Meals Without Squeals, Third Edition

Christine Berman, M.P.H., R.D.,
Jacki Fromer

It's hard to find a balance these days between the need for convenience and providing food that is good for kids. Meals Without Squeals has the basic answers that parents and caregivers need to provide nutritious food for children, with a straightforward approach to topics like children's growth, common feeding problems, and how to offer children positive experiences with food.

• Great all-around approach to meeting children's age-specific nutritional needs
• Over 80 delicious, child-tested recipes both new and updated, with sample menus
• Guidance for teaching good eating habits and food literacy to children
• Organizational forms and checklists for feeding groups of children
• Appendices with loads of information and resources

Meals Without Squeals is the basic feeding guide for anyone caring for children. It is designed to help with sound nutrition information, good-tasting food, and timely advice about children and food.

Christine Berman is a registered dietitian and consultant in nutrition programs for children. She lives in Marin County, in Northern California.

Rave Reviews

"…Berman and Fromer demonstrate their wonderful and caring attitudes toward children and providing food for children. Feeding is more than getting food on the table. It is the whole nurturing environment that the parent or child care provider sets up around food."
—Ellyn Satter, author of Child of Mine

"Comprehensive and practical…Parents will love it. Providers will love it!"
—Merle Lawrence, Project Director, California Child Care Initiative Project

From the Author's Introduction

"There's more information available on the relationship between food and health than ever. Some of this information is dependable and some falls more into the category of urban legend, but what is clear is that confusion reigns. My goal in writing this revised edition of Meals Without Squeals is to offer you solid and practical advice about feeding children…advice that's based not just on reviews of research articles and official recommendations but also from many years of experience in the business of feeding other people's children.
—Christine Berman

Table Of Contents

Chapter 1 — What You Should Know About Feeding Children
Chapter 2 — Feeding and Growth
Chapter 3 — Your Feeding Program
Chapter 4 — The Recipes
Chapter 5 — Sample Menus Using Our Recipes
Chapter 6 — Running a Ship-Shape Kitchen
Chapter 7 — Environmental Concerns
Chapter 8 — A Basic Scheme for Nutrition Education

Authors

Christine Berman, M.P.H., R.D., is a registered dietitian and the nutrition consultant for Marin Head Start, and the owner of Feeding Frenzy, a nutrition consulting and educational product business.

Jacki Fromer was a licensed Family Day Care provider for 10 years and program coordinator of Family Day Care training and support services at the Marin Child Care Council. She is also co-owner/administrator of Dave Fromer's Marin Soccer Camps (www.davefromersoccer.com) which provides year-round soccer programs for approximately 2,500 youth ages 3-18.