Lee Jackson

Healthy to the Core! All Natural Low Sugar/no Sugar Apple Recipes for Kids Lee Jackson First edition

Eating healthy is the buzzword for Healthy to the Core! a new apple cookbook for children and teenagers. Healthful alternatives to the traditional high-sugar, white flour apple recipes have been incorporated into the apple dishes. With increasing awareness nationwide and growing concerns about an obesity epidemic among young people, its time to look at apple recipes in a healthier light.

Healthy food practices are the basis for the recipes. The author gives the top 10 healthy tips she considers the most important food practices for healthy living. From these she focuses on what she calls THE BIG FOUR:

• Avoid refined sugar
• Avoid white flour
• Avoid GMO products
• Use healthy cooking oil

Kids and their families can eat healthier and enjoy apples in their pure, healthy form by following healthy guidelines. Food really does affect the way a person looks and feels.

With healthy guidelines in mind, the author features a wide variety of ways to prepare apples. Kids and their families can use apples in breads and cereals, salads, sandwiches, main dishes, side dishes, cakes, pies, cookies, desserts, snacks, and drinks. There are classics such as Apple Crisp, Apple Pancakes, and Apple Muffins, and the curiously named Appaloosa Alert. Kids will make and snack on apple chips, munch on apple leather, sample desserts, and learn how to make applesauce the easy way. They will meet Johnny Appleseed and Isaac Newton and learn how apples have affected the history of America.


Safety precautions for working in the kitchen are given. Included is an apple guide to the varieties of apples used for different purposes, such as eating-in-hand, for salads, for cooking in applesauce, and for baking in pies, tarts, crisps, and other desserts.

Young cooks will appreciate the easy-to-follow directions while older cooks will enjoy creating apple dishes perfect for any occasion. There are over 70 wholesome and tasty recipes from which to choose, without all the sugar. Help kids and young teens make healthy food choices using apples.

Start the apple season today by including this invaluable resource for your children and teenagers.