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Parents Need to Eat Too: Nap-Friendly Recipes, One-Handed Meals, and Time-Saving Kitchen Tricks for New Parents

✍️ Koenig, Debbie
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4.4
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🏛 William Morrow & Company 📅 2012 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780062005946

📝 Description: Parents Need to Eat Too: Nap-Friendly Recipes, One-Handed Meals, and Time-Saving Kitchen Tricks for New Parents

It is an undeniable truth: Parents Need to Eat Too! Food and parenting writer Debbie Koenig addresses the dilemma faced by so many parents coping with the demands of a new baby by offering simple, healthy, and delicious recipes for moms and dads who are too sleep-deprived, too frazzled, or simply too busy to cook nutritious meals for themselves. From dinners that can be eaten with one hand (while you hold baby in the other) to slow cooker culinary masterpieces and full courses to prepare while baby naps, Parents Need to Eat Too is filled with tasty, easy-to-make recipes, helpful kitchen tips, and real solutions to the problems faced by hungry parents. Parents Need to Eat Too has been named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2012 by Leite s Culinaria, whose Editor-in-Chief Renee Schettler Rossi called it the What to Expect After You re Expecting and said that the book savvily and sassily helps you extend the efficiency of any time spent in the kitchen. A must-read for new parents!"

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While useful for exhausted caregivers, this cookbook may frustrate those seeking culinary inspiration or technical depth. It is not suited for serious home cooks looking to expand their repertoire or improve technique. The focus on extreme convenience and one-handed eating limits its appeal to anyone with even a modicum of free time. Readers expecting sophisticated flavor profiles or detailed nutritional science will likely find the content too basic. However, for the sleep-deprived parent who views cooking as a chore rather than a passion, it offers practical, if uninspired, survival tactics without demanding extra effort.
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Eatbook Family editorial team

While useful for exhausted caregivers, this cookbook may frustrate those seeking culinary inspiration or technical depth. It is not suited for serious home cooks looking to expand their repertoire or improve technique. The focus on extreme convenience and one-handed eating limits its appeal to anyone with even a modicum of free time. Readers expecting sophisticated flavor profiles or detailed nutritional science will likely find the content too basic. However, for the sleep-deprived parent who views cooking as a chore rather than a passion, it offers practical, if uninspired, survival tactics without demanding extra effort.

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