I am so excited to tell you about a new book that was sent for my review last week, pictured on my desk above. It is written by Suzanne Gross and Sally Fallon Morell, designed to teach children to cook according to Nourishing Traditions. In a word, I would give this book 5 out of 5 stars or a resounding thumbs up. I consider this book to be a must-have for the parents in our community! I think that The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children, distributed now via our Amazon affiliation, is not only a fun and educational way to teach children how to cook, but many adults new to cooking and/or new to Nourishing Traditions will benefit as well!
With over six hundred thousand copies sold, Nourishing Traditions has changed the way so many of us nourish ourselves and our children. The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children provides children with the key messages of the parent book―the benefits of eggs, butter, bone broths and soups, lacto-fermented foods, meat and organ meats. Replete with detailed, colorful illustrations of each of the items in the ingredient and tool lists, as we as many of the finished recipes, the book teaches the basics of healthy cooking step by step. It includes many original recipes for healthy snacks, desserts, baked goods, lunches and breakfasts, so those who already own Nourishing Traditions may expand their repertoire as well!
Contents
- Introduction [for parents and teachers]
- Kitchen Tools
- Measuring Guide
- Incredible Eggs!
- Mighty Milk!
- Butter is Better
- Super Snacks
- Vibrant Vegetables!
- The Secret’s in the Soup
- Friendly Ferments
- Soak, Sour and Sprout!
- Meet Your Meat
- My Healthy Lunch
- What’s for Dessert?
- Sources
- Recipe Index
Each section starts with an overview before the recipes. For example, the section titled Incredible Eggs! covers what sizes and colors they come in, and what constitutes a healthy egg. It asks the reader to consider what creatures lay eggs. It covers terms such as Vegetarian-Fed, Cage-Free, and Free-Range. It also describes how the color of the egg yolks reveals how the chicken was raised. The egg section includes recipes for scrambled eggs, Mexican scrambled eggs, hard and soft boiled eggs, deviled eggs, egg eyes [fried eggs], egg-dipped french toast, Greek omelet, pizza omelet, egg yolk smoothie, and egg nog. The reader will learn how to crack eggs, separate egg yolks from egg whites, and why raw egg yolks are safe. They’ll also learn that sharp knives are safer than dull ones, and how to cut most safely. Lastly, they are encouraged to clean up the kitchen when they are finished!
Similarly, the Meet Your Meat section includes a side bar on Giving Thanks and explores how we may feel when we eat animals we’ve killed for food. It also includes a sidebar on Tofu, and why we don’t recommend it as a substitute for meat. The What’s for Dessert section starts with an overview guide to natural sweeteners, and a side bar on the blood sugar roller coaster, describing how our blood sugar goes up and down depending on what foods we eat.
If we don’t teach our children to cook nourishing foods, who will?
The authors assert that learning how to cook is just as valuable in life as knowing how to read or write. Food is one of our basic needs. And the quality of our food has a profound impact on our health and ultimately, the quality of our life. Cooking is rarely taught in schools and even when it is, there are often compromises made regarding the quality of the food that we wouldn’t recommend.
The authors also point out that children are more likely to eat food they’ve helped prepare. Cooking with children provides an opportunity to teach them which foods are healthy and why. It can spark questions about where our food comes from and how it is made. The book includes a section on tips for cooking with children.
This book can serve as an opportunity to turn your kitchen into a classroom! For example, the measurements involved in cooking can be used to teach numbers, counting, math and fractions, especially when doubling or having recipes. Reading recipes provides practice in phonics and comprehension. Cooking together, especially if you have more than one child, helps children learn to work cooperatively in a group. Older children can even be responsible of handling the money and keeping the shopping trip within budget.
Recommendation
What I like about this book is that is it very educational, interactive, well-organized, graphic and clearly presented. The instructions don’t skip a single step! I like the simplicity of the language and the fact that it is detail oriented. Recipes include a wide variety of savory and sweet dishes ranging from avocado dressing, roast chicken, French toast, hummus, water kefir, a number of soups, stews and salads, and desserts such apple cobbler, butter cookies, carob brownies and ice cream.
I particularly love the recipe for Oat Crunchies that explains why we don’t recommend breakfast cereal! I know I will start to use their words: You may just want to say “cheerio” to your Cheerios.
I am sincerely excited to try some new recipes in this book myself! As I’ve said, this book is not just for children!
Giveaway
Sally Fallon Morell has generously offered our community members 5 copies of Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children. I will randomly choose 5 qualifying respondents on May 18, 2015 at 9:00P PDT. Enter with a comment, at least 5 sentences long, that answers the question below. Be sure to use the words Nourishing Traditions in your comment.
[Recipients have been randomly chosen: Leandra Kapity, Jamie, Megan Merseth, Cynthia Tamayo, and Kirsten]
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427 Responses to The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children
I have been teaching my daughter to cook the “nourishing traditions way” since she was born. While not perfect (I just can’t manage liver in any form. Blech!) I have taken special care to fill our kitchen with only whole, nourishing foods. She’s 14 months old and already loves to help gather fresh, organic, non-gmo eggs from our friend’s chickens. (Hopefully soon we’ll have our own chickens.) She also loves to visit the goats from our milk share. In the kitchen she mostly hangs out on the floor with her own pots or pans to help me cook, or she rides on my back. Soon I hope to have her helping more actively, but not until I can trust her not to throw the eggs for fun. ;) This book would mean a lot to us!
I have been cooking the Nourishing Traditions way for about eight years. My older son has received the least practice in this wonderful method of nourishing ourselves. I would like my own copy of Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children to work through with my 18, 16 and 9 year old sons. It looks like it covers the basics thoroughly and in a fun way. I would also like to gift these to family and friends with younger children. Everyone in my family regularly takes their fermented cod liver oil and we are rarely ill. Fermenting our own raw milk kefir and sauerkraut have become a staples in our home.
My 7 year old grandson is eager to have a go at cooking, being a boy I want to start him off correctly using by using Nourishing Traditions and cooking methods, I must admit I do need some recipes that will be of interest to him and he is at the stage of needing the how why when and if which your new books appears to be giving, I am new to your way of eating also I attended a Yoga Retreat at Billabong in Sydney and I have started from there so I also will gain heaps from winning one of the five give away books that I am sure will turn to many more sale for you after my friends clasp their eyes and needy hands on my gift of Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children – hope we are successful – can’t wait to get started on it-
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My family is new to this journey so we are taking it literally one step at a time. Our first switch was to raw milk and we took the time to explain to our children the difference between nutrient dense milk and commercial milk. The step we are currently on involves incorporating organ meats into our diets. I would love to be able to include our girls in the preparation of these meats using the Nourishing Traditions cookbook(s). I wish I had been raised to nourish my body versus just filling my stomach and I am excited to be able to do this for my children, especially during their formative years.
My daughter is almost 3 and she knows that before she can eat chickpeas, we have to soak them for a day and cook them for a long time. Just last week she helped me make Pesto from Sally’s Nourishing Traditions cookbook. My one year old son loves saurkraut and sardines! They are happy children who love to eat wholesome prepared food.
We’re sticking to the Nourishing Traditions way of eating to ensure they’ll grow up strong and healthy!
My kids are 1 and 3 and my oldest joins in on the cooking and buying of groceries (some of the time) now. Right now we talk a lot about why something is healthy and why other things are not. I was raised on the S.A.D. so the tradition starts with me. I want my Grandkids to talk about me as we do about my Grandmother. This book sounds fanatic. It sounds like I will be able to learn from it as well. I would love to have it to assist in teaching my children nourishing traditions :)
Oh, this is so exciting! I love “Nourishing Traditions” and am thrilled to know there is a nourishing traditions cookbook for kids. I did a lot of cooking with my son when he was young (he is 28 now). I still have kids in my life who I spend time with, and would love to give this book as a gift, and also to have it as a resource for when they visit me in my home. Children are innately wise, and I believe they would understand these principles. I think it is particularly important to talk about the ethics involved in our dietary recommendations, so I’m glad that is included.
I try very hard to teach my daughter to cook the “nourishing traditions way”. She is now 8 and likes to help. It’s hard to follow it all the time, but having her help and talking about food is a step in the right direction. One of the best things for us has been going to the farmers market on Sundays and picking out local fresh produce. It’s a great tradition and will hopefully teach her about better food choices. I have looked at this book, but haven’t purchased it. I would love to have it!!!
Hi Sally. This book would be great for my seven-year-old son. His health was saved by the Weston A Price Foundation and raw milk after suffering from asthma. He is starting to become interested in cooking. We would love to work through this new book together! Thank you for all you do, Jodi Bell.
To answer your question, we have taught our son to cook the nourishing traditions way by taking time to prepare foods properly. Desert is especially important to him! We indulge in homemade treats from nourishing traditions instead of commercial foods.
What children learn when they are young sticks with them for life. Even if they venture away from it for a while as teenagers and young adults, they will always feel at home and drawn to what they knew first. That’s why I believe that offering children a Nourishing Traditions start is the way to go. Plus, when children are involved in the preparations (and even the harvesting of the foods from the garden), the are SO much more likely to eat and, in turn, enjoy new foods. I can’t wait to dive into this Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children!
I come from boxed, canned and fried foods. I didn’t even know there was a better nourishing way. After I had my first child 7 years ago I was worried about vaccines and autism and her bringing her little fist to her ears and having a hard time getting rid of her jaundice sent me on a new path. I still struggle with cooking healthy meals because I have had to learn on my own through trial and error. I would love to teach my kids Nourishing Traditions and how to feed and care for this miraculous body we’ve been given. I would love for them never to have to struggle in the kitchen but find it a joy and a blessing! Thank you.
I love to pull out my Nourishing Traditions cookbook and have my 2yo help me follow a recipe.
I read nourishing traditions years ago and it really changed my life. After lots of life changes I veered away from cooking and eating the traditional way and had another baby. I would love to have some new recipes to start making for and teaching my children how to cook. We have slowly started to get back to eating mostly whole foods and I am excited to see this cookbook. I may have to ask for it for Christmas if I don’t win it. Thanks
When it came time to introduce solids to my daughter as a baby, I became much more mindful about what she needed to thrive and quickly turned to the Nourishing Traditions cookbook for recommendations. I haven’t looked back. Now, at 3 years of age, my daughter is exceptionally healthy, bright and resilient. She is witness and participant to our meal preparation according to NT recommendations, and conversations around food have begun to include how important nutritious food is for our bodies. When she requests liver as a snack, I’m particularly pleased that I took the Nourishing Traditions route when I did. It is my hope that she will carry these principles foward as she continues to grow, and that she continues to reap the benefits.
I discovered nourishing traditions when my second son was just 4 months old and I figured out he has food allergies. I didn’t want to ease them, I wanted to heal them. He’s now almost 3 and cooks every meal we eat along side me. Sprouted wheat bread, soaked and sprouted nuts and beans (he likes the tails), he is hands on cracking eggs and learning why we don’t eat eggo waffles like his cousins but we eat nourishing food. He loves cooking and takes pride in the food he helps make. We would love this cookbook to have some fresh new recipes to try for my future chef!
We have been teaching our kids to eat and cook the “nourishing traditions” way for several years now. We first noticed how much better our son behaved when he ate “real” food. After he was diagnosed with a digestive disorder a couple of years ago, we had to make drastic changes and make most foods from scratch. The more you research, the more you learn and the more we wanted to make better changes to eat real and wholesome foods. All of our kids love to help in the kitchen and love to help us “be healthy”!
My children were older when I discovered Weston A. Price when I was searching for help/answers after some catastrophic health problems. As I would read things in real food books, I would either read the segments TO them, or ask them to read them themselves. Also, we began watching food documentaries together; now we are subscribers to FMTV. We got some chicks and the kids have been mostly responsible for raising them and they are all handy with their egg cookery already as a result. I also planted a huge garden with them and they have been through the process from compost to canning. So, essentially, my “program” has been for them to read, learn, and try along side me. I now have a granddaughter and I can envision my children cooking with her using this book as THEIR guide/curriculum.
I have been raising my daughter – and now that she’s 6, teaching her how to cook – with the Nourishing Traditions perspective. We get a weekly farm box and she looks forward to seeing what treasures we have received and what we can cook with them (she usually sneaks away the fruit before I can put it away). When she’s not in school, she accompanies me to the farmer’s market and helps me pick our eggs, chicken, fish, and any other produce we need. There is almost always a pot of bone broth simmering on the stove, and she is very used to soups and rice cooked with it (among other things!) Although she has not quite acquired the taste (and I make it pretty strong), she knows my kombucha well, and recently got brave enough to touch the SCOBY! We make our own ice cream together using raw milk and cream and real maple syrup, local raw honey or, on occasion, evaporated cane juice. We make and freeze batches of soaked waffles (the Nourishing Traditions recipe) and very often this is her quick and easy breakfast on school mornings. She loves to make (and eat) grilled cheese using raw cheddar and a local sourdough. She has had a spoonful of Green Pasture Cinnamon Tingle FCLO/HBVO every morning since she was three. We use Organic Pastures raw whole milk and Kerrygold butter. I was a vegetarian for 19 years (and she was for her first three years) so I am still learning to fully embrace all meat, but the only meat we buy is local, grass-fed, from a source we know. I am convinced that these things have led to a stronger immune system for her (and myself) – when I hear that a “bug” hits her class, she doesn’t come down with it! I am fortunate that she is a great sleeper and a good student with a good energy level to keep up with her activities, and I feel confident that this diet has supported these things. Thank you so much!
I have taught my children to cook by letting them cook with me. We are a non meat eating family, but do enjoy dairy and eggs frequently. My thirteen year old daughter had some issues with her teeth lately and after research and reading she started taking cod liver oil and extra minerals, cut out sugars and her teeth are rapidly improving. We would like to learn more about nourishing traditions for our children… We have four and there is a lot more nourishing to be done! This book would be perfect for us as we are rethinking, learning and developing what we eat as a family. Thank you for the opportunity to enter.
We are fairly new to Nourishing Traditions, but are loving it! My boys are 2 and 4, and they are just starting to be interested in the kitchen and cooking. They have learned about soaking, as they know they must wait patiently a day or two for their beans! Having a cookbook for them would be awesome, especially since my older son is a good reader. I want them to be more involved in the kitchen, since mommy ‘cooks so much!’
We lead by example. Our family of five cook every meal at home from scratch using real foods. This is our nourishing tradition. We are teaching our children to be an example to their peers. We eat pasture raised meats, cook broths, ferment veg and dairy, and take fermented cod liver oil daily.
My two older kiddos both have very different food preferences. But both of them are mindful of what is and isn’t healthy. The oldest is a vegetarian. My middle child always shops with me and knows to look for organic and non-gmo labels. She is also homeschooled and we’d have so much fun incorporating this cookbook into our learning!
I learned about Nourishing Traditions when my son was about 9 months old. He is now 4 and loves to help me cook! He actually corrects family members and tells them that they need to be drinking kombucha and eating fermented foods. When we go out to eat he’ll ask if they have raw milk and if their chickens eat soy. He knows why we add whey and soak our morning oatmeal and frequently says thins about food that my family doesn’t understand. He cooks nearly every meal with me and I hope he’ll carry what he’s learned on with him in the rest of his life.
Oh I am so excited about this! My older kids (4 and 2) love to help me out when baking and cooking. I was just thinking how my 4yo should be able to start doing some things on her own in the kitchen. She would love this! We have the other Nourishing Traditions books and try to follow WAPF dietary guidelines pretty closely- my kids know about soaking grains and actually really LOVE taking their FCLO! Super excited to check this book out!
I LOVE Nourishing Tradition! I am anxious to teach myself and my 2 little girls, age 9 and 5, to eat and cook healthy. It’s important to me to teach them how to nurture and care for their bodies thru proper nutrition and healthy eating. We are still learning and have a long way to go. Which is why I’m so excited about this cookbook!
I’m taking a running jump over my son and his wife who are not motivated to feed my grandchildren healthy food and going straight to my grandkids. I’ve noticed that my 10-year-old grandsons want to learn how to eat healthier, and they like making recipes. I would love to gift them with this new cookbook, The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children, and spend some quality time in the kitchen laughing and making new recipes together. This book is more than healthy, kid-friendly recipes, it also explains why it’s important to eat this way in a fun and age appropriate manner. Maybe these two boys will actually be the ones to teach mom and dad, and two young sisters how to eat healthier and live happier.
We have successfully introduced our children to ferments in the form of fermented pickles. They see sauerkraut (less successfully shared) bubbling on the countertop and sipped kombucha (liked by the toddler but not the teen). It has been easy to teach about bone broth because chicken soup is a big part of holiday rituals for us. While we model the preparation and consumption of liver in the form of pate, that Nourishing Tradition, has not yet successfully been passed on. Consuming vegetables with a healthy fat is routine in our household. Alas, I find the preparation of soaked grains the most challenging aspect of these traditions. Our goal is to provide the tools for a healthy body throughout their lives.
My daughter, now grown with her own daughter, and I share healthy eating and lifestyle habits with each other. I think she was way ahead of me in a nourishing diet. I am still learning every day and am on my third reading cover to cover of Nourishing Traditions. I am teaching my granddaughter to cook and bake and share healthy eating with her. She loves cooking and baking with me and I think she is the ideal age to start cooking from Nourishing Traditions. It’s her birthday in a couple weeks.
My older children used to be used to the Nourishing way. They watched me sprout and soak. They love raw milk, etc. For awhile we moved away from these ways because life got in the way. I am now expecting a new baby and looking forward to properly nourishing that new life and teaching it the good food habits from the start. I would love a book of fresh ideas for children.
What a fabulous book, Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children! When I was raising my children I was not aware of the Nourishing Traditions way of cooking, though I did cook with my children. Now that I know the optimal way to cook and eat, I am able to cook this way with my grandchildren. My 2 year old grand daughter and I recently shopped for chicken feet for our next batch of bone broth. It was a joy to see her putting the chicken feet into her kid size grocery cart. This book would be a great addition to the adventure of cooking with my grandchildren!
With Sally Fallon as a mentor I have taught my children to see food as a gift. It comes from the ground and from the farm, from trees and bushes. They see how food changes by turning cabbages into healing sauerkrats and grains into sour doughs that help heal and nourish them. They have learned to only buy at the store when necessary, to read and decipher labels to see if it is healing or hurting. Building up more recipes that they will incorporate into their family traditions would be a blessing.
I have taught my son that drinking chicken broth, eating foods like sauerkraut and staying away from processed foods and sugar will help his tummy to heal so his allergies will get better. He sees his sister drink raw milk, eat cheese, fresh farm eggs and seaweed and hopes that some day he will be able to partake again. Whenever his skin or asthma flares up, he tells me that maybe he should drink some more chicken broth. Though he still asks for sugar sometimes, he truly understands the benefit and need for the way we eat and loves to help me prepare new “Keagen friendly recipes” that we find. I am so proud of him! He doesn’t miss the FCLO though ;)
I am thrilled to hear about this book! My daughters 11 and 7 have both been participating in cooking since they were 2. They started cutting vegetables for stock (using a special Montessori knife for little kids) and mixing anything that needed mixing. As they grew and were able they did more and more cooking. My 11 year is a great cook now and very creative. My 7 year old is just starting to learn about frying and safely using the stove. I recently got the flu and my 11 year old daughter was able to make breakfast, pack school lunches, and make dinner for our family. She even choose to pan fry some chicken livers for one of the meals. Both my girls will enjoy having a book like Nourishing Traditions, where I can be sure that all the recipes are nourishing and they won’t have to check with me first. They will love the autonomy of having their cookbook. I’m so excited that I’ve already ordered one.
My 13 yr. old son read through the original Nourishing Traditions, and has been the catalyst for transforming the way our family eats. We are not fully there yet, but we do buy raw milk when we can, and purchase local, grass-fed meat. (Once you eat real meat, it is so hard to go back!) With this cookbook for children, it will be even easier to get his younger siblings in the kitchen. This would be great especially for my 7 -yr. old, who desires to be a cook who has his own organic farm!
My daughter is just over the age of two but she already loves to be in the kitchen. This would be a wonderful companion to our Nourishing Traditions book and so many of the principals we are already teaching her at her young age. I would love to come along side her and explore the recipes in this book. The fact that there are colorful pictures and kid friendly recipes (meaning easy for kids to make) makes me really excited. What a great new book, I had no idea this existed!!
I would love to have this book to help teach my almost 3 yr old daughter about nourishing foods. We have raised her on a whole food diet, but we get a lot of pushback from other people wanting to give her processed garbage. She sees the fun colors and that all the other kids get to eat it and wonders why she doesn’t. Just recently I saw her sneak a goldfish from her cousin and throw it in her mouth like it was going to get wrestled away from her. It made me really sad, because we talk to her and educate her on why we eat the way we do. Maybe a cookbook geared towards kids would help us communicate with her in a way she can understand better so she doesn’t feel like she needs to sneak ‘foods’ that other people eat. Thanks!
I have not yet taught my young sons to cook in anyway, let alone a nourishing way! I would like them to cook nourishing so that they can make good decisions in fueling their bodies. So that they can spare themselves suffering from nutrient deficient maladies. I would love for them to relieve me from some of the household responsibilities and be more independent. I would love for them to be able to bless their own families one day with nutrient dense nourishing foods. Lastly what good is anything else I’ve taught them if they can’t live a healthy full life?
Until recently my children have not been interested in helping me in the kitchen, and it has been easier to prepare our meals myself. My oldest child has just turned 6 and is asking to help. The new Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children would be the perfect way to involve her in preparing our families meals, while teaching her to cook real food. She would be able to choose a recipe from “her” cookbook and we could prepare it together for the family.
I just started reading Nourshibg Traditions. My son is 1 year old he is a very difficult eater. I just noticed he loves eating broth and that is so good for him. I would love to teach him how to cook and prevent dieseases. I strongly believe in healing our bodies the natural way and teaching our children to cook is the greatest gift I could give.
This is awesome. I have taught my kids to cook as soon as they are old enough to climb a step stool and help. We frequently pull out Nourishing Traditions to refer to. While at my in-laws out of state, we were making breakfast, and my son picked up the eggs and asked if they were factory-farmed. Smart kid!!
I have gone back to Nourishing Traditions for my own education so many times and have tried to teach my children to cook using traditional methods. We have a farm, so the ingredients are easy for us to get. I have trouble when the kids go out into the world and see all of the junk food their peers are eating. I would love to have kid friendly recipes to excite them about eating at home. I still have a lot to learn and would love to learn with them.
I first teach my kids about nutrition through my cooking/their eating. I also get them in the kitchen as soon as I can. My oldest was in the kitchen with me, helping me, before she was 1! My oldest is 7 so now she can read Nourishing Traditions and Nourishing Broth herself. But she’d LOVE the children’s book. All of my kids would.
I have loved the original Nourishing Traditions cookbook for years, and have been slowly trying to incorporate the WAPF principles into our diets. Unfortunately, those efforts suffered a set back last March when I was hit with debilitating morning sickness. We fell bad on typical SAD fare simply because it was food my husband, thirteen-year-old, and ten-year-old could cook for themselves. Now that our little guy who arrived in November is starting solids, I’m determined to get us back on track. My husband and my oldest son both have imperfect enamel, and that has sadly led to my son already having lost one of his adult molars. I want to use nutrition to help prevent my eldest son from losing more teeth, and to hopefully ensure that my baby boy doesn’t have the same problems his daddy and big brother have. We homeschool, and I have been looking for a curriculum that could help me teach my kids about nutrition, but everything is based on conventional diet advice. This book would be the perfect curriculum and aid to help my big kids understand why I’m making the changes I am, and how important our diets are in becoming and staying healthy.
I have a 2 year old and 4 year old and the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children would be perfect for them. My two year old’s first foods were egg yolk and raw lamb liver and the WAPF guidelines have helped me choose appropriate foods for my family. Both of my kids love butter, raw milk and taking their cod liver oil. I definitely think feeding them a Nourishing Traditions style diet has made them better eaters and improved their health. I hope we win, but we will be picking up a copy either way!
How exciting! My young children are homeschooled and love to cook (they want to open a restaurant together). We frequently read from Nourishing Traditions as part of our health curriculum. They love (and help cook) homemade soups made with bone broth, baked goods using sprouted whole grain flour and unrefined sweeteners and grass-fed butter, fresh fruits and vegetable dishes, eggs, pastured meats, etc. They also love our homemade yogurt. Most recently we made recipes from the “Little House” cookbook for chicken pie and pumpkin pie as part of a homeschool book discussion on one of the “Little House on the Prairie” books, and we adapted the recipes to only include nourishing traditional foods. This cookbook would be a very welcome addition to our homeschool and kitchen!
My daughters, three and seventeen months, are always with me in the kitchen. Whether they are helping me soak their oatmeal for the morning or are helping me make their favorite liver patties, they are always right beside me lending a hand (or think they are ;)) Both of them like to stand on our kitchen stool and help stir the broth, or flip an egg. I love that my oldest is starting to understand which measuring spoons to use when I ask! It’s a joy to see them help cook what they are eating!
I have taught my Children to love the kitchen and help me cook since tey were little. My kids rush to the counter and bring their chairs when they see me in the kitchen. Also, my daughter tells our guests she made ice cream, helped mom with pancakes, cracked and egg, etc. As they grow I plan to teac them how to nourish themselves … It’s the key to their Health and wellbeing and that of their future families. Thank you Sally and the WAPF because you’ve given us knowledge and ways to feed our family very healthy food!!! I’m so excited to see this new book …. I can just imagine the many recipes we will share as a family and my daughter will eagerly try!!
Every two weeks we drive over an hour away to a farm for real milk. My children know the names and faces of the very cows who provide their food, their nourishment. They know the 6th generation farmer (on the same land) who grows the beef on grass and hay that end up on their plates. Educating our children about food is about more than just the nutrients and choices (and the strength and courage to say “no” or often times “yes”, especially where we live where egg quotas and raw milk bans make it very difficult to eat the way we do). Teaching is about showing, leading by example, and making it a central part of our lives. It’s about feeling really good about what we choose to eat, and making the links between the engines in our body (our health) and what we feed ourselves. It’s about gathering, buying, preparing and eating the food together. It’s about forming rock hard positive memories and experiences using all senses that involve food. Organic pastured eggs, milk, beef. It’s about growing all the food we can in our little backyard city plot. It’s about being grateful for the animals and plants that provide for us, the farmers that work so hard and the land. We would absolutely cherish this book and use it daily and make it part of our education and way of being as a family. Thanks for the chance.
