Joe's Family Food: 100 Delicious, Easy Recipes to Enjoy Together Hardcover – 10 Jun. 2021

I am floored at some of the negative reviews on here! This book offers tasty food that is jam packed with nutrition. Clearly this is what Joe Wicks feeds his family daily as these are well put together and simple recipes.I had fallen into a bit of a rut with cooking for my 15 mo and husband - doing the same things over and over. This book has been particularly useful for upgrading my staple recipes and adding an extra punch of nutrition that I wouldn’t have thought of. For example, Mac and cheese (with extra veggies such as mushroom and kale), sausage ragu (with lentils), chickpea curry (veggie packed and delicious!), baked fish with garlic cream cheese and tomato (yum!) and orzo and cheese stuffed tomatoes. There are even nutrition packed desserts such as chocolate cake (with beetroot and avocado) and chocolate dessert (with prunes, avocado and berries).The recipes are easy and quick and if I don’t have the fresh additional ingredients (such as oregano) I just substitute with dried.If my toddler is a bit unsure about a new dish, I make sure I offer the new food alongside known and favourite foods. I also batch cook for repeated exposure.High recommend this book!!!

For us, this has been really good so far. Only had it a week but made a few things already (satay stir fry thing, smoky chickpea jacket pots and beetroot risotto) and they've been really tasty. My 18 month old devoured the beetroot risotto and the toppings made it really interesting for us. Will update if everything else is we try rubbish, but having not tried his recipes before, I'm happy so far. I like that the speedy suppers have genuinely been really quick... Which isn't always the case with cookbooks. There's a good amount of veg in stuff and lots of different ideas. For a baby just starting weaning, I'd say there's ingredients I'd want to avoid for sugar and salt reasons, but the recipes we've tried, some you add the sauce at the end so you can customise and obviously just leave things out if you need to. I feel compelled to say that some of the negative reviews on here seem really unfair! For example people saying their kids are "good eaters" but there's nothing in here they'd eat. I think if you can look through 100 recipes and there's nothing your children would eat they're probably not good eaters and that's probably not Joe Wicks's fault. You can see that people have uploaded pics of the recipe lists so I guess you can judge for yourself, for us these aren't at all things our baby wouldn't try. I would say there's quite a few ingredients that might be unaffordable if you have to cook on a real shoestring, but if you're comfortably off and you're up for introducing your kids to a good variety of things/not getting stuck in a rut, this seems a really good book to me.

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Decent recipes that are quick and easy to execute. Loads of variety- so something to cater for everyone. Would recommend. Nice for the coffee table ( everyone picks it up and has a flick through ) better in the kitchen where I had resounding success and no complaints at the table.

I want to start off by saying I’m a big fan of Joe Wicks. I followed his 90 day plan and now use the body coach app. I have most of his other books. With that in mind I was excited for the launch of this book. However having now poured over the contents to plan a week of family meals I am definitely disappointed. I really thought this book would have lots of ideas for quick, simple healthy versions of family favourites but many require ingredients that likely aren’t in the store cupboard and are quite expensive to buy. I can’t say a huge amount of them will appeal to my kids (and my eldest will pretty much eat anything). It feels like there are a many recipes that I have seen before in his other books and they are just tweaked to make more portions which I do myself anyway. Overall not especially impressed and I so wanted to be

Great value yet again! As for many saying it is not suitable for fussy kids, only you as a parent will change that! My daughter was 5 when we first started Joes recipes and now she cooks them herself! Stick to your chicken nuggets and chips or make a healthy change, your kids will thank you in the long run!

Love this cookbook so much. I can see it is going to a firm family favourite. It has 100 recipes broken down into sections for speedy suppers, oven cooking, hob, big batch, meat free, cooking with kids and celebrations. It is filled with delicious yet healthy meals that I’m sure my family will love. Really happy with this purchase and looking forward to trying lots and lots of these recipes.

I am surprised by all the 1 star reviews. We have made a handful of recipes which myself and my husband have really enjoyed as well as my 18 month old! Some of the recipes are ingredient heavy but in my opinion worth it if you get to batch cook tasty food and have leftovers for your toddler!