Forks Over Knives Family: Every Parent's Guide to Raising Healthy, Happy Kids on a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet

by Alona Pulde M.D., Matthew Lederman M.D., Brian Wendel (Editor), Marah Stets (Editor), Darshana Thacker (Editor)

Overview

Discover how to “feed your family a plant-based diet that is delicious, cost-effective, and easy” (Mayim Bialik, author of Mayim’s Vegan Table) with this complete and accessible cookbook filled with more than 125 delicious and kid-friendly recipes and plenty of tips for raising a whole-foods-loving family.

After the trailblazing film Forks Over Knives helped spark a medical and nutritional revolution, more and more people continue to adopt a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle. Now, doctors Alona Pulde and Matthew Lederman share those same values for the entire family.

Filled with more than 125 quick and easy recipes, helpful tips, and the latest in scientific findings, Forks Over Knives Family teaches you why whole food, plant-based eating is the best way to keep your family well-nourished through the years. Beginning with pregnancy and moving into the teenage years, this guide tackles all the most important topics to keep your family’s health on track, from dealing with allergies to traveling to parties and play dates, and more.

Providing an in-depth look at the role of nutrition at every stage of a child’s development and bolstered by easy-to-understand tips and tricks, “Forks Over Knives Family serves up delicious, whole food recipes that everyone in your house will enjoy” (Michelle and Matt, authors of the New York Times bestseller Thug Kitchen).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476753331
Publisher:	Atria Books
Publication date:	05/05/2020
Series:	Forks Over Knives
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	1,049,509
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Alona Pulde, MD, is a family practitioner specializing in nutritional and lifestyle medicine in Los Angeles. Alona developed the lifestyle change program used for patients in the film Forks Over Knives, as well as in her clinic, Transition to Health: Medical, Nutrition, and Wellness Center. She is the author of Keep It Simple, Keep It Whole: Your Guide to Optimum Health and The Forks Over Knives Plan.

Matthew Lederman, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician specializing in nutrition and lifestyle medicine. He lectures for the eCornell T. Colin Campbell Certificate Program in Plant Based Nutrition and appeared in the films Healing Cancer From the Inside Out and Forks Over Knives. Along with Alona Pulde, he cofounded Transition to Health: Medical, Nutrition, and Wellness Center and coauthored Keep It Simple, Keep It Whole and The Forks Over Knives Plan.

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Forks Over Knives Family



OUR STORY:
A Plant-Based Pregnancy Means More Energy

I certainly can’t speak for every whole-food, plant-based mother ever, but based on my own pregnancies I can personally vouch for some pretty great benefits to this lifestyle. Not only did I experience everything listed on these pages, I also felt energetic all the way through both pregnancies. Sure, I was tired, but I was still able to do some form of exercise, such as walking, hiking, or using the elliptical machine every day until the time my water broke. After our second daughter, Jordan, was born, I could get up and go almost immediately. Jordan even joined her older sister, Kylee, at the park when she was only two days old! I’m pretty sure Jordan doesn’t remember it, but I certainly do, and it was wonderful.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Why the Forks Over Knives Family? ix

Part I The Forks Over Knives Family Guide

Chapter 1 You're Having a Baby! 3

Chapter 2 Your Baby's First Year 19

Chapter 3 Beyond the First Year 29

Chapter 4 How to Help Your Family Make the Forks Over Knives Transition 47

Chapter 5 Out of the House and on the Road 59

Part II The Forks Over Knives Family Recipes

Introduction to the Recipes 79

Breakfast 92

Snacks 106

Wraps, Roil-Ups, and Burgers 118

Salads 134

Side Dishes 146

Soups and Stews 157

Baked and Stuffed 171

Pasta and Noodles 184

Amazing Grains 199

Quick and Easy 215

Dips, Spreads, Sauces, and Dressings 224

Desserts 246

Basics 262

Acknowledgments 269

Resources 271

Notes 277

Index 281

Editorial Reviews

"One of the most wonderful things you can do for your kids is to feed them healthy plant-based foods that they’ll enjoy eating. Forks Over Knives Family shows you how. Highly recommended!"

