Rating: - I applaud the idea, but...
The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals
I have to say it is an interesting idea for hiding veggies if your children don't like the sight of them, but it wasn't Jessica Seinfeld's to begin with. There was a similar book written a few years ago called "Sneaky Chef" which basically used the same strategy.

I have to say that the best way to benefit from any nutrients in veg is to eat everything raw, if not raw always undercooked. Once vegetables have been cooked, frozen and then heated up in a microwave, the nutrients/vitamins are dead. This is why frozen broccoli is of no use, unless you just love the taste.

So, if your main purpose is to give your children the vitamins and nutrients they need to fight off cancer or basically to grow, it is a better idea to feed them fresh fruit and veg daily.

I don't know why moms complain that their children don't like veggies, if you had started their lives off with feeding them healthy foods, they wouldn't know any different. They only know what you tell them after all!

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Rating: - Even good for grown-ups
My friend and I both bought copies of this. Neither one of us has kids but we saw the author on Oprah and thought that the receipes looked good and the concept of getting more veggies by incorporating purees into food was cool. So I bought a food processor and steamer and got started. I really love this book and the recipes are great. Not sure why other people have not been so thrilled except that it is very time consuming to prep the purees. Just plan a night or day and take care of making purees that you put into your freezer. Then you can have a month's worth of veggies waiting for your recipes. It's a fun and novel way to prepare food. I plan on using the concept when I have children of my own as you honestly don't even notice the veggies inside traditional favorites like maccaroni and cheese.

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Rating: - Mostly good
For those of us who are trying to eat the way we were designed to eat (i.e. as in The Evolution Diet), the recipes in Deceptively are a little too processed and artificial, but they weren't awful like a lot of the reviewers are claiming. You have to remember that if you're used to eating trash, good food isn't going to taste so good right off the bat. The problem that this book is trying to combat isn't going to go away with some sneaky recipes though, unfortunately- the problem of childhood obesity is too big (no pun intended)

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Rating: - Bon appetite
This is of course a cook book and like any other it gives you some new ideas of how to disguise food so your family will eat it. Cook books are to be read and see if something jumps out at you. It has new ideas for old recipes or a new food to try, but you have to remember that not all recipes are equal. Just like family members don't eat the same things and like it. You can't expect everything to work for you and your kids... so you try it and if it works you keep it and if not you toss it. Like many things in life this may work for you or may not, but the only one who can decide is you.

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Rating: - Oprah, You must be a very good friend !!
I rush to the store when I saw Oprah endorse this cookbook and after she loved the brownies on her show. But I have tried the brownie recipe and the banana bread and a few others and they haven't pass the kids or adult test. Deceptive is truely the case here and great marketing. For children to be fed deceptively the food must have the same look, feel and ultimately equivalent taste which these recipes do not produce. I think everyone can agree that raw vegetables are best, but any ingested by a child in any form is better than none, but this book did not provide the answer.