Is your family dinner menu stuck on repeat? A local Bay Area mom-turned-cookbook-author wants to help you get your groove back in the kitchen, and turn your little picky eaters into full-fledged food adventurers. The secret sauce is outlined in her new book, The 52 New Foods Challenge: A Family Cooking Adventure for Each Week of the Year. In addition to providing practical advice on shopping seasonally, cooking with kids and fostering peace (not war) at the dinner table, her prescriptions are completely approachable for even the busiest family, as they require only a 1-2 hour time commitment each week. For a taste of what the book has to offer, author Jennifer Tyler Lee has shared three of her family’s favorite recipes and a few invaluable tips with us. Click through to sample them all!

Tip: Reliable New Food Vehicles

This book is filled with tips on how to get your kids to keep trying new foods, but there are a few key strategies that author Jennifer Tyler Lee wanted to share. "The stir-fry I used to introduce bok choy was one of my new food vehicles—a recipe I knew my kids would eat that could easily be tweaked to feature a new food."

 

Get your own copy of The 52 Foods Challenge right here.

What are your creative ways to eat healthier as a family? Tell us in the comments below!  

—Erin Feher

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