Let's Cook!

This book helps you prepare your own meals with success! Learn how to cook simple and complete meals - healthy meals - with recipes using all the MyPlate food groups. Gain confidence in the kitchen and build self-worth. Designed by and for adults with intellectual disabilities, Let's Cook! promotes and reinforces life skills for independent living.Let's Cook! can help you: create healthy meals that cover your daily nutritional needs; control carbs, calories, and salt; follow food and kitchen safety; and most of all, eat well - today and every day! Inside you'll find more than 50 healthy "I can cook!" recipes - in large print and written at an early elementary reading level as well as in an easy-to-follow style of "What I Need - What I Use - What I Do." Color photos accompany step-by-step preparations and nutrient information for each recipe that take the guesswork out of cooking.