I have children aged 10, 8, 5 and 23 months. I would LOVE for them to join me in cooking with their very own copy of the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children. They would be “over the moon” to have a book that looks just like mommy’s and I know they would start to create their own snacks and meals immediately. In fact today I mentioned getting off of unsprouted grains and my daughter wondered “what will we eat for lunch” So I know we would get some awesome “to go” ideas from the book. If we don’t win the contest I hope we will be able to purchase a copy to add to our cookbook library. Thank you for this offer Sally.
I am so excited that Nourishing Traditions now has a cook book for Children.
I want my children to change the way they eat.
I have gone back to eating and cooking the foods that my mother and grandmother made, recipes that are a primer to Nourishing Traditions – culturing and preparing milk products, grains, beans, nuts, seeds, dark greens, and broths….
I am delighted that The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children is now available. I will be able to instill into and teach my children how to cook – to really cook.
My three daughters and sister have been learning to eat and cook the Nourishing Traditions way. We have eggs almost daily from pasture raised and organic feed chickens that we buy directly from the farmer each week. We call eggs “Brain Food,” because of the good omegas in them. We talk about the chickens eating the bugs so we don’t have too. We have bone broth at least once a week if not more, and include the feet in the broth. The girls have watched me butcher the turkeys and soon chickens, and know the importance of not wasting any of the animal that has given it’s life for our food. We make sourdough bread and they help feed the starter daily. My oldest helps by cooking breakfast for the family daily, usually cooking either eggs, French toast (which we call “egg bread”), or sourdough pancakes. We are still trying to incorporate the kidneys and liver from the animals that we butcher and buy directly from the farm. We are learning to ferment more and more food. I pray that by the time the girls leave the house they will know how to eat and cook the Nourishing Traditions way!
Since the birth of my third son six years ago we have placed a high value on raising and consuming our own grass fed beef, lamb, turkey, and chicken as well as fresh eggs and fresh milk from our guernsey cows. We maintain a large garden, fruit trees, berries, and use organic practices whenever possible. We homeschool our children and after researching the nourishing traditions way of eating, we have found that although we already incorporate a lot of the concepts in our day to day way of life, this cookbook would be a catalyst to teaching my youngest sons to cook independently and develop confidence in the kitchen. The book would be a wonderful addition to a food based unit study for our children. We always keep our eyes open for a healthy, kid based, age appropriate cookbook and i am glad to see nourishing traditions has come out with one that confirms and encourages our way of eating in a fun based format.
I have always focused on whole food cooking, but I am relatively new the Nourishing Traditions way of cooking. I came across Sally Fallon while trying to heal my gut, so I know the value of cooking this way. My kids are now at an age where they want to learn how to cook and I want to teach them the Nourishing Traditions since this will be their foundation for when they have a family of their own. This cookbook would be a great way to help them learn.
We have not started teaching our children Nourishing Traditions yet. We just got the book recently and I am still reading through it. We are a family of 7. We will be starting out slow. This book would be an amazing help as i have an 8nyear old daughter who wants to learn to cook. I am hoping to start her out right instead of teaching her to cook the junky diet we eat now.
I have used and loved my Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for many years now. My children love to pour through it as well, looking for new ideas, asking about new food to try. Thanks to Sally Fallon’s teachings and my training in Nutrition, my children have become the spokesmen among their friends and at school crusading for eating whole foods, more good fats and leaving out the refined sugars and flours. It warms my heart and inspires me seeing what an impact it has on them and their peers. It is so exciting knowing that a NT for children has been released. I am a Nutritional Therapist and specialize in working with mothers and children. This new resource will be invaluable in supporting my community and my work in it.
I have recently picked up a copy of Nourishing Traditions and have been working my way through. There are so many things I am learning myself and of course spending more time in the kitchen. My girls (aged 6 and 4), are so curious about the new things I am doing. I try to explain to them what I have learned, let them taste (they LOVE kombucha!), and help when they are able. I’d really love a copy of this book to help me teach them, it would be a great addition to our homeschool! I’ve also recently come across the Nourishing our Children space and love it! Thank you for offering the giveaway.
I’m so excited for this book! I was introduced to Nourishing Traditions just over 10 years ago and my kids have been learning it via example on how we cook at home. However to have a book that is directed towards them and reinforces what they see and hear from me will be invaluable. We started homeschooling this year and one my children asked me if she could read Nourishing Traditions and get credit for it for school. I was super excited that she even brought it up, but she when she looked at the book, she was overwhelmed. This new book will be one that I will integrate into our homeschooling and you can bet that the kids will get school credit for learning to cook in a healthy traditional way! I can also envision using the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children as a great birthday gift for some of their friends. Maybe even pair it up with a few basic tools. What a perfect gift for a lasting impact. Can’t wait to get a copy of this!!
Sooooooo very exciting. I can’t wait to have this book in my hands. I will definitively get two so that each one of my daughters can continue the “Nourishing Traditions” way of cooking and living. Both of my daughters are involved in preparation of our nourishing meals daily. They understand principals of proper nourishment and they often teach their friends what is “right or wrong”. Both of our girls participated in Children’s Program during the last three annual WAPF conferences. They always learn some new things there and they acquire new friendships. The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children will be my present of choice for all children birthdays from now on!
We just started a garden. I would love to teach my daughter to cook with items we grow. She had helped me make bone broth from nourishing traditions so incorporating veggies from the garden would be fun. And when my 15 month old is old enough we can let him in on the fun. This book would be a great help!
this sounds amazing! It is just what we need. I have a 4 year old daughter & we just learned of Nourishing Traditions 3 months ago. I’m really trying to help us transition. My daughter has helped me cook & prepare most every meal since she was 15 months old. We treasure that time together. We are now growing our first garden. So far I’ve been explaining our changes to being healthier. She’s pretty accepting to most of the changes. Now we are really ready to take it to the next level and open more horizons. For example she will drink the bone broth, but because I only know how to make the basic broth we get tired of it. So variety & specific recipes would be so appreciated. This is such a wonderful idea & opportunity! Thank you!
I love teaching my nieces and nephews about healthy lifestyle. We have been bombarded with bad GMO’s and processed foods that are killing us. I teach them about choosing organic fruits and vegetables. If not an option, which are the “ok” ones and how to cleanse them to help remove some of the pesticide residue. Teach them the importance of drinking good, clean filtered water as there are chemicals (chlorine and fluoride) that we don’t need in our water. Would love to get this book so share with them as they are getting to the age where they can start cooking some things in the kitchen. Thanks for this generous opportunity…
I stumbled upon Nourshing Tradtions when my toddler started having issues with dairy.
I picked the book up and couldn’t out it down- that is the day I realized our family need to make some changes.
The more I read…the more I came to the conclusion…our food wasn’t prepared or grown in the traditional ways of people in the past.
We sold our house in town…we changed our lifestyle and are now stating up an organic family farm!!
We have been teaching our kids and educating others about where food comes from, why preparation is important and how the animal is raised- is of upmost importance!
Teach the children when they are young!!! Good food in Nourshing to the Soul!
While my bub is only 10 months old we are teaching him how to cook ‘The nourishing traditions’ way through a wholistic approach. Most importantly we lead by example, Baby watches mummy cook broth and eat liver so this lifestyle is the norm. As he gets older his daddy and Grandpa will show him how to butcher meat that utilizes and respects the whole animal. While shopping, mummy will show him how to pick the best ingrediants by shopping at places that share our values and reading labels (for the few foods we buy that have them). Lastly we will read lots of books to teach him what all the fruit and vegetables are and why we eat them.
I don’t have any children yet but I will most certainly be teaching my family how to eat and cook with real food using the Nourishing Traditions cookbook. My favorite recipe is the custard style icecream with raw milk and egg yolks! We are slowly trying to be grain-free with the exception of properly prepared oats and rice. I have been very intrigued to read Salley’s other books and would love to win another one! Thanks for the chance to win!:)
I am a homeschooling mom and take every opportunity to “teach” my children while learning myself, since school, for us, is 24/7. Fermenting is like a science experiment every day, lol!
Growing our own meat, eggs, in the backyard is also learning, while being organic and as natural as you can get. Healthy, organic fats, grown the right way and eaten in SO many various ways to keep it new and enjoyable.
I also believe in teaching my children not to “follow the crowd”. IE: the food pyramid and all the other standards big money teaches. What you commonly hear or read is not always the right way. Nourishing Traditions is the right way.
I am so excited to give this cookbook to my daughter, who will grow into my cookbook after a while. Thanks so much for this opportunity and your time and effort.
My husband and I have been trying to conceive for a little over three years now. We, ourselves, have been transitioning to a more natural, traditional diet with the hopes of healing my body. We want to raise our children knowing what Nourishing Traditions are how we should care for our whole body. We want to give them the best start possible. We want healthy choices to be natural for our children. We see a nutrition response therapist, and she says my body is physically ready to conceive now! What better book to have in our children’s library than a Nourishing Traditions cookbook for kids!
I have been talking to my children about what is healthy and what is not healthy for them since they were babies. We talk nutrition a lot! My oldest son, while still really wanting candy and the like, will sometimes choose to eat a healthier option. As he has told me before, “mom, I don’t think I want to eat that today, it will probably make my tummy hurt.” Makes me proud(on those few occasions) that he recognizes that there will be a side effect to enjoying that piece of candy. My kids each have a meal that they help me with, several times per week, and are learning cooking that way.
We have been very careful with what we eat and how we cook. As a working mom, it is hard to balance time, but we share all the chores at home so it is not purely my responsibility, to take care of the home. I do most of the cooking, trafitional, nourishing way. We have been following nourishing traditions way for almost a year now. We fixed my daughter’s dental problems including reminerilizing the cavities. The younger one hasn’t had any eczema. My kids know the importance of being healthy and making the right decisions. However it is hard to live in an environment where fruit rolls are considered as fruit, and ketchup as vegetable. We have to have the “talk” every once in a we while. I have been looking for a book like this for a very long time. I am so happy. My kids love cooking and experimenting in the kitchen with me, this will be great. To me cooking is almost a spiritual exoetience, it is the best gift i csn give to my kids. Thank you!!! I am so excited
i would be so excited to start reading nourishing traditions, and using it to make food for my family. I have a 4 year old, 2 year old, and 2 month old. It has been very important to me to put the best ingredients into my children. I am new at this and I know this book would benefit my family greatly. I look forward to teaching my little ones the right way to eat . Thanks
Our son calls himself a professional eater, yet he only likes a few specific things. He loves raw veggies, dairy, fruit, etc, but not if anything is touching something else. My husband and I are faithful to the WAPF ways, but we yearn for something kid-oriented to delight him into enjoying more complex creations than a plain Jane plate of spinach, olives, cottage cheese and beans (not touching of course)! He likes to help stir the mix in the bowl, add ingredients or measure out the foodstuffs, but then he is immediately turned off by the end result goodstuffs. Please help us help him!
We discovered Weston Price’s teachings and Nourishing Traditions when my son was 2 years old (he’s 5 now). I wish I had known about the WAPF before we conceived, but 2 years in is still way better than never! Though we’ve appreciated and grown lots of organic veggies and fruits for many years, we also used to eat a lot of processed grains and didn’t know about the dangers of most veggie oils. Now, the grains we eat are always soaked or soured, and our primary cooking fats are coconut oil and butter (with the fat scraped off the top of our weekly bone broth used for some savory dishes). Our son, Eliot, eats a backyard egg, pastured sausage, and homemade granola for breakfast each morning, and we both love piling on the butter when we have sourdough toast! However, lunches and dinners are more challenging… he’s not a big fan of broth, vegetables (raw or cooked in butter), soups, etc. I’d love for him to be more involved in cooking… maybe then he’d be more willing to challenge his tastebuds!
I’m almost done training to be a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (through NTA) and, since he’s often around when I’m studying, Eliot knows almost as much as I do about how digestion should work and why it sometimes doesn’t! We would LOVE this cookbook, and I would also share it with clients looking to get their kids into eating better for their health. Thanks for the opportunity.
I have been teaching my son traditional for about two years now. We love to make kefir and kombucha together. His favorite now is sourdough bread and waffles. I love being able to explain how and why we should eat this way. We have a big garden this year so we can make more recipes from our own harvest. I have a six month old daughter who is growing up in the kitchen and this is all she will know as normal.
My kids are 7, 5, and 2. They are really becoming interested in cooking and how things are made. I would love for them to step away from all the crazy foods in today’s culture and learn to cook healthy like in Nourishing Traditions! I would much rather them eat natural foods. Start them young and hopefully it’s so,etching that will stick with them for life!
I wouldn’t even know about Nourishing Traditions if it weren’t for my daughter. When she was born, what we went through really opened my eyes to the human condition. I began endlessly researching nutrition and discovered Sally and her views on nourishment and tradition and their vital importance, especially in our current day and age. Ever since learning about these traditions and cooking more nourishing foods, my family has flourished in unimaginable ways. It has been a fast journey–my daughter is only 14 months old yet–but I wouldn’t dream if anything less than teaching her to cook the same nourishing, traditional way.
My kids love to help make ferments, though admittedly once in a while one turns into odd looking science experiments! When we serve oats or rice they ask “was this soaked”? and won’t eat it if not.
Of course they help with broth and stock and that is one of their comfort foods, especially when sick.
On the occasion when we eat bread, they only want true sourdough. We haven’t made that yet ourselves, but they would love to I know.
I hear them tell their aunts, “You know you really shouldn’t ever microwave. It kills all the good germs and it might destroy some of the nutrition”. Brainwashed? Yes. But they honestly can tell good quality food and are in tune enough with their bodies when they eat food not properly prepared, they don’t feel as good…..
We love to cook and they have been asking me to cook. We recently looked at a cooking class but I realized they would not be learning traditional food prep and decided against it. We’d LOVE the cookbook. Plus I am a pediatric nurse practitioner and I share these wisdoms with families all the time!
My girls are now 9 & 12 and they are loving to cook a meal each per fortnight. They know all about the sour dough bubbling, the kombucha and kefir fermenting corner of our kitchen, and soaking baked flour products for 24hours. We have at least 1 meal per week with broth, and their new faviourite meal is the “Spicey Stuffed Cabbage” from Nourishing Traditions. Next weekend we are hosting a fermenting workshop in our home so the girls can learn how those yummy foods are made, and we can add that to our routine. We have raw milk, and make our own yoghurt & kefir from that, but I guess their favourite is the caramel Kefir ice cream I make, sweetened with maple syrup, with roasted activated macadamia’s!! I know they would love this book – their very own version to use independantly of me. Belle XX
Our real food journey began about nine years ago when my mom was diagnosed with cancer. Two years later We had our first baby. My 6 year old has been helping out in the kitchen since she was two and my 2.5 year old is following in her footsteps. I can’t think of a cookbook I would love to share more with them than Nourishing Traditions. This would be an excellent resource to add to our homeschool library.
Our 5 year old loves to help bake and is alway inventing his own creations. We are in the process of teaching our boys how to make nourishing food choices. Sadly the first couple years of their life’s were spent eating the SAD. Now we have had a time finding kid approved nourishing recipes but we have come so far. As a family we are learning how to eat to live as opposed to living to eat!
Oh my gosh, I can’t wait to get my hands on this book! It is not yet available in Canada! We were led to traditional foods 5 years ago when my 5 year old was born with eczema and food allergies. After introducing a traditional food diet, we were able to heal many of her health issues. In turn, we all benefited. Since she was 2 she has been helping in the kitchen. Preparing salads, soaking oatmeal, chopping food with her crinkle cutter, making kefir smoothies and cracking eggs as needed. She loves to knead the bread and measure the einkorn flour! Kombucha is her treat after her spoonful of cod liver oil. She is already making muffins, pancakes, and massaging cabbage for ferments. She loves watching and waiting as the carrots ferment on the counter. She has even introduced a few neighbourhood kids to fermented carrots and kombucha (and a little die off that may have gone along with it, lol). My 3 year old is already following in her foot steps so I often have 2 little helpers fighting for who gets to eat the chicken skin! We are so thankful for nourishing traditions and the wisdom it has provided our family. We continue to grow healthier every day and I love watching my kids gain the knowledge that had been lost for to long. I can’t wait to have this book as part of our kitchen treasures!
My daughter has learned how to eat the Nourishing Traditions way, and I have started to teach her the principles of cooking lately. She really loves to help prepare the food she eats. Her favorites are chopping onions for pastured meat and cabbage to make sauerkraut. I would like her to learn more about why we eat what we eat. I’m so happy she enjoys eating simply prepared real food!
Nourishing Traditions is the best investment in my families health I have made. It is the most used book in my collection. I love all the additional information, it allows me to tell the kids why we eat differently to others. It makes me feel grateful when my children make comments like “Thats why we don’t cereal” or “don’t buy that one its poison” . I trust I am blessing my children with knowledge to raise nourished families of their own one day.
I have my 2 boys (3 and 4) help me out in the kitchen as much as possible. While we cook, we go over the nutrients that each food contains, I even made a song about it!, and we talk abut what those nutrients do to our body.
For example: they each eat a spoonful of raw butter with their breakfast. “it’s brain food time!!” I’ll announce as I give it to them. They know that healthy fats are essential to brain development.
They would LOVE this cookbook and, as their mother, I would delight in adding to the knowledge already instilled in them!
How have I taught my children to cook the Nourishing Traditions way??? I always have crispy nuts available and have explained how soaking the nuts to sprout them makes them more nutritious and easier to digest. I have shown them how to sprout organic wheat berries for making breads and rolls. Raw milk is always the best option for dairy and I run a raw milk group out of my home. We always use beef tallow, bacon fat, or butter for frying/sauteing. My children have also been taught about the dangers of vegetables oils. Homemade beef bone and chicken bone stock is must!! I always discourage the use of commercial breakfast cereals and encourage the use of soaked oatmeal for breakfast instead.
Our daughter is 3 now and was born with a rare genetic condition called cri du chat. Having a low immune system and poor digestion has made me even more determined to learn as much as I can to give her the most nutritious food to keep her as strong as possible. We started with egg yolk, liver pate and still take fermented cod liver oil. She has a gluten free diet, limited dairy which if she has is usually raw goat cheese or homemade fermented goat yogurt (made with local raw goat milk). I also rarely give her anything with sugar in it. I truly believe without the help of nutritious home-cooked food, she would be worse off now. Being a working mom of a child with special needs gets overwhelmed but food is one thing I am pretty consistent on. She is in the picky stage right now so I am always looking for creative, healthy nutritious recipes. I am excited about this book!
Oh, this is so exciting! This couldn’t come at better time. We’ve been following dr. Weston Price and Nourishing Traditions for almost 10 years and it’s my most used cookbook. And I’m still learning something new every time I open it. It’s such a valuable book that I couldn’t be happier to get this new cookbook for children for my daughters. They both love cooking but especially my 11 years old has a growing passion for making up the recipes and cooking. One Saturday last month she decided to plan and cook all three meals. With very little help she managed to cook all the meals as she planned them but at the end of the day she announced that she had no idea how hard work it was to cook all the time. I think the cookbook for children would be a great way to slowly introduce them to all the concepts of Nourishing Traditions and really understand why do we sprout and soak and ferment, etc. They know from us telling them it’s better and healthier this way but maybe just reading an actual book like this would make them understand better what we’re trying to teach them. I’m truly excited! Now there won’t be any reason to modify the recipes from the cookbooks my daughter always brings from a library. :-)
I am newer to Nourishing Traditions, but am excited to learn more! I have been teaching my children to cook and eat healthy. We eat unprocessed meat and veggies. I would like to learn more and be able to do more for my family. This cookbook looks like a wonderful tool.
Since my eldest son was diagnosed with Autism 10 years ago I have been on a quest for answers in nutrition factors, with much success in easing his symptoms. Now with three children in the house, we have all reaped the benefits of living a lifestyle outlined in Nourishing Traditions. My daughter especially is a keen cook and I swell with pride seeing her learn these traditional techniques, knowing that she will pass this food culture on to her next generation. Far more than a recipe book, it is a blessing and a goldmine of sound information.
I have been teaching my son and daughter as well as their friends how to cook in the Nourishing Traditions way and am looking forward to teaching my future grandchildren to be (and all the adopted little ones). Having children involved in the preparation of their meals starts the whole bonding process involved in sharing the meal, as well as gives them a sense of self and a place in the family. I have been battling RA, but have had tremendous advances by eating whole, organic foods and even more after giving up sugar and drinking delicious bone broth, since hitting menopause. My grown children have been amazed at how healthy I look. I recently moved and have gotten rid of almost all my cookbooks… I had a lot of baking and chocolate cookbooks! Looking forward to starting a new collection based on Nourishing Traditions.
Our little boy Wyatt may be only 5 months old, but so far he’s 100% on-track for eating the Nourishing Traditions way–that is, all he’s had so far is breast milk. Although last Saturday we went to a goat farm for a WAPF chapter event to see some new baby goats and make some chévre cheese, and he did manage to grab and eat a handful of dirt…but at least that’s more nutritious than sucking on Cheerios and Gold Fish!
We’ll be starting him on some Green Pastures FCLO once we get some of the non-flavored stuff ordered (I’m ashamed to say I decided to see how he’d react to the cinnamon tingle flavored stuff–he made a face that was to die for, but I got severely scolded by Mother). Glad to hear about this book, and will be buying one straightaway (though I also plan on winning one to give to a friend).
My children probably don’t think of our way of eating as the “Nourishing Traditions” way of eating…it just is what we do. For the past 10 or more years we have gone to a farm to get raw milk, and we get our meat from farmers we know, and eggs from our backyard flock. They know that raw butter goes on darn near everything and that if their friends come over too much we may run out of milk before the next milk run, because other kids LOVE to come drink milk at our house! They love our focaccia bread pizza which gets fermented overnight…in fact, they don’t like the taste of it so much if I rush it and don’t let the dough ferment long enough!
Really why I am so excited to see and use the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Kids is not so much for my kids as for other kids. I have been studying nutrition and want so much for children to be taught about healthy, real foods. When I see the “healthy” foods programs in schools now, and see how heavily they rely on a basically vegetarian diet, with misinformation about fats and red meat, I feel overwhelmingly frustrated. I would love to be able to develop a program for school groups around a cookbook such as this sounds to be!
I have started teaching my three-year-old about cooking the Nourishing Traditions way. He is always curious about what I’m doing in the kitchen and wants to help me, so it’s easy to have him join in with the cooking. For his birthday last year I got him an apron and wanted to find a cookbook to go with it because I knew he would be excited about following the steps in the recipes. I looked high and low and could not find a cookbook that had recipes I would actually want him to eat in it that was aimed at kids. It doesn’t help that he is gluten intolerant, so the majority of the recipes in most kid cookbooks are ruled out by that fact. I’m so happy to see that this book is now available and can’t wait to get it for him and get cooking!
My kids are still pretty little so they aren’t doing a lot of cooking yet. Mostly stirring and pouring here and there. My oldest (5) does know how to Crack eggs as we do that often! I would love this Nourishing Traditions cookbook to give me some new ideas of what to feed them and how to prepare it. My littlest is the least picky and I would love to keep her eating lots of new things!
We love Nourishing traditions, it is the greatest way to nourish your body. To know where your food comes from and to then prepare it the traditional way. I started this journey a little over five years ago because of my children. They are always asking me now if they can help me in the kitchen. I love that as I truly believe too, like you said, this should be tought like reading and writing. Food is to enjoy together but is also for a healthy strong body. Knoming how to make a recipee is a lovely thing to teach my girls and it also creates a better relationship with this very special food. What an acomplishment! Yes please we would gladly welcome the Nourishing Traditions cookbook in our home. Thank you.
My almost 4 year old daughter loves to help pick fruits and veggies out of the garden, watch me milk the goats while she plays with the babies, check for eggs 3 or 4 times a day (it’s like an Easter egg hunt for her), and forage for mushrooms. When we are at the store she will occasionally see something she wants and I say, “we would rather not eat that” and she says things like, “because it is not organic?” or “it will make my tummy hurt?”
She is picking up on different ideas from Nourishing Traditions, and every year we try to incorporate more homegrown food into our lifestyle. Luckily she loves helping in the kitchen and I do everything I can to make it fun (allowing her to play in the soaking rice/bean water, helping to whip up real cream, straining the fresh goat milk, etc.). This book will be a huge help, especially if it is her own cookbook. Thanks for all the work you and Sally do!
I am very excited to get my hands on the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children! I have been wanting something like this since first learning about the WAPF. I have a two year old son who I try to feed with nourishing traditional foods. However, I have found that it is hard when the first beginning foods promoted by society are Cheerios, sweetened biscuits, and other processed foods. Snack foods, I think, are the hardest to avoid entirely, and I am especially looking forward to trying some recipes from this book to put into my weekly meal plans. As my son grows older, I think the cookbook will be a good reference on how to encourage healthy eating and why we don’t eat some of the same foods that his friends are eating. Thank you for this opportunity to win this cookbook!
My 2 children and I have been on a health journey for the past few years. We love the Nourishing Traditions way and I try to instill in my children the value of eating a nutrient dense diet. I would love to have this book to help teach my children further how to cook the Nourishing Traditions way to better their health and hopefully pass on to their own children some day. I know my daughter would love to have her own book to have with her when she goes out on her own in the future and use with her children. For now, I would love to have one to share with her and make recipes together. We have all had health issues and are learning how important it is to eat a nutrient dense diet if we want to feel good and be healthy. Thank you for making this offer available!
Hi. My kids (8 and 4) hate CLO (it took me ages to figure out what CLO was when I was new to traditional foods btw) but I still make them take it every day. Well, not on weekends and not during summer holidays. Still, a lot of the time. I suppose that’s not teaching my kids how to cook though….
I transgress and I haven’t even started.
What I have taught them about preparing traditional and nourishing food is how to plant a veggie garden, how to look after chickens so we get great eggs, how to make sauerkraut and pickle cucumbers, how to soak oats and rice, how to roast a chicken and how to make broth. I’m pretty pleased with that.
I can’t wait for this book. If I don’t randomly get drawn to receive it I will be buying it for my kids. One day they will (I’m sure) make excellent and nourishing meals for all of us!
Thank you.
May I add to my comment above that our dentist started us off 8 years ago by telling us about Sally’s book Nourishing Traditions. (I forgot to put that in!!! :)
I am teaching my children to cook the Nourishing Traditions way and learning more and more myself every day. My children 11,9 and 8 all love to sit in front of a recipe book and discuss, debate and vote on it’s contents. It is my responsibility and joy to provide my children with a healthy foundation of knowledge about what their bodies need. The best way to do just that is be in the kitchen…together…with love.