Dean Ornish

"A must read for anyone with a family or thinking of starting one."

Robert Ostfeld

"An essential book to protect the health and future of your family."

Michael Greger

"Forks Over Knives Family serves up delicious, whole food recipes that everyone in your house will enjoy!"

Michelle and Matt

"Read this book! It will improve the health and lives of your kids. And it has great kid-friendly recipes such as chocolate chip pancakes, lentil fries, and mashed potatoes!"

Jay Gordon

"Forks Over Knives Family is refreshingly rational, no-fuss, and practical; it encourages parents to focus on the big picture and find the joy in healthful eating for the family!"

Michelle McMacken

"An informative, nutritionally balanced guide and recipe book so that you can feed your family a plant-based diet that is delicious, cost-effective, and easy."

Mayim Bialik

08/15/2016
Doctors Pulde and Lederman capably build on the philosophy laid out in their previous book (The Forks Over Knives Plan) that “a whole-food, plant-based diet is the optimum choice a person can make.” This installment is a handbook for parents to help them and their families transition to such a diet. Separate chapters cover pregnancy, infancy, and childhood, along with issues that come up once children begin spending more time outside the home, such as handling school lunches. The authors draw on their medical and parental expertise, as well as advice and information that comes from interviews with visitors to their website. This is a manual, not a book that requires reading from front to back. Readers can pick morsels relevant to them and leave the rest. Over half of the book is a cookbook with delicious-sounding recipes from chef Darshana Thacker for both basic foods like muffins and baked ziti and more unusual fare such as Sunflower Seed Paté and Chickpeazella Sticks. Throughout, the writing is accessible and well- documented by footnotes. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"Read this book! It will improve the health and lives of your kids. And it has great kid-friendly recipes such as chocolate chip pancakes, lentil fries, and mashed potatoes!" —Jay Gordon, MD, Pediatrician and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics

"An informative, nutritionally balanced guide and recipe book so that you can feed your family a plant-based diet that is delicious, cost-effective, and easy." —Mayim Bialik, author of Mayim's Vegan Table

"One of the most wonderful things you can do for your kids is to feed them healthy plant-based foods that they’ll enjoy eating. Forks Over Knives Family shows you how. Highly recommended!" —Dean Ornish, MD, Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute

"Forks Over Knives Family serves up delicious, whole food recipes that everyone in your house will enjoy!" —Michelle and Matt, authors of the New York Times bestseller Thug Kitchen

"An essential book to protect the health and future of your family." —Michael Greger, MD FACLM, founder of NutritionFacts.org and author of How Not to Die

"Forks Over Knives Family is refreshingly rational, no-fuss, and practical; it encourages parents to focus on the big picture and find the joy in healthful eating for the family!" —Michelle McMacken, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine

"A must read for anyone with a family or thinking of starting one." —Robert Ostfeld, M.D., Director of Preventive Cardiology at Montefiore Medical Center

From the Publisher

09/01/2016
The 2011 documentary Forks Over Knives started a food revolution of sorts with the claim that disease can be prevented and reversed by simply eating a whole-food, plant-based diet. Following the film, several related books were released and became New York Times best sellers. This title, aimed at young families, is sure to follow. Physicians Pulde and Lederman begin with an introduction to the diet's principles, stressing the importance of calorie density and outlining how the body reaches satiation with fewer calories consumed. The next three chapters focus on pregnancy, baby's first year, and beyond the first year. The bulk of the content comes in the second half of the book, which contains over 100 recipes by vegan chef Darshana Thacker. VERDICT Variations of nachos, burritos, and snacks such as fig and walnut granola will tempt even carnivores, but a few hard-to-find ingredients (such as date paste) will deter even the dedicated. Still, expect demand for this title; librarians would do well to purchase multiple copies.

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