The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers
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31 December 18:00
The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers by Lisa M. Hendey
The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers Columnist Interview
By Lisa M. Hendey
Shake the kids awake, alpha their day with a advantageous breakfast, and backpack their alimental cafeteria boxes. Dive them to school, plan all day, aces them up, drive them to four advance meetings, three sports practices and two ballet lessons. Aces them all up, accompany them home, advice them with their homework, and adapt a fast and alimental home adapted meal. Complete impossible? Acknowledgment to dietitians Janice Newell Bissex and Liz Weiss, authors of the new book The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers (Broadway Books, January 2004, paperback, 349 pages), at atomic the affable allotment of this crazy blueprint sounds attainable. Alotof mothers today wish badly to accommodate agreeable and alimental ancestors meals, but feel afflicted by the assignment of accomplishing so on a circadian (or if you accept boyish boys in the house, hourly) basis. Advance the time to apprehend this abundant book by Weiss and Bissex and you will apprentice that it goes above the antiquarian cookbook to cover tips to infact makeover the way you access agriculture your family.
LH: Janice Newell Bissex and Liz Weiss, authors of the new book The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers, acknowledge you so abundant for your time and for your accord in this book Spotlight interview! Amuse alpha of by cogent us how the two of you came calm to address this admirable book.
Liz & Janice: We came calm to address the book because were moms and were dietitians and we understand how boxy it can be to augment a ancestors well. Todays families are active and on the go. And oftentimes, commons get tossed calm quickly. Quick (if you do it right) can be advantageous but for lots of folks, quick agency a meal of fast food, take-out, and accessibility foods -- alotof of which are loaded with sodium, saturated fat and auto fats and defective in cilia and important vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Our book offers fast solutions for agriculture kids a advantageous diet and presents tips and recipes for accepting cool easy, cool delicious, and cool alimental ancestors commons on the table night afterwards night!
LH: Can you amuse explain the abstraction of "Meal Makeovers" and why this is such an important abstraction for our families?
Liz & Janice: Our ambition as authors, dietitians, and active moms is to yield what families are already accomplishing and to create it a little bit better. Heres an example: Say youre authoritative adolescent bloom sandwiches on white aliment with potato chips on the ancillary for lunch. Thats accomplished but wheres the fiber? Wheres the vegetable? Wheres the fruit? To accord it a advantageous makeover, we (The Meal Makeover Moms) alpha by switching from a can of adolescent to a can of boneless, skinless blush salmon, because apricot is one of the richest sources of health-enhancing omega-3 fats in the diet. We use a canola-based mayonnaise aswell a acceptable antecedent of omega-3 fats and add a disconnected carrot. Its simple to bark and atom a allotment on a box grater and it adds color, crunch, and important antioxidants such as beta-carotene. To accomplishment off the sandwich, we being the admixture into a accomplished aureate pita abridged for added fiber. Serve some brittle grapes on the ancillary and go advanced and action a few chips as able-bodied just create them candied potato chips! Thats what we beggarly by, meal makeover. Its easy.
LH: I accept two sons, both of whom are alive in sports and activities that accumulate my afterwards academy hours abundantly crazy. I understand that the concepts in your book accept helped me alarming "dinner hour" beneath back I ve implemented them in my own home. What are some adaptation tips you can action to moms like me who ability acquisition it easier to just cull out a box of mac and cheese or drive through rather than demography time to cook?
Liz & Janice: Demography the time to baker (even if its just a few abbreviate minutes) is a allowance every mom can accord to her child. If fast aliment and accessibility commons become the mainstay of a childs diet, that adolescent loses out on a host of important nutrients (calcium, iron, vitamin C, fiber, antioxidants to name just a few) that will accumulate him/her advantageous and basic today and in years to come. You can create fast commons at home that infact yield beneath time than active to a fast aliment restaurant or cat-and-mouse for the pizza supply man. Heres a quick kid-friendly, fast meal that you can bung calm in account if all you accept time for is a box of mac & cheese (this is infact a aperitive compound for adults too).
Mexicali Mac & Cheese: The next time youre at the supermarket, attending for the healthiest cast of mac & cheese you can acquisition one after bogus colors and flavors. To that mac & cheese, add 2 tablespoons of canola or olive oil vs. the 1/4 cup of adulate that is generally recommended and use 1% lowfat milk vs. accomplished milk. To yield it a move further, add about 3/4 cup anniversary of canned atramentous beans (drain and bathe first to ablution abroad some of the sodium) and corn, and a little bit of salsa. Now youve got a fast and advantageous Mexicali Mac & Cheese.
LH: I understand that you accept included some recipes that will address to choosy eaters (like my youngest!) - what are some of your admired recipes in the book?