I’ve taught my kids to eat wholesome foods, made from scratch if possible. The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for children seems like it would have some great kid-friendly food ideas for us to make together, and for my kids to be inspired to cook by themselves! We’ve borrowed a dehydrator and made our own fruit leather, beef jerky and sprouted nuts. We’ve grown our own veggies in the garden and get our eggs and meat from the farmer. My kids usually help out with the baking when we have desserts but not so much with the cooking. I’m excited as the Nourishing Traditions cookbook may inspire the creativity in my kids! One morning I asked my son what to add to the scrambled eggs in butter and he suggested dates & cinnamon! It was delicious!
I have been cooking the Nourishing Traditions Way as best as a newbie of 1 year can. My family has been on the GAPS diet for this time and they have helped me make bone broth, sauerkraut, yogurt as well as attended Weston Price classes. We are learning as we go but the journey has been a wonderful one especially when done together as a family. Thank you for this opportunity. My children would love this book if we are chosen.
Blessings and Health!
Wow! My 10 year old (oldest of 6) would love this! She’s definitely my ‘Kitchen girl’. We grow virtually all our own food, (garden, chickens and ducks for meat and eggs, heritage breed cattle for grass fed beef, dairy goats for raw milk, yogurt, kefir, cheese and more, etc…) my kids know exactly why we don’t eat breakfast cereal (though they have no idea what it tastes like, either!) And my 10 year old cares for and bakes all our sour dough bread. Love that I am able to teach them so much about our lifestyle/eating choices!
Our family lived in Chad, Africa for seven years. When we got there we could not have been more stricken by the SAD diet of America and were constantly sick. Sometimes dreadfully… sometimes near fatally. It was the near death of my daughter (Then three years old) that proved to be my wake up call as a mom that I wasn’t nourishing or helping my children with the food I was giving them to eat. I was actually hurting them and giving their immune systems MORE work to do. When that child, then three years old, was restored to us I vowed that I would learn all I could about nutrition and natural healing for her sake and for the sake of her brothers and sisters! The book Nourishing Traditions was introduced to me AFTER we returned from our time in Africa. Suddenly I understood why my neighbor’s feeding their babies butter is better than better! I was living next door in my western ignorance, feeding my poor babies rice cereal with ADDED infant formula to “give them more vitamins” SHEESH! While baby next door was enjoying butter from raw milk. Well, live and learn. And I’ve been learning ever since. There are nine sweet children in this home and they all love to cook. We actually live on a beyond organic natural amazing farm and they love to prepare and enjoy what they raise. Even the two year old. Secretly… I would love to give this cookbook to my sweet 13 year old daughter! Ten years ago she nearly died… partly because of my ignorance. Now she is a healthy happy talented young lady who loves to teach and to cook. She will use this book to teach her little siblings the things she had to learn the hard way! GO SALLY what a great idea!!! Thank you ladies for what you do to equip and empower and educate parents and families to live and be healthy productive creative people! Forever grateful! BTW, that precious daughter’s name is Hope Marie. Her name means “Hope over Bitterness”. She is an overcomer and an inspiration to me. Just had to stick that in there :-)
My oldest 2 love to cook; my 3 little ones love to help! I have mostly fostered them in traditional cooking by not having the heavily processed, boxed easy meals available for them. If they want to cook, it has to be from scratch with the items available. We are all still very much in the learning process and would love the cookbook to help with that. I have attempted ferments before, but never with much success. I would hope we all could learn how to successfully make fermented food, among other things, with the new children’s cookbook. While I would absolutely love to win this book, I’m sure it will be in my next order from Amazon if I don’t!
I have included basic cooking lessons with my children, grandchildren and my Girl Scout troops throughout the years. Now I use my Nourishing Traditions book quite often. I am excited to get my hands on a copy of the children’s version of the book! One of my goals this year is to start cooking classes for adults and children in our community and this book would be a great asset. I think parents can use all the help they can get nowadays to feed their children nutritionally and I’m hoping to get a good response to my classes!
I would love to teach my nieces and my boyfriend’s sons how to cook the Nourishing Traditions way. I learned a lot of the techniques in nutrition school and online, but to have Sally explain it in a way young people who haven’t gotten the WAPF “bug” could understand, would be terrific.
They all have health challenges and eating using Nourishing Traditions would really help them. It would also help the next generation if they began cooking this way while they were all raising young children. Hopefully, they will all get excited with this way of cooking and eating (like I am) and will want to continue it.
My 7 year old son shows an interest in cooking because he sees me always cooking. We live in South Louisiana, which has it’s own unique Cajun cooking style that we blend with WAPF practices. He is involved with everything from growing food, picking eggs from our city chickens, the entire preparation, and of course sitting down to a lovely meal with the family.
As a dietitian, this summer I am conducting a cooking camp to instill the love and skill of cooking to teenage children. This book would be a perfect addition to my personal and professional life.
I am so excited about this book! My 9 year old told me he wants to learn how to cook. Last night I was thinking about how to teach him properly and teaching him how to make bone broth. I’ve been inspired by Nourishing Traditions cook book and Nourishing Broth book. Our family goes to farms and we see the animals. I have talked with my son about being grateful for our food and the importance of animals being treated kindly. We buy our eggs from our doctor’s office because the eggs come from a biodynamic farm. The parents of one of my son’s classmates operate an organic farm. We are joining the CSA this year. I totally agree that it is my responsibility to teach my child how to cook in the Nourishing Traditional ways, so when he leaves my nest he knows how to care for himself.
My 5 year old daughter is practically a “Nourishing” poster child and my 3 year is the runner up. Every morning before school they receive a nourishing breakfast, usually eggs from our backyard chicken coop with a side of fermented veggies and homemade sourdough bread washed down with raw milk. If I dare forget what’s next and start packing them up for school my 5 year old, in in a frenzy, will scream “you forgot to give us our FCLO, kefir milk and acerola vitamin!” My three year old will then say “did you forget to pack kombucha in my lunch?” I was actually questioned by the school when they smelled what seemed like an alcoholic beverage in my daughter’s lunch. It didn’t help that I used to pack it in an old cod liver bottle which sent a mother into panic mode when she saw my 3 year old drinking out of what seemed to be a medicine bottle. My 5 year old has designated herself the playground doctor and if she hears someone coughing she suggests to them or their parents that they drink kefir milk and broth. Its usually followed by “we make ours but I guess its ok if you have to buy it or maybe you can ask my mom for some if its an emergency. ” Hilarious but true story.
I am extremely interested in the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children. I have Sally Fallon Morell’s first Nourishing Traditions book. It’s packed with information and recipes. But some of those recipes might not be as appealing to children as they are to me. Her book for children should help me in advising younger clients on how to eat better.I am extremely interested in the Nourishing Traditions
I have done my best to teach my 3 y.o. daughter how to cook and enjoy nourishing foods. I’m a stay-at-home dad that prepares 95% of all our family’s food. My daughter loves kefir, sauerkraut, liver pate, bone broth and many other nourishing foods. She helps me gather (and plant) vegetables and eggs and a little bit in the kitchen here and there. As she becomes older and more competent kitchen help I look forward to an educational resource like Sally’s new book to help guide me in passing on the invaluable skill of both discerning what food is wholesome as well as how to prepare it.
I currently own two of Sally Fallon’s books and I would love to add this one to my collection! My seven year old daughter loves to pretend to make dinner and I have recently showed her how to make eggs and sauté onions. She would love to have this book to help her actually cook meals for the family without any help from her older sister or me. She is currently homeschooled, so she would have plenty of time to utilize this book in her Home Economics course. Her dream job is to be a stay-at-home homeschooling mom, so this book will set her up to achieving her long term goals at a very early age!
Our sweet baby girl is only 10 months old, but my husband and I have still benefited greatly from the “Nourishing Traditions” diet and look forward to teaching her and our other children how to get the most out of eating.
There are several things I want to say to our children about how to cook this way-
1. Often the best things take time. Bone broth may take 24-48 hours simmering on the pot, but the nutrients you get from it are worth it! Sauerkraut needs to ferment for 3+ days, but our bodies love the results!
2. Often the worst things take no time. I definitely don’t eat perfectly, and I don’t expect you to either. But I need to remember that if I just ‘want something quick’ because I’m tired and don’t want to cook, I really get what I pay for (if I ‘pay’ little time and effort and money, my body will get few to no nutrients).
3. Sometimes you have to look past words on boxes/cans that sound healthy. Sometimes boxes will boast that they are fat free or sodium free or sugar free… normally that is just a sign that something worse is in it’s place. You have to understand what food is nourishing for your body and what isn’t so you can avoid fads and poor science.
*4. Keep it simple. In general, it’s best to eat food in the closest form to how it came out of the ground. Sometimes we can make them even more nutritious by fermenting them, but it’s good to avoid boxes and cans as they are far from the way the food originally came out of the ground, and even when it came out of the ground, it was treated with things that are not good for us.
My 4 year old granddaughter came for a visit recently and anytime I was in the kitchen cooking she was there ready to help me. She is not the best eater and certainly not in the Nourishing Traditions sort of way, yet I saw her trying bites of new things while she was cooking with me. I’d so love to get the “Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children” so she and her mother could begin to learn step by step how to prepare foods in this way.
I am excited that this book is out, and would love to win it. I am a single mom of a darling, wonderful almost 4 year-old who loves to cook and eat nourishing foods. I wish I’d started on this journey even earlier–knowing what I know now, I wish I’d given him yolks, broth, cod liver oil, roe, etc as a baby/young toddler. But it’s never too late! He loves spices and herbs, rice made with broth, raw milk cheese, pastured meat and eggs, cod liver oil, and all of his organic veggies. I’m trying to find a raw milk source in Boston, but haven’t yet. It would be so much fun for him to have his “own” NT cookbook!
Our daughter Evie is only 14 months old nevertheless we have been showing her how to crack the eggs and whisk them, how to cut up veggies, peel potatoes, scoop out avocado pulp, how to ferment, how to cook broth, how to make meatballs, etc. She sees the wonderful cooking transformation in the kitchen and then tastes it at the table. ;o) Her first foods were FCLO and cooked egg yolk, now she also loves raw cheese, raw cream and is nuts about grass-fed butter.
We do hope she will stay true to Nourishing Traditions way of culture for life in terms of shopping for food at Farmers Markets, cooking and eating. I can see Evie teaching Grandparents, friends and others about food and cooking in the near future. ;o)
It is sooooo exciting to know that there is a cookbook like this for children!!! It is definitely going to be a great gift for children and parents. I am sure it will benefit beginners who can be little intimidated by Nourishing Traditions. Homeschooling parents, like myself, will welcome this cookbook as well!
Thumbs up for Suzanne and Sally!!!
(Thanks for reading and consideration ;o))
My children understand that there is a world out there of processed foods and other industrial foods that are not good for their growing bodies, or any body whatsoever! They understand, from watching us cook in the kitchen, and at times participating, why we do things a certain way. They’re both always inquiring about what’s nourishing. This cookbook, though, is a godsend, as it takes it to the next level, where children can actually cook for themselves, using the same techniques mom and dad use in their kitchen! Bravo, Sallly and Suzanne!
I was vegan for 13 years, starting at age 12. It was the book “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” that really solidified the change of heart that began once I hit my 20’s. I don’t want my children to be as nutritionally ignorant as I was. We have moved to the country so that we can have fresh milk and eggs from our own goats and chickens, organic non-GMO vegetables to ferment, and plenty of sunshine. My kids love to cook with me the Nourishing Traditions way, and I’d love to use this book when I teach a nutrition course at their homeschool co-op.
Ever since my daughter was 11 months old we have been following GAPS for her and more of a WAPF way of eating for myself. She sees me cook nourishing foods for her, using the Nourishing Traditions book, however I have not done a lot of cooking with her. She is 28 months old and I would love to start cooking more with her. I would love to introduce it to her with her very own cookbook. How wonderful to have a Nourishing cookbook for children, yay!!
What are the best three ways to teach anything to our children? By example, by example, and by example. My children are now all adults, and although our boys still won’t eat liver unless it is in pate, they are all devoted to butter, raw milk, and pastured meat whenever they can get it. They are convinced that their good muscle tone is due to the good food that they have been fed all these years. They eschew most processed foods and comment on the poor health of many of their friends. My favorite wedding gift is a copy of Nourishing Traditions. The proof is in the pudding: both our grandsons love broth, butter, and even cod liver oil. They are sturdy, happy little guys. Thank you, Sally Fallon Morell!
I have five children and we’ve been transitioning to the WAPF way of eating over the last few years. It’s been an amazing journey and I love the changes I see in our health, but also in my children’s attitudes towards food. I’d love to say that my teenagers never buy pop/junk food, but on the occasion that they do, it’s music to my ears when they say, “it just doesn’t taste as good anymore!”
While my oldest three were never interested in cooking, it’s wonderful to see my youngest two, ages 7 and 9, not only show interest in cooking, but also in doing it in a healthy way and taking time to learn about the Nourishing Traditions of old. I can’t wait to see this cookbook and love that it’s specifically geared to children. Children’s cookbooks are always filled with processed food and sugars. How wonderful to finally see one full of nutrition for their growing bodies and minds!!! Hopefully, as they learn to cook, these Nourishing Traditions will become their own and be passed on to yet another generation!
My son is 10 now and has rejected vegetables and fruit (and most whole foods) out of hand from a very young age. He is highly intelligent and is a vivid book reader. If there were such a book that would EXPLAIN whole food eating and its benefits in an age appropriate and un-patronising way, I would love for him to have the opportunity to be empowered to move in this direction.
Thank you so much!
Gittelle
I bought the Nourishing Traditions several years ago and my daughter and I read the whole book! We loved it and had fun trying all the different recipes that were so different from what we were used to. I have felt alot better since incorporating this way of cooking into my life. My daughter-in-law recently bought the cookbook and also the one for babies. I have two little grandchildren and I would love it if they would learn about and use this cookbook.
I am so pleased that I was able to teach my niece Nourishing Traditions cooking when she was a teen.
I am so gratified that she responded well and now understands the importance of traditional food and cooking.
First, I got her the Nourishing Traditions book,
and had her read certain sections, then went over each section with her.
I helped her understand the difference between “real food” such as real grass-fed butter, meats, organic vegs, etc. and artificial or adulturated food.
For cooking, I started her with bone-in slow cooked meat with vegs, that makes its own broth.
Then we did the fermented lemon punch drink, (p.588 in NT) , which is easy and she enjoys it.
Then we did the fermented salsa, which is also easy and she likes it.
Then we continued on with making meals and learning which foods she should and shouldn’t buy. She is now in college, in an apt, and using these healthy food principles.
My husband bought my first copy of Nourishing Traditions in 2001 after hearing Sally speak at a Georgia organics conference in Augusta, GA. I ran a health store and tried faithfully to follow a food combinations diet that was pretty heavily soy and low in animal fats. An adamant cookbook collector, I reluctantly began to leaf through the book. I was hooked! I began cooking the way I had been taught as a child and feeding it to my family. My family has all been Weston A. Price followers ever since, and I have shared with my adult children how to cook and eat this way. But I am thrilled now that I can share this new book with my 12-year-old granddaughter who loves cooking, and as I’m homeschooling my picky eating 9-year-old grandson, I am thinking this may be a good “textbook” for our studies. Thank you, Sally Fallon!
I have not yet truly begun to teach my son to cook the Nourishing Traditions way because he is only 11 months old. However, if spending time in the kitchen watching me take the time to prepare his solids meals in a way that nourishes his body, then he has started to learn from me! I have developed a passion to see my family nourished through traditional food the way God intended. By borrowing Nourishing Traditions from the local library, I have been made aware the incredible things that food can do for our bodies. I am hoping and praying that the time and effort I put into teaching and being the example to my son of how we are to treat and nourish our bodies through these traditionally prepared foods, that he will do the same as he grows and eventually has his own family! Thank you for the opportunity for the Nourishing Traditions for Children book!
Hope Amidst Mistakes!
I was a vegan the first 15 years as an adult and have been following WAP principles the last 12 with tremendous success! Seeing the devastation that a vegan diet wracked to my health and then to one of my children who was not nourished well in the womb or early years, (who still has great learning challenges at 17), brought great conviction to make the change! As an avid researcher, being teachable, I came to conclude my vegan lifestyle was very dangerous. I looked at the proof historically which illustrated clearly that my diet was not sustainable.
As a full time, home educating mother of seven children from diapers to college, I have incorporated the teachings of Nourishing Traditions and the WAP into the fabric of our family. We prepare whole foods traditionally, (most of the time) as our lifestyle. Filling our refrigerators and freezers with incredible nutrition brings a sense of great joy and blessing. In short order, this is done through being very frugal in other areas of spending in order to keep our budget in check, a small sacrifice for a large family of nine who rarely get even a seasonal cold!
Additionally, at 42, I had the most remarkable all natural pregnancy and delivery. I never experienced any pregnancy ailments this time, which are so common, such as a bladder/yeast infection, heartburn or morning sickness. I had a completely natural, intervention-free water birth where the labor pain was so much more manageable than any of my prior experiences with drugs, giving me the confidence to take ownership of my body and the beautiful process of delivery. Then, I was able to nurse the longest of any of my seven children although I did have to supplement near the end with WAP formula which was so nourishing and a joy to provide.
At two now, this child is the picture of health and happiness! She sleeps deeply and has never had any significant health or learning challenges. I give credit for these and many other blessings to following a God-given diet consisting of whole foods as outlined in the pregnancy and nursing guidelines via WAP and Nourishing Traditions as well as to living a clean, chemical-free lifestyle.
Having suffered the consequences of making many nutritional mistakes yet coming full-circle to health and wellness, I feel compelled to share to give others hope!
Hi,
I have one teenager and 2 college sons. My oldest son was in college and my middle son was in his junior year of high school when I discovered the Weston A. Price and Nourishing Traditions. I began teaching my sons the importance of food quality, how to shop, and how to make bone broth. Most importantly, I taught them about the importance of healthy fats in the diet as I am quite sure that adding significant amounts of butter to our diets transformed my youngest son’s health. Before then we were on a so called “heart healthy, low cholesterol diet” which could have contributed to his Asperger like behaviors that are now gone. I was so inspired by a complete transformation (from literally not being able to thrive in any group environment, including school, to being an A/B high school student, a top tiered athlete with 2 internships), that I went back to school 3 years ago and now help others transform their health with real food too – including children. I have Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and Childcare, which I lend to my clients and encourage them to buy. I would love to also own, Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children.
Thank you for your excellent work!
Best,
Holly Morello, NTP, CGP
Hi! My name is Lisa and I have a daughter who is 5 and a son who is 4 – my kids love to be in the kitchen. I search the web for “THE BEST” information out there to help my kids learn to be healthy but the thing is…. I suffer from “Analysis Paralysis” meaning… I have a ton of info but I freeze – get overwhelmed, then my internet goes out and I am stuck (or at least it is my excuse). Having a copy of this book would walk me through the steps – no internet needed! :) THanks!
After my son regressed into autism from a vaccine injury, we began researching anything and everything that could help him. We found the GAPS diet and it took over half a year to implement. Learning this Nourishing Traditions way of cooking was completely foreign but paid off in spades! Within a week, our son began to speak again. Now, two years later we follow the Nourishing Traditions style of eating and he has recovered from autism. We are teaching him how to cook this way and how the food makes his body and mind feel and act. We are hopeful he will stick with this for life and not make the same mistakes we did.
I first read and started using Nourishing Traditions when my older girls were 1 and 3. I changed over to coconut oil and grass fed beef and butter. I even made my own crock of sauerkraut. So much fun. The girls were right alongside me. Fast forward to shortly after my third was born and life took an I expected turn. We were thrust into the next eight years of constant change and survival mode. Now my older two are a approaching the teen years and asking more questions about nutrition and food. We never slipped away from coconut oil, grass fed beef and butter – but there hasn’t been much forward motion. For them to have their “own” cookbook? This could really get us back on track and lay some lifelong rails for their future. So excited!!
I have six children, aged 1 through 12 years old. I have always tried to teach them from-scratch, nutritious recipes. They are eager learners, and I would love to have a reference for such cooking written for them specifically. Some of my kids are currently suffering from allergies and the digestive issues from the remaining SAD- style snacking that they do. Would sure love a guide they could use!
Oh, my, our children cook nourishing all the time! I just taught the 10 and 12 year olds to make the kombucha… I would love this cookbook!
I just recently discovered the book Nourishing Traditions, but have incorporated some of the things into our diet since my kids were little (now 9 and 5). I would love to get both of them more involved more in the kitchen with me. We spent the last year and a half living in a camper, with very limited space, and now have room for more experimenting. My daughter is more of a picky eater, but will try anything especially if she gets to help make it. We are taking baby steps towards a healthier lifestyle and would love to have more guidance in the nutrient department (we live 2 short blocks from miles and miles of trails that we will be using daily once it dries out).
I am attempting to teach both my daughters and myself how to cook, preserve, and eat the Nourishing Traditions way. I grew up with parents who were former farmers and had acclimated to the SAD – I was fed processed foods, fast foods and junk foods ALL the time. By the time I was an adolescent, my body was that of an adult woman, my hormones were crazy and worse of all, my organs were failing and some had to be removed (gallbladder, appendix). I struggled with weight issues, body issues and overall health issues. I NEVER felt healthy, never felt satisfied regarding foods, always tired. This is a tradition I do NOT want for my children. I came across Nourishing Traditions when my first born daughter was diagnosed with a plethora of food allergies (soy being the worst) and I began seeking out ways to eliminate those allergens from our diet. Enter a friend who recommended the Weston A Price Foundation as a great area of research as well as the Nourishing Traditions book. Starting from scratch, together with my children, we are learning about healthy, nourishing foods and how our body not only craves them, but needs them to thrive. I want to be able to instill a lasting legacy of HEALTH in my children, so they may pass it on to their children and will not be a slave to the chemically laden processed foods!
I am so excited to hear about this new cookbook! My daughter just turned 11 and I’ve been wondering how to teach her how to cook properly. Although I have been cooking out of Nourishing Traditions for several years now (and recently Nourishing Broth), so far my daughter hasn’t show a lot of interest in learning to cook but this new cookbook may help! Like every Mom, I want her to know how to prepare the most nutritious foods possible. I was never taught this and have had to learn it all on my own, hoping to change that with our daughter. Thanks for the chance to win!
I am so excited for this book to give as a present to my 5 year old daughter. I have all of your books so far, and I have teaching my daughter (and now my son as well – he is one and a half) about nourishing foods. I always explain to them what each foods provides to us when we eat. I have always tried to involved my daughter in helping me out in the kitchen by giving small jobs that she can do for her age – especially when making soups, cut vegetables. We buy our vegetables and fruits / eggs at the farmer’s markets, and get our meat / eggs from farmers as well. We try to buy as much clean produce as possible. My kids have been to farms to show them the animals, what each animal provides to us.
I used nourishing foods and forgot to say the Nourishing Traditions’ books have changed our lives for the past few years :)
I am so thankful for the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook and WAPF! I discovered them both when my now 31/2 year old was getting ready for solids. Her first food was egg yolks from ducks and chickens. She loves liver, sardines and all kinds of fermented foods. We make every meal from scratch, soaking all grains and pulses. My daughter loves to help in the kitchen and visit the happy cows and chickens at the farm where we get our raw milk and biodynamic eggs. This spring we are all thrilled to have our own chicks! These cookbooks would be put to good use in our home!
I have the Nourishing Traditions book but would most definitely love to have the Children’s edition as well, as it is challenging at times to feed my 3 years old. He loves soups, but won’t eat vegetables by them selves. I have much to learn and would love more ideas on how to serve the most nutritious food to my boy. Thank you for the giveaway.
Though our children came to us at an older age (14) through adoption, we were able to provide them with good raw milk (we even visited the cows!) and taught them how to cook the Nourishing Traditions way as much as possible. They often fell for the quick-fix foods in high school, which is completely understandable. Now that our younger daughter is expecting a baby girl very soon, we would love to give her a copy of The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children. The format and especially the pictures will be helpful for her as she feeds her family. We hope for radiant health for her new little one through traditional foods and lots of love.
My daughter is 6, son is 4. They know how to soak oatmeal and nuts, and they help me dehydrate our fruit leathers and nuts! My six year old is learning how to use a knife, and my son is still on the butter knife. My daughter can fry an egg, and she knows how to grate raw frozen liver on top to add to it! We homeschool and try to make a little bit of the day about food preparation. I would love to do more age appropriate things with them. This book would be a great addition to our nourishing traditions library!!
I am pregnant with our first child, due in July, and I am so excited to teach this sweet baby about nourishing foods for flourishing health! Growing up, we either had diet food or junk food in the house. I grew up with digestion issues and sleep problems. It wasn’t until I got out of the house that I discovered the benefits of REAL food to my health. Now my body processes food as it should and I sleep when I’m supposed to! We’re hoping our family will grow in wisdom of the foods God gave us and give our bodies what they need to healthfully function. Having the Nourishing Traditions book for kids would be a perfect start for our growing family!
I’ve recently discovered Nourishing Traditions through my work, where we teach our clients to take control of their health through better Nutrition. I have an 11 year old and a 2 year old daughter who have switched from conventional to traditional diets this past year. I have tried to involve the older one as much as possible hoping that being involved will create a spark of passion for the foods since she is creating them. She loves to feel helpful and I would see this book as a way to teach her more autonomy in the kitchen! My youngest is always in the kitchen with me eating bites along the way, stirring and telling me when the timer goes off! I love to have my kids involved and see it as the single most important way to change the health of humans for the long term. I hope to continue to teach not only my children but others’ children how to cook for themselves and others. Food is a connection point between us and Nourishing Traditions Children’s Cookbook will connect children!
While I haven’t taught my daughter, 4, to do a lot cooking yet, she has helped me cook and prep food the Nourishing Traditions way. She has helped me soak and sprout grains and has sampled fermented foods. She loves kombucha jello and I’m able to sneak kefir and kombucha into frozen yogurt pops and smoothies. She suffers from eczema at times so I believe a complete transition into the Nourishing Traditions method of food and recipes would help clear this up. My son is also very sensitive to processed foods and dyes so ideas for snacks and on-the-go recipes would be welcomed at our home.
I want to lay down a family legacy of Nourishing Traditions. My oldest child is at the point where we can read and discuss things together, and I want him to understand and embrace these food values so he will WANT to say no to the processed junk that people are always offering him. I want him to be as excited about real whole food as I am. My hope is the he will one day teach his own children about food that nourishes the body. He might also need to see it in print how good liver is for him, in case my word isn’t enough. :)
Having learned a lot about diet and health in the last couple of years and just recently coming across Nourishing Traditions, we really want our kids to have a headstart on us! They are 4 and 3 and like to help in the kitchen, but it is early days. This beautiful book would be a great way for us all to continue learning together. I love that it is not just recipes but lots of information and lessons. Fingers crossed!
