This cook book offering is over the top! While geared as a family cook book to introduce and encourage younger kids to cook, the recipes and resources offered here make it perfect for any age or kitchen. Packed with great full color images, snippets of nutrition information, international ingredients and recipes, and my personal favorite, simple yet tasty variations on recipes from breakfast sandwiches, to egg salad, to so much more. I’ll be adding this to my library’s collection as well as my own personal cook book collection. Thank you to the author and publisher for the chance to sample and review this as an ARC.

The ChopChop Family Cookbook is an exuberant and fun guide to cooking and creativity for the whole family together with recipes and ideas by Sally Sampson. Due out 4th April 2023 from Storey Publishing, it's 256 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.

Cooking is a great way for kids to exercise creativity, learn about physical science, gain coordination and life skills. Cooking together as a family is a wonderful activity and will provide special memories together. The author does a good job of covering both the safety aspects of cooking together safely -and- emphasizing the fun. The language is simple and accessible and the graphics and layout of the book are colorful and exuberant. Important tips and notes are provided in color highlighted text boxes throughout the text.

The chapters are arranged thematically: an intro which covers how/why to invite kids into the kitchen, as well as an overview over safety/tools/etc, followed by breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, and dessert chapters. The author has also included a set of appendices which do a great job of explaining pantry & fridge essentials and a nice set of tutorials for building basic knife, measuring, and cooking skills. Tutorials are accompanied by clear, unobstructed photos and simple captions.

Recipe ingredients are given in a bullet list sidebar for each recipe, followed by step by step cooking instructions. Measurements are given in imperial (American) units. They've included a metric conversion chart in the back of the book. Nutritional information is not included.

It's beautifully photographed throughout, and the food is attractively styled and prepared. I was impressed with the range of inspiration from different cuisines as well as the inclusion of ingredients (bulgur, couscous, orzo) which are oft-ignored in kid-centric cookbooks.

Four stars. Really really well done. This would be a superlative choice for public or school library acquisition as well as home use and gift-giving.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

The best cookbook for kids I’ve ever seen. There are appealing pictures of almost every recipe.
Something for everyone here in meal categories breakfast, snack, lunch, dinner and dessert.
There are helpful variation charts such as a “Sandwich Mix and Match” chart and “Customize your Quesadilla” suggestions to personalize the recipes to your child’s tastes. The focus on nutrition that is presented in fun facts and pictures is so important to teach children early on. As a former food and nutrition teacher, I found this book to be an essential contribution to teaching children healthy food habits. In the introduction, cooking is highly recommended to be a family activity and the book gives several valid reasons why this is beneficial to children. “The extra time you spend with your kids in the kitchen is an investment”. I’ll be buying three copies, one for each of my grandchildren’s homes and one to keep for when they are at my home. I had already subscribed to Chopchop’s excellent magazine.
Thanks to the Storey Publishing and ChopChop for the advanced review copy.

The Chop Chop Family Cookbook by Sally Sampson is a cookbook with recipes to be fixed with the whole family pitching in. Pictures were average and the recipes were easy enough to have kids help you with the cooking. There were a few new recipes, to me, but most were recipes I was familiar with with the author’s own spin on them.

The author included a section on Kitchen Essentials which was loaded with great information. She also included a section on How and Why to Read Labels and explained cooking terms. The recipes are interspersed with a page detailing a particular subject. An example: Let’s All Talk About Bananas. Recipes includes a blurb about the dish, time to make, how much it yields, ingredients, and instructions. The recipe sections are as follows:

1. Breakfast
Example: Classic French Omelet

2. Lunch
Example: Salads: Classic Chicken Salad

3. Snacks
Example: Caramelized Onion Dip

4. Dinner
Example: Oven Fried Chicken

5. Sides:
Example: Summer Squash Sauté

6. Dessert
Example: Black Cocoa Cookies

For this review, I made the Mustard and Rosemary Roasted Chicken which was very delicious. It was easy to make, and the instructions were simple to follow. I don’t have children, but plan on letting my great niece and great nephew make it for us for supper the next time they are here.

My review is voluntary and all comments and opinions expressed are
my own.

This is a great cookbook with great and delicious-looking recipes that I will definitely be trying out when my kitchen is done!

This was a great book to share with my two kids, ages 9 and 12! Not only are there delicious recipes, like the smoothies, that the whole family loves, but also lots of information about food science. This gives the kids an opportunity to really understand why they are doing what they are doing. I would definitely recommend this!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an opportunity to read this!

This has so many good, healthy ideas. There's a nice variety of food from different cultures. It has directions for substitutions for cookware and ingredients. It has nutritional info of certain ingredients like bananas vs oranges. It talks about involving kids in the kitchen. Most of it is pretty simple but some are a bit more complex. It includes basic cooking info like how to cook beans and chop certain produce. There's measurements like basic conversions as well as vegetable cups to pounds. It's pretty jam packed with info. A great cookbook for families or beginners. Or anyone who wants simple, healthy meals.

Most of these are not anything you will every need a recipe for, photos are not overly exciting for kids.

This is a great easy to follow family cookbook with both sweet and savoury recipes for all ages. I liked the way it is split into meals - Breakfast, Lunch etc. and the focus on simplicity in both ingredients and methods. I loved the mix and match pages for ideas and inspiration too. I made the egg salad - delicious on a toasted bagel. I took the advice in the recipe for extra creaminess to add olive oil and yogurt.

Excellent family cookbook with a colorful and fun layout, simple recipes, and clear instructions. Great for older elementary or middle grade kids that want to cook without the childish treatment of juvenile cookbooks or the complexity of traditional cookbooks.

