Congratulations to Beverly Hernandez, winner of the Kid Approved Meals Giveaway!

Kid Approved Meals, written by Christine Steendahl of The Menu Mom, is a 13-week breakfast and lunch menu e-book for families with young children. Each week has five breakfast and five lunch menus intended for use during the typical work or school week but is easily adaptable to your schedule. Each day is made up of simple menus for healthy breakfast and lunch dishes and sides. Where applicable, recipes are included, using ingredients that are apt to be staples you already have in your pantry.

Organized and Healthy

The author includes an organized shopping list for each week, using a letter system that identifies with item goes with which menu of the week. The shopping list is also organized into groups according to the areas of the store where you are more likely to find the foods. Each menu was made up of healthy foods that kids like to eat though several menus are high in carbs/starch and low in protein. However, this is easily remedied with the addition of beans, cheese, peanut butter, cubed meat, etc. Or even a glass of cow, almond or soy milk.

Throughout the ebook you will find old standbys, reinventions of old ideas, and some new ideas. My favorite recipe is the homemade fruit fill pastry that is far better than the popular version at the store.

How My Family Use the Menus

I have four children, ages 6-11, and husband, all with their own ideas of a delicious meal. It is not easy to cook meals that satisfy all six of us and not double our grocery bill.

We were stuck in a rut for breakfast, but none of us could think of alternatives to our usual menu. Kid Approved Meals was a breath of fresh air with recipes for the fruit filled pastries I refuse to buy at the store and breakfast burritos. Many of the recipes can be made ahead and frozen. Now the kids wake up eager to know what’s on the menu for the day.

Since my children are currently attending public school, many of the lunch recipes were not applicable so we used them for dinner–for the pickier eaters in the family. My older son, husband and I generally enjoy a varied, flavorful dishes while my other three children prefer to stick with a few, tried and true dishes thereby increasing the difficulty to please everyone, keep our menu healthy, and avoid a lot of complicated dinner menus.

Kid Approved Meals was the answer to my dilemma. Quite often, whatever I have on the menu for my husband, older son and I includes ingredients for a lunch menu in the book. After planning the weekly dinner menus, I skim through Kid Approved Meals for lunch menus with some or all of the same the ingredient. That way we’re all eating the same foods but prepared in a way we all like, with only a small amount of extra effort on my part.

Organized, simply ingredients, economical, easy recipes, kid-friendly and adaptable. Kid Approved Meals may very well be the menu planner you turn to again and again for your hungry family.

How to Get Your Copy

You can purchase Kid Approved Meals e-book from KidApprovedMeals.com, and for a limited time, along with your purchase you’ll receive the Family Brunch Menu and Fun with Food e-books, also written by Ms. Steendahl. The site offers a sample week, an e-mail newsletter, and testimonials from happy customers.

Enter to win

Busy Mommy Media is so excited to offer one of our readers the chance to win the Kid Approved Meals Ebook.  This giveaway is open to the U.S. and Canada and will end on December 11, 2009.

Enter the giveaway by making a commenting on this post about how you simplify family meals.

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In compliance with the new FTC Guild lines, please note that this is a sponsored post.  I was given a copy of  the Kid Approved Meals Ebook to test and review free of charge.  However, I was not paid for the review and the opinions are my own.

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