We found some bad recipes in this book... so be careful
921049
My wife tried a few of these recipes and we found more bad than in most books we have tried.  So, pick from these carefully.
3913562
First of all, for a paperback this book is large, sturdy, and gorgeous. The photos, font, and other aesthetics are lovely. However, I've had inconsistent luck with the recipes I've made so far.

THE BAD:
The banana nut bread (very bland, absolutely no sweetness whatsoever)
Mashed cauliflower (found this to be disgusting; it was really WET and too sweet)
Lemon squares (the lemon part was decent, but the crust was horrible, which ruined the whole thing for me)

THE OKAY:
The morning glory muffins (the taste here was decent, but WAY to much oil in the recipe!)
BBQ chicken (the sauce did not impress me; but I generally like a sweeter BBQ sauce, so I might be biased)
Coconut flour tortillas (fun to make, but the texture was horrible if you ate them by themselves, but they are fine if you use them for tacos)

THE GOOD:
The fried chicken (delicious)
The fish sticks (good, but make sure you make a dipping sauce to go with them; they need it)

These are all the recipes I've tried so far. I think going forward, I'm going to stick with trying the meat entrees-they seem to be the best. I doubt I'll try making any more of the baked goods. You just can't get them sweet enough and be Paleo at the same time. It is also worth noting that you will have to go out and buy a lot of items to stock your pantry to make these recipes: coconut flour, almond flour, coconut oil, coconut milk, etc. However, there are a lot of recipes in this book, so I think it's worth the price in my opinion (especially for the meat recipes).
3395614
some of these recipes don't seem to be right, such as the Black Forest cake.. ingredients aren't working and I had to search the Dr. Oetker website for the correct ingredients.. It was missing something, because I was getting a "flat disc" rather than a nice fluffy cake.. some good ideas in here and techniques, but doubt I'll use this for much more than ideas..
2338455
I checked both of McCord's Weelicious books out from the library before purchasing -- so glad I did. While the recipes looked like they might be good, I recommend trying a few before you buy either book. The Oatmeal to Go Bars were a colossal failure -- and what really irked me (aside from wasting good ingredients) was that they looked NOTHING like the photograph. I have zero tolerance for recipes that must be doctored to look appealing. If you follow the directions in the book, there is no possible way your oatmeal bars will look like the fruit and nut studded jems in the photo. Instead they are pale grey and somewhat gummy bars of oats without much taste.

I am an avid cook, a super healthy eater and a mom of 5. We eat whole foods, home cooked and are very limited on the prepackaged items we buy. Please do not believe the author's assertion that if you only present your kids with healthy foods they will eat everything and love it. Each child is very different. While my kids have all been raised exactly the same way the range in their tastes from the "all-vegetables are good vegetables" eater to the "I have yet to meet a vegetable I like" eater. Good for Ms McCord that her children are perfect and eat perfectly. I happen to eat and live in the real world...

By the way, given her stance on whole foods, I was surprised that several of the recipes called for things like "boxed polenta mix" or "purchased pizza dough". Maybe if you have 2 kids and a nice food budget you can get organic healthy versions at a whole foods market, but the rest of us need to make this stuff from scratch if we want it to be healthy. If I were to make those recipes, I would need another cookbook or recipe for the pre-made items she calls for.

All in all, I found McCord's books to be more than a wee-bit dissapointing. She has her fan club for sure, but I will look elsewhere for quality recipes for my family.
249605
I was so excited for our excursion into the recipes but after the brownies I'm pretty freaked out. The brownies looked wrong as batter, but I went ahead and put them in the oven. They came out like chocolate charcoal. I triple checked the ingredients before I put them in so there is a typo somewhere.

We also are in the middle of a batch of the candy cane cookies. I'm not sure how they'll turn out, but the dough is really difficult for little hands to work with. Very loose, so it cracks and breaks when you try to roll it into a candy cane. I've had to assembly line it and do most of the work just to get them off of their boards and onto the cookie sheet.

(added later: cookies came out ok, but not edible for adults. very dry needing lost of water or milk to wash down.)