I have been struggling for years to get my 5 children to eat well. It would be so helpful to have this book through nourishing traditions. to not have to avoid half the book in order to get to the good recipes will be rich. Sally always has the best recipes Thanks for offering this. I hope we win a copy.
My son is just 10 months old, so he hasn’t had a chance to help me in the kitchen yet. But already he’s observed our chickens and goats at home, the cows from the farm where we buy our dairy, and the greenhouse full of produce from our CSA. He’ll know where our food comes from, and I will be sure to have him help prepare our food at home too. I can’t wait to have him help prepare our meals, which will help him be even more connected to the food in our bodies. I can’t wait to use a tool like Sally’s new book!
The WAPF way of eating has changed my life and the lives of the people in my family. My children know not to eat low-fat food– for a variety of reasons. And we always get comments on how attractive the kids are; this is not because hubs and I are great-looking! I just think it’s easy to pick out well-nourished, happy children among the hoards of children in our country who are obviously starved for nutrition. I talk constantly about what’s going into our bodies, even when we eat the occasional junk and get a stomach ache. That is almost a better teaching tool than all of my talking. My three oldest children- 10, 8 and 6, are learning to cook a variety of nourishing foods, and they would LOVE to have this cookbook!
I don’t know why I’ve been resistant to allowing my children to help me in the kitchen!?! Shame on me! I began learning about nourishing traditions while pregnant with my first child because I wanted THE BEST nourishment for my children- they are at the core of my desire to cook this way. Even the words “Nourishing Traditions” encompass my heart’s desire for my family, giving my children a healthy happy legacy to pass on to their families someday :). We have always educated our children about the food choices we make, now I can empower them to create and share nourishing meals with others! My oldest is 8 and is anxious to work in the kitchen. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to share Nourishing Traditions with my children!
Why? Because that’s the way our ancestors cooked. With the growing health issues in kids and adults, I think it would be a great legacy to pass onto my kids. Cooking is a life skill that everybody should know and my daughter loves to cook. What better way to start than with Nourishing Traditions kids cookbook. It would be a great book to our existing collection.
My family has been following Weston price diet for a couple years.We found a local farm that provides raw milk and grass fed meat . We live in Oregon and over the past couple years we have found more people and farmers with same healthy eating values. I have feel very fortunate to have found an amazing Weston price group locally as well as a birthing center that is a great holistic center for Mom’s and children. I can’t wait to get my hands on the Nourishing children’s cookbook my kids have had a recent interest in helping in the kitchen!
One day my daughter said, “this white bread tastes so much better than yours.” I replied, “the whiter the bread, the sooner you’re dead.” This met with a growl, but since then they have all been more conscientious of how much whole grain is in their bread. We have had many discussions about the health benefits of whole foods. But beyond the conversation, the best method I have found to teach them to cook and eat well is by changing the way I eat and cook.
Over the last year my family has started to focus more on the principles found in Nourishing Traditions. My kids are currently eight and ten. My daughter likes to cook along side of me. My husband was diagnosed with ALS four years ago so we are very concerned about maintaining proper nutrition to keep his muscles strong. My kids are involved in packing their lunches and we plan our meals together so that they have buy-in.
We began our journey learning about nourishing foods when my oldest was almost a year. I try to not have regrets over what I ate before he was born, and take advantage of the time we have had to learn as a family. Nourishing Traditions was one of the first books I bought and learned from. I would love to have this new cookbook for all three of my kids and me to enjoy together. My oldest is 12 now, and he loves real food (they all enjoy junk food too, but we try to have real foods at home) and loves to cook. He struggles with many allergies and sensitivities and so he loves to play around with foods he can eat. Our most recent adventure is we started making water kefir and they are all experimenting with flavors and deciding if it would be good as a popsicle or not. We have learned a lot over the years, but we are eager to learn more.
I am very excited about your “Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children”! I purchased my copy of the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook about five years ago and make sauerkraut, beet kvass, bone broth and crispy nuts, among other things for my son and I to eat often. He would be thrilled to have his own cookbook!
May 18th is my birthday, so it would be beautiful if I could gift him this book for my birthday!!! Thank you for the opportunity to share a better way of cooking with my son!!
Teaching my daughter and son to cook will be one of the staple pieces of their growing up live (once they are old enough to cook). Because we cook at home all the time, I will be enlisting their help and we will be cooking the things that are good for them all the time! I think it is essential because I have put all this hard work into maintaining their healthy bodies so they will also learn to cook and cut up things and to prepare foods appropriate for their growing needs.
I am just beginning to implement the “Nourishing Traditions” way of life with my family. My journey began a few years ago as I decided to try to regain health for some chronic health problems. I have seen such improvement and know that this is best for all of us. It is very challenging to change our children’s diet and lifestyle, however. This cookbook for children would be such a tremendous help! Thank you so much!
My two children are 5 and 2.5 and they are so attracted to kitchen work. From start to finish, they want to be included. So far, they have cleaning up mastered – what kid doesn’t love a sink full of bubbles? We use a krinkle cutter tool for my 2.5 to cut up mushrooms etc, but have yet to give him an honest to goodness knife. I’m a little hesitant, but with a little encouragement and faith, I can see it working out. My 5yr old is a veggie master and loves to help me prep and cook her favorite things. We would love to find out more about fermenting foods as they love the store-bought fermented items like kim chee and pickles, and saurkraut! This looks like a great book for our next “gifting time”.
My oldest child just turned 5 and has been interested in helping me cook. I was never taught to cook as a child and I am having a really hard time even knowing where to start with her! I really want her to be able to feel confidant and able to prepare some food herself, and more as she gets older. I think this will help her appreciate food and where it comes from and what it takes to get it to the table even more. Of course, I would like her to grow up this way and be able to easily prepare nourishing meals for her own family when the time comes!
How I forgot to put in “Nourishing Traditions” is beyond me lol! I currently own the book Nourishing Traditions and I enjoy making recipes out of it, however I have a hard time involving my kids in the food preparation and would really enjoy a book made for that purpose! :)
Teehee! I’m glad I’m not the only one. I did exactly the same thing…went back and commented on my comment. I’m always busting on my kiddos for not following directions, and I didn’t ;-)
I’ve taught my 5 children the Nourishing Traditions way of life mostly by example and cooking alongside, but the older ones have self-taught things like fermentation. When they were younger, I assigned one to soak the oatmeal the night before it was scheduled for breakfast. My youngest used to beg for her ‘simple mints’ (supplements, which was cod liver oil). They’ve also watched me heal my own teeth with traditional foods, mainly fish broth, raw milk, and FCLO/BO.
When their dad was suddenly struck with an iatrogenic illness, my oldest was able to step right in and help out with nourishing broths and sauerkraut, etc. I’ve been so busy with caregiving for my husband that the youngest has not had the opportunity to get proficient in these skills, so this book would be a welcome addition to our kitchen.
2 of my 3 kids (12, 7 and 2) have medical issues related to gut health (asthma, food and environmental allergies, autism and eczema) and while we TRY to follow a nourishing diet it can be difficult to teach the kids why we need to eat this way. This book would be especially helpful for my 12 yo ds with ASD. It’s very hard to change his eating habits as he gets older. He’s very interested in meal planning and would likely take to making our meals from this book – and learning about WAPF along the way!
My 2 yo dd has such severe food allergies that she requires an elemental formula to supply certain nutrients and calories because her diet is so limited. What she can (and does) eat includes only whole, nourishing foods (lots of bone broth, grass fed beef/liver, fermented veggies, limited fruit and zero grain) and it would perfect to teach her how to continue to heal and manage her conditions as she grows.
I haven’t yet started following all of the Nourishing Traditions. My children help me cook, and I would love the opportunity for us all to learn together!
My daughter is still pretty young, so I haven’t taught her much about cooking the “Nourishing Traditions” way yet, but she does help me prepare some of our meals. We make ice cream with raw cream from our herd share. We use pastured egg yolks all the time. She loves liverwurst (sometimes, haha). We make soups from bone broth, and she loves her veggies. I try to explain to her as much as I can about why we eat the way we do. It’s great to see her growing up so healthy, but I also hope she will learn to seek information for herself to make the food choices that are best for her as she gets older. I think this book would be a great start in helping her to do that! I own Nourishing Traditions, and I love it.
Thanks for this wonderful opportunity–I had no idea there was a NT cookbook for kids! My son has autism and I have been struggling to balance my hormones and combat depression and anxiety naturally. Since I discovered NT, The Weston A Price Foundation, and the benefits of a diet high in fat and grassfed meats and dairy and low in sugar and refined foods, I’ve seen a huge difference in my son and myself. I also have a much less cluttered fridge and pantry and an expanding repertoire of nourishing and wholesome recipes the whole family will eat. I’d love to try these kid-friendly recipes. Thanks!
We have been slowly moving towards this type of eating for awhile now. This book would really help our transition. My two children, nine and six, both enjoy cooking. They love bone broth and grass fed butter. My oldest likes to think about nutrition and read labels. Thank you for this opportunity!
My twins first ever foods came from the Nourishing Traditons approach – organic egg yolks and organic liver. We haven’t looked back. I was a vegetarian for 30 years prior to that but from reading Nourishing Traditions so much of the approach ‘feels right’ and makes sense to me at lots of levels, so we all eat organic meat etc now and continue to thrive on it. Thank you!
This is my first time hearing of Nourishing Traditions! My children are becoming increasingly aware of the foods we eat. The habits my husband and I have are becoming “who we are” in our kids’ eyes. “Daddy drinks energy drinks.” “Mommy drinks coffee.” It’s time for us to take nutrition more seriously!
I will definitely be adding this book to my library but thank you for the opportunity to win it first! I feel blessed to have had to knowledge to nourish myself before, during and after my pregnancy from the original Nourishing Traditions. Since then I have been guided by the WAP Foundation on how to nourish my daughter since she started on solids. She has such a wonderful palate for nourishing foods and it makes me proud. This book would be a great addition for us to expand our knowledge together.
My daughter is only 3, so she isn’t cooking anything yet. But she has been raised the “Nourishing Traditions” way and I would love to be able to teach her how to cook healthy foods for herself. She had a developmental eating delay, so is just really starting to eat actual food consistenly. She has never eaten processed foods, sugar or grains. I would love to help her expand her eating options and I think teaching her how to cook them will go a long way to helping with this.
My daughter is only a little over 2 but she sees me daily trying to cook the “nourishing traditions” way, so I hope she grows to learn it. I’m sure this book would be a big help in that endeavor. :) Like I said, she’s only 2, so she doesn’t prepare foods yet, but I try to give her little “jobs” while I cook to help her feel included in the cooking process. If I’m making soup, she “chops/saws” ;) at potatoes, celery, carrots, etc. with a dull butter knife. She helps feed our broiler chickens, and she also “helps” her daddy in the garden. I hope all these things are laying a foundation for a future kitchen helper who sees the value in preparing real food for our family!
I am really hoping this competition is open for Australians. I have heard of the Nourishing Traditions cookbook but have never actually laid eyes on it. After years of malnourishment due to an eating disorder i would love this book to learn simple but very healthy nutritious recipes. this is a cycle i am still trying to break and i don’t want my kids to think that its ok…they need to see me eating properly! My children are at an age that they should have already been exposed to being in the kitchen a lot more than current and have helped with stirring pots and chopping veggies but never made a meal from scratch themselves. This book would be the perfect gift to them to teach us all the importance of real food and simple fuss free cooking and sharing the joy of the creations they have made at the table.
I just had a wake-up jolt with this post. While I’ve been implementing Nourishing Traditions practices and food into our diet, I have been totally oblivious to the need to teach my son these skills. Your comment that if we do not teach our children who will hit me in the face. If I do not start teaching me son, then when he leaves my care in less than 10 years, he will not have the skills to continue on. I know it’s going to be tough anyway given the overwelming prevalence of the SAD diet out there. I better start soon to ingrain as much Nourishing Traditions as I can in my son’s mode of operandus before I loose my daily influence. I would welcome Sally’s book to help me do this. I feel so sad that my grandmothers never passed on their knowledge of Nourishing Traditions to me. I was just about to unconsciously do the same to my son……thanks for the wake-up call!
Our journey with Nourishing Traditions began 5 years ago. After extensive research, we decided to go on the GAPS diet. We needed a complimentary program that focused on nutrition density. Not only does this book have great recipes, but it has also been very educational. It has had a significant impact on our health and lives, so much so that we gift the book when there is opportunity to help others.
My 4 year old daughter loves to watch me cook, and I let her help out when she can. She loves watching me make our fizzy water kefir and puts grassfed ghee in the skillet every morning for her scrambled eggs. I’ve taken her to the farm where we own a raw cows’ milk share so she has an appreciation of where that comes from. I let her feed our sourdough starter and roll it into a pizza crust. She especially loves our fermented pickles, although she isn’t a fan of the sauerkraut, unlike her 2 year old brother. They both happily take their chocolate flavored fermented cod liver oil and think it is a treat!
We are teaching our children how to eat and cook healthy. I do not have this cookbook or the other one yet. My 5 year old loves to help in the kitchen and my oldest loves to “invent” her own recipes (mostly sweet treats) She wants to move to Paris, France and open a bakery. :) I have many food allergies so cooking homemade meals is a must. I’ve learned the hard way how eating out makes me feel.
We are teaching our children a “Nourishing Traditions” way of life by helping them learn healthy habits. They regularly contribute to meal time preparation and take pride in making healthy selections they know will fuel their bodies to run efficiently. It starts in the fields, picking produce or visiting the farms to collect fresh milk. They learn how to make jam, jelly, and ferment foods; our favorite is sauerkraut! Our hope is this early appreciation will plant the foundation of a lifetime for true nourishment, passed down generation to generation.
We love Nourishing Traditions at our house! My children love helping in the kitchen and are just now getting old enough to be able to follow a recipe with little to no help. One of our favorite things to do at our house is ferment. Fermented carrots are a big favorite as is sauerkraut (my seven year old and 2 year old will eat bowls full!). We also soak oats several times a week according to Sally’s instructions. I’m so thankful for the information provided in Nourishing Traditions and look forward to trying out the children’s cookbook!
My children and I have learned the traditional cooking methods by “Learn by doing” which is the motto of 4H. All 4 of my kids are hands on in the kitchen. My older daughters 4-H presentation was “Fun Fermentation” in which she won gold at regionals and is now headed to state championship. I want each of my children to stick with the real food diet their entire life because sadly we didn’t start out eating this way. We made this change 2 1/2 years ago and ❤️It!!!👍
Many members of my family have allergies and I have been reading so much about healing the gut, curing the allergies. My son is 12 and has taken cooking classes this year in middle school and LOVES it. He comes home and teaches me everything he has learned and has made his school recipes at home for the family. I believe he is a sponge right now and very eager to learn more. I would love to give him this book “Nourishing Traditions” and he can cook learn to cook wonderful, nutrionally dense food. He turns 13 on May 19 — what a wonderful present this would be!! :-)
My journey for my family’s and I’s health started a few years ago. I was never really taught how to cook, so it has been an up hill journey with learning. I came across Nourishing Traditions a few years ago and have been trying to follow as best as I can. I am also at the same time trying to teach my children how to cook the right way, (as I learn myself). They are also learning to say no to the foods they know can make them sick. At other times they ask for the bone broth, and soups made from it. At this point I only know a few meals, but I am looking to add more to my knowledge. thank you for the chance to have help along the way. Thank you for all you do. :)
My boys are almost one (next week) and almost three. The three year old gets to help “cut vegetables” with a butter knife. He gets scrambled eggs in grassfed butter every morning and some of my smoothie which has more eggs and raw frozen turkey liver in it (started substituting liver when my placenta ran out). The youngest is nursing and still not interested in solid food so I keep myself well nourished following recommendations from the Baby and Child Care book by SFM. The boys both expressed so much interest in cooking, we bought them a used play kitchen which they LOVE. I think they are destined to cook and cook well. Since I’m sort of obsessed with nourishing traditional foods, I know they will love making recipes from this cookbook. The older one could start cooking the recipes with me now and they’ll both be cooking more in a couple years as (the most important) part of their home/unschooling.
I haven’t taught my children how to cook the Nourishing Traditions way as I asm still a beginner myself, but I make crispy nuts all the time. The girls gobble them down and ask for more. We also soak our grains all the time now. My kids love helping in the kitchen so this would be such a fun book to share with them. And I wouldn’t have to worry about any of the recipes in it!
As a family, we have done a number of the Nourishing Traditions recipes. I have shown my young children that we soak our grains (millet, oats, quinoa), how to make fermented ketchup, how to make water kefir and kombucha, how to make sourdough bread, how to ferment various veggies, etc. Though my children haven’t liked all things I’ve tried (they are still very young), I hope I can instill a love and knowledge about traditional diets. The Nourishing Tradition book for children would be a lovely addition to our library.
I am so excited about this book!!! Heretofore my plan was to use a real food lesson plan from one of the real food bloggers (it’s somewhere on my computer….) and eventually teach my kids to cook and when old enough to read Nourishing Traditions. This new Nourishing Tradition kids cookbook sounds like it would combine all three for me at a kid-appropriate level. I have not yet taught my six-year-old to cook, although he does help me cook here and there. I had meant to start teaching him by now, but I just…haven’t. I do tell him about traditional foods, what is nourishing to the body and what isn’t. I think he’s fairly aware that there are processes I do in the kitchen and that good food doesn’t just come ready-made from a factory. I know I do want to teach him and my daughter to cook this way so that they can continue to be nourished when they leave home and help nourish my future grandchildren!
I am part of a wonderful Farm and we go to Farmers Markets as well!! I hope I win this book to Nourish my kids more;)
Our whole family has benefitted from eating according to the principles of Weston Price. My children have thrived on this way of eating, and the older ones are eager to learn how to prepare the foods that they have come to love. They are mastering breakfast, and they can cover lunch. This book would be a wonderful tool that I could use to help them gain the skills to prepare delicious, nutritious food. We’d be thrilled to win this book. Thanks!
My daughter is 7, and has Down syndrome. When we changed our diet and started cooking the nourishing traditions way, we saw big improvements in many areas of her life, Her language exploded, she started to grow faster. There was even widening in her palette! She loves sauerkraut, pickles, soups and keifer! She is reading well, and she loves to be in the kitchen helping, A cookbook just for her to learn would be very exciting for her and for me. This is something she could use for learning great life skills.
Our family has benefitted from Nourishing Traditions. We now regularly make bone broth and use it as many things as possible, we have also started to add liver to our ground beef and it gives it a rich flavor that our son devours. Also, by example, I have introduced our son to Kefir, Kombucha, and fermented foods. Lately he’s become a pickier eater and it would be very helpful to us to have a copy of this book to engage him creating our meals. Keep up the good work!
We have been eating the nourishing traditions way for almost 5 years now. We got connected with a raw milk source after moving to Oregon and my kids take FCLO straight from the syringe and they also love liver and other organs and they ate egg yolk and liver as babies. They love helping me soak oatmeal and nuts/seeds and getting all their vitamins out as well. We have had a blast making kefir and kombucha and cooking and eating whole foods together. We love the almond cookies in the nourishing traditions book and hope it’s in the kids recipe book as well. We are excited to make the oat crunchies as we have been making a soaked granola for sometime now and love it! Thank you for doing this giveaway. Looking forward to many memories in the kitchen with my littles and leaving a legacy of healthy eating with them.
I was never taught how to cook by my mom. In college I lived on candy bars, soda and espresso. As a young adult I habitually ordered take out. When I married and became pregnant, I instinctively knew I should eat better but at the time I thought that meant tofu and 2% milk and protein shakes. After my son was born very allergic to everything, I found the WAP Foundation. Two of my three children have been raised on alternative homemade formulas: one on the goats milk formula and the last on the cow milk one. We all take our fermented cod liver oil and other fish and nut oils. We are currently on the GAPS diet and take digestive enzymes and eat our sauerkraut with every meal. Most days we have some kind of bone or meat broth simmering on the stove. I used to make a mean soured cream as well as yogurt (from raw milk of course!) before we had to go dairy free. We’ve done continuous brew kombucha and we’ve made crispy nuts in a dehydrator we found in my father in law’s basement. The funny thing is, even though we are homeschoolers, I have never brought my kids into the kitchen to teach them any of this! I would love to go through this new Nourishing Traditions KIDS! cookbook with them using it as a teaching manual! What a neat idea! Aaaand, seeing that our school year is officially ending in 4 weeks, this would be the perfect time to start a fun summer long project of learning about health/food and how to cook, the Nourishing Traditions way!
How exciting! This Nourishing Traditions cookbook looks brilliant! I have always loved being in the kitchen with my 4 yo and 2 yo, and another one on the way, but having something that appeals to them would be great when they reach that age of trying things out on their own. Am dying to have a peek! My Nourishing Traditions cookbook is so worn out from over use it is probably time to be getting something else to thumb through daily!
I am excited to teach my young daughter to adhere to the concepts in Nourishing traditions. She’s just 7 months old now, but I’m looking forward to her joining me in the kitchen. We’ve already begun feeding her using the recommendations in the Nourishing Traditions baby care book. I’m also convinced she’s such a healthy baby because I followed Sally’s recommendations throughout my pregnancy with her. This has been a lifestyle change for us, and a slow one, but we feel so much better! Looking forward to teaching my kids to care for their bodies this way, too.
My daughter is 13 years old, snce around 7 years ago we started cooking the way I grew up in south America. I homeschool her so she has been learning ever since. Now she know that she is not deprived or any thing, we just make things taste better and healthier. I knlw this is a good foundation for her, by now she knows too much to go back to the bad habits. I believe it. Its the best thing you can do for your children. Knowledge is power. Thank you Sally!
We have two sons, ages 6 and 4, and we have been cooking the Nourishing Traditions Way for a little over 3 years. I would be so excited to receive the NT cookbook for children, as it would be the perfect tool for our cooking lesson each day. I homeschool my children and part of our curriculum is teaching them out to prepare nourishing foods and WHY. I don’t want them to eat well for 18 years with us and than leave unprepared to do so on their own. I became a chapter leader for the WAPF, because I believe it is so important to empower people with the knowledge of why to eat real, nourishing foods, where to obtain them, and how to properly prepare them. I’d be doing my children a disservice if I didn’t do the same for them.
Obesity runs in many of our families, My grandsons are not children, but young people in college and obese. I would like them to find out how to prepare and eat nourishing foods. Get a new foundation on how and what to eat and how to prepare it and break this cycle in our families.
I don’t just WANT to use this book to teach my children, I NEED to use it! The only way we’re going to counteract our current culture of sugar addiction is through awareness like this. We must teach children young that processed food is insidiously unhealthy! I will use this book to teach both of my daughters about REAL WHOLE foods and the proper way to prepare them. I will also use it to teach other children too whenever possible. This book will help me spread the word locally about traditional foods and good health. Love this contest! Suspect I will have this book either way though;-)
I am looking forward to teaching my children (I have a son age 1 1/2 and baby #2 on the way) how to eat healthy according to Nourishing Traditions. I have followed the WAP/Nourishing Traditions way so far while raising my son and he is the healthiest little guy! He is the very opposite of a “picky eater”! I know that providing a healthy foundation for my children’s lives while they are young will correspond to a healthy life down the road! My plan is first to lead by example…by eating healthy myself. :)
It’s kind of a way of life for us, although it’s not something I’ve specifically taught.
My children are getting older so they are getting to the point where the can understand some of they whys. They also are getting to the point where they are starting to cook certain things (with a lot of supervision). This cookbook would be great for us in the stage we’re in. Cooking in harmony with WAPF principles is essential for them as they grow up.
These comments are so inspiring! My 4 littles are getting old enough that I should be spending more time with them in the kitchen and what better way to do it than teaching them the “nourishing traditions” way. This summer will be our first time getting a farm CSA with organic fruits and vegetables, so I’ll be able to teach a lot through that. We have adjusted so much in the past few years of how we eat, but we sure have a lot more to learn. I have to admit tho, it sure is cute hearing the kids ask for kombucha or kefir milk. :)
I was introduced to Nourishing Traditions about a year ago. While I’ve followed lots of articles I feel like I haven’t had the baby steps drawn out for me to move in the right direction. This sounds like a great stepping stone for me. My daughter is 3 months old and I don’t want her to have the same battle with processed foods and sugar addiction that I had. Unless someone else here thinks potato chip sandwiches with cake icing are a viable snack opinion, I bet I’m the most in need for the guidance this book could bring. It could literally be a game changer for my baby.
I have just recently removed gluten, dairy and sugar from my children’s diet. They are addicted to processed foods and refuse to eat healthy foods. Already I am noticing a change. I would love to teach them why these foods are good for them. I think as they learn how good some foods are they may be more willing to eat them.
I learned about Nourishing Traditions when my son was 5 months old. I went from 17 year vegetarian to making meatloaf with liver and rendering my own lard. It was quite a turnaround! I think that, because I ‘built’ my boy while I was a vegetarian, he really doesn’t have much interest in meat, but at 5 years old, he definitely understands the concept of wholesome ingredients and what is good for his body. My daughter, who is almost two, was conceived and ‘built’ while I was eating all sorts of meaty/offal goodness, and she is ALL carnivore. And she LOVES salmon eggs and sauerkraut. My son’s tends to prefer milder foods (aka, ZERO tang or spice), and I assume that’s because I wasn’t going too wild on flavors when I was pregnant with him. I would LOVE to have a cookbook to get them both involved in cooking.
I haven’t exclusively taught my daughter cooking from a Nourishing Traditions perspective, though I suppose she takes certain things for granted. She knows there is a pot of bone broth simmering each week, and helps me prepping chicken carcasses, vegetables and other bones. She knows there are nuts and grains soaking on the counter and she helps me make kefir, pickles and other ferments.
What has been lacking is a cookbook for her to follow herself. She loves to cook on her own, especially now that she can read. She has several cookbooks, but most of them only have a handful of recipes we would want to try.
I am thrilled this Nourishing Traditions cookbook is finally available and will be glad to gift it to my daughters. Thanks for the giveaway!
NOURISHING TRADITIONS by Sally Fallon has been my go to book for helping to nourish my family for almost 10 years now. While my daughters were pretty much grown and on their own when I began to use NOURISHING TRADITIONS, over time I have been able to bring them back to the best nourishing foods through the NOURISHING TRADITIONS. My oldest daughter now has a family of her own. Before her own daughter was born 8 months ago, I gave her the NOURISHING TRADITIONS BABY, she has been following it to nourish her baby daughter and raise her. It is amazing to see how alert, active, strong, and healthy this well nourished baby is, and developing in every area well beyond most of the under nourished babies her age and older. The NOURISHING TRADITIONS COOKBOOK FOR CHILDREN will be the next step for my daughter to nourish and teach my granddaughter about NOURISHING TRADITIONS, and in doing so, my oldest daughter is learning more and more about the best way to help nourish her family, and herself.
