Healthy Family, Happy Family (28 page)

Printable shopping lists for all the menus and lunch box guides in this book are available via Karen’s health website. See
www.healthbeforebeauty.com/?q=shopping
or go to
www.healthbeforebeauty.com
and follow the links.

For more information about eczema and other skin conditions read
The Healthy Skin Diet
by Karen Fischer (Exisle Publishing).

Healthy marketing: for more information on ways to convince children to eat healthy foods read
Don’t Tell Them It’s Healthy
by Karen Fischer.

Writing this book has been the hardest thing I’ve ever had to complete (which might have something to do with having a toddler), and I have many people to thank for their valuable input and support during this time. Firstly, I’m grateful for my two children, Ayva and Jack. Your fussy eating habits have taught me so much and this book would not have existed without you. I’m even more appreciative that you now eat my food. Last week my daughter told me I was a really great cook, which was a relief to hear after all the years of designing recipes and preparing meals for her (most of which were experimental and not all were successful).

I could not have completed this book without a lot of babysitting from the three wonderful grandmas my children have. Thank you Pav for having Jack for the last three weeks I was writing this book—it was complete torture being away from him but I knew he was in good hands. And for Mum and Sue for helping out in many, many ways.

My computer died just before this book was finished and I couldn’t have completed the project without the generosity of Fiona Gualtieri and Dr Nick Hocking for lending me their spare computers.

Katie Ashton, your marketing feedback has, once again, been very helpful. I am forever grateful to my writer’s agent Selwa Anthony and my publishing friends at Exisle Publishing for my book contract and for the wonderful job you have done with
Healthy Family, Happy Family.
I’m grateful for my editors Anouska Jones and Karen Gee—thanks for all the tireless work you have done in order to complete this book. You both have such a rich understanding of health and nutrition which has been invaluable during the editing process.

A big thank you to Katrina Warren and the rest of my recipes testers and parents who forwarded their comments and feedback. And I owe a debt of gratitude to my friends and family, including my mum, Joy, as well as Sue Tierney, Pav Alexander, Annie Bloom, Libby Jane Charleston, Lisa Salgo, Louise McGregor, Lizzie Hunter, Merle Norris and Mel Moloney who have generously given me some of their most delicious family recipes to use in this book. And warm wishes to my new and existing readers—thank you for your faith and I hope you and your family gain health and happiness from reading and applying the information from this book.