This cookbook enables parents to prepare quick and easy dishes to tempt even the most finicky child, using fresh ingredients for both traditional recipes and new favourites from abroad. It also provides a consumer's guide to good and bad nutrition, giving tempting home-make alternatives to junk foods. There are ideas for tea-time treats, designed to transform healthy foods into fun foods. Annabel Karmel also relates the truth about fast foods, which are often high in calories but low in nutrients and use inferior products. The consultant nutritionist for this title was Dr Margaret Lawson, who is the senior lecturer in Paediatric Nutrition at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. The author has also written The Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner.