Okay, it’s time to reveal the new cookbook I’ve been raving about. Just so you know, I’m usually not a big cookbook person. I still buy them from time to time but I’m usually disappointed when the touted quick and easy recipes are really more involved and time-consuming.
This is one of the reasons I love SOS! The Six O’Clock Scramble to the Rescue: Earth-Friendly, Kid-Pleasing Dinners for Busy Families
For some reason, I find the meals in SOS especially appealing. I’ve already tried the Ravioli, Spinach with Sun-Dried Tomatoes and the Crispy Parmesan-Panko Crusted Chicken Cutlets. I can’t wait to make the Orzo Salad with Peas and Feta Cheese and the Mango and Black Bean Salad to use as sides for some upcoming BBQs.
I also love the structure of the book. Golfarb, who runs The Scramble Meal Planning System, provides weekly menu plans and recipes based on what’s in season. The beginning of the book contains a seasonal fruit and veggie guide and other helpful suggestions like how to stock your pantry (wasn’t I just talking about this?).
I also really, really, really appreciate having the suggested sides which include easy and nutritious salad and veggie ideas. Each section of the cookbook has tips for families including school lunch ideas, easy composting for families, best dishes for school potlucks, and much more.
The only thing that’s missing from this cookbook are pictures but I can live without that. It really is an amazing resource for busy families. It’s a must-have book for every family’s kitchen!
Because the nice folks at the Six O’Clock Scramble sent me two books, I’m going to give one away for free! Here’s what you have to do to enter the cookbook giveaway:
1) Leave a comment saying why you need more quick and healthy meal ideas.
2) For another entry, sign up for Raise Healthy Eaters’ email updates or RSS Feed. If you already subscribe, tell at least one friend about Raise Healthy Eaters. Leave another comment saying what you did.
3) To increase your chances further, become a Facebook fan. If you are already a fan (now called like), suggest some of your friends become fans. Leave another comment saying what you did.
4) And for a bonus entry, tweet, blog or share this post on Facebook. Again, let me know you did it by leaving another comment.
This giveaway will end next Friday the 4th at midnight. The winner will be picked at random.org. Good luck!
I really need this book … I’m struggling in this area. I have a 4 year old and two 3 year olds and a plethora of “I don’t like that” comments at meal time. I’d like to say they all come from my kids but hubby joins along in the chorus … although he is much nicer about it.
I’m already a follower and subscriber … Can I get a second entry because your button is featured prominently on my blog?
I really need this book because I don’t have tons of time to spend planning healthy meals for my kids. I really want then to eat a balanced healthy meal each night, it’s makes me feel great when they eat this way. I know how important it is for them.
I signed up for email updates and I told a friend about your website.
I am a fan of Facebook.
I have shared your website with all several friends.
I cannot agree w/you more on this book, Maryann. I became a huge fan of Aviva’s when I stumbled across her recipe newsletter back in 2006 when I was developing LEAN Families at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. I had over 30 dietitians testing her recipes for several weeks and the overriding comments were that the meals were amazing and very easy! I use them for my family and recommend her newsletter and both books in my pediatric dietetic practice. Even if you don’t win the books, I highly recommend the purchase. And this Raise Healthy Eaters blog is one of the best family nutrition blogs out there so make sure you’re plugged in. As a a pediatric dietitian, I am very happy to have found it and enjoy reading Maryann’s posts – excellent resource. Happy Eating!!
(Don’t worry about putting me in the running for these books, just wanted to give my support)
I could really use some creative recipes to encourage my son to eat some veggies. And I love to be able to put dinner together in a hurry. Thank you for the giveaway!
Also, I subscribe via Google Reader, and I tell my mom friends about your blog!
I would love the cookbook!!
This would be great for my sister who has three boys 5 4 and 17 months. They are all going in different directions and the two younger ones are picky eaters. They all want something different and this book looks like it would help keep dinner time down to a soft bark instead of the roar it is going at.
This is a must have in my household, when the kids think going out is the norm instead of eating in I really need to make some changes. I am one that does not like cooking and am quite picky myself when it comes to eating so having a cookbook that makes it quick and healthy and hopefully happy kids I am all over it. Please please pick my family to receive this wonderful resource.
