was still prepared to try new things, and liked or even loved some of them.
by Scott
This book is creative, interesting and adventurous. You won’t find these recipes in an ‘ordinary’ cook book, because this is NOT an ordinary cook book. A refreshing change from having to make boring everyday meals out of the usual carrots and potatoes. Usually if we buy fresh beetroot, it stays there, unused at the bottom of the fridge. But, inspired by this book, we made ‘Beetroot and Chocolate’ cake. It was delicious. It’s like having an inspirational friend living on your bookshelf. When stuck for ideas, I often reach for this book before starting to shop. Splendid!
by Miranda
A fabulous book about one family’s adventurous journey into the world of vegetable tasting. 10/10 to the young boy and the family for tasting all the veg and collating all the receipes. 10/10 to the mother for her humorous start of chapter anecdotes. And 10/10 to all the people around the world who sent receipes to the family via the internet. The artichoke pizza is absolutely delicious as are many of the other receipes. The book sellars service was both fast and reliable
by Melissa Addey
Just arrived in the post and already one hour later I’ve got a list of about 15 good ideas for meals. My little boy (18mo) will eat most things but not keen on veg so far, so I needed new ideas as I could tell I wasn’t being interesting enough with using different veg or recipes. Also we think he might be colourblind and apparently this can put them off green veg as it can look very unappetising to them. So I needed to be reminded of different coloured veg and some good ideas for mixing it into other things. Really pleased to have new ideas and when I mentioned a few to my husband he said yummy do we get to eat them too?!