Let's Cook!
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55 Quick and Easy Recipes for People with Intellectual Disability
This book helps you prepare your own meals with success! Learn how to cook simple and complete meals - healthy meals - with recipes using all the MyPlate food groups. Gain confidence in the kitchen and build self-worth. Designed by and for adults with intellectual disabilities, Let's Cook! promotes and reinforces life skills for independent living.
Let's Cook! can help you: create healthy meals that cover your daily nutritional needs; control carbs, calories, and salt; follow food and kitchen safety; and most of all, eat well - today and every day! Inside you'll find more than 50 healthy "I can cook!" recipes - in large print and written at an early elementary reading level as well as in an easy-to-follow style of "What I Need - What I Use - What I Do." Color photos accompany step-by-step preparations and nutrient information for each recipe that take the guesswork out of cooking.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781615197668
- Author: Elizabeth D. Riesz
- Pub date: 13.07.21
- RRP: $39.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Elizabeth D. Riesz
Elizabeth D. Riesz, PhD, was the mother of Sarah, a young adult with Down syndrome - and the original mastermind behind this book. With a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Iowa, she enjoyed a long career in education. Elizabeth passed away in 2019 and is survived by her daughter as well as her husband, Peter.
Anne Kissack, MPH, RD, is a public health practitioner in chronic disease prevention and management. She has always had a passion for cooking and for sharing this love with others. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband and two children.