I am a subscriber
I am a facebook “Fan”
I wrote about you on my facebook page
I really need this book. I’m a mom of a thirteen year old, and a nine MONTH old. Between shuffling my big one to different events and chasing after a crawler, I just don’t have time to make healthy meals. When I do cook at home, it’s quick like fried chicken cutlets or hot dogs. HELP!!
I’ve only recently stumbled on your website and have become a fan. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for all your good ideas.
I’ve become a fan on Facebook
I’ve also recommended your site to many of my friends
I already love the original SOS. I would really like to give this one to a good friend who is due with her first baby this summer. It might be hard to part with though!
Oh this would be so helpful. I have heard of this cookbook, but haven’t purchased it. My 3 year old is so picky and it seems most nights I end up making her something different than what we eat. I
I need this book for new cooking ideas for my family. Our daughter just became old enough to eat with the family and I’m already running short on ideas for what to make. I’m not very talented in the kitchen so I need the help of a good cookbook!
I became a fan on facebook
I am a working mom of 2-year-old twins and a 4-year-old singleton. I can use any help I can get to make dinner better, faster, and more appealing to them.
I just became a ‘fan’ on facebook!
I work nights so our biggest meal is lunchtime. Hubby needs help in the dinner dept. Our varied work schedules make family dinners a rarity, so the healthier they can be, the better. Thanks! thebubbledies(at)gmail(dot)com
I shared the post to my FB Friends!
I would love this book–my partner and I are both working students, so time is always tight. But we love to cook together so new recipe ideas would be wonderful. Thanks for the giveaway!
With working during the day and a husband in night school, dinner can get stressful. On school nights, we have an hour to make and eat dinner.
Now that my son is eating table foods, I need more recipes we can all enjoy. Thanks!
I subscribed through my Google reader.
Another busy, exhausted mom who could definitely use help with healthy quick dinners for my family!!
I really need this cookbook! I’m a cancer surviving grandma who works full time and feeds 3 people daily, and more on the weekends. I don’t have the time or patience or ENERGY to cook much. We’ve been eating way too much take home pizza! Help!
The six o’clock scramble is my “go-to” cookbook so I would love to try the new recipes! I planning for a summer at home with three year old twins and a six year old and we are on the move! I need new ideas to get us through our busy summer. Thanks for the giveaway.
Oh boy, how do I not need a new cookbook! I have a healthy, strong 2 year old who isn’t too keen on eating healthy meals or anything milk related. I am also a boring old broiled chicken/fish and steamed veggie eater who is trying to reform meals in our family for everyone, including myself. I definitely don’t have many cooking skills, nor do I have much time so a cookbook like this is much needed!
I am already a subscriber, but I sent an email blast to other friends that are moms to have them check out your blog!
I am already a facebook fan, but I shared it with ALL of my FB friends (360 something)!
Oops, the previous post I meant to say I suggested ALL of my FB friends like the webpage. However, this is to serve as a separate entry, I did share the post on FB too!
The time I start to cook each day seems to be the exact time my 4-yr-old and 3-yr-old lose patience with each other and need the most supervision. The less time I spend on the food, the more time I’ll be able to spend with them!
I am another working mom with a very picky eater. Cooking and eating dinner is very stressful for me and I would love to have some help. This cookbook looks terrific.
Working mom with a new baby, and I am struggling to come up with quick, healthy meals that my toddler will eat. I reposted this and suggested your blog on my Facebook as well.
This book looks like a great resource for my family. I have a 3 year old and a 1 year old and we need to venture beyond mac & cheese and chicken dinosaurs!
With 2 busy teenagers and a toddler quick meals are a must have!
I am an email subscriber!
We’d love to win this, we’ve mostly caught on to the cooking/menu planning thing but due to a sudden change with my father’s health and the 4 children at home, most of our meals have turned into Trader Joe’s frozen meals.
I’ve been an email subscriber for a little while and I’ll be passing your blog along to my friend who’s a nutritionist who has ironically had great struggles with eat and her young daughter and has had to use eating therapy to help her.
As a mom of two teenagers- this book would be perfect for nights when they have to help my husband cook dinner- My hubby is not too keen on the cooking and often forgets the healthy sides so having it be easy and quick and sides printed out would be a perfect!