This was a good cookbook. I thought it was full of some really great cooking tips as well nutrition information that I felt was really valuable and interesting. I made a couple of recipes and they were all great. I look forward to grabbing a copy when this one comes out in March.

A lovely family recipe book. Recipes feature a diverse range of foods, (many of which would be considered 'healthy'), but it doesn't focus on calories or (in my opinion), any other potentially contentious material in the minefield that is promoting nutrition and healthy mindsets around food in our children and young people.

The recipes themselves looks great, and don't feature difficulty to source ingredients (always a selling point in my opinion!). They are also simple enough to really allow kids to take control in the kitchen (adult guidance is encouraged for any methods where there could be safety considerations).

Adults will be pleased that the recipes are not particularly childish, this is very much a book that will keep whole families satisfied. There are lots of vegetarian options, but meat and fish are also featured. The book is educational too, with 'lets talk about..(insert a variety of foods) section at various appropriate points, in addition to a lengthy and thorough introduction..

The book is organised in a logical way, with 5 sections: breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner and desserts. I tested the recipe for 'Skillet DElote' (Mexican Street Corn), its was easy to follow, simple to prepare, and SO delicious that I have made it everyday for the past 2 weeks!

Overall this is a family cookbook that I wouldn't hesitate to recommend.

My thanks to NetGalley, author and publisher for the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an advance copy.

A simple, easy to read and navigate cook book that's perfect for families, in particular those that don't class themselves as very good cooks and need some simple recipes and ideas to make for the full family.

Thanks to the publisher for granting me access to an eArc in exchange for an honest review.

The perfect cookbook, I have so much envy that this is not on my cooking bookshelf in my kitchen. The book is beautiful and bright, the text is clear and the recipes are simple yet exciting. The problem I encountered was that it does not work well with the Netgalley app, it is not available in E-book format on the Kindle app, I would struggle to use this day to day in the format it is in, which is unfortunate as the content appeals to me.

The Chop Chop Family Cookbook, y Sally Sampson features recipes for Breakfast, Lunch Dinner, Snacks, and Desserts, and includes fun recipes that kids will love, like Rainbow Sandwiches, Stone Fruit Salsa, and Triple Green Pasta. Geared towards families and early learning, this cookbook also incorporates fun kitchen science facts like, Why Does Popcorn Pop, and How Does Milk Turn into a Cheese. Filled with colorful graphics and recipe pictures, this is a great recipe and food literacy book that families will enjoy.

Thanks to NetGalley and Storey Publishing for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of "The ChopChop Family Cookbook" by Sally Sampson. This was such a fun, exciting cookbook to read through! I love the formatting, the font, the colorful pictures - it made every recipe jump off the page and I grew super hungry as a result. I like that the recipes are a mix of no-frills basics with some fancier recipes to try as well. A lot of the recipes a kid-friendly too, which sometimes you don't find in a regular cookbook. This truly was a "family" recipe collection.

I accessed a digital review copy of this book from the publisher.
This cookbook is perfect for anyone who wants to introduce children to the kitchen and cooking. While the reading level on many things is more suited for mid-level readers, the information and recipes would work for younger children who are working with an older person.
The book includes information on basic kitchen and cooking skills that will work as a good foundation for children beginning to cook. It also includes fact pages about common ingredients like onions, apples, and carrots. Some of the recipes also show how a child could adapt or change it to suit their tastes.
All of the recipes are easy to do and the ingredients are easy to find. There are plenty of pictures of the dishes to show how they will look.

Thank you to NetGalley and Storey Publishing for the digital ARC!

This was a great cookbook to look through and it had so many recipes to choose from. There were lots of pictures of what the different foods looked like, which is always nice. They also would put in pages with special facts about different foods, such as bananas and onions, or pages with different customization options for a recipe.

The recipes themselves were easy to follow and I think older kids could follow them with the help of an adult. Most of the recipes had a healthier focus to encourage kids to eat healthier foods.

Many of the recipes also had tips for substitutions or ingredients to mix in or add on top of the recipe. Some of these tips even offered encouragement to learn to live since if the ingredients in the recipes, like mushrooms or anchovies. Towards the back, there was even a section with kitchen how-to skills that went over things like cooking and draining pasta or cracking eggs.

Overall, this is a great family cookbook that parents can use with their children to teach them how to prepare and cook food.

A lovely cookbook for families with little children. Find healthy dishes from a variety of horizons that are easy to cook with kids. They are mainly classics, lots of things I'm sure many families already does, but having it in a book might give more ideas/options and show how to introduce kids to the kitchen and how to get them interested in the healthy balanced foods parents are trying to make them eat.
Having moved a lot across the world my kids eat a much more varied diet than most so this isn't exactly for me. I would have also liked step-by-step pictures to show children before we start, and a little more unusual recipes , but I'm sure many will find this book charming and useful especially in the US.

I don't know what I was expecting from this book. I'm a picky eater and have a palate on par with that of a child and was hoping to find a couple recipes here that might be interesting but it was sort of meh.

Pros:
There were lots of pictures.
The recipes were relatively simple.

Cons:
The recipes were all over the place in terms of the palate of your child. Some of the recipes were super simple and the kind of thing that you shouldn't need a recipe for while other things were for more advanced palates and aren't the types of foods I would think a child would want.

I didn't really care for this book and wouldn't recommend it to others. If you want super simple stuff to cook for your kid then you'll find some of that in here but if you're looking for stuff for a kid with a more advanced palate you'd be better off getting a cookbook for adults rather than a family/parenting cookbook.