I found the book a bit shallow and tiresome. Maybe because I incorporate a lot of vegetables in my own cooking, maybe because I felt it was trying to be a bit too "cutesy". The premise is good, and if it encourages people to cook and use more vegetables, then it is success. Thank you for letting me review the book.

This was a great cookbook and I really enjoyed reading through the recipes. I definitely found some that I will be making.

This is an excellent cookbook! I was really impressed with these recipes showing so many ways to add veggies as an ingredient. Not to mention easy and simple instructions. Every recipe so far has been a big hit with my family.

I received this book from the publisher through Netgalley for review and all thoughts and opinions are my own.
A cookbook that has recipes that incorporate more vegetables into each dish. It's not about hiding them but rather development of the flavor and higher nutritional value in the meals you prepare for your family. Excellent addition to a family kitchen with loads of instructional photos and tips.

MORE VEGGIES PLEASE! by Nikki Dinki is a beautiful cookbook filled with "Easy Kid-Approved Meals and Family-Friendly Comfort Foods with Surprising Veggie Twists." Dinki, an experienced chef who has her own website and who appears on the Food Network and elsewhere, offers recipes for more veggies at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus snacks and desserts! The photos are gorgeous – very appealing, as is the friendly tone where Dinki encourages her readers to try classic, remix, and Top Ten recipes. For example, I am looking forward to trying Zucchini French Toast, Double Chocolate Chip Muffins (a top ten choice made with spinach and avocado), Grilled Cheese with Sweet Potato, Pumpkin Pasta Dough, and Eggplant Parm Meatballs. In addition to a standard index, she offers a helpful, color coded Recipe Checklist where readers can track comments and rate each recipe. Plus, there's a super-fun section: What to make with what you have … this is perfect for gardeners because it lets readers search quickly by ingredient (e.g., eggplant, cauliflower, pumpkin) and Dinki separately notes Freezer Friendly recipes, too. One disappointing note: she doesn't include nutrition information with each recipe so while all those veggies may be healthy, some recipes may add on calories, like Carrot Biscuits which makes 8 biscuits with a full stick of butter and a half cup of heavy cream. Overall, a fun and inspiring text.

Thank you to Nikki Dinki and BenBella Books for the chance to read a copy of this book!

This is the perfect cookbook for me. It's aimed at children, but I intend to try pretty much every single one of the recipes here--black bean brownies were already a favorite hack from my childhood, and I'm thrilled by the philosophy of a middle ground between indulgent and healthy foods. The book is laid out beautifully, with lots of colorful captions and hints adorning the pages, and nice photographs of everything. The organization of the book is fantastic, including the index sorted by vegetable, and the extra index tagging the freezer-friendly meals. I clicked Buy on a physical copy before I even finished reading this. My one qualm is that some of these recipes are labor-intensive, and not as many recipes have shortcut tips as I'd like. My favorite recipes are along the lines of "mix a bunch of stuff together, pour it in a casserole dish, and stick it in the oven" but the incentives to make something delicious and yet vegetable-y should be motivating.

PS The very last recipe, Willa's Lemon Bars, brought tears to my eyes--who knew cookbooks could be so emotional?

I liked this one. It’s nice to have ways to incorporate some more veggies into our family’s diet without cajoling kids to eat their veggies.

I made several of the recipes, and some were hits while others were kinda meh. Both of the muffin recipes we tried fell into the latter category - usually muffins disappear within a day or two around here, but these…didn’t. Everyone tried one, and they were fine, but nobody was fighting over them.

I actually think the savory recipes work a bit better. The hamburger helper recipe is nearly as good as my other (homemade) version that I usually make - but with a TON more veggie content that no one really noticed!

All in all, I’d say it’s one to check out of the library to see if it’s your jam. I do have a list of several more that I plan on trying (like the mac and cheese!)

Excellent cookbook showing so many ways to add veggies as an ingredient into many popular dishes. Some recipes have the veggies replacing ingredients and some recipes add the veggies. Every recipe I made so far has been a big hit with my large family. Thank you for creating this wonderful cookbook. I have needed this kind of cookbook.

