Squeezable Cookbook Makes Eating Veggies Fun

It goes without saying that children love to squeeze food. Check out the grocery store and you no doubt have noticed a trend towards squeezable kids’ food (squeezable yogurt, anyone?) So your child is not into carrot sticks? No problem. Pair them with a squeezable black bean dip and watch those carrots disappear. Squeezable black bean dip? Yep.

Thanks to Malcolm Kushner, author of “California Squisine,” children everywhere can have fun squeezing healthy and delicious dressings, sauces and dips onto foods they may otherwise be resistant to eating. Squisine (the combination of the words ’squeeze’ and ‘cuisine’) refers to “any food that you squeeze out of a tube, bag, plastic bottle or any other squeezable container.” So, that ketchup packet open and squeezed onto a burger; the honeybear squeezed to add honey to tea; or balsamic vinaigrette squeezed onto a salad — that’s all squisine.

The book, made up of 100 healthy and yummy recipes along with a comprehensive and informative introduction section had to pass four tests: 1. squeezable, 2. pediatrician approved as a healthy part of a diet, 3. no cook, 4. approved by 9 year old taste tester Elizabeth Stover (whose favorite recipe is cranberry frozen yogurt). Although not intended to be a diet plan for the obese child, it certainly promotes healthy foods and eating that would fit perfectly into the diets of most children, obese or not. Clever Parents loves this book for providing recipes that are healthy, a fun-to-eat alternative to junk food, and delicious. Learn more about California Squisine at www.californiasquisine.com and order your copy of “California Squisine” at Amazon.com and start squeezing.