Meanwhile my younger daughter has been referring to the NOURISHING TRADITIONS for a few years now and is looking forward to sharing it with her soon-to-be husband, as well as the NOURISHING TRADITIONS BABY and the NOURISHING TRADITIONS COOKBOOK FOR CHILDREN for when they are ready to start a family.
By the way, my husband and I love the Cortido (Latin American Sauerkraut) from the NOURISHING TRADITIONS which is a staple at every dinner. (I keep a back stock of it and will be making more today 😊). Guests love it and always want to know more about. We have sent many a jar with a guest.
So you see, I will be needing at least a couple more copies of the NOURISHING TRADITIONS COOKBOOK FOR CHILDREN even though I ordered a copy for myself today.
When my three year old daughter is playing she often pretends to make a pie or cake for someone’s birthday. As I listen to the narration of her play, she talks about how she is mixing all the ingredients together, then covers the bowl with a cloth and sets it aside to soak until tomorrow. This is her reflection of the way we prepare food together in our home, which I learned when I first came across the Nourishing Traditions cookbook when I was in college 11 years ago. After my husband and I decided to start a family, my commitment to the traditional preparation of food became even more deliberate as I want to provide the most valuable nourishment for our child during her formative years in a way that will encourage her to carry healthy eating habits through the rest of her life. I am excited to learn about the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children, with the anticipation that it will be an excellent resource and guide as my daughter requests ever more frequently to help prepare food with me in the kitchen.
Nourishing Traditions is something you can grow with, and build on. It’s important to know where your food comes from, and to make the healthiest choices. Nourishing Traditions is an easy way to include the whole family in making food fun, healthy, and DELICIOUS.
I have 4 children-6,4,2 & 9 months and we as a family live a very “Nourishing Traditions” lifestyle! It all started when my oldest was a baby and I had to make the decision of what to feed her when it was time to start with solids. I can remember my mom giving me some advice-start with the “ickier” green veggies and then move to fruits so they get a taste for the green veggies before fruit so they will like everything. I guess if you are feeding babies jarred pre-made food the thought process made sense. She was telling me what her doctor advised her to do with us when we were babies. Me, always the renegade, didn’t like the idea–why couldn’t babies like all healthy foods?? And why did the jarred food taste so bad??!! So I set out on a very determined mission to feed my daughter the best possible foods I could find. I started going to farmer’s markets and talking with people who grow & produce the food–I couldn’t believe I had never thought about it before—Our food comes from somewhere, and yes! Someone has to grow it!! I wanted to know everything I could about food, farming & nutrition–REAL nutrition, not the garbage I knew of growing up. I can remember talking with the family we were buying grass-fed beef from and asking if they sold milk—They looked at eachother and asked why I wanted to know…HA! I had no idea that it was illegial to sell in our state-I was literally just looking for from the farm milk, I had never heard of raw milk!! She told me to go home and look up the Weston A. Price foundation and their work, and to buy Nourishing Traditions. I couldn’t get enough of the info I was reading!! I ordered a copy of NT and we literally changed our way of feeding our family, pretty much overnight! We went from drinking “blue” skim milk, very little fats etc. to buying raw milk, making bone broths, cooking with and consuming TONS of fats, etc. etc. etc.! In fact, my husband and I are so passionate about getting back to the roots of traditional eating and farming that we made a huge leap of faith and bought a 30 acre farm last year!! Our kids are very young, and are growing up knowing where every one of their eggs comes from, the cows in our pastures are gifts that God gave to us to give us good quality grass-fed beef to eat, the chickens eating grass & bugs etc. are the delicious roasted chicken dinners and nourishing stock we are blessed to have. They witness and help with planting seeds, forage for morrells and herbs and are part of every part of the food cycle. We are SO BLESSED to have met people who have led us to this type of lifestyle, and are so gracious & thankful for the WAPF and NT that has literally transformed our journey. I guess I never answered the question about teaching our kids how to cook NT style–YES, that is all our kids witness and get to help out with!! They help me get veggies for meals, know to save their bones for stock, know and help get healthy nourishing snacks, know that grass-fed gelatin is a superfood in our house:), know to put butter on everything:)
My oldest measures the stock to cook our rice in, chops veggies, washes produce etc. :-) My 2 oldest help to feed the baby-wild caught salmon, avacado, veggies-always with butter! We love NT!!
I have had the Nourishing Traditions book for several years. Although my kids are grown, they weren’t raised on junk food, as it was just too expensive. Whole foods in bulk was a much cheaper way to feed 5 kids! All my kids know how to make bone broths, and although they don’t all do it, my oldest daughter does faithfully. She has corrected many issues with her now 15 yr old son, by using bone broths and feeding him in a Nourishing Traditions way. They all know the basic principles, whole real foods, healthy fats, grass fed meats, and natural raised chickens and eggs, along with garden veggies and organic fruits in moderation, along with nuts and seeds, like our ancestors. It’s not rocket science, just getting back to basics and feeding their families like their ancestors, minus the sugar.
Since my son was diagnosed with autism, I have started GAPS diet for him. He did show some improvement and I know The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children do help autistic child to recover and also related to GAPS diet. I hope I can win this book so it give me more idea and info on how to help my son diet to be more effective. I hope I can share this book with other special needs mom and hope they can help their autistic child to recover stage.
I started eating healthfully when my kids where 10 and 11. It has been a journey, at first I quit eating out and quit buying processed foods. I have MS and the Dr changed my diagnosis to progressive MS in 1998 and that pushed me into the healthier life exploration and discovery. It has been a continual learning experience, which continues today (wow, over 15 years, now I eat fermented foods and drink raw milk and kefir, sure didn’t see that coming). I did stop the progression, but I ‘m not there yet…still wobble when I walk. My kids are grown and are making better food choices than I did at their age, but I want to influence my grandchildren and their cousins even more by sharing this Nourishing Traditions book with them.
I’ve read Weston A Price’s book and Sally Fallon’s. I live my life by Nourishing Traditions. I plan to teach my daughter how to eat nutritional foods. She has only drank raw milk and eats only grass-fed, organic meat and eggs. I would love to have the new book for my daughter since she already loves helping in the kitchen.
We have been easing into the Nourishing Traditions way for a few months now after reading “Cure Tooth Decay”. It has been quite an adventure! My children are 1 and 3 and they enjoy cooking with me as they are able. I’m sure that they would enjoy making the recipes in this new book, especially as they grow up. Thank you for making it available :-)
Wow, so glad to hear about Nourishing Traditions for kids!!! Thank you for writing about it and doing this giveaway! Our oldest is 6 now and loves to cook but definitely differentiates between recipes from her mom and recipes from cool looking books like her klutz cookbook (mine are not as cool not having the neat photos etc to go with them). Often I hide her cookbook or try to encourage non-food recipes like playdough to avoid some of the foods it recommends. Would be so wonderful to be able to give her her own cookbook that has real food and real cooking in it. It sounds perfect!
I have been teaching my daughter to cook the “nourishing traditions way” since she was born. We do our best to fill our kitchen with only whole, nourishing foods. She’s 9 months old and loves to eat sauerkraut, local pastured eggs, liver, FCLO, and butter! In the kitchen she loves to watch me cook and play with pots and pans. Soon I hope to have her helping more actively–This book would be such a blessing!
I homeschool my children and they are very much involved in the cooking process. This would be such a wonderful addition to our nourishing traditions that we already employ. I am always on the lookout for wonderful healthy recipes that the kids enjoy. My daughter and I are always trying to come up with new and exciting ways to use the foods that we have grown to love. I would love to add this book to our ever growing library. Thanks for the chance!
I haven’t, only because they’re still too young! But we have been eating a whole foods based diet since they all came I to our lives. I love the feeling that comes from knowing you’re giving your children the best possible nurtition available that is available to is!!
I have not tried Nourishing Traditions yet, but would love to. I come from home cooked meals made by my mom, but she also used boxed foods. Mashed potato flakes, instant rice, etc. With my 4 kids, we have been doing more natural foods and I don’t have any boxed food items in my house and not much canned items either. I make my own foods and can a lot also. We do the Bountiful Baskets and get lots of fresh produce and we hunt deer and elk so that’s where a lot of our red meat comes from. I, at times, get stuck on the same way of cooking and would love some new ways to cook and have different ideas of snacks for my kids. We recently found out that 2 of my kids suffer a dairy allergy so we have been fighting that as well. When we had to supplier my youngest, we made our own raw goat milk formula from Weston A Price recipe. Thank you for your give away. Even if I don’t win, I’m sure those that do will be greatly informed with this book.
Learning how to eat properly has been a work in progress! I am happy to say that I am finally there. Every step of the way, I have shared what I’ve learned with my kids (now 24 and 21) but they were heavily influenced by their peer group. While they were young I had some control but after a certain age, and once they started making their own money, I did not.
I am happy to say that my 24 year old finally began embracing healthy eating about a year ago and he has never been healthier in mind or body! The 21 year old continues to (mostly) reject what I teach him and this is really disturbing because he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of thirteen. Anything that can help is most welcome and maybe a children’s book with its easy to follow teaching, will be what finally turns the tide! Additionally I have a small homeopathic practice in my home, and I keep a lending library for my patients, so these books will be well used. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in your contest!!
I would love for my oldest grand-daughter to learn from Nourishing Traditions. She wants to eat healthy but at the moment pretty much everything she eats is packaged and far from real food. She asks me a lot of questions that I am not really able to answer well. She loves to cook and loves to learn (especially about cooking, but thus far it’s pretty much cupcakes and cookies). I believe she could be a catalyst for positive change in the eating habits of her family if given the tools (Nourishing Traditions for Children) and opportunity. She just turned 8 and I think she would enjoy this, learn from it (healthy choices, how food works, etc) as well as aiding her learning to cook.
I love reading the Nourishing Traditions book and implementing it into our daily lives. My kids love their fruits, veggies, meats, and healthy desserts. I don’t have them doing much in our kitchen yet because there is too little counter space, but they do love helping pick salad greens, peas, carrots, herbs, and turnips from the garden. They are willing to try anything at least once, especially if they know it is healthy. They will talk about how it is important that we get our milk from cows we’ve met and eggs from chickens that get to eat bugs and scratch through grass all day. Mine understand what organic does and does not mean and how not everything that is “organic” is good for you if it is still super processed.
I’ve taught my children the Nourishing Traditions way to an extent, but would love to go more in-depth with it. We do fall back on packaged things occasionally, unfortunately, but I’d love to get to the point where we avoid that altogether. I ran across Weston Price & Sally’s writings about a year ago after becoming concerned with my teeth, which I began having issues with after having 3 kids very close together, and learned so much about how depleted I had become. It’s a work in progress. I’d love to read this book and teach my children from it!
I have taught my daughter to cook the nourishing traditions way by showing her how to soak and dehydrate nuts and make a delicious chicken stock. We have experimented in the kitchen with other nourishing recipes but those are our main NT foods! She enjoys cooking and reading so a Nourishing Traditions cookbook for children would be a great educational tool for her! The explanations and descriptions of real, healthy food will allow her to see what really makes a food healthy! I would like to be chosen to win a copy of the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children to help my older daughter and my younger daughter understand why we eat what we eat!
I can’t wait to teach my children to cook the Nourishing Traditions way. My little girl loves to watch me cook. We started her out on Super Nutrition for Babies. The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for children sounds like the next best step. Thank you for posting this offer!
We read Nourishing Traditions before my first born was born. Luckily we had because I couldn’t breastfeed. We used the raw milk formula with him starting at 2 weeks and then again with my baby girl. He enjoys watching us cook. But I think that it would help him enjoy eating more nutritious food if maybe they were more kid friendly recipes.
i have been teaching my children to cook with Nourishing Traditions since my first born was about one. We learned about raw milk and made the switch. They know all about their fresh farm milk and eggs and will even ask others if their food is “fresh.” They know when we buy a chicken from the farmers market that it will be made into “chicken fresh soup” (Bone broth). The best part of all of it is that they already have established relations ships with our farmers an that makes my heart full. We would love to win a copy
Of this book to learn even more!
Seven years ago I happened upon a lady who was well versed in the Nourishing Traditions way and held classes in her local community. I was able to receive a copy of her notes (I did not attend as she lives 8 hours from me!) and I was aghast that butter and bacon and lard were “healthy,” as I grew into adulthood in the “Fat Free” fad of the 80s and 90s. But I continued reading, looked up the information on the internet and was pleasantly surprised to discover that there were real studies that backed these claims up. I quickly ordered the Nourishing Traditions book and was immediately squeamish at the idea of organ meats and chicken feet. I was able to sell the kids on all the dietary changes except those! Although, recently, I have added chicken feet to our broth now that I have read Nourishing Broth and was able to really give my kids more information.
We have also read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration and just love to look through the pictures of those beautiful wide smiles. I explain to my boys how important it is for their future wives to have good nutrition when they are growing their babies. Unfortunately, I held fast to the diet coke and low fat mentality and our family has certainly paid for that. :(
I am so impressed with this way of eating. It’s hard work, but it’s worth it. 6 weeks ago, my youngest son had a spinal fusion, a major back surgery, with rods placed in his back because he had a rapid onset of scoliosis that gave him a 52 degree curve. It came so fast because he has a mild and rare form of muscular dystrophy. Green smoothies would not fix that and while we were distraught at the idea of having a surgery, we had no choice but to relent. He had been drinking bone broth and I had increased his gelatin intake with gummies, aside from eating grass fed meats, organic vegetables, etc. He was initially expected to be in ICU for 2 days, but he recovered so quickly that he was only in for one day. He started physical therapy, and although he was weak from the anesthesia and morphine, the very first PT session blew his therapist out of the water. Most children can only walk from the bed to the door, but he walked around the nurses station! She could not believe how resilient he was. We refused all hospital food, which consisted of a juice cup with only 15% fruit juice and the rest high fructose corn syrup, canned broth, and typical Jello. Instead, I brought him homemade bone broth and kombucha gelatin squares. It was medicine to him as well as nourishment.
He was supposed to be in the hospital for 5 days but he did so well and recovered so quickly, that he was told after 3 1/2 days he could come home! And he has continued to recover very well. I know, I KNOW, it has absolutely everything to do with his nutrition. Since he has muscular dystrophy, he is on the very thin side. Before the surgery, they did some blood work to assess his nutrient profile, fearing his thin state was indicative of a deficit. Everything was perfect! I knew it would be. :)
We homeschool our children and this year I was at a Homeschool Convention and picked up a Nutrition curriculum for kids. While it’s not necessarily counter to what I have come to believe is good for you, it certainly is lacking in the NT fundamentals. I was ELATED to see that there is a cookbook for kids that also has information that I can use to teach them. Your review was wonderful and very thorough. I can’t wait to get my hands on this book! (I will wait til the 18th to see if I win it first!)
When I raised my daughter, Nourishing Traditions was unheard of. I did my best to feed my child organic food and grew as much as I could, even though I lived in cities. I grew up cooking from scratch, so I more or less did teach my daughter in a manner of Nourishing Traditions. This has come full circle now that she has two children of her own. She cooks most meals from scratch and loves the weekly baskets of fresh produce I give her from my garden. Now that I have the book Nourishing Traditions, I prepare even more meals the way my grandmother would have. I would love to have more resources to cook for my grandchildren, who are occasionally finicky about the food they eat. I feel that children who aquire healthy eating habits when young, will more likely eat well once they become adults, even if they go through a junk food binge durng adolescence or young adult hood. I would love to share the recipes, after I try them, with my daughter, her friends and the young parents at my community garden.
We really began the road of real food and the nourishing tradition route 6 1/2 years ago when we decided to begin drinking raw milk. We then decided to make our baby’s formula using your recipe in Nourishing Traditions (since we were unfortunately unable to breastfeed). Both of my children love to help in the kitchen. It would be really fun to take them through this new cookbook for kids. They see us making bone broth, butter, etc. We would love to receive a free book, it would be exciting to continue to introduce them to real food cooking in this way. They love to be mommy’s helpers in the kitchen :)
We have been eating the Nourishing Traditions way for about 4 years. I have 5 children. My oldest is almost 10 and the youngest is 3 months. I was following WAPF diet with my last two children pre-conception and on. They have been my healthiest babies. Knowing what I know now makes me want to instill in them the need, joy, and knowledge of how to properly prepare food and nourish our bodies the right way so that they live long and healthy lives and so that their children my grandchildren are healthy as well.
I have slowly been teaching both my kids to eat healthier. They are learning how to read ingredient lists and what the differences between organic, non-GMO, natural, cage free, etc all mean. I have also been working on teaching them to cook from scratch. We have many mixes prepared for muffins, ranch dressing and some of their other convenience foods, We also work together to plan healthy lunches for school instead of buying. I’m hoping this will stick with them as they grow and move out!!
My daughter is just turning a year old but I am so excited for all I will be teaching her about food. We have been following the NT ways of food and she has been thriving! I truly believe it’s been her diet that has made her such a healthy girl despite being in daycare. It is so important for our children to learn about being conscious consumers. This book sounds like it does a great job of that.
I have been teaching my son to eat the NT way since he was old enough to eat. We did baby led weaning and offered whole foods from the very beginning, no canned baby food purees. We grow most of our food and that really helps him to appreciate the importance of whole, organic foods. He LOVES to help me cook and is always by my side cutting away at a potato or other veggie. He is going to be a big brother in a few months. It would be great to have an actual guide on what to feed our new baby, that I could even read to him and further his understanding of the NT way of eating!
We get raw milk and farm eggs delivered every week and I would love to teach my children how to make good food from this. I know there are yogurts, mayo, butter and cheese you can make with raw milk and eggs. Nourishing traditions cookbook sounds great. I homeschool so it would be a great teaching tool to use with my girls. I would love to learn some new things myself. Thanks
Our tribe is just awakening to the life of fermenting and living off simple nourishing foods, which for us, is essential, given our tribe’s chronic health issues. We are open to and welcome guidance and inspiration on our healing journey!
My daughter is only 6 months old, but I am so excited for her to learn to cook with me as she grows up. Her first foods have been fermented cod liver oil, bone broth, egg yolk, and fresh squeezed grapefruit juice. I’ve shared WAPF recommendations for feeding babies and children with countless people. I’m so thankful I found WAPF before I decided to have a baby so I was able to adopt their nutrition principles. I had a wonderful pregnancy with no complications or morning sickness. Thank you for the review and giveaway!
I bought “Nourishing Traditions” 4 years ago and I’ve never looked back. Being a child of immigrants, a lot of the recipes looked familiar and brought me comfort. To know that I was also helping my family become healthier was a bonus. I have 4 children, who have been eating “Traditionally” now for several years. We’ve gone from shopping in grocery stores, to frequenting farmer’s markets, farms and orchards for our food. We’ve even begun to hunt our own meat! The kids have enjoyed knowing where their food comes from, learning about organics and GMO’s, how to grow herbs and veggies, preparing nourishing snacks and helping prep and make dinner. This Fall I will be cofounding a homeschool co-op and cooking and baking will be classes that I hope to offer. This cookbook has me very excited! My curriculum for the year seems to be written for me. I’d love a chance to win the cookbook. I plan to use it for my own children and for many other children as well. And hopefully a new generation of Nourishing Cooks will emerge.
Tonight after a dinner of wild salmon, sweet potatoes, sprouted rice, all with generous helpings of butter on top, and a glass of raw milk on the side, my five year old son says to me, “Now can I have some real food?” I don’t know what he means, as he’s only known a Nourishing Traditions diet his entire life. (You’ll thank me later, son.) “This is as real as it gets, kid,” I want to say, but instead-“More milk?” “Sure.” Two glasses later, he’s satisfied.
He knows how to help in the kitchen- how to chop cabbage for sauerkraut, what to put in eggnog, and he watches with interest when I cook liver (though he still won’t touch it). But what I would love is for him to see that others eat this way as well, that other children’s mothers cook this way. A Nourishing Tradition cookbook for children? Perfect.
I’m old! I just turned 70 – and can’t believe it! I’m a full-time caregiver of my 77 year old husband. Why is this important? Since I was born and raised at a time in history when eating and drinking real food was considered normal, I am well enough to care for my husband. Eggs and butter and cheese and meat didn’t have antibiotics and hormones. I raised 4 children but must admit that I fell for the lowfat myths and didn’t always give my children the food that I was raised on and that I now prepare. I would love to have my 7 grandchildren discover the Nourishing Traditions way of cooking and eating. I think the concept would be more readily accepted by them and their parents if they read them and saw examples instead of hearing them from me! :)
Severe food allergies in our family have forced us to examine our eating habits. We are making small steps toward eating foods that are nourishing. No more margarine or skim milk- we’ve switched to raw whole milk and grassfed butter! One of our biggest downfalls is breakfast- I’m hoping this kid friendly Nourishing Traditions cookbook might help with our cereal addiction. I love how this cookbook teaches children to cook in a way that my generation was not taught. Even if I don’t win a free cookbook, I think this will be one worth investing in.
I have not read The Nourishing Traditions book yet. It is on my wish list on Amazon.I was born and raised in Slovenia, and we cook everything from scratch, it takes hours to prepare each meal. So, when I meet my American husband, I learned he thought that soup in particular only comes from a can, that one can not simply cook soup at home. Every time he would eat at my parents house, he marveled at the taste of all of the food.First year of our marriage, I couldn’t cook, because I had no idea what to do with all of the cans and boxes he had in the pantry. I needed a garden and a cellar in order to cook. So he had to cook, or more of open the boxes and make a meal. That convenience poisoned me and I started to use the microwave of Evil, myself. Then my hubby got Chron’s disease and I dove into the research on the SAD. I returned back to my roots and it would be awesome for our three kids 14 years and down to have this cookbook, so they could see Mommy is not weird and crazy, there are other people out there as well, that care about what their kids eat :-)
I have been aware of the Nourishing Traditions approaches to food choice, food preparation and nutrient dense food. During pregnancy and when my daughter was an infant I started to more seriously incorporate may of the preparation techniques and want to learn more about the history of Weston Price. I was glad when then Nourishing Book Club chose his memoir as the book to read. Now my daughter is 3 1/2 and is helping prepare food more -from harvesting from the garden to chopping and mixing. She would LOVE to have a cookbook designed for kids. Thanks!
I haven’t outright taught my child anything specific about Nourishing Traditions. We do follow a lot of the practices in our home. So, she is learning them as she watches and helps me cook. I would like to learn more myself and be able to teach her as well. We have recently been planning to do GAPS. I am convinced we both have leaky guts. I think that her knowing more about food and food preparation would help us through the process. Also, implementing the practices once we come off GAPS would help prevent leaky gut in the future.
I am interested in Nourishing Traditions for the very reason of teaching myself and my children to cook in a healthy and yummy at the same time way. One of my five little ones is having some belly issues which is making me really consider what changes we need to make. A guide of “how” to make these changes would be a real blessing. My heart is to do what is best for my family and their health but this can seam a bit overwhelming. I am thankful for this chance and for finding your facebook page with all of the encouragement on this journey.
Our family has struggled with crippling health issues for several years, and following “healthy” fads that ignored traditional wisdom has not served us well. We fell deeper and deeper into glandular exhaustion, weight gain, stress and, as a result, frustration and confusion over our vision of what a healing diet should look like. While I was literally convalescing at a raw foods health retreat when I read Nourishing Traditions. It felt like coming home! Since then, we have changed our whole outlook and practices, and are finally seeing results. Our 8+ children are delightedly committed to this course and love cooking delicious, nourishing, whole foods – and now, feeding our grandchildren this way!
I teach my step kids about the things they put into their bodies matter. I teach them about organic foods and non-GMO. I also, teach them about sugar and having candy as a treat. I have them help make a salad for dinner or chop up fruit. I also, try my very best to teach them about soda and won’t let them order diet soda (I’m working on the regular too).
I have taught my children to cook the Nourishing Traditions way by example, opportunity, and instruction. As the cook in this family, my kids are exposed to my culturing methods. They watch intently as I prepare vegetables for fermentation. Their budding sense of food is being directed by their experience at the meat counter, while mother is searching for the best grass – fed beef, stocking up on Irish butter, turning free range chicken carcass’s into bone broth for soup, and explaining to friends why we spend extra money on raw milk, make our own yogurts, perfect smoothies with a taste of raw honey and avacadoes. Their choices are limited to the nourishing foods we plan and shop for once per month (to avoid impulse junk food purchases and save money to afford the best foods). Organic apples and raw cheese are offered to them as healthy choices instead of candy or “chips”. Their idea of indulgence is organic cocoa powdered dates, and coconutt custards. These children of mine listen while I offer recipies and reasons for butter over corn oil, soaked grains over instant, etc. They are learning by example, by the choices I make available to them, as well as limit from them, and by the instruction offered to both them and others interested in the wholesome, nutritious way of eating.
I have am a homeschooling parent and I have been working to teach my children about healthy nourishing whole foods over the past few years. As I learn more myself I have been imparting that knowledge on to my kids. For me teaching my kids how to choose and prepare nourishing foods is a way of giving them control over their bodies, empowering them to understand and take care of themselves, to love and nourish themselves. I am still learning myself and I have noticed there is a lot of conflicting information around. This book sounds like a a great way for parents and children to learn together.
Our journey with Nourishing Traditions began unknowingly. With the birth of my daughter I was gifted a book (Super Baby Food) on homemade baby food. It was a great introduction into nutrition and the many benefits of homemade cooking. The next year, my mom came home from a local agricultural fair (Common Ground in Maine) and brought me a copy of Wise Traditions. As I read through the pages, again and again, I thought “now this makes sense!”. It feels we are still in the infancy of this journey of nutrition and living traditionally, but that each step unearths new insight and rewards with wholehearted nourishment. This cookbook would be an indispensable guide. My daughter loves to help me cook and as she grows up she earns more responsibilities. I love the interactive and educational perspective of this book, which will blend perfectly with our homeschooling ambitions. Cheers to the journey ahead!
My son is 9 now, and I was introduced to Nourishing Traditions when he was maybe 4 or 5. Since that time we’ve had many discussions about food: about why “colors” can harm his brain (now when he asks for candy all I have to say is, “Colors!”), about GMOs (“remember the rats?”) and other dangers in our modern food supply. I incorporate Nourishing Traditions into our meal planning and cooking in age-appropriate ways, by letting him help me soak rice and other grains, and showing him that organ meats are good for his heart, brain, teeth, etc. I’ve showed him pictures from Weston A. Price’s book and explained how important nutrition is for his growing body. Now that he is starting to really love to read on his own, and he’s old enough to cook a few things too, I’m excited that this book is available, so I don’t have to “translate” everything I’m learning into something understandable for him. Plus, though he trusts me when it comes to nutrition, it’s good to have outside sources that corroborate what I’m teaching him. I can’t wait to get this book!