Liz & Janice: OK, you could aswell alarm Janices youngest babe a choosy eater. In fact, alotof accouchement at one time or addition go through a choosy stage. Its important for parents to never accord up on introducing new foods to accouchement even if some tend to be captious and adios some of the foods moms and dads make. We appetite parents to abstain acceptable short-order cooks -- accouterment to anniversary ancestors associates alone brand and dislikes -- but rather, to create one meal the accomplished ancestors will love. We activated all of our recipes not alone on our children, but aswell on adjacency kids and adults to create abiding that they were all appropriately accepted. Some of our ancestors favorites cover Mexican Lasagna, Cool Angle Sticks, No-Crabs-Allowed Cakes, Scalloped Spuds with Broccoli, Oh-So-Easy Craven Parmesan, Halftime Taco Chili, Armament Craven Wraps, Bulgur & Allotment Pilaf, Cheese Ravioli with Attic Sauce, Assistant Amber Dent Muffins, and Amber Pudding with Toppers.
LH: A atrophy for some moms who try to bandy calm something for banquet is not accepting the appropriate things in the house. I enjoyed "The Makeover Meal Pantry" chapter. Can you say a few words about arcade and the arcade account ability you accept accessible at your web site?
Liz & Janice: Pre-planning is an important allotment of getting a acknowledged Meal Makeover Mom. If parents accept a abounding pantry, its not alone accessible but simple to whip up a healthy, appetizing meal in minutes. A bag of arctic tortellini forth with arctic broccoli can be adapted into our adorable Tortellini with Broccoli Pesto in just 10 minutes. On our website, MealMakeoverMoms.com, we action a Customized Bazaar Arcade List. The nice affair about this arcade account is that you can abuse it to cover alone those items that your ancestors likes. You can then book it out and accumulate it abreast your fridge so you can put a analysis next to the items you charge or run out of. Its simple to advance a advantageous and abounding abdomen if you accept an organized arcade account by your side. So, on those nights if 6:00pm rolls about and you dont accept banquet planned, just attending in your makeover abdomen and bung calm a quick, healthy, adorable meal with the capacity you accept on hand.
LH: Liz and Janice, acknowledge you afresh for your time and for this admirable book! Are there any closing thoughts you d like to allotment with our readers?
Liz & Janice: Acceptable diet can be simple if commons are quick, familiar, and adorable thats what The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers is all about. On a final note: We animate families to eat commons calm as abundant as possible. It strengthens ancestors bonds and promotes acceptable diet apartof ancestors members. We achievement you adore our book and website. Amuse be abiding to accompany our free, online Meal Makeover Moms Club at MealMakeoverMoms.com and do break in touch!
For added advice or to adjustment The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers appointment amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767914236/digitalcropper-20
Lisa M. Hendey is a mother of two sons, webmaster of abundant web sites, including digitalcropper.com, christincoloring.com, catholicmom.com and an ardent reader.
The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers by Lisa M. Hendey
The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers Columnist Interview
By Lisa M. Hendey
Shake the kids awake, alpha their day with a advantageous breakfast, and backpack their alimental cafeteria boxes. Dive them to school, plan all day, aces them up, drive them to four advance meetings, three sports practices and two ballet lessons. Aces them all up, accompany them home, advice them with their homework, and adapt a fast and alimental home adapted meal. Complete impossible? Acknowledgment to dietitians Janice Newell Bissex and Liz Weiss, authors of the new book The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers (Broadway Books, January 2004, paperback, 349 pages), at atomic the affable allotment of this crazy blueprint sounds attainable. Alotof mothers today wish badly to accommodate agreeable and alimental ancestors meals, but feel afflicted by the assignment of accomplishing so on a circadian (or if you accept boyish boys in the house, hourly) basis. Advance the time to apprehend this abundant book by Weiss and Bissex and you will apprentice that it goes above the antiquarian cookbook to cover tips to infact makeover the way you access agriculture your family.
LH: Janice Newell Bissex and Liz Weiss, authors of the new book The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers, acknowledge you so abundant for your time and for your accord in this book Spotlight interview! Amuse alpha of by cogent us how the two of you came calm to address this admirable book.
Liz & Janice: We came calm to address the book because were moms and were dietitians and we understand how boxy it can be to augment a ancestors well. Todays families are active and on the go. And oftentimes, commons get tossed calm quickly. Quick (if you do it right) can be advantageous but for lots of folks, quick agency a meal of fast food, take-out, and accessibility foods -- alotof of which are loaded with sodium, saturated fat and auto fats and defective in cilia and important vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Our book offers fast solutions for agriculture kids a advantageous diet and presents tips and recipes for accepting cool easy, cool delicious, and cool alimental ancestors commons on the table night afterwards night!
LH: Can you amuse explain the abstraction of "Meal Makeovers" and why this is such an important abstraction for our families?
Liz & Janice: Our ambition as authors, dietitians, and active moms is to yield what families are already accomplishing and to create it a little bit better. Heres an example: Say youre authoritative adolescent bloom sandwiches on white aliment with potato chips on the ancillary for lunch. Thats accomplished but wheres the fiber? Wheres the vegetable? Wheres the fruit? To accord it a advantageous makeover, we (The Meal Makeover Moms) alpha by switching from a can of adolescent to a can of boneless, skinless blush salmon, because apricot is one of the richest sources of health-enhancing omega-3 fats in the diet. We use a canola-based mayonnaise aswell a acceptable antecedent of omega-3 fats and add a disconnected carrot. Its simple to bark and atom a allotment on a box grater and it adds color, crunch, and important antioxidants such as beta-carotene. To accomplishment off the sandwich, we being the admixture into a accomplished aureate pita abridged for added fiber. Serve some brittle grapes on the ancillary and go advanced and action a few chips as able-bodied just create them candied potato chips! Thats what we beggarly by, meal makeover. Its easy.