An amazing and well thoughout book full of easy recipes which include more vegetables than traditional versions. The vegetables do not seem to be added for the sake of it, in each case they seem to contribute something to the finished dishes. My children have now grown up so I no longer need to hide veg in my meals but here the vegetables often take the place of other more unhealthy ingredients which in my mind is always a winner. I have bookmarked almost the entire book and can't wait to get started later today with the Strawberry and Chia seed Jam.

The tips on storing, freezing and using alternitive ingredients is also very helpful.

What a beautiful book! Delightful recipes and attractive photos of food, the author and her children. It was a nice touch to hear about the author and inspiring too. Especially touching was the recipe dedicated to the author’s daughter, Willa.
I’ve more than a few recipes I’d like to try! Particularly the chocolate avocado truffles!

This is reminiscent of Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious cookbook. Nikki Dinki finds tons of creative ways to use veggies to enhance favorite comfort food/kid-friendly dishes. While I felt like this was targeted at parents with younger kids, I think I only felt that way because of the gorgeous photos of her own young children. The recipes are definitely suitable for anyone looking to get some more veg in their diet. I especially loved the sections at the end - there was a spot to right notes about each recipe and rate it, a section on "what to make with what you have", freezer friendly recipes, and Nikki's top ten recipes to name a few.

Thank you to BenBella Books and NetGalley for allowing me to read an advance copy of this cookbook. My review is voluntary and all opinions are my own.

I haven't loved cookbook this much in a long time!!
I don't have problems eating veggies (phew, because I am a vegetarian) and no children to try and get to eat them, but it's a fact that they fill you up and of course that they are much healthier than almost anything else.
This book is full of brilliant recipes where veggies and beans (vegetarian ears perking up because it's a great way to incorporate protein as well) to your daily "normal" meals.

And there are some great ideas! I tried most, only shying away from beets (not a fan) and tortillas and homemade pasta (because mine never turn out well). Otherwise, almost every recipe is a winner and some breakfast recipes make for amazing brunch ingredients as well.

But this book is an absolute winner!

I think this is a great cookbook. I love all of the ideas to sneak in veggies to regular food for little ones. One of my favorite parts was the section for using Ingredients that you have around the house.

I’ve loved Nikki Dinki since she was on The Next Food Network Star and now that I have children this cookbook is great. It helps incorporate Effie’s into every meal in new and exciting ways. The pictures I this book are really well done and it’s helpful to see the finished dishes. The recipes are well written and even look good enough for the grown ups to eat!

This is wonderful cookbook. The pictures are great and make the recipes look delicious. I love vegetables. The cookbook makes it easy to hide vegetables in the meals without the kids realizing they are enjoying vegetables. There are so many yummy recipes and of course the kids think it is yummy too! This is a great cookbook for picky eaters to enjoy their vegetables. There are numerous wholesome recipes to enjoy. This is one cookbook you will want to add to your collection. You will not be disappointed. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley and I am voluntarily leaving a review.

More Veggies Please! provides a ton of great recipes for clandestine vegetable consumption. Assuming anyone out there might have a guilty conscious about not being willing to go into a battle of wills with a Picky eater EVERY NIGHT just to eat a silly piece of broccoli, this book is for you. If you're trying to convince a loved one who should have grown out of his or her picky phase to eat that asparagus, this book is for you. If you just want to eat more vegetables but just can't imagine another night of broiled brussel sprouts stinking up your kitchen then this book is definitely for you too.

Nikki Dinki's adorable recipe introductions are short enough with just the right amount of self deprecating humor to make this book a winner for the entertainment factor alone. However, the recipes actually taste just wonderful! As Nikki says, these recipes do use butter and sugar so they may not be the most low calorie options out there for you but if you are making it a goal to eat more vegetables, which will help to make your body stronger and healthier in the long run, it's a winner.

The answer is always puree, puree, puree.