My children, ages 12 and 7.5, have only known whole, organic foods in our home. When they were younger they only ate foods I made, and never packaged or processed foods. My younger daughter LOVED home made sauerkraut when she was little! I had to cut her off and encourage her to eat her other foods too :) Of course, as they’ve gotten older and have been exposed to others’ lifestyles, it has made for some good conversations about why we eat the way we do and why some of their friends’ foods are not health-building. My middle schooler will often come home and tell me that one of her classmates ate out of a big bag of doritos for snack that day, or another girl only ate grapes and gold fish crackers for lunch, and I take the opportunities to talk to them about why we don’t eat that way. It is difficult when kids get older and are at school, on teams, in camps and classes or other activities and they are enticed with things I would never let past the threshold of our home! It makes it even more important to nourish them at home and have to conversations about how to make wise choices on their own.
i am just embarking on this journey for nth myself and my family, including my 5 and 2 year old boys. My mom taught me the importance of organic and unprocessed foods since we were kids. But after 20 years of vegetarianism, and two unsuccessful pregnancies, I realized that my body needs humanely raised, organic meat. And although my next two successful pregnancies were still hard, I have continued to include chicken and fish and some red meat in our diet. But it’s not enough- our health is still not optimal and so I have found Nourishing Traditions at the suggestion of a functional medicine doc and some friends. We have just started adopting a whole new way of eating and bone broths have already made a big difference in my health. Now my challenge is bringing along one very picky 5 year old eater. We are planting a garden this week- and I am thrilled to find this nourishing traditions book aimed at helping children understand and learn this healthy way of nourishing themselves for a lifetime. So glad I saw your GB post!
I first became aware of ‘Nourishing Traditions’ while I was pregnant with my first child 6 years ago. Naturally all of my children have grown with me in the kitchen. They like to help prepare the food which is a perfect opportunity for me to explain why we use this ingredient verses that ingredient, or why we prepare things a certain way. They are used to seeing chicken feet floating in a pot of soup!! Gardening has also helped tremendously in getting them involved in learning about our food. We like to talk about how food makes us feel and why we should be characterized by making healthy choices. And of course there are times when we don’t eat healthy but they know and crave the good stuff! I once heard someone say, “if you are going to pollute, remember to dilute!!”
I just recently got the nourishing traditions cookbook myself. Getting into it slowly. Find myself much more motivated when it’s something to teach/share with the children! This would be such a great thing to teach them & share with them. Thanks for sharing.
I am so thankful for this opportunity to win this beautiful book.
I am the mother of six children, almost 25, 22, 21, 15, 6 & 3. Sadly I am only just now discovering Nourishing Traditions.
Oh how I wish I had known about NT forever ago! And since my 22 yr old and my 6yo love to cook, as well as my 3yo {type one diabetic} loves to help us, I am so excited and hopeful to begin on a better path for eating real food, prepared and cooked the right way, with them — and for them — so they will reap better health and carry the knowledge of NT with them forever.
Thank you!
I am so grateful to Sally Fallon & the insight she had to bring all the brilliance of Weston A. Price’s work into the consciousness of our modern world, through her cookbook “Nourishing Traditions” & the foundation she created to support & continue his unparalleled research. This is essential for the times we’re in.
I’m late finding out about it. I had been a faithful vegetarian for many years, well aware that I was healthier at it than most, never giving up on butter, eggs, or raw milk. But it wasn’t enough. I wish I’d understood more earlier. My children are grown now (24 & 34) & I feel a sense of urgency for them to understand full nutrition in ways I didn’t BEFORE they have children. I’ve given each of them a copy of both “Nourishing Traditions” & “Nutrition & Physical Degeneration”. This will be the next chapter. This is just what’s needed, a cookbook for the young ones coming up. This “Nourishing Traditions Cookbook For Children” will be great! The next 7 generations needs this information to carry us forward in vitality. It’s not about survival-it’s about sur-thrival!
This looks great! !! On my list for sure!!
We have been eating the Nourishing Traditions way for about 2 years now. My daughter and I had digestive issues that we healed through the GAPS diet and now we nourish our bodies through food prepared traditionally. We are so much healthier. We are currently working on issues with my children’s teeth. I have the Nourishing Traditions book, but the children’s cookbook would be a huge benefit on our road to better dental health! Thanks for the great information.
My son is only a year and a half old but he is very active in helping with food preparation. He loves sitting on the counter next to me as I make our meals. We also have chickens, goats, cows and pigs and he is extremely involved in helping to care for them. We take the time to explain to him how our animals provide for us and how we in turn provide them with a home and food that are traditional for them. The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and Child Care was my first step on our real food journey when I was pregnant with him. Since then we have completely turned around our food habits, I’ve become a WAPF Chapter Leader and I’m in the process of becoming a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. Oliver, my son, is an integral part of all we do. He helps us plant, tend and harvest all our food from the garden and just this morning he helped me butcher a pig! It’s become so ingrained in him at such a young age he crinkles his nose at processed foods! :)
I have been unhealthy, overweight, sick, tired and so so LOST for the better part of my life. It wasn’t until I stopped listening to mainstream and started listening to myself that I began to feel better. Being in tune with myself taught me to recognize the patterns of eating that made me feel so poisoned. I don’t want my kids to ever feel so sick so I want them to learn how to be nourished and well. This cookbook is a fantastic tool to bring their mindfulness to the table and teach them the traditions I lost along the way. I would be so grateful to win a copy for all of our greater good!
I’ve been teaching my children ages 7,8,and 10 for the last 5 years on nourishing food. We eat whole non possessed foods. They help me with naturally fermented carrots and cabbage. They enjoy making kombucha with organic ginger and blueberries. I’m hoping they take these techniques into their adult lives.
My wife has been following nourishing traditions for several years. She’s taught all of us the importance of whole natural foods and traditional ways of preparing them. We’ve learned the importance of naturally fermented foods and raw cultured milk. We love raw kombucha. I hope that my children will learn how important it is to follow what nourishing traditions teaches.
I discovered Nourishing Traditions when my oldest was a baby. It made complete sense and we followed it thoroughly. As more children blessed our family, things became crazier and some of the techniques began to slide. Now my sons are learning to cook and I have taught them some practices, such as soaking, but they don’t yet have the skills to follow Nourishing Traditions. I love that there is now a cookbook that they can use as they search for recipes and plan meals and that it won’t take me translating that recipe into a “nourishing” option. I would love to win Nourishing Traditions for Children!
I wish my family had known about Nourishing Traditions as I was growing up. In a way they did because my grandmother, who lived to 104 grew up on raw dairy ( as was normal then) fresh eggs, meat and fish, using every part of the animal. Her fridge was always full of home made stocks and her diet was nutrient-rich.
My parents became vegetarian when I was 2. Although they did a proper job of it, meals cooked from scratch, good range of pulses etc, it wasn’t the best for us. As an adult I still find most meat and fish disgusting, so am on a gradual learning curve. My lovely child is 8 and really enjoys cooking and cookery books. He understands the theory of Western A Price, but whilst he is ok about removing harmful grains and sugar from his diet, he is utterly resistant to bone broths, stews etc.
I think that this book would be the solution. I need something simple as I don’t know that much about meat cookery and he needs something that will involve him and give him good reason to take charge of his own current and future diet. We home educate as well and this book sounds like it is Packed with fantastic information.
We’d love to win one, but if we don’t, you can be sure that we will buy one. Thank you, Sophie.
I love Nourishing Traditions! My child is only 3 years old, but he has helped prepare many meals. He likes to sprinkle sea salt on his eggs in the morning. He likes to watch daddy butcher animals – I think he is fascinated by anatomy and physiology, he seems fascinated to understand *where* his food comes from. He loves homemade clam chowder (with homemade chicken broth) – last night he ate a whole bowl. He enjoys drinking fresh, raw goat’s milk every day! I am excited to have him helping out more in the kitchen as he gets older and I hope he continues to enjoy eating healthy, whole foods for the rest of his life!
I want to teach my children (all parents themselves) and my grandchildren with an easy-to-follow set of instructions how to live vibrantly, deliciously, and intelligently through cooking and eating the way humans were designed to be nourished. I trust the people who have brought us Nourishing Traditions to make attractive and persuasive the methods and procedures needed, along with the reasoning and information required to bring this about in an enjoyable format. While cookbooks exist for children, and cookbooks exist that teach correct principles of traditional food preparation, I am unaware of a child’s cookbook that teaches these principles on a level that doesn’t talk down to the adults who will be assisting and sharing their creative kitchen efforts. I know this Nourishing Traditions for children cookbook will fill that hole in cookbookery. I want one. No, make that seven, one for each of my children’s homes.
I love cookbooks. This one looks like a great cookbook for a young and older grandkids. My granddaughter loves to look at the pictures in the cookbooks and plan on what we will make for Christmas and Easter. Would love to have a copy of this cookbook and would use it a lot.
My kids are teens, and I have Nourishing Traditions but I haven’t ever made any of the recipes. We do eat organic coconut oil and don’t shy away from fats. Some of the ingredients aren’t readily available or cost effective for our family. I know my kids have learned to be aware of what they are eating. They have seen me read labels every time we shop. I wish we could afford to eat all non processed foods both with time and money, but it just isn’t doable for us. I do love the book though.
My children are learning to cook the Nourishing Traditions way. They know we soak our grains to lightly ferment before we cook them, and they know that they taste so much better that way. They love how delicious our chicken soup is. It is amazing what a difference adding a little bit of vinegar and letting the chicken bones soak in that before cooking makes in the quality of the broth! The kids enjoy the “name that food product” by the ingredients list sections of my Nourishing Traditions book. A kid version of the book would be fantastic. I know mine would really have fun with it. I would be delighted to have more healthy recipes that are easy for kids to help prepare and that they’d enjoy eating!
I should add that as a toddler, instead of cheerios as a finger food, my dd was given chickpeas prepared the Nourishing Traditions way. She loved her chickpea snacks, still does! Her birthday is the 17th. This would make a great gift for her!
My 6 yr old has been eating Nourishing Traditions recipes and recommendations all her life. Starting with soft boiled egg yolk and breastmilk. Now her favorites are lactofermented salsa, homemade yogurt cream cheese and pickled garlic! She helps peel the garlic for pickling. I would love to have the new childrens version of Nourishing Traditions to continue teaching her the importance of and how to make healthy nourishing foods!
I plan to homeschool my children and want them to learn how to cook real food as part of their schooling. I have cooked from the book Nourishing Traditions, and would love for my children to learn the same, only from their level!
I am a single woman living with a family who has three children. I work as a nanny for two small children. I found Nourishing Traditions a few years ago and it has changed my life…how I view food, how I cook and eat, and how I obtain the food I consume. We currently have a small garden at home & keep chickens. It has been fascinating to watch the children learn to plant and harvest, to care for the chickens and collect eggs, etc. I would love to now help them learn how to prepare the whole foods that we harvest from our garden or get through our local co-op/buying club (where their dad & I both work). Letting them take this next step is so important – I am so excited to see that there is now a Nourishing Traditions cookbook for kids! Thank you!!
My oldest (of five) just turned 8, and she is scary scatterbrained, so she’s usually limited to mixing and measuring in the kitchen. My children have a pretty good understanding of nourishing versus junk manmade “foods” but what I find challenging is explaining all the steps I do before we even cook something. “Oh, you want to make granola? Okay. First we have to soak the nuts and seeds, then dehydrate them. Since the oatmeal is sprouted, we don’t have to soak that this time.” Their attention span isn’t long enough to make something three days down the road…they don’t get that when I “whip something up,” it’s often been in the works for days with preparation they don’t see or pay attention to. I’d be delighted to have a cookbook that lays things out on her level in steps that make sense to her.
I see I didn’t follow directions and include the words “Nourishing Traditions” in my comments. We began eating the Nourishing Traditions way about 10 years ago, after suffering from primary infertility and exploring nutrition as a source for healthy conception and pregnancy. When I finally did have children, I have been delighted at how healthy they have been, and I believe it’s in large part due to our diet of bone broth, eggs, raw dairy, sprouted grains, fermented foods, which they love, liver, and cod liver oil. I feel it is important that they learn not only to cook this way, but the reasons why we do it. I would love to have a cookbook that teaches it on their level…I tend to get too technical, as I love food science, and their eyes glaze over. Even if I don’t win one of these books, I will definitely be buying one. I see a summer course in cooking coming to our home school.
My family has been eating the “nourishing traditions way” for several years now. My kids always tell me how their health teachers have it all wrong when they are taught to eat the food pyramid way at school. In the beginning it was very difficult but over the years they’ve gained an understanding on why we do the things we do and also how their bodies feel better with better nutrition. My 11 year old is allergic to wheat and this is what pushed us to explore nutrition. He loves soup made from bone broth and loves to help in the kitchen. I think he would love this book!
My daughter is 6 years old and has shown a HUGE interest in cooking over the last several months. We have made a huge effort to teach her cooking the Nourishing Traditions way; her food choices speak to that! We are so proud that she turns down junk food at school and asks for fresh organic fruit. Even grocery shopping, she knows what foods to avoid and always looks for natural foods. She also cares about our earth and loves nature. Her favorite thing to do is to crack eggs and use a whisk. I have every Nourishing Traditions book thus far, and I look forward to adding this one to our collection for my daughter (and baby# 2 due in July!) to grow from!
Thank you, Suzanne and Sally!
I have taught both of my children to garden and cook using whole foods, including plenty of healthy fats. I am now in teaching my 4 year old grandson to cook. He has fantastic knife skills. I julliene the vegetables and he will chop for hours. We love the crispy almonds recipe in Nourishing Traditions and make them regularly. On our next date at the grandhouse, we plan to brew some ginger beer together. I would love to use this book for more kid-friendly approach and recipes. Bravo, very exciting to have a Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children.
I have loved my copy of Nourishing Tradition for about 8 years. My children have experienced the difference between soaked oats and normal oats. They feel the difference in their digestion and thinking capabilities. They are wonderful cooks and it would be great for them to have a copy of the children’s cookbook as their own. We recently have been reading more about the dental remineralization possibilities that Weston A. Price studied and are learning that its best to soak the brown rice also and not just the beans as we have been doing. We pair our cod liver oil with minerals that are loaded with good fats and minerals too.
I have taught my children about good eating, specifically my youngest as he has celiac disease and milk allergy. However, they’re now adult who take care of themselves. My difficulty is now with my nephew. He’s 10 yrs old and eats crap. With celiac in our immediate family (myself, sister and my son), I feel it’s very important for my nephew to start understanding what he’s putting into his body, even at this young age. He’s old enough to care and strong willed enough to fight FOR himself. He’s also a very smart kid and would stand to learn a lot from your book. I believe that if you can’t get the parents “on track” go for the kid!
I have not begun to teach my 7 year old son to cook but this review has inspired me! We are moving from public school to homeschool and I would like to dedicate time to teaching cooking. One of reasons we are moving to homeschooling is also a reason that I want to begin teaching him to cook; he was diagnosed on the Autism spectrum last month. I’ve read of the wonders that a healthy diet can do for kids on the spectrum and I have hope that it will help my son as well. I’m so excited about this cookbook and plan to buy it at some point even if we don’t win.
I discovered Nourishing Traditions when my first child was just a few months old (he is 11 now). Since then I have always cooked the Nourishing Traditions way with some grain free modifications the last few years. Both of my children have always had raw milk, fresh produce from the farmers markets, local raised meats and fermented foods. I teach them everyday about the importance of eating healthy and nutrient dense foods. I would love to have of a copy of this Nourishing Traditions children’s cookbook to help pass on these wonderful cooking skills and eating traditions.
I would love to have a copy of the new Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children! My family has been gradually changing our diet over to traditional foods over the past three years and have loved using Nourishing Traditions to help in that process. I have also been converting the menu for the preschool that I operate to traditional, nourishing foods. This can be very challenging, particularly when many of the students are already addicted to highly processed foods. I would love a better resource for making healthy, nourishing meals that all kids will love!
My oldest son turns 22 on the day you select for the Nourishing Tradions children’s book. I have 3 more children. I won’t lie – we could do a lot better but when my two sons come home from college and don’t drink pop and really watch what they eat without their mom “nagging” it warms my heart. Being college boys I’m sure they have had some fermented beverages this year ….. I would like the cookbook for my 14 year old who is health conscious on his own. He said the other day – Mom I need to stop eating candy and get healthy. Music to my ears. Thank you for making a difference in the world
I bought the Nourishing Traditions book a few months ago and I love it. We’ve been trying to change our lifestyle and eat better as well as teach our children about true nutrition. This book has really changed our lives. We home school and my husband is a chef so we strongly believe that knowing how to cook is an important part of education as well as nutrition. We want to use the new Nourishing Traditions children’s cookbook as part of our culinary curriculum.
I haven’t been teaching my children to cook at all but I want to start. I was never taught to cook myself, but I have tried very hard to learn. As a family we just planted our first tiny garden. It is our start. We have also tried to work our budget so we can buy better quality, locally raised free range organic meat and dairy. It’s all a steep learning curve for us, but one we are all committed to learning. I would absolutely love for my children to win this cookbook!
I haven’t taught my 3 and 1 year old too much about cooking yet. I’m really hoping to have my 3 year old start soon since he loves helping in the kitchen! I plan on letting him help pick meals and different vegetables to add to each meal. Have him help as much as possible in the kitchen so he can see how everything is prepped and put together. I hope to have my FIL build a stool just for him in the kitchen to help with everything. This Nourishing Traditions cookbook sounds amazing and I’d love to win it and go through it with my oldest. <3
I can’t be without my Nourishing Traditions cookbook. It’s my gold standard and has been for almost the entirely of my son’s 24 years of life. Major life changes are usually gradual, but having this book on my shelf to turn to kept me moving forward. Well, except for brief periods after I’g give mine away and have to wait for another to arrive. Now I just keep an extra copy for give-away, and replace it as needed. I’m sure my son would love to have a copy of the children’s version.
We would love a copy of the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Kids! My daughter just joined our local 4H club and so she is learning all about cooking. After reading Nourishing Traditions I have been trying to prepare our foods the traditional way – using raw milk, local fresh produce, and grass-fed meat. We haven’t tried fermenting yet but that is something I hope my girls and I can do as well. As long as we can teach children these techniques then the future generations will grow up healthy and without the detrimental affects that comes from toxin-laden food. Here’s to hoping my family will win a copy!
We are a homeschooling family with four children right now. Explaining to our children the importance of eating whole foods that nourish our bodies is a steep task! I’ve looked and looked for a curriculum of some sort to aid me in my teaching. This book Nourishing Traditions is recommending will be perfect!! I love cooking and would truly love to see my children develop a love for cooking and establish good habits from the beginning.
I have only started my journey of nourishing foods. I have a limited pallette which makes new tastes, smells and textures challenging. I want better for my children. I want to do this for my children because of our gut health. My two oldest children have expressed concerns about eating animals. I think eating all of the animal is showing respect.
I’ve taught my kids the importance of cooking and eating whole foods. They have loved to help and learn in the kitchen from the time they were toddlers. I recall frying eggs was one of the first lessons. We are blessed with a garden space which they love to plant peas, potatoes herbs and what not. We live in Eastern WA which is abundant with forage. They love telling their friends which ‘weeds’ are edible.
Hi, I would like to teach that not only to my 2 sons, but all the kids comming to the summer camps where I talk to them about nutrition
My son is just 2, but he already loves to pull a chair to the kitchen counter and help me cook! We always cook the nourishing traditions way, and one of his favorite things to help me make is the chili recipe from the “big” cookbook. He also loves eggs and will love the egg recipe section in the children’s cookbook. I’m very excited to use the book as part of our homeschool program as well! Our family has never been healthier since finding Nourishing Traditions!
We homeschool our 3 children and I am constantly talking about the importance of healthy food, we start our day with bone broth and try to keep it as healthy as possible, would so love to have a kid friendly book to teach my children as me telling them all the time doesn’t always work, would be a great reference book for them on their nights of cooking dinner for everyone. Thank you so much
My grandchildren are enjoying the process of learning to cook…sometimes! I would love to share with them through your book the process of wholesome and healthy meals and preparation. I feel its of paramount importance in our current society of exposure to much fast, packaged and so called easy meals to teach our children to care for our bodies through preparing and cooking ‘real’ food. We are also currently preparing new garden beds for this very reason.
Thank you for the opportunity
I am not a good cook. :( At 54 years old and five children later, I still have very little confidence in my culinary skills. So, do I feel qualified to teach my children to cook? Ha! Not hardly! Due to my experience of inadequacy in the kitchen, I thoroughly agree with the authors that knowing how to cook is equally important as learning to read and write. I feel I would be a student alongside my children in reading and cooking with your “Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children” – LOL. It would be awesome if your cookbook is easy enough, not only for me, but also for my 11-year-old son with Down syndrome.
Yes, I have been teaching my teens to cook the Nourishing Traditions way. My younger teen has soaked oats, almonds, etc. She loves making the recipe for cooked carrots in my Nourishing Traditions book. I would love for her to have this cookbook so she can have the recipes on hand in a more convenient way. My goal is to encourage them to cook in a healthy way for a lifetime. The delicious recipes are very helpful with that as they can see that eating healthy is also delicious.
My children have been in the kitchen with me from the start. We started using Nourishing Traditions when they were babies due to food allergies. I want them to grow up knowing a better way to eat and to live. Food should be healing and satisfying not empty junk that will ruin their health. As a homeschooling family I think this book would be a great resource for us to have our own cooking/nutrition class.
I am excited about this new book and would love to win one for teaching my kiddos how to cook, and for recommending to other natural parents. My children are 3 years old, 2 years old and a newborn, so they are just starting to learn the very basics of what mom prepares for them. They do love eating the sauerkraut and pickle recipes from Nourishing Tradition’s cookbook! The other current favorite is kombucha. We look forward to seeing this book in person.
I am a great fan of the #NourishingTraditions cookbooks. One way I have taught my children to cook in a Nourishing Traditions way was to have them learn to make bread. Selecting, preparing, and sharing food is a way for families and communities to connect. It is easy to let this important practice slip into a rushed necessity where we buy into convenience instead of connection to each other and our environment. I want my twelve year old to have the tools to learn about healthy eating and how to prepare healthy food.
I’m a bit newer to the Nourishing Tradtions method of cooking, but have had an interest in it for some time, and have little by little been incorporating it into my family’s way of eating. The explanations of our current (western) diet and what isn’t working about it when it comes to our health (especially regarding wheat) all makes perfect sense. My son is at the perfect age to learn to cook, and what better way to get him off to a great start then to use recipes based on truly healthful methods tried for generations, all over the world. Since I’ve recently discovered some health issues of my own, including food sensitivites and leaky gut, I’m more interested than ever in changing the way our family eats, and including my son in the process to prevent him from suffering from ill-health himself. I’m excited about this book, as it looks like an amazing tool to reach children at their level and teach them how to take good care of their bodies so they can feel a sense of pride and responsibility for their own well-being.
ehat a great review of an important book! My hub and and I just finalized the adoption of our daughter. She is 5 and came to us with very little nourishment. As a health coach and while food living advocate I know the importance of “real” food. And I am *always* looking for help with suggestions on things to make! My daughter has grown and flourished with our care and she truly does appreciate food that is nourishing (she even says it!) Cooking together is but one way to truly create nourishment. And this book looks like a great way to get that nourishment going!
Unfortunately I didn’t get into this till my daughters were in their 30’s. I wish I had known about all of this back then. I have been teaching what I know and have purchased a book for them and myself. I send them many articles and have showed them it’s a lot cheaper to ferment foods instead of buying expensive probiotics. Taught them about kombucha, buying organic and finding raw milk. Her doc wanted to put her babies on skim milk when the reached 1 year. I said no and she listened. Taught her about soaking beans and keeping a supply in the freezer to make it easier to throw together a rushed meal. I purchased a mill and we make all our own bread, buns and noodles. One is now raising her own chickens for the eggs and she loves it. Kids are healthy and even at the age of 5 they know there are things they can’t eat because it’s not good for you. We stay away from fast food since homemade can’t be beat.
We have three children who are being raised on our property. It is important to us to be able to raise them on good old fashion wholesome foods that are grown in our vegetable garden and food forest. We raise our own pastured meats and drink raw milk. We try and live a sustainable life style buying in organic where needed. I would like to thank Sally Fallon for her book “Nourishing Traditions”, (my bible), but would also like to acknowledge her children’s book. There are very few cookbooks for children that I would buy. However, the “Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children”, gives children lifelong skills in the kitchen starting from the young and impressionable ages. And best of all they learn that fun cooking can be and they learn the importance of sitting up at the table enjoying a meal with those we love. Thank you for the inspiration Sally!
Nourishing Traditions is my favorite Nutritional Guide/Cookbook. I have been using their ideas and recipes for several years, and am trying to teach my children to follow these healthy living practices. I am excited to see that they have a children’s version cookbook, so that we could raise up a new generation to focus on this healthy way of eating. I am in the process of teaching my daughters how to cook the Nourishing Tradition way and this would be a great help in this process. This way of eating has changed our way of life. Sally Fallon has laid the way for a whole new way to look at food and how we eat it.
My oldest son is 9 years old and absolutely loves to cook. When he was younger, we followed Nourishing Traditions pretty well. Then 2 more children and a job that takes my husband out of town for 6+ weeks at a time happened, and healthy cooking has definitely gone to the wayside. I’d like to start making positive changes for our family, and involving our newest household cook is a great way to do it. We already raise chickens, turkeys, and rabbits for meat and all the kids have a great understanding of where food comes from, but knowing how to prepare things with these gifts we have is definitely the next step.
What a wonderful idea to have a cookbook to introduce children to a healthy life style, and whole nourishing food to prepare and enjoy. Introducing children to the idea of healthy eating at a young age will benefit them through out their lives.
I have been teaching our youngest son for years (he is now aged 12) about natural fermentation, making kefir and yogurt, and especially making real genuine sourdough. As we have chosen to only bake with the original heirloom wheat Einkorn and the ancient grain Spelt and rye for our main breads, we have had lots of opportunities to teach him many Nourishing traditions that people used to make and eat years ago! Because we make the real sourdough with just flour, salt and water, our son and the whole family has been learning about how to make real food. I have so enjoyed the recipes from the nourishing traditions blog and I am seeing how very important it is to teach our children how to prepare grains properly….how to ferment foods in the natural way and how to make bone broth too. Im seeing that if we dont attempt to make these foods at home, then how will they be able to pick it up for themselves later? Thankyou for all your input and knowledge. Stephanie Heiden from Our Daily Bread bakery, Pensacola, FL.