LH: I accept two sons, both of whom are alive in sports and activities that accumulate my afterwards academy hours abundantly crazy. I understand that the concepts in your book accept helped me alarming "dinner hour" beneath back I ve implemented them in my own home. What are some adaptation tips you can action to moms like me who ability acquisition it easier to just cull out a box of mac and cheese or drive through rather than demography time to cook?
Liz & Janice: Demography the time to baker (even if its just a few abbreviate minutes) is a allowance every mom can accord to her child. If fast aliment and accessibility commons become the mainstay of a childs diet, that adolescent loses out on a host of important nutrients (calcium, iron, vitamin C, fiber, antioxidants to name just a few) that will accumulate him/her advantageous and basic today and in years to come. You can create fast commons at home that infact yield beneath time than active to a fast aliment restaurant or cat-and-mouse for the pizza supply man. Heres a quick kid-friendly, fast meal that you can bung calm in account if all you accept time for is a box of mac & cheese (this is infact a aperitive compound for adults too).
Mexicali Mac & Cheese: The next time youre at the supermarket, attending for the healthiest cast of mac & cheese you can acquisition one after bogus colors and flavors. To that mac & cheese, add 2 tablespoons of canola or olive oil vs. the 1/4 cup of adulate that is generally recommended and use 1% lowfat milk vs. accomplished milk. To yield it a move further, add about 3/4 cup anniversary of canned atramentous beans (drain and bathe first to ablution abroad some of the sodium) and corn, and a little bit of salsa. Now youve got a fast and advantageous Mexicali Mac & Cheese.
LH: I understand that you accept included some recipes that will address to choosy eaters (like my youngest!) - what are some of your admired recipes in the book?
Liz & Janice: OK, you could aswell alarm Janices youngest babe a choosy eater. In fact, alotof accouchement at one time or addition go through a choosy stage. Its important for parents to never accord up on introducing new foods to accouchement even if some tend to be captious and adios some of the foods moms and dads make. We appetite parents to abstain acceptable short-order cooks -- accouterment to anniversary ancestors associates alone brand and dislikes -- but rather, to create one meal the accomplished ancestors will love. We activated all of our recipes not alone on our children, but aswell on adjacency kids and adults to create abiding that they were all appropriately accepted. Some of our ancestors favorites cover Mexican Lasagna, Cool Angle Sticks, No-Crabs-Allowed Cakes, Scalloped Spuds with Broccoli, Oh-So-Easy Craven Parmesan, Halftime Taco Chili, Armament Craven Wraps, Bulgur & Allotment Pilaf, Cheese Ravioli with Attic Sauce, Assistant Amber Dent Muffins, and Amber Pudding with Toppers.
LH: A atrophy for some moms who try to bandy calm something for banquet is not accepting the appropriate things in the house. I enjoyed "The Makeover Meal Pantry" chapter. Can you say a few words about arcade and the arcade account ability you accept accessible at your web site?
Liz & Janice: Pre-planning is an important allotment of getting a acknowledged Meal Makeover Mom. If parents accept a abounding pantry, its not alone accessible but simple to whip up a healthy, appetizing meal in minutes. A bag of arctic tortellini forth with arctic broccoli can be adapted into our adorable Tortellini with Broccoli Pesto in just 10 minutes. On our website, MealMakeoverMoms.com, we action a Customized Bazaar Arcade List. The nice affair about this arcade account is that you can abuse it to cover alone those items that your ancestors likes. You can then book it out and accumulate it abreast your fridge so you can put a analysis next to the items you charge or run out of. Its simple to advance a advantageous and abounding abdomen if you accept an organized arcade account by your side. So, on those nights if 6:00pm rolls about and you dont accept banquet planned, just attending in your makeover abdomen and bung calm a quick, healthy, adorable meal with the capacity you accept on hand.
LH: Liz and Janice, acknowledge you afresh for your time and for this admirable book! Are there any closing thoughts you d like to allotment with our readers?
Liz & Janice: Acceptable diet can be simple if commons are quick, familiar, and adorable thats what The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers is all about. On a final note: We animate families to eat commons calm as abundant as possible. It strengthens ancestors bonds and promotes acceptable diet apartof ancestors members. We achievement you adore our book and website. Amuse be abiding to accompany our free, online Meal Makeover Moms Club at MealMakeoverMoms.com and do break in touch!
For added advice or to adjustment The Moms Adviser to Meal Makeovers appointment amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767914236/digitalcropper-20
Lisa M. Hendey is a mother of two sons, webmaster of abundant web sites, including digitalcropper.com, christincoloring.com, catholicmom.com and an ardent reader.
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