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For the legions of harried moms (and dads) who have tossed in the dishtowel on cooking healthy meals — or any meals — The Moms’ Guide to Meal Makeovers offers the easiest-ever strategies for bringing super nutrition back to the family table. Getting dinner on the table night after night can be a challenge for busy parents, so it’s no surprise they often rely on fast food, takeout, and convenience meals like chicken nuggets, frozen pizza, and hot dogs. The kids love it, there’s no muss or fuss, but the drawback is that little twinge of guilt parents feel every time they feed their families another not-so-healthy meal. At the end of the day, many children end up with a nutritionally lackluster diet high in sugar, saturated and trans fats, and calories – major factors in the rising rate of obesity.

In our book, we show fellow moms and dads a better way with realistic guidelines designed to give families a healthy meal makeover. Our 5-Step Meal Makeover Plan begins with advice on how to market good nutrition to kids, establish food rules, and make life easier in the kitchen. Our Best of the Bunch chapter reveals which brands of kid convenience foods – hot dogs, chicken nuggets, mac & cheese, frozen pizza, and more — are the best tasting and most nutritious ones out there. What follows are tips for stocking a healthy pantry. We even serve up 120 recipes for family favorites such as Fast-As-Boxed Macaroni & Cheese, Cheesy Broccoli Soup, No-Nonsense Nuggets, Have-it-Your-Way Tacos, Sweet Potato Fries, and Chocolate Pudding with Toppers. All come complete with nutrition information and have been made over to be faster and more nutritious than the originals.

The Moms’ Guide to Meal Makeovers tackles what’s wrong with today’s all-American diet and offers realistic and delicious ways to improve it.