Thrilled to see this book and will buy one if I am not chosen to get one!! My kiddos are 4, 9 and 13. We are working toward Gaps and NT diet! My kids are so much more aware of their food and choices at their ages than I was as a child. I am thankful to be able to teach them at an early age! It was much more difficult to start “re-learning” how to eat as an adult! Thank you!
I would love to win a copy of Nourishing Traditions, not only to teach my 3yo daughter, but also for myself. I am currently changing my family’s eating habits, to foster a healthier lifestyle for us all, though we are only taking baby steps, changing one or two things at a time, so it will be easier to maintain permanently. I have already begun learning to grow vegetables and herbs, so this cookbook would help to make a simpler transition from the garden to our plates!
I have only recently learned of Nourishing Traditions when I attended a workshop on nutrition and mental disorders. Since then I’ve tried to share that knowledge with the parents of the kids I counsel as a first step in addressing behavioral issues. But it’s so vastly different from their diet of processed foods that even when they agree conceptually, they are too busy or too poor and overwhelmed to make the change. So I’m excited to see this cookbook that focuses on children because they may be more open to change and it might actually be more accessible for the parents. I’d love to win a copy because I know the agency won’t pay for one and is hard for me to spend more than I already do for therapy supplies. I hope the kids I work with count as “my” kids, as my son is grown and not very receptive to my crazy dietary ideas (yet).
My husband is the primary cook at our house and involves our daughters as much as he can. He uses “Nourishing Traditions” all the time. For starters, we all save bones for making stock. Every month he gets out our huge stockpot and the girls help fill it up with bones and vegetable scraps, and then they help again when it comes time for the canning. We also just talk a lot about food, where it comes from, traditional food preparation, and we learn increasingly about how our ancestors ate. Sometimes we also read one of those long mystery “food” ingredients lists included in “Nourishing Traditions” and try to guess together as a family what it could be. We did that recently with Twinkies and enjoyed that our daughters have never even heard of them before. :)
I am new to Nourishing Traditions, but I’m having so much fun learning how to feed my family in a healthy way. I have a five-year-old daughter, a seven-year-old son and an eight-year-old daughter. They have all been excited our new food adventures. My eight-year-old daughter loves to be cooking and working in the kitchen. She has been trying so many new foods and even drinks bone broth daily. She is usually by my side wearing her apron as we work together. My three children are adopted from the foster care system and we also have four grown biological children and seven grandchildren. It’s time we all get back to the basics of eating real food. What better way than to get our children on board and in the kitchen 😍
My daughter, husband and I live in New York City. Married to a 9/11 First Responder, we moved to Nourishing Traditions when we discovered how my husband’s entire digestive system had been destroyed by his exposure to the toxins and heavy metals at Ground Zero. Since we have been eating nutrient dense food his quality of health has increased dramatically. Our daughter, who is five, has no connection to 9/11, but she knows that we make the one hour subway trip each week for raw milk and healthy grass fed meat because our family feels better when we eat well. She now gets in arguments with her school friends about whether milk or water is a better lunchtime drink and cannot understand why all of her friends don’t love to drink their yummy milk too. I would love to incorporate more child-friendly recipes into our family meals because she loves understanding why meat and vegetables and butter are healthy for her and why it is that processed foods, “give her the toots,” as she puts it. The more I can educate her, the more I can empower her to have a healthy and balanced life.
Queens, NY
Our son will be two in August. He loves cooking, and has such a love for nourishing foods! He cracks eggs every time we use them (and digs out the shell in case he drops any). My husband and I both love cooking and eating foods that make us feel good, and we’ve already noticed this in our son! He’s loved helping make and then enjoy drinking bone broths and kombucha, and his favorite foods are pork butt, scallops, bacon, carrots, and apples. I’d love to give him his own cookbook so he can navigate the kitchen on his own as well as he continues to grow!
We are at the mid-beginning of our journey into healthy, intensely nutritional cooking. As a single mom, for years, we have eaten what is quick, inexpensive, and just plain typically unhealthy American food. But I have come to understand and believe wholeheartedly, and my children are completely on board, after experiencing much dental work in all of my children, acne prone-ness, fingernails that show ridges from lack of nutrition, and food sensitivities in my son, that my children not only need to have a fully healthy diet, but need to have the ability to make it themselves as well. Training them will train future generations, and their children will be much healthier than myself and my children. We have begun with vegetables and some meats, milk kefir (which is now their favorite smoothie foundation), and soups, and are excited to journey into more of that which is largely unknown to me. My 14 year old and 9 year old are at key places in their lives, and I want to help them in this journey before they lose interest and motivation. So GLAD you have written this book! It sounds amazing…
I am a single mom of two boys, ages 10 and 12. We decided together that this year was going to be the year we changed how we prepared, ate and thought about our food. Although I am able to patiently teach them many things, cooking has not been one of them, although they show much interest. I am excited about this book because perhaps it will help me let go and let them explore without me :)
I taught my daughter how to prepare Nourishing Traditions foods first by eating that way myself, and then by feeding her that way as a baby. Role modeling is a very powerful influence. Then, as she developed a broad and varied palate, she wanted real food, and wanted to know how to prepare it. She would take the Nourishing Traditions cookbook out and page through it. Now at 12 years old, I would love to give her a cookbook that is geared for her to use all on her own!
After having been born naturally at home and being breastfed for a long time, my unschooled 5 year young little son loves to eat and help prepare the traditional foods in our kitchen. He understands very well, why his mommy isn’t using sugar, wheat and other degenerative “foods” common all around him. And he highly appreciates the yummy and nourishing traditional food she’s cooking for him! He loves to eat good grassfed meat, eggs and also get get some raw cheese from grassfed cows, sheep and goats. He also very naturally loves to eat fruit and even veggies like naturally grown cucumbers from the garden. Having parents who enjoy eating the traditional way, he keeps picking up the essentials at home quite easily and naturally. I wish, all kids had that chance!
I am excited this book is available for my little guy to grow up with. I am a single mom and he is just two, but he is my buddy in the kitchen and he learns quickly! I practiced WAPF principles in his pregnancy and he’s healthy, energetic and eager to learn about the world around him. Kefir was one of his favorite first foods.
I have been feeding my family from Nourishing Traditions for over ten years, and can’t WAIT to get a copy of Nourishing Traditions for Children into my daughter’s hands. She is turning ten this month and has begun cooking for our family, and we have been talking about which cook books would be good for her. There is simply no guide that I can imagine being more appropriate than this one. It puts food and cooking into a context that is so relevant, so necessary, so vital for our planet AND our children’s health! Thank you for helping me be the best parent I can!
i recently purged all my cookbooks with the exception of two… nourishing traditions made the cut! i would love to teach my eager 7 year old how to cook, but I don’t have a ton of confidence. I love that this book has picture instructions and simple, healthy recipes for her to practice on. I also love that it gives the WHY for the reasoning behind the food choices we make. With the summer coming, and four kids, I would really love to delegate some of the cooking over to my lovely assistant! :)
As “Granny Good-Food” and owner of The Life Emporium from 2007 to 2009, I offered classes to the community called “Kids in the Kitchen.” They were so excited to learn that they could make their own breakfast cereal that I call “Biscotti Bites” which, coincidentally, is now happily toasting in my oven. We also made tortillas, and the best one, according to the vote, was the sourdough batch.
I did apprenticeships at my store after I opened a small cafe inside it, and designed a curriculum so that the girls who worked there learned WHY we sprouted the beans for the Nachos or soaked the nuts in salt water for the Yogurt Sundae. They were all required to have copies of Nourishing Traditions, as that was our textbook.
I have a new venue now called The Backyard Farm Stand, and I am creating a scope and sequence for this summer’s outreach. I cannot tell you how happy I am to see that this book is now available with all the lessons in one place! I will definitely be ordering one and hopefully I will receive one of these to offer as a “scholarship” to some young person who is in need.
Granny Good-Food’s article, “Cereal Killers” ~~
http://grannygoodfood.blogspot.com/search?q=cereal+killers
I am new to the Nourishing Traditions way of cooking, but I am on a quest to feed my family better. We are making whole food choices and we are changing things a little at time as to not be so overwhelming. I have noticed that my boys are very eager to try new foods to a degree and we have gained new favorites along the way. They love to help in the kitchen and I would love to have this cookbook to teach them a better way of life! Thank you for making such things available and would love to have a copy of this
I would love the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children! I have to admit I would love the book for me AND my 3 girls. I never really learned to cook when I was younger aside from helping my grandmother sometimes in the kitchen, but later on it was mostly prepackaged food. So I would use this book to sort of learn alongside my daughters which they would also love since they like to help. :D Thanks for having this giveaway!
Since meeting Barry Groves, I have been a long time supporter of the nourishing traditions way of life. This books looks great as i can help my children understand this and enjoy it better, especially as a home educator. thank you for spreading the word Sally – if you are in the UK and want to do talks, please feel free to contact me as I run events :-)
I try to teach my kids the Nourishing Traditions way. I talk a lot about nutrition. Unfortunately as they get older and more exposed to their friends ways of doing things this way looks a little unusual. I pray that there comes a day when they value the things that I have taught/preached for many years. After God, health is the second most important thing. Without it, you have very little. I almost died at age 18 from bacterial meningitis along with D.I.C.. I know that the reason I contracted the illness was due to being at college, staying up late, eating fast food and drinking pop. I had never regularly consumed foods like this before. My body became weak and was unable to keep the germ at bay. I think instilling this is crucial to longevity and survival. We are inundated with chemicals, additives, preservatives, antibiotics, etc. constantly. Our immune systems suffer. I love that these cookbooks provide lots of factual information as well as simplifying processes that are no longer taught. I am excited to teach a class this fall about many traditional ways of cooking, preserving, gardening, composting, soap making, etc. to a homeschool kids class. This book will definitely be reviewed and possibly a required guide/reference for us next year!! Thank you for caring so much!!
I have not taught my son Nourishing Traditions but to be honest that is because I do not really know myself and am not a confident cook. It will be great learning together. It has recently become more important to expand my ability and be able to teach him as he has allergies to two large families of herbs and now that limits us as to what we can use in cooking. We attempted to make a chick pea and turmeric soup without the usual spices and both decided wallpaper paste my tasted better!! Yuk.
As a Grandmother of two little ones, I would like to use the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook as a teaching tool. My daughter is very conscientious about their nutritional needs and what they consume should be healthy. I would love to spend my precious time with them experimenting the use of different recipes that are wholesome. Cooking together would become a treasured memory as well as filling their “tummy”. This would also encourage establishing good eating habits for the future. Isn’t that what family is about, nourishing your mind, body and soul?
I first ran across Sally Fallon’s book “Nourishing Traditions” a couple of years ago while looking for books on fermentation. This book, along with several Paleo style cookbooks, changed the way that I viewed food preparation and consumption. Unfortunately I couldn’t get my husband on board, so he would bring fast food home for himself and our kids instead of eating moms weird meals. My kids are now showing an interest in cooking, and I would love to give them access to a child-specific cookbook that isn’t full of crap foods. Learning to properly prepare healthy food is something that you’ll use for life.
I remember the first time I heard about Nourishing Traditions. I had gone to a a farmers market in up state New York and a friend was hosting a festival. There was a wild man talking about fermented foods and a book he had written about fermentation. He was also carting about a huge yellow book, and talking about how everyone needed to know about it too. It was Nourishing Traditions, and that “wild” man was Sandor Katz. I was vegetarian, and it just seemed crazy to me. Some years later I had a little boy and Nourishing Traditions became a staple in our household. My son is now nine. He has grown up with a Nourishing Traditions diet. He knows how to cook some foods and yet as a single mom, it can be challenging to teach and get food on the table at a decent time. We are currently about to begin a home school co-op, and the group is interested in great books for teaching kids. I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to get everyone into learning about Nourishing Traditions, and see our community come together around delicious, healthy food.
One of the main reasons we are farmers is to raise our children to know the Nourishing Traditions way. We have Jersey cows so that we can provide our children — and our community — with delicious, grass-fed, full-fat raw milk. We also raise livestock for meat, teaching our children how to use every part of the animal, and rejoicing over the bone broth. When our kids seem off-kilter, we give them an extra dose of fermented cod liver oil and a cup of broth for breakfast. It’s the perfect “attitude adjustment”. Our kids are happy, healthy, smart and gorgeous — everyday people comment on how they glow and spread joy.
I have taught my 5 yr old daughter how to cook the Nourishing Traditions way,but she doesn’t realize that it is a certain WAY, it is just Mom’s way! Saving bones and scraps, making our own soaked nut milk, cooking from scratch, it is all how I have been teaching her all along! Since my 16 yr old Step-daughter has come to live with us, I get to “teach” the way to her as she came froma home where processed food was the norm. She is a fast learner and I am excited that I am able to influence BOTH of my girls in a healthy way that will last them a lifetime! I also secretly hope they teach their friends too so the knowledge spreads! This book looks wonderful and I would LOVE for my daughter’s to have ANOTHER exciting reason to cook!
Our whole family must learn healthy eating. I no longer have the energy to make separate meals for me and them. This book could be the restart we need. Healthy meals of which they could participate in the cooking.
Well, honestly Im not a mother, I’m still a child myself technically. Growing up we didn’t have a lot of money we still don’t, but since both of my parents work it’s fallen on me to feed myself and my older and younger brother. The youngest jack is 4 almost 5 and he loves to add the butter or watch me make tea or anything. Amd just recently have a come across Weston a Price and the health benefits of true real food like raw milk, butter, cod liver oil, grass-fed meats, and free range eggs, livers etc really make sense. And while I try to integrate these health foods with the convenience foods that my mom is buying out of habit because she knows jack will eat them, it would be so much easier if I could just come up with a grocery list based off easy recipes that anyone in the house could use that truly taste yummy, instead of trying to make meals for everyone with the few groceries that are truly nourishing.
I read through the book Real Food Nutrition and Health by Kristen Michaelis with my boys a few years ago but I really haven’t taught them how to cook the Nourishing Traditions way yet. I have been trying to cook according to the Nourishing Traditions way for quite a few years. My copy of the book is all tattered and food splattered! A well used cookbook. I’d love to have a way to easily teach my boys to cook healthy food.
I LOVE Nourishing Traditions! It is the only way to eat that makes sense to me (and there is a lot of advice out there that makes no sense at all folks). This book would be such a great help in teaching my Grand-kids how to cook and eat well -as they love to cook with Grammy! :) Thank you for this wonderful book that will help our little ones learn the importance of eating well and have great fun cooking good food. Simply wonderful!
Im 38 weeks pregnant and have just come across the nourishing traditions books. So although i have not had any direct experience teaching my children the way of whole nutritious foods i have done so indirectly with my conscious decisions on what i have nourished my body with from pre to post conception. Real Food is healing!
The first thing I taught my 10 year old to cook was a boiled egg. He now tells me his boiled eggs need to be cooked 5 minutes and his favorites are duck eggs! We are beginning our homeschooling journey with him next year due to ridicule that he has received at school from peers for his packed lunches. I would be honored to add Nourishing Traditions to our curriculum.
I’m super excited about this book. I just got my Nourishing Traditions book and it is amazing. We try to feed our 1.5year old as much whole foods as we can (and I’m preg with #2!). I feel like organic is important, especially meats. The foods marketed to kids today is nutritional void and having a book like this around would be an awesome educational tool!
Wonderful Nourishing Traditions is available to education and inspire the next generations about healthy eating. So excited to see and share your ideas with children. There’s so much work to do inspiring young people, and so much easier when they are young to put them on a good path.
My baby is 1 year old I follow many of the nourishing traditions concepts and would love to have the baby guide and recipes! I try to teach my 1 year old daughter healthy food habits by offering her only healthy organic good quality nutrient densed foods so her taste buds are used to these kind of foods from the start and hoping as she grows older the transition will be easier and I’ll only have to add the verbal explanation.
My daughter who is 8 years old was diagnosed with ADHD, Executive functioning deficit, depression, and severe anxiety. Since her diagnostic ive read alot has to do with nutrition. I started teaching her how to read labels also cuz she has alot of food allergies. I want to teach her how to cook the Nourishing Tradition way, so she can have a better healthier lifestyle. I want to implement good eating habbits now that she is young. I was not taught to eat healthy, thats why i had alot of health issues at a young age. This book could change both of our lives, beacuse i dont know how to cook that good either…I could use the extra help from this book:)
I have been cooking the Nourishing Traditions way for the past 8 years, but I’ve been wondering how to include my children in the cooking. We homeschool and I would love to have this way of cooking and eating to be a part of the learning process for them. They have been a part of the animal butchering, as well as eating many parts of the animals. However, we haven’t gone real in-depth yet with the “why’s” of everything. I want them to grow up appreciating and practicing the Nourishing Traditions way, and it has to start now while they are young.
I have started encouraging my children to prepare food for themselves by preparing their own school lunches. We have a list of nourishing food and food groups on the cupboard which they use to put together a healthy nutritious lunchbox for themselves. They have both approached this with enthusiasm but I’m hoping that with a copy of nourishing traditions cookbook for children they will want to go that step further and consider not only what constitutes a healthy meal but that where it comes from and how it is prepared is just as important.
We believe the best adventure to great health is the nourishing traditions way- so we try to include it in everything we do and talk about. Since we homeschool, we include it in our science lessons, which include gardening; and cooking (basic food prep). We have had a few friends over and have taught them how to make homemade fermented food and drinks. Although our kids understand and know quite a bit about the nourishing traditions way, they are still very much interested in the S.A.D. I think sharing this cook book with them may help them go to the next level of decision making and food choices. I am excited to use the new cook book- thanks for all you do!
I’m a grandmother who is passionate about growing, preparing, serving and eating nutrient dense foods the Nourishing Traditions way. I didn’t know about these principles when I was a mother and, unfortunately, fed my family the standard diet (sad face). Now, I have an opportunity to teach my grandchildren how to plant a garden, how to harvest vegetables, how to raise chickens for eggs and meat and why this is very important. They love it.
My grandson’s (age 9) favorite food is Caesar salad with homemade dressing. He knows the recipe by heart and can prepare it for the family with minimal assistance. He loves cracking the egg in the bowl most of all. His sister’s (age 7) favorite food is a breakfast smoothie made with homemade yogurt, fresh fruit, honey and a raw egg yolk or two. She, too, knows the recipe by heart and can make breakfast for everyone.
I can’t wait to add this to my young chef’s library!
I haven’t formally taught my kids to cook the traditionally way, except for comments hear and there about way I buy and prepare differently than what I was taught in college of my degree in nutrition & dietitics!! I have, of course, the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook (textbook!) and have cooked many meals & desserts, and I just received Nourishing Broths yesterday!! I have been making 24 hour chicken broth for several years now. My husband just said the other day that our daughter (14) needs to learn to really cook! And I responed with she AND our son (12) does too! I believe it was that day that I saw your children’s cookbook on facebook! Perfect timing. Although, I wasn’t taught how to cook, I love the kitchen and organizing, preparing, and cooking meals & baking desserts that are nutrient dense. This cookbook is the perfect place to start teaching my kids how to cook, appreciate food & nutrition, and to learn to be confident & self-suffcient in the kitchen. It would be a blessing to receive this gift!!
I do not have any children yet, but I absolutely will be raising them the “Nourishing Traditions way” one day. I used to eat what I call an organic junk food diet. All organic, mostly whole foods, but still the processed cookies and occasional chips from the grocery store which were fried in organic canola or soybean oil. I though this was ok because it was organic. I did not eat anything soaked, soured, or fermented, and I definitely did not have my fats straight :) One lucky day about a year and a half ago I happened across an article from Sarah Pope, The Healthy Home Economist, called Five Healthy Fats You Must Have in Your Kitchen. This was a pivotal moment in my life and my healing journey (I have been on GAPS for five months now). From there I read everything I could find about WAPF, including what I refer to as the WAPF bible – Nourishing Traditions. I couldn’t believe how mislead I’d been all my life. The reason I would love to have this cookbook is because I am a nanny for three beautiful little girls (ages 9, 7, and 4) that eat the standard American diet. This summer while they are off from school would be a wonderful opportunity to share with them this life-changing knowledge and instruction from The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children.
As a newbie to the Nourishing Traditions way of life I am thrilled about the children’s cookbook! I grew up very poor, living out of a car at times, eating whatever inexpensive processed food my mother could afford. Now, as an adult, I have learned so much from Ms. Fallon and the Weston A. Price Foundation and I know that no matter what my circumstances I will always be able to provide my family with nourishing food and I hope to past down the importance and actual ease of the traditional food lifestyle to all the children in my life. This children’s cookbook will be shared throughout my whole family!
My kids love to cook! My 8 year old son makes oatmeal, pancakes, and scrambled eggs the nourishing traditions way. My 11 year old daughter makes creative salads and fritattas. We soak grains and beans. When we lived in CA, we raised chickens and picked up our raw milk from a farm. It was such a wonderful experience for them to see the animals. They have also learned the importance of organ meats, animal fats, and organic produce. We have always had a garden and fruit trees. Our well-used and loved Nourishing Traditions cookbook is covered in ingredients on every page.
My son is currently 12 months and although I have not yet had the pleasure of teaching him how to cook, I have begun to teach him and practice various ways to eat a very healthy well rounded diet. We regularly visit our local Farmer’s Market where we purchase items like eggs, vegtables and milk. I may sure that he is engaged throughout this process so that it can become the norm for him. My husband and I began our journey towards eating better foods before our son was born but it has been a work in progress because we are constantly battling those around our. Coming from a Hispanic household does not make the process particularly easy and I worry that as my some gets older he will be pressured into eating the processed foods that our friends and families will expose him to. All I can hope for is that the foundation we set is strong enough that he will learn how to make good, healthy choices without our contact guidance. This is where the Nourishing Traditions Children’s Cookbook would be particularly helpful. If I can properly educate him with fun healthy recipes then the journey should be much easier for him moving forward. I also run the children’s programs at Cancer Support Community providing support for pediatric cancer patients and their families. This book would be a wonderful resource to have on hand to share with families while they are going through the overwhelming process of getting the child’s health back on track. Thank you so much for your consideration. :)
How wonderful!!! I am so excited that there is a Children’s Cook book following the Nourishing Traditions methods. I have used my Nourishing Traditions Cook Book over the years with my grandchildren, thinking there should be a children’s cookbook and Now There IS!!! My Children/and Grandchildren ALL love to be in the kitchen creating tasty nourishing dense foods and so do I, some of our favorite family moments have been in the kitchen. Thank you so much!!!!
Almost twenty-five years ago I began my journey away from a typical American diet to one of whole foods. The library was my best friend, during those momentous first steps. When I found the work of Weston A. Price it was as if I’d found the pinnacle of nutrition information. I was so grateful I’d discovered it while my first two children were still young. My third child suffered anoxia at birth, and as I held him, uncertain of what his future would hold, I was so deeply grateful that he didn’t suffer worse. If I hadn’t already known how to eat well, would he even have survived? It’s eleven years later. My son’s care takes most of my time, so continued growth in my journey has slowed to a crawl. This book might just make it possible for me to pick it up, again, to the benefit of all my children, even if the two older are beginning their journeys into adulthood. As it’s written for children I can only assume the steps are well-laid out, so I would have to do less thinking, and more doing! That would make my world so very much better. We all know – when mamma’s happy, everyone’s happy! :)
I teach my kids by having them get involved in the garden and then in the kitchen. Today we are making whey so we can make gingered carrots. My kids are so excited to see if we really will get cream cheese from yogurt! I love sharing and spending time with my kids! Nourishing Traditions has definitely helped with that!
Yay! I have been frustrated with the current children’s cookbooks because they teach food that you how to make junk. I have been wanting something that I and my son can follow which teaches how to make good foods that he can use EVERYDAY. Haha! I could also probably use some lessons too!
This looks like a great book! My son is only 15 months old, so he is not cooking this way yet. However, I am already teaching him things so that I can teach him as he gets older. I did babyled weaning and I’m still breastfeeding. He already loves things that I abhorred at his age, like liver and broccoli. I also got a learning tower and he “cooks” with me in the kitchen. I cannot wait to teach him the things I taught myself as and adult!
My children now have children of their own. I would like to have this book to share cooking experiences with my grandchildren!!! I’ve heard about Nourishing Traditions for years, even owned the book for years, but have only come to understand more fully in the last 6 months or so. I’m still a work in progress. I am eager to share with my daughter and daughter-in-law and they are even better at cooking healthy for their children than I was. =)
Excited to see this new book, encouraging children to understand more from the start, instead of having to relearn everything later.
My kiddo was a “Nourishing Traditions” Baby! Unfortunately I didn’t produce enough during nursing for my voracious eater, so we had to supplement. I was CERTAIN I wanted the best for my kiddo, so we used the formula recipe in “Nourishing Traditions.” What a blessing! When other kids have gotten sick right and left in his classes, he is healthy lil kiddo. Well…not so little anymore as he is growing strong, tall, and healthy at ten and already 4’8″, lol! He is super smart and reads 2-3 grade levels over average. He is a handsome kiddo and where ever we are, I always get compliments on him.
We have continued eating this way for over 10 years with bone broths and so much more. Sam helps me cooking and loves to come up with new recipes, as well as variations of family favs. I know it has also been supremely instrumental in eliminating family allergies and helping us feel better all around :-)
Thank you, Sally for all you do!!!!!
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Sadly, the cookbook that I was given back in the 70’s, when I was first married, was the Betty Crocker Cook Book …such a waste of print & paper! Many years later, I fortunately discovered Nourishing Traditions! What a life changing tome! I wanted dearly to pass this book on to my children, however, they were NOT interested in the least! (Over the years, my parents attempted to “influence” me and gave me many books that I routinely ignored.) My nearly 9 year old Grandson, however, is an exceptional child and I KNOW that he will READ this cookbook and LEARN HEAPS MORE and perhaps even TEACH his parents in the process! Hey, IT COULD HAPPEN!
I have been following a whole foods/ancestral way of eating for a couple of years now. My husband does not believe the same way I do & does not go out of his way to support me trying to transition our 3 children towards this way of eating. I have an 11 year old daughter who is obese but LOVES to cook & bake. This book in her hands could be the turning point to give her the power to make healthier choices because SHE wants to & believes it. She loves kombucha and is open to changing but it’s hard to give up the garbage when it’s openly given. Thank you for doing this giveaway!!
