Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The nutritional information is entirely adequate, although rudimentary. If you don't know much or anything about vegetarian and vegan nutrition, or any nutrition for that matter, you may find this valuable. But it's a short book and there is really not a lot of information. I suppose that's why it's called "A Complete Idiot's Guide." The really disappointing part were the recipes. There are very few of them and they really suck. I'm interested in health. Many people approach veganism because of their strongly compassionate views towards animals. I think that's great but you shouldn't inflict that by itself on your children without considering their health. As far as I'm concerned the recipes don't reflect much improvement over a typical meat-eating menu. Cakes with three cups of sugar, processed fake vegan cheeses and fake processed vegan "meats" abound. Vegan kids NEED to like and eat lots of legumes, this is essential for good nutrition and ANY kid, vegan or not, brought up from day 1 with lots of legumes will love them. These authors assume that kids don't or won't like them and include a recipe on how to "hide" the legumes. I'm sorry but I just don't think cakes, cookies and fake meat and cheese products are going to give kids the nutritional foundation they need, nor the appreciation of tastes and textures they need to truly appreciate the joy of eating as a celebration of life. VERY disappointing book.