This is the one-stop food manual for parents. With just a few simple rules to follow, any parent, no matter how busy and stressed they may be, can provide healthy food for their family day after day, and have more time left over, not less. Healthy Family, Happy Family shows you how to cook quick and delicious meals. You also prepare many of them in bulk so you don't have to cook every night. The book includes over 100 recipes as well as weekly menus and detailed shopping lists. These are the keys to saving time and money. Specialised recipes cover lunchbox options, vegetarians and vegans, gluten-free, parties and picnics. In addition, informative yet accessible text explains to parents the basics of proper nutrition and invaluable ways of 'marketing' healthy food to kids so that they choose vegies over KFC!

Author Biography

Karen Fischer has a Bachelor of Health Science Degree from the University of New England (Armidale) and a three-year Nutrition Diploma from the Nature Care College (Sydney, Australia). As a nutritionist, Karen has treated everyone from babies to grandmothers. Karen also writes health columns for various Australian publications and does voluntary health and nutrition talks at high schools around the country. As a mother of two, she knows what it's like to deal with fussy eaters and has successfully developed a range of healthy and delicious meals that the whole family enjoys. Karen's first book, The Healthy Skin Diet, is a bestseller and was winner of the 2008 Australian Food Media Award for Best Health, Nutrition or Special Diet book.