Approximately 15 percent of children and adolescents are now considered overweight. The unhealthiness of family diets has generated concern about excessive fatty food and nutritionally suspect, mass-produced ready-to-eat meals in children's diets. Bestselling children's food author Annabel Karmel applies her signature fresh, fun cooking style to focusing on the family and shows how to go about enhancing everyday home-cooked family meals in her new book Favorite Family Recipes.

For busy parents, stuck in a rut serving the same meals week in week out, Favorite Family Recipes offers realistic an delicious ways to improve your family diet and enjoy your time spent in the kitchen. If you are tired of making different meals for each member of the family, this book is for you. Here is a collection of all-time favorite recipes with that key ingredient, child-appeal. Parents will find inspiration for meals for all occasions, from brain-boosing breakfasts, healthy junk food like homemade burgers and chicken nuggets, low-fat recipes, nutritional lunchboxes, family suppers, and even adult dinner parties.

Every recipe has been taste tested by a panel of children, because it's not enough to prepare healthy foods for kids--they have to want to eat them too!

Annabel Karmel offers realistic guidelines designed to give families a healthy makeover in the form of organizing a healthy cupboard, refrigerator, and freezer. She also gives advice on how to promote good nutrition to children and make life a little easier for all parents with time-saving and planning tips.