I love cookbooks and sadly this one was not for me and that's probably because I wasn't the target audience for this cookbook. Yes I saw that this cookbook was aimed toward those with children and my childless self still decided to give it a try. I heard "More Veggies Please!" and thought it was a genius idea but most of these recipes fell flat for me. For one the answer to get more veggies into your meal was just to puree them to the point you couldn't tell they were there. I was eager for the vegetable to play more of a role in the meal instead of being mushed into oblivion. I also felt that some of the recipes already utilized a lot of vegetables without the addition of more. For example, one of the first recipes I came upon was chicken noodle soup. That's a soup that is pretty dense in vegetable and I wouldn't say the recipe was much of an improvement because it just involved pureeing the vegetables so that your kids couldn't see them. I wanted something more inventive out of it. Another example is chicken pot pie with sweet potato added to the crust. While it might not be a bad idea it just didn't feel like a dish that really needed more vegetable added to it. Also, while many of these recipes are quite tasty I do wonder about the quickness and cost effectiveness of them especially when appealing to a potentially busy parent. The main culprit for this would be the Eggplant Chicken Tenders. In this recipe you puree eggplant and then bread the chicken tenders in it. I'll agree this is a pretty smart and sneaky way to get your veggies to your kids I just wonder about the quickness of this recipe and the mess. Also, I would think that breadcrumbs would be cheaper than an eggplant, especially if just using a stale loaf of bread.
Not to say that none of these recipes appealed to me. I thought the idea of the Cauliflower Egg Salad Sandwich was pretty smart. She gave several different methods of how to add the cauliflower to it with the cauliflower rice option being my favorite. My second favorite was the Homemade Spinach Tortilla recipe. I feel like this one will come in handy because who hasn't accidentally left a bag of spinach to rot. This recipe would allow you to prevent this by making these tortillas ahead of time. I also appreciated how she did recommend the use of a microwave at times to cook potatoes. It was a refreshingly realistic instruction in a cookbook that many chef's leave out. Almost everyone has a microwave and those who have them utilize them a lot. This book would be great for the conscientious parent or grandparent, but I don't see the audience expanded much past that.

I got this book for free in exchange for a honest review through NetGalley.

What a well thought out cookbook! Although it's marketed for parents with kiddos, I found myself thinking some of her additions/substitutions would be good for myself as well. Next time I make avocado toast, I am trying her green pea addition! My children are young, and we are always looking to introduce more vegetables into their meals. This is the type of book I would pickup off the shelf in a bookstore. I think Nikki's substitutions and additions are very well though out, keeping young palates in mind. Several of our staple dishes are listed in her cookbook, with vegetable additions that have not occurred to me. Adding this book to birthday/holiday gift ideas list!

I love veggies but not everyone does, especially kids. This book is great because it gives parents a way to include veggies into their kids diet, sometimes without them even knowing.
These recipes look amazing and I am sure they are delicious. I can't wait to try some. Buffalo cauliflower wings could be a hit on game day. A loaded queso that includes butternut squash. But with all the cheese you would never know. There's recipes for homemade crackers using either spinach or oatmeal with carrot juice. Black bean brownies I'm sure the chocolate chips will help cover those up. The sweet potato cinnamon rolls look wonderful and perfect for a cool fall morning.

As a mom I’m always looking for ways to add more veggies to my family’s diet. I love that this book isn’t trying to hide the veggies as well as the flavor of a recipe. Who wants boring, sad, flavorless meals? Not all fat is the enemy and Nikki Dinki gets that. So yes there’s cream and parm in the cauliflower Alfredo (spoiler that’s what makes Alfredo taste good. Just cauliflower and salt does not an Alfredo make) there’s also a ton of veggies in all the recipes. While if I’m being honest I’m not quite brave enough to try the veggies in my desserts (yet), the recipes are there for you to try. (They aren’t low fat desserts. They are veggie enhanced desserts).

The pictures are beautiful. The recipes are well written and easy to follow. Bonus Nikki provides info on storing and substitutions at the end of each recipe.