I first got this book when I was participating in a childhood obesity coalition in San Diego, CA. I worked for the San Diego Hunger Coalition and was interested in recipes that could be adapted to the types of foods offered in the emergency food pantries in my county. Many low-income children are also overweight because of the poor quality of foods they get on a regular basis. There are many reasons for this and the book does offer some advice on getting good nutrition that is affordable into meals that children will eat.

Many of the participants in the coalition on childhood obesity came from organizations working with children and the feedback from those who read this book was positive. I know from working with families on welfare that young mothers could use some of the ideas given in this book. Helpful ideas on how to develop healthy eating habits along with recipes make this book worth buying. I think that there are some things that some children will never want to eat till they get older, but most of what is in this book is useful.