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Active Kids Cookbook : Healthy Recipes for Active Young Cooks
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Young people need to remain active and to eat well. Above all, young people need to have fun in the kitchen and be successful. Sadly, many young people do not possess basic food skills, are gaining excess body weight and too many are becoming obese. Easy and effective food planning is critical to overcoming this trend. All the basics are covered in this book from boiling eggs, preparing potatoes and making pancakes to tricks to cooking pasta just right. And while there are many traditional favourites in this new book, the recipes have been simplified - and 'health-ified' - to suit younger taste buds. More than simply a list of recipes, Active Kids Cookbook uses puzzles, jokes, cartoons, links to websites and fun food facts to engage young minds, and includes case studies with actual nutrition plans involving real young people across a range of sports such as cycling, skateboarding, netball, horse-riding, golf, tennis,
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And Did Those Feet...
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The year mum died and Dad went mad I was packed off to a farm for a while.The first sentence of Ted Dawe's new book sets the scene for this tender and dramatic story. But this is no ordinary farm: our narrator's Aunt Lorna, Uncle Frank and five cousins belong to the Jerusalem League, a William Blake cult. Their house is unusual, in that the rooms are hexagons - six-sided - as are the doors and windows, the dinner table and plates. And you guessed it; they're bee-keepers.Our young narrator takes us through his initiation to farm life: chores and more chores, which he doesn't mind really, starting a new school and coping with the local bully, Noel Cudby, finding the perfect place: a swimming hole hidden in the bush, and making friends with Pimpernickle, the resident pig.It's here with Pimpernickle when we become aware of his loneliness: That pig is sure smart. I reckon he can tell my moods. When I'm feeling depressed, which is quite
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