I am a grandmother of 7, and while I love their parents, they can/do not take the time to prepare whole foods the Nourishing Traditions way. I have been searching for a children’s cookbook to teach healthy and responsible cooking to my grandchildren when they visit. They love cooking and know that when they come to “Gramlin’s House” they, “only get healthy stuff, so don’t bother asking for junk.” (I’ll own that! HA!) Most of the “healthy stuff” comes out of Nourishing Traditions; they especially enjoy experimenting with traditional foods made the healthy “old fashioned” way (as they call it). I’m excited that they will now have their own Nourishing Traditions cookbook so that they can learn and own this way of living, cooking and eating.
It has been challenging for me to learn to prepare food more nourishing. I would love to have an illustrated kid-friendly cookbook to inspire me to try more recipes and involve my children as they get older. I already involve my 3 yo in measuring ingredients and stirring. He is more likely to try meals that he’s been involved in preparing. With Nourishing Traditions for children we will all be able to learn more recipes we enjoy and hopefully our kids will have an easier time preparing real food throughout their lives.
Our family loves and uses almost daily, the Nourishing Traditions parent book! My children (13, 9 & two 5 yr olds) are in the kitchen with me daily! They are either learning new, or mastering something they’ve been working on. From cooking dishes, to making ingredients (mayonnaise, sauces, ect), to soaking or sprouting things, they all have been taught things! I’d like to say I require them to be with me in the kitchen during the day, but I simply don’t have to- they all enjoy it, and are always asking if they can help prepare meals. I think the reason they love it so much, is that they have an understanding of WHY it’s important to do what we do. They understand my love for health, and my dedication to our family, that they “get it”; they want to be part! It helps too, that they each have their own garden box, and when they harvest something, it’s always exciting to prepare it and then eat it!
I make pretty much everything from scratch in our home, & our kids are so much healthier for it! But it is still a challenge to educate them (6, 7, 8 yrs old) that just because something tastes good (processed foods, etc.) doesn’t mean they are good for you. I am always looking for other resources for recipes, especially kid-friendly recipes! My 8 yr. old is a very textural eater & this can be a stumbling block as far as what foods he will try, but the harder issue is packing foods in his lunch — he doesn’t like them to be different than they are supposed to be (warm foods cold, etc.). So that has been my biggest challenge, & I would love more resources to help!
I have not taught my four sons to cook with nourishing traditions. My 7yo has celiac disease and has been enthusiastically learning to cook gluten-free foods for himself. However, he has ongoing stomach pain, and he may benefit from learning about how to cook more nourishing foods. This would be a great resource. Thank you for the giveaway!
This is exciting to see! I discovered the NT way of cooking after living in Africa for three months and noticing the children’s bright white straight and strong teeth. I started eating this way after being a vegetarian for 12 years. It’s taken a while but I was just saying to my husband how we have come so far, raising and butchering our own chickens (all family members!), gardening with our four children, making fermented vegetables, sourdough, and drinking raw milk, brewing kefir and kombucha, and even eating organ meats! I even made the baby formula last year for my youngest when my milk suddenly dried up. They have all become diet staples! And none of my four children have ever had any problems with their teeth or health. The kids help me in the kitchen daily and are starting to take on roles in helping. I don’t typically use cookbooks and the NT is the only one I use anymore. It would be amazing to win this and get my kids involved in making meals themselves. If I don’t win though, I’ll be purchasing one for sure! So excited!
I’d love to teach my children how to cook ‘The Nourishing Traditions’ way. It’s very important that all children learn what foods are nourishing and essential and how to prepare them. My kids already love eggs, pastured meat, cheese and some vegetables. I believe this book will help us experiment with new tastes. Thank you so much for this giveaway!!
I haven’t yet taught my 13 year old son to cook in the Nourishing Traditions way. As a working mom, it’s easier to let him play with his friends or on his device until dinner is ready. When he was younger and I stayed home, he did participate in the kitchen but life gets busy. Before I had children, I started out as a “low-carber”. About 12 years ago, while home with my son, I read Weston A. Price’s book “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration”. Since then, I have incorporated this food philosophy into our life. It’s taken me time to stand up to doctors and even my own family regarding the decisions I have made for my family’s health. My son still doesn’t need braces or any dental appliances, although I still take him for an orthodontic check-up every six months. At his regular well-visit this past Monday, I said no to the HPV vaccine. My son could not understand why he wasn’t getting a necessary vaccine, but was happy to avoid the shot! He also has often asked for junk food or to go to a certain fast food restaurant proclaiming, “C’mon mom, It’s just once!” So, I would like a copy of this book because, although my son has eaten well and is healthy because of it, I have failed as a parent to teach him the “why” part of why we make the choices we do. In 5 years, my son will likely go away to college, I would him to be armed with the knowledge of why he should make good food choices and how he can live this way on his own.
Nourishing Traditions was an exciting, yet daunting book for me the first time I was introduced to it. I wasn’t totally unfamiliar with ‘wholesome’ living. I was of the old ‘granola’ school of the ‘healthnut’ craze…even before I could drive, my idea of a fun Sat. morning was to cycle to the health food store a few miles away and walk the tiny isles reading labels and being wowed by the ‘weird’ ingredients…wheatgrass juice and wheat germ were big back then!! (probiotics were singular-acidophilus). Spring forward just a ‘few’ years and my grandchildren are eating coconut oil by the spoonful (and loving to pop fish oil gelcaps with their teeth!) It’s been a long, steady process of learning how to make the wonderful information in NT part of our daily lives, and we have loved seeing the benefits of the wisdom passed down through the generations presented in NT. I was so excited when I learned of a NT children’s cookbook because coming up with creative and nourishing meals each and every day for the little ones is often challenging. I’m so thankful for a resource that my daughters (and I, on occasion!) will have to turn to for inspiration!! We have been blessed in so many ways through our reconnection to the wonderful traditions of the past…so glad for that tiny health food store way back when!!!
I have been using Nourishing Traditions for the last three years, and love it. But it can be overwhelming for a lot of people, especially if they don’t have cooking skills. We’ve taught our kids a lot of the principles, but I haven’t done a good job of actually teaching them the techniques. I love the idea of a cookbook geared more toward kids, because hopefully it will explain some of those basic techniques and be more user friendly for beginners too. It’s important to me to pass this knowledge on to my children so they have the capacity to nourish themselves and their families and avoid many of the common pitfalls of “healthy” counterfeits.
I have the Nourishing Traditions cookbook myself. I think this would be really helpful to have in additiona to that book. My son is only 2, so i have’t really started cooking with him yet. However, i would like to do more cooking with him, and i like the nourishing traditions way. He loves yogurt, so i have been meaning to start making our own. I think this book would be really helpful to us to start getting him engaged in making food and why we make the decisions we do.
i was recommended the cooking with traditional foods by our nutritionist. I enjoy it what a great resource to have. I think that this would be a fun book to share with our future child when he or she gets older. I also have a nephew and niece that love to cook. I think I would enjoy it to for a myself as a working mother.
Teaching my grandchildren to eat this way has proven to be a challenge. I have one, my daughters child, that eats well and understands making good nutritional choices and the other two (my sons girls) have a mom who throws processed food at them. I still use every opportunity to talk about what would be a better choice, in hopes that some of what I do and serve sinks in.A copy of this book would be a great text book to train them by when they visit and I have them help me prepare meals.
At our home we only consume free range eggs and chicken and make sure we save the bones for our broths. My daughters enjoy soup made with bone broth very much. At the table we often talk about the importance of nutrient dense real food and the importance of being responsible for the choices we make regarding the food we eat. We eat fresh produce from organic gardens – we have a very small one at home but we have friends that grow organic produce so we have access to that and share the surplus. The most important way in which we incorporate the Nourishing Traditions principles is by consuming raw milk from a grass-fed Jersey cow, and we make our own butter and milk kefir from that wonderful milk. The girls love to put butter on veggies and soup and enjoy the kefir cream (that floats to the top) on almost everything! They are learning that healthy can also mean enjoyable and delicious. We haven’t learned how to make liver taste good though, but I don’t even have a safe source of liver. But we are slowly learning new ways of improving our diet the Nourishing Traditions way. I own the NT book but I haven’t read the whole book, I use it to get ideas and look for recipes and I’m always learning something new. The girls enjoy helping me in the kitchen and they will be very happy to be able to follow their own recipe book!
Nourishing tradition was recommended to me as I was pregnant. As a mother to be nourishing my body the proper way was a must and with the help of this rich book it facilitated the process.
Further more and as importantly, I have been relying on it more often than not in practice as I have especially liked the side notes and well research data on the side of each pages. As a physician, patients’ education is a MUST (That is what doctor means: teacher). I have recommended the original book to every patients ready to make a change and left the book in the waiting room of my office purposely as it invite people to read it and inevitably start a conversation or get an idea for dinner.
I am so thankful Ms. Fallon & Gross took the time to write this new book to better the next generation. I, without a doubt, will leave this book in the waiting room as it is essential to touch, one by one, the new little chef. My opinion is that; our job is to better the world. By educating children while playing in the kitchen, you feed (no pun intended) this most important purpose.
Thank you for being part of the change. Thank you for sharing.
While I do not have any children of my own to teach, I do have nieces and nephews who have families of their own now. Most of my “teaching” is by example at family gatherings. I value my own Nourishing Traditions cookbook and would like to see the next two generations benefit from this way of eating. My thinking is that if the children get into it then the parents might learn something also! Sometimes the indirect approach is most effective.
I am incredibly excited about the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Kids. As you know, a lifestyle rich in nutrient-dense foods takes time and preparation; therefore, my children see me in the kitchen frequently. As a homeschool family, we encourage involvement in all we do, which is why they like to help whenever possible. My oldest child loves to cook because we’ve simply involved her since a young age, but more and more she wants to know WHY we eat the way we do. The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children would equip me to answer that question in a much better way. This cookbook would be an incredible blessing to our homeschool and entire lifestyle. I greatly appreciate your generosity and consideration!
I am teaching my child to cook the Nourishing Traditions way by example and by involving him. He’ll be 3 in June and already knows how to make cultured vegetables, chicken stock, soak beans and grains and so much more. He’s been right on my hip or back from the get go and has learned to smell, taste and love wholesome food. From early on, he’s been the official salter when we make our cultured vegetables or when the food on the stove was ready for seasoning (naturally I keep him close and at a safe distance.) We have our own chickens and edible garden, so he already has skills to bring the freshest ingredients into cooking the Nourishing Traditions way. I am very grateful to this set of books for the richness and health they have brought to my life, my families and countless others. I look forward to using this cookbook when he’s older.
I would love to win a copy of the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for children. I am a college student, and honestly, I think I could benefit from the book (even though that is a bit embarrassing to admit). I am very new to cooking and eating real food, and frankly my cooking needs a little work. Often, meal prep ends up being an incredible hassle because I have never been taught the proper way to do things. Someday if I am blessed with children, I want to pass on how to prepare real food to them. As for right now, I need to learn myself!
I would LOVE to have a copy of the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for children! I have 5 children and they all have some sort of gut issue. Three of them have food intolerance’s and digestive issues and two have eczema/psoriasis. One of them has a true allergy to dairy which is very scary. I would also benefit from this. I was just diagnosed w/ fibromyalgia. We definately need to have some nourishing foods in our lives :) thanks for the opportunity!
I am so excited to see that Sally has written a cookbook for children. It is so important that children learn how to cook whole foods. This is doubly important for my daughter who has Celiac Disease. Because of this and cofactoring food sensitivities we need to cook with whole foods all the time – no eating out for us. I realized just this last month that I am constantly cooking and not empowering her to learn. So I vowed that this summer season would be season of learning how to make bone broths (which she loves), soups and ferments. This book will come in very handy indeed!
I am thrilled to hear that there is now a cookbook that will help me share the principles of Nourishing Traditions with the next generation! My son is one year old and i absolutely can’t wait to teach him how to properly prepare and cook foods that will help him grow atrong and healthy. I know this book woll be an excellent tool for me in my home school curriculum one day! What a blessing that these resources are being developed before my son (and hopefully future children) is even old enough to understand… I have time to continue developing my Nourishing Tradition skills first!
To answer your question: I would like to start preparing these Nourishing Traditions because we are just starting the wonderful world of food wIth my fIrstborn! He is breastfed but we spend a lot of time in the kitchen. At least 5 times a day making something yummy.Wanting what’s best for him can be very hard to keep up with, & this.book sounds like a great healthy eating guide.Looking forward to reading it!
I’ve been eating a nutrient dense diet for 2 years and am studying to be a Nutritional Therapist/Herbalist, so as you can imagine, I cannot wait to lead by example with my children someday! I imagine I will start off with the nutrients in my breast milk, followed by homemade baby food and incorporate organ meats, raw milk and fermented foods. I hope by the time my children are old enough to cook for themselves that they will naturally cook nutrient dense foods because of their upbringing. My husband and I are buying property this year to start some land restoration and farming, that end of food I am especially excited to share with my children someday. They will actually get to interact with the animals and plants that will become a part of their own bodies.
I have started teaching my children the importance of nourishing foods and how the traditional methods of preparation are so important. We’ve undergone many dietary changes over the last year. My 9 yr old would love to have her very own cookbook. We also homeschool and homestead so the cookbook would become part of our daily lessons. Thanks so much for this opportunity to win such a great book.
Nourishing Traditions has been a part of my life for some time now, and when I went to school to become a Nutritional Therapist I was beyond thrilled that Nourishing Traditions was the first book in our required reading list! You would think that now that I’m an NTP, that my whole family eats perfectly healthy, but to be honest, I struggle just as much as any other mom. This cook book for children is going to impact so many families, not only will it teach kids the proper way to prepare nutritionally dense foods, but the impact of the emotional, connection and bonds that will come from cooking with your children will be far more priceless.
I am teaching my son (2) how to cook the nourishing traditions way by example. He watches me cook and eats my food. I try my best to show him good food and how to make things taste delicious. He loves to come into the kitchen and be mamas helper. He cracks eggs, adds vegetables, and stirs the bowl. I am determined to raise healthy, well nourished children. My goal is to give him the tools and knowledge to make great choices for himself for the rest of his life. I would love to share this book with him and expand his experiences with culinary and health.
I have taught my daughter to cook in the Nourishing Traditions way by exposing her to making kombucha regularly. She knows the value of eating organ meats, fermented foods, grass-fed beef, raw milk and butter. She is exposed to these things but does not yet embrace them fully in her own consumption. It is my hope that getting her more involved in cooking and preparing may bring her closer to that eventually. And to have a cookbook that could give guidance and honor her desire for independence might be just the ticket! We would love to get a copy of this book.
I have taught my kids that we eat produce not sprayed with poison and eggs and meat from happy animals. My kids also know how to make eggnog. But it seems most of the time they help bake it’s the rare occasion we make a sweet treat and while I healthify the recipes, they aren’t fully WAPF approved. I’d love a cookbook with WAPF treats that are kid friendly. We have the original nt book and I have the one on raising kids so this would be an awesome addition to our collection!
I have been trying to teach my children how food is nourishment and that it could be medicine or poison. They understand that when children in the classroom go off like “frogs in socks” it can be attributed to the food that they eat. A cookbook explaining it to them so that they can start cooking for themselves would be the most wonderful tool to have. Thank you for creating it.
I have just started looking into the Nourishing Traditions way of eating and cooking. I am excited to change the way my family eats and how we think about food. This cook book would unable me to teach my children and hopefully their children.
After my husband’s diagnosis of MS, our family began our study in nutrition. Our kids have become more and more aware of the poisons that are regularly put in our foods here in America. I homeschool them and we use cooking as one of the many life skills that we teach regularly. We are currently on a journey of trying to heal Daddy from the inside, and hope and pray that proper nutrition will be a testimony to the power of real food leotard in the correct manner. I would LOVE for my kids to hands on this cookbook! Then they will be able to read for themselves the WHYs of how we eat, and not just because mommy says so. Thank you for the opportunity!
I am very interested in this book-I have it on my Amazon wishlist, but I don’t know enough about it, so I keep passing it by. I think we are maybe in the beginning stages (?) of nourishing traditions cooking. We keep chickens for eggs, and we buy our meat from a farmer we know (and we help care for the animals). I have always made our own jams and pickles. I am just starting to get into fermented foods-have made a few batches of kombucha and shared some SCOBYs. I would like to learn and implement more:)
Our children have eaten the WAPF diet most of their lives, so it hasn’t been as much of an adjustment for our children as with some. Teaching them about ingredients is fairly straightforward because the food is real. But teaching the recipes can be more difficult because of the steps involved with waiting for soaking, fermenting, etc. (But it does give great training in planning ahead.) And I work with them a lot on how to convert traditional recipes.
I have not yet taught my son to cook using Nourishing Traditions. He has begun to chop bananas with a dull knife, but otherwise is old enough only to watch his mama and papa choose recipes, go to the market for fresh foods, and process wild animals for food in our backyard. We go to monthly WAPF potlucks as often as we are able. We love share food with friends and family, and always bring healing soup to ill friends. He is truly a WAPF baby, raised on mothers milk, egg yolks, salmon eggs, avocado, and kraut. FCLO and probiotics, of course, as well. As he gets older, I look forward to teaching him how to cook–he is already interested as preparing and eating are such an important part of our days. I would love this cookbook for kids.
Nourishing traditions is something I’ve been instilling in my children since they were very young. When my middle child was 2 years old, I realized I was ruining her health with all the antibiotics for the reoccurring ear infections she was getting. Finding out that she had candida was the moment of realization it was time to take control of her health and that of her siblings. Realizing that our diet probably had much to do with the lowered immune system started the quest for healthier options. Now, 24 years later, I see my oldest with similar concerns for my grandchildren. I feel like a cookbook like this would be very beneficial to her and make it fun for the kids to get involved and give them something that they too will pass down to their kids just like I have.
I would like to say I have taught my children how to cook in a more tradition way using Nourishing Traditions, but alas, I have not. At best, we make porridge once or twice a week. Sometimes we make our own salad dressing and try to stay away from store bought ones. I love the idea of Nourishing Traditions for Children as a way to make traditional foods more accessible to those of us who are intimidated by it and ignorant of what to do and how to start. I hope this inspires a new generation to learn how to eat better.
I don’t have any children yet, but when I do they will know the Nourishing Way to cook. As a Naturopathic Medical Student, I know the value and importance of Food As Medicine. It’s only through everyday intake of healthy, nourishing foods can we truly be healthy in the real sense of the word– that is the true way to get to the root cause of illness, which is a fundamental tenet of Naturopathic medicine. It is by teaching our children that we grow nourished adults who can triumphantly and effectively transform our world into a nourished and healthy one, allowing for future generations to follow in those foot steps; and that is all we can ever hope for.
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Though my children are not yet old enough to cook the Nourishing Traditions way, it is my hope they will learn and make it a part of their everyday lifestyle. That way, it would be more of a natural part of their life rather than having to learn at a later age like I did (and still currently am). I want them to continue to benefit from grass-fed and other quality foods and not fall into the sugar-laden habits of their peers. They could also learn to be creative with soaking, sprouting foods, etc. so they can meal plan in the midst of busy schedules. And most of all, they can to pass this kind of cooking to their children and future generations. I’m sure their future spouses would appreciate it as well.
Wow. I first came upon Nourishing Traditions when our beautiful Borders Bookstore closed. What intrigued me from the start (without opening the book) was: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats. Being somewhat non-conventional, that was enough for me. Well, little did I know what was waiting for me inside!!! My daughter was studying chiropractics at the time, and chose to focus on nutrition. My son is a chef. They both have “borrowed” my copy. . We are multigenerational in our desire and practice of healthy eating and Nourishing Traditions is our go to. Taking back our well-being!! Sharing goodness and health with others is the way to go. . . We have incorporated most of Weston Price practices into our lives. We plan to carry on this beautiful tradition. . . Guess you could say it’s in our blood. 😊 Way to go Sally!
My 4 year old son is very interested in learning to cook! I just got the Nourishing Traditions book for adults and I’m learning to cook that way myself. As I teach him to cook, I would really love to start out teaching him a healthier way from the beginning. If I teach him right the first time, he won’t have to re-train himself to be healthy later in life the way I have. I want my children to grow up healthy and I want to be healthy too!
I myself have the original version of Nourishing Traditions and I’m excited to give one children version to my 13 year old daughter who loves to cook! I have converted to healthy and real food since 3 years ago when I got diagnosed with an auto-immune disease…and boy did I find my book knowledgeable and helpful in many ways! I’m excited for my daughter to have a version that will inspire and redirect her “thinking” of good, hearty food. Our generation and society is so hung up on over processed foods that don’t provide the nutrition we need. Let’s change that!
I’ve committed to start teaching my daughters to cook healthy this summer. They both have learning disabilities, so it’s a little more challenging for me, but I’ve realized the importance of having them know what’s good for them! My daughter with autism loves food and to help in the kitchen. I think something like Nourishing Traditions would really help her get the most out of learning good advice on healthy eating and food prep. I would love to share this cookbook with my children and help them understand, hands on, what I know about clean eating!
I have the original cookbook, Nourishing Traditions, and I love it! My family and I have been actively working on cleaning up our diet in the last year. The improvements in our health are amazing. My husband wasn’t on board initially, but he definitely is now. He loves all the great, nourishing food I’m making, and he feels so good (as do the rest of us). My oldest daughter is (almost) 3 and loves helping me in the kitchen. She helps me with little tasks but I’d love to start teaching her how to make meals. This sounds like it would be the perfect book for us. Plus, she’ll be working out of a cookbook that looks just like Mommy’s! She’ll love it! Her birthday is in about a month (she’ll be turning 3 then). What a great birthday present this would be for her. Thank you, Sally Fallon Morrell and WAPF, for helping me to help my family become heathier and have a better quality of life!
“Nourishing Traditions” is a book that has been referred to me a lot in the last 2 years that we have been seeking a more “whole food” lifestyle. As each year goes by, I have become more familiar and educated in how foods truly affect our bodies. This is a fact that I have been working hard to teach to both of my boys. My oldest is pretty good at looking at food labels and deciding whether something is worth eating. Because he is still a child, he isn’t perfect in his decisions, but at least the awareness is there. Recently, my oldest expressed his desire to learn how to cook :) We are a homeschooling family, finishing up our first year, and this cookbook would be perfect to add to our studies! As well as the perfect addition to our home ;-) I have enjoyed learning many new things as each of my children learn. I want my boys to grow up to appreciate their food and possess a desire to know where it comes from, and how it affects their bodies in a positive way! This summer, we will be working harder at consuming more nourishing foods and learning how to add them to our diets. Thank you for this opportunity to enlighten our children on the importance of food and inspiring families to choose more “nourishing traditions”.
My journey of using foods to improve health and increase cognition has been a long learning process but I’ve found that the “Nourishing Traditions” ways and philosophies are ones that make me feel most vibrant, clear, and alive. My 21-month old son is starting to grasp the importance of healthy cooking by participation in getting fresh eggs from our chickens daily and watering our newly planted garden seeds. He has a learning tower, a step-stool that props him up to kitchen counter level so that he can watch and become more hands on with daily meal prep. We’d love the opportunity to utilize the “Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children” to further elevate his knowledge of how to optimize his health through cooking with real food.
My daughter is 18 months right now but she is already showing interest in helping us prepare daily meals. We love cooking and we do everything from scratch, so she sees all the foods in their original form and also gets to taste the finished product. Every week we go to a local farm to get our raw dairy, fresh vegetables, and eggs. She sees where the foods are coming from and what it takes to grow and harvest it, etc. It’s very important for me to have easy to use tools to make it fun teaching her everything we know about Nourishing Traditions way of life. I think having this book would be an invaluable tool in helping teach her love for coming real, nourishing foods.
I have taught my kids about Nourishing Traditions cooking by example and discussions. I cook this way and they see me. The smells of cooking this way are going to bring them warm fuzzies when they grow up. They don’t always eat what I cook and I don’t make them. I once made my son try chicken broth and he forever hates it now, I wish I hadn’t done that. Instead I just eat and say how tasty everything is. My husband (who used to eat junk) says all the time that he’d rather eat my cooking than any restaurant and they hear that. I thought this wasn’t enough to teach them, but when they are at a party with junk food, they might eat some, but they say it takes like chemicals. So I think leading by example has been very effective for us. I try not to preach it too much.
While my mom did cook a lot from scratch, I did not learn to cook until I was an adult, and really even more so when my youngest was born and had eczema and food allergies I had to learn how to cook. That’s when I really started learning and showing all my kids how to cook and eat how we should have been all along. All four of my kids love to eat and love to be in the kitchen with me, we make our own kefir, kombucha, and sourdough, and they now know the importance of bone broth and nourishing soups. We just picked up half a hog from the butcher yesterday and they were excited to help load the freezer up! They love looking through cookbooks so I know for sure they would LOVE this book to be part of their arsenal.
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In my work with adults and children in the spectrum (including my own children now in their 20’s) I have been promoting cooking with the Nourishing Traditions methods as a means to introduce foods that will help them feel better, take ownership of their health (yes even at a young age you can start this process) through being involved with planning their menus and making their own (or helping mom) make their foods, snacks and drinks to bring their bodies back to health and vitality. The changes that I have seen in clients and children and young adults is so rewarding, and for them to tell me they feel better is the proverbial icing on the cake! You said it best that this book for teaching children is at all levels including reading, math, comprehension (and I would add instilling critical thinking skills in children). This book is valuable for every family wanting to be healthy, promote their immune system and preventing disease.
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[…] it with the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children and you have the ultimate duo for beginners of all ages to not only understand, but to implement a […]
[…] rest of you! We encourage you to teach your children how to cook, and bake. Read my review of the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children. Bodhi photographed his finished pie […]
We are a Homeschool family always looking for ways to teach health and wellness. I would love to be able to teach this way to change our family history for the better. I am still learning the ways of Sally Fallon as this is not how my parents or grandparents ate. But due to health complications I have been learning to nourish our body. This would be a great opportunity for me and my daughter to learn so much!
I’m a grandmother of two now and no I did not teach my three children to cook the Nourishing Traditions way. I’m still learning myself! It was not taught to me as a child either. But they are all adults now and they all cook, even my son. I feel like my commitment to making family meals most every evening modeled for all of them that cooking is part of life. And I had a parallel commitment to making those meals wholesome and balanced. I see that paying off in my children. I can still influence their food choices today as well as the good they feed their children.
[…] Traditions Cookbook for Children from our community member Rebekah Woolley. You can read my own review of the book as well, that includes several of the recipes! I shared the Rebekah’s words and photo with […]