Special Foods for Special Kids: Practical Solutions and Great Recipes for Children

This is an extraordinarily helpful and inspiring cookbook! As a professional in the field of special education for many years, I have worked with countless children who have food allergies. This remarkably comprehensive cookbook provides parents and caregivers with tremendous options. The recipes are both parent and child friendly. My hat's off to the authors for this "must have" cookbook. It is first-rate!

My son was recently diagnosed as both dairy and soy allergic. I was fine with 'normal' meals, but struggling to find treats for him. This book provides great recipes for both standard fare and special treats. The format is clear, and the allergy substitutions easy to follow. I thoroughly recommend it.

This book is wonderful. It has helped me with ideas that are creative and appealing to my child, who has two of the allergies this book addresses, i.e. eggs and milk. Another family member can not tolerate gluten. The receipes are tasty, easy to make, and takes the ordinary and helps you get creative with meals and snacks that not only appeal to children, but to adults as well. It's great reference to have.

I have found the book to be an excellent resource and cookbook for adults with food allergies as well as for children. While the recipes selected were targeted at the types of food that children like and the types of food that children want to eat to be like other childen, I have found recipes in this book that work well for adults with various food problems. My grown daughter has delevoped an allergy to gluten products recently, (she's in her early 40's) and she has found the book to be very helpful. Several friends have recently been diagnosed with Type II diabetes and using the book have been able to manage their diets, eat some of their favorite foods and still not increase their sugar intake. All in all, although it says for SPECIAL KIDS, it is for everyone who needs to monitor their intake of certain kids of foods. It is, in the parlance of today's technology, user friedly.

This book provided my family with everything we needed. It has versions of great recipes without the egg or without the sugar or without the gluten or without the lactose. Many of us are lactose-intolerant and find the guidelines in this book extremely helpful. There are also diabetics in our family (and friends) and so the sugar-free recipes are very helpful. All of the recipes that we have tried have turned out better than we expected. This book is not just for kids.