As a busy working mother of 2 very active growing boys, dinner is a nightmare at our house. We are always in a hurry and I constantly feel pressured to find something that is both good for them and something they with both eat. I could really use this book for more quick, healthy ideas.
I really need this book! I’m struggling coming up with healthy recipes that my 2 and 5 yr old will eat.
Just signed up for your email feed through my other email account. thanks!
I am a fan on facebook, thanks!
I work with families and often urge them to use family mealtimes as an arena for family resiliency, growth and fun! the largest obstacle that the report is the lack of child, time, and money efficient healthy meals. I’d love to utilize this book as a resource, thanks!
I would love more quick and easy recipes as my son has started getting involved with after school sports and our nights are becoming more and more hectic. Plus I think my hubby is getting bored with the same meals over and over!
I need more healthy recipes to fix for my 3 year old. My husband and I have some weight we need to lose so this could really help us.
I already get email updates. I told my mother in law about your wonderful website.
I’m a teacher with three children (two are twins- 5 1/2). I love to plan and prepare healthy meals for my family, but lately my son loves to ask what’s for dinner and then proclaim, “But I don’t like that!” I obviously need some new ideas. 🙂
This cookbook sounds awesome! I want it.
I already get RSS, but I told a friend!
And I suggested to my sis on facebook!
AND I shared this post on Facebook! 🙂 I really want that cookbook.
Now that my 1 year old eats what we eat we are really trying to eat more healthily, but I also don’t want to spend all night in the kitchen. This cookbook sounds like it would be perfect!
I need school lunch ideas! I really want to cut out processed snacks as much as possible. We eat locally and could use help with seasonal cooking.
I am tired of eating the same things the same way.
I sent a link to my GF because her son is very picky. (I am already subscribed via bloglines.)
I LOVE to cook and I LOVE to eat, but since becoming a mom nearly 2 years ago, I have found myself in a major cooking rut. This cookbook sounds like exactly what i need to jumpstart one of my greatest passions and feed my family nutritious and delicious meals all at the same time!
I don’t get off work until 515 and sometimes 530 then it’s usually 6 by the time I arrive home. This book would help me get something healthy on the table fast I bet.
I retweeted and became a fan on FB!
I’m crazy busy all day and love a home cooked meal. However, my “home cooked meals” end up being microwave mac and cheese or some cereal. I need this cookbook to help me get some fun foods on the table and fast so i can enjoy eating healthfully and then cooking as well.
I told my co worker about you who just had a new baby. She needs something quick to fix for herself and her hubby. I’ve been a subscriber for a while! Love this blog! keep up the great work!
I’m a working mom, fed up with all the 39 min meal cookbooks that use processed foods to shorten prep time. This cookbook sounds perfect for me!
I get so stressed out over dinner planning. What to make in a short amount of time that everyone will eat that is also healthy is enough to drive me ’round the bend! I love to cook, but not under those conditions. I too have been disappointed by the dozens of cookbooks I’ve bought thinking they were the magic solution, when only 2 or 3 recipes really work.
I follow on you facebook and just signed up for the emails. Thank you for your wonderful source of healthy recipes and tips. I really appreciate it!
hello!
i need more quick an healthy meal ideas, because i`m plannung to study again in october and won`t have a s much time to prepare food for my 9-year-old son as i do now. would be very grateful for the book,it sound great! best from berlin,anja
I am always on the hunt for quick and healthy meal ideas! Those two things seem like an impossibilty for some but I know it can be done. I read about this book on another site so am anxious to check it out!
I just shared the link to this post on my Facebook page!
I just suggested to a bunch of my friends to “like” your page on Facebook!
I’m always looking for more meal ideas, especially now that one of my girls has food allergies…
I also subscribe to the RSS feed!
I definately need fast meal ideas being a working mom with two little ones at home. Quick and healthy are key for me!
I subscribe to the RSS feed
Why I need this cook book is because I have 5 kids under the age of 9. 5 year old triplets, 7 girl and 8 year old boy. My life is crazy and they EAT A TON!! COSTING ME A SMALL FORTUNE!!!
Help me!
Sara
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