Featuring thirty gluten-, dairy-, soy-, and nut-free recipes that you and your child can cook together!
For many years, Erica Daniels had been out to find a suitable dietary treatment for her ten-year-old son Leo, who suffers from significant food allergies and gastrointestinal issues. Through trial and error in her own kitchen, she finally hit her culinary stride of preparing entire family meals without gluten, dairy, soy, nuts, additives, or GMOSwith Leo by her side.
Cooking with Leo is a family-inspired collection of thirty allergen-free and autism-friendly recipes for the autism family. Featuring easy, step-by-step visual recipes” for chefs with special needs, personal anecdotes of and advice for cooking for an autism family, and photographs of mother and son at work in the kitchen, this book is also the heartfelt story of a regular mother bonding with her son over their shared love of cooking. Make meaningful connections with your child affected by autism and nurture their passion for cooking with nutritious recipes such as:
Teff-Tough Honey Waffles
Football Sunday Turkey Chili
Leo's Italian Artichokes
Chicken Parmesan, Kinda
Lemon Meringue Drops, and more!
Part cookbook and part love story, Cooking with Leo will take you into a messy kitchen and the real-life world of the unwritten recipes and unplanned meals that families affected by food allergies and autism face. Learn not only to cook for the family, but also to connect with your child, locate their gifts and develop their strengths, impart life skills, and tie the family together with healthy food and happy guts.