So, besides the cute stories and great layout I'm pretty unhappy. A lot of hype for a lot of nothing. I'm going to do more internet research to see if anyone else has found typos in the recipes.
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There are many things I like about this cookbook.  I like the format (each section separated by main ingredient), the light-hearted attitude of the author and the lower sugar recipes.  Unfortunately, I have had far too many recipes not work properly.  I am somewhat experienced in food preservation and well experienced in cooking, so I do not believe this is operator error.  Today, I finally got around to making Dilly Beans, a recipe I have wanted to try for a very long time.  I had to DOUBLE the brine recipe as I ran out halfway through filling the jars.  I had to stop where I was in the process, measure out the ingredients and then boil the brine all over again.  When you are on your next to last step, this is very frustrating.  Another issue with this and many recipes in  this book is the inaccurate yield of recipes.  My four pounds of green beans should have yielded 8 pints, I had 9 and that was after sorting through many beans that did not make the canning cut.  I also had a yield problem with the peach butter recipe, made much more than she stated in the book.  This is important because you need to prep your jars before you start a recipe.  I always prep more, but sometimes even then I run out of clean, sterile jars and have to start over.  The main issue I have with these discrepancies is that it seems the recipes were not well tested.  With canning, this can be downright dangerous.  You want your recipes to be quite exact to avoid too low pH, too little sugar, too much/little liquid.  All these things affect the safety and quality of the final product.  I do not feel confident that these recipes were tested as extensively as canning recipes should be.  I still like the book though.  If you decide to get it, do yourself a favor and double the brine each cold pack recipe says you may need, it will save you a lot of frustration.
932457
first let me say that i really don't appreciate people who post reviews without trying any of the recipes [and that happens alot on Amazon]...that being said, i have to mention how disappointed i was in some of the recipes that i tried...e.g Cauliflower and Oyster Mushroom  Tacos...sounds GREAT, right? WOW so FN terrible i had to throw it out...I LOVE to cook esp vegetarian recipes and have a pretty good feeling for a recipe just from reading the ingredients...I also have a rule that when you try a recipe for the first time, you follow it exactly even if you question the ingredients and their quantities.  Well, i DID question the enormous amount of chilipowder and smoked paprika in this recipe but i followed it anyway.  What a mistake!!  WAY too much of ALL the spices/seasonings...the final product was as if you had mixed all the chilipowder/paprika/coriander/cumin in a bowl and sprinkled it on ur tongue...NOT what anyone would want in a taco [or anything else for that matter]...seasonings should enhance the ingredients, not overwhelm them...this was simply AWFUL!!  Wanted to post this so no one else would have to waste their time [and money] on such a horrible recipe...So maybe u shouldn't judge a whole book based on one recipe but with sooo many wonderful vegetarian cookbooks out there, why would i try another one from Food52 when i can just go to The First Mess or At Home In The WHole Food Kitchen and hit it out of the park every time??
4155586
There are a lot of recipes in this book taht would knocknyou out of ketosis. Also, the macros are incorrect. For example, sweet potToes are high in carbs howecsr the recipes don't count the corexr carbs to even cover the sweet potatoes part of the dish. The macros noted in the recipes are confusinf with commas separating two number and you just can't trust the numbers.
865964
I tried about 10 of these recipes and oh my they are not very good.  On a couple of them I was gagging.  I guess if you're used to this sort of thing maybe but they really were not good.
3985644
I could not FULLY appreciate this cookbook because I had to pick and choose around the recipes so as to be careful not to introduce certain "hazardous" foods too soon.  The book states WHEN to introduce certain foods, but have different guidelines than what the APA is stating.  Maybe because this is a British author?  FOr instance, I will not be giving eggs to my baby until around 1 year.  Also, some recipes call for butter or berries and other "off limits" foods that I plan to avoid until after 1 yr.  So I wasn't able to get a 100 baby purees out of it - but I did like some ideas about what foods are good mixed together (
ex. sweet potatoes and apples).  And I liked her tips about freezing and storing baby foods, so not a total loss.  Just take this book with a grain of salt and remember she is not a peditrician - so be sure to check with your doctor about when and what to introduce.
1998756
The receipes are not healthy in my estimation.  I do not use half the ingredients called for.  Heavy cream, butter, etc.  I never expected the book to be only sweets.
I live off of social security and spending money for a cook book that I'll never use is very upsetting.
Sorry.  Barbara Crawford
3181424
Book just arrived.  Excited to get started, I made my first recipe (spaghetti squash fritters).  Immediately ran into mistakes in the recipe  (for 1 cup of squash: 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper? Reduced the cayenne to 1/8 tsp-still too hot).  Carried on, but ultimately had to throw it all out.  The fritters did not hold together.  So, I don't
trust the other recipes in the book.  What a shame.  Save your money and avoid frustration in the kitchen.
491348
Nutrition amounts are often wrong, especially the # of carbs in some of the recipes. For exampe, for the recipe "Special Dessert", there's 1 cup honey in the recipe. The recipe serves 8, yet the carbs are listed as just 6 carbs per serving. Wrong. So wrong. There are 279 carbs in 1 c. honey. Divide that by 8 and it's far more than 6 carbs. Lots of errors like that in this book.
787527
Ingredients in this book are all listed by volume, ounces and grams. Be careful though, because sometimes they don't match up!

I'm making the Ham & Cheese Filled Crescent Rolls (p 58) this morning for Easter dinner. I measured out the 1/4 cup of milk the recipe calls for. Then, to be 'exact' I weighed the milk to get the specified 36 grams. It came to only about half of the 1/4 cup I'd measured.  The dough was then so stiff it was almost like pasta dough (I ended up kneading the rest of the milk back in and it finally started to feel more like crescent roll dough).

Apparently, Mr. Leader's books have a history of careless errors like these. Look through the Amazon reviews of "Local Breads," or better yet the forums on baking sites like The Fresh Loaf, to read other experiences like this. It's too bad -- his books are beautiful but they do seem to have a reputation for unreliability.
2704092
Great recipes, but there are some copy writing errors/misprints that can make it a bit difficult to read until you figure out the "code"
2211138
I made the banana bread recipe...and when i put it in the oven i knew something wasn't right.....it was gross.....fell apart...i threw it all away with the book!!
4023106
This is an extremely extensive cookbook that would be great if it did not contains so many errors. It is frustrating to be sent to a page for a recipe and you are not sure if it is the right recipe. The book continuously references an almond cookie dough in the basic recipes, but there is no dough in the beginning that uses almond!!!. There are other examples of this. There are a few cases where translations were not done, and places where ingredients were not converted, but these are minor problems. There there are places where the amounts of the ingrediants were screwed up. Still very extensive with great ideas for recipes. If there is only one dessert cookbook, this could possibly be it, but I do really like Pierre Herme's recipes.