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Great range of exciting and interesting recipes that appeal to the whole family. Tried out a few, and lots more of the to do list! Thank you for letting me review this book

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So many yummy looking recipes, I can’t wait to try them. This is my first Joe Wicks recipe books, so I’m quite intrigued by his others now. The only thing that I’m not keen on trying is the marmite cheese straws. The recipes look relatively easy, so that’s a winner in my eyes!

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

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This is another beautifully presented cookbook by Joe Wicks to inspire you. It has recipes for everyday to special occasions, plus recipes to share with kids and meat-free offerings. I like that there’s an indication of the prep and cooking times and which means can be frozen. It will appeal to everyone even if you aren’t familiar with Joe Wicks.

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Vibrant cookery book and can’t wait to try some more recipes, made spinach and salmon pies and the pan pizzas both turned out perfect and tasted yum. The recipes are geared up to family meals and plenty of veggie choices. You can substitute some ingredients for your own family favourites as well. Easy to follow and sections in book for different meal types. Well presented with pictures and Joe’s family helping to cook and eat., perfect present for young families. Thank you #NetGalley for the copy to review.

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I really liked this - lots of fun, easy and healthy recipes for us to try as a family. Some great pictures and easy to follow recipes

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Some very exciting looking meals in this book which I can’t wait to try.

I’ve enjoyed many of Joe Wicks’ recipes so I’ll stock up my cupboards to give these simple yet tasty looking meals.

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Could not download it in a decent format so unable to review this book. Sorry. Shame - my phone won’t download pdfs

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I'm a big fan of "Wean in 15' so was excited when this book was announced as the 'next step' to some delicious, child-friendly meals.

The book is split into different chapters - hob dishes, one-pot oven jobs, batch cooking, meat-free and quick suppers to name but a few- their are photographs of the recipes that look mouthwateringly good and my little one loved looking at the pictures of Joe's children eating them too!

What I love is that these recipes are full of different flavours and packed full of vegetables; they're meals that my husband and I will eat with or without the little one!

The recipes are quite ingredient heavy, but there's barely any 'specialist' ingredients, and having had. a look through, most of those required I've got in my cupboards! I can't wait to sample some of these meals!

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I absolutely love Joe Wicks’ cookbooks and have used the Lean In books a lot over the years so was very excited to get approved for an ARC for Joe’s Family Food. This book is designed for family’s who want to make healthy meals for all the family and most of the serving sizes are for 2 adults and 2 children. The recipes are split into sections based on how a family is likely to be cooking; ‘on the hob’, ‘bung it in the oven’ or recipes that can be made in large batches. I would absolutely love it if I could get my family to eat in this way - these recipes are varied and very healthy - but there is not a chance of getting my children to eat most of these recipes. There are definitely a few recipes I would make and be quietly hopeful they would try and like and these were mostly in the ‘bung it in the oven’ section. For me, this is the most aspirational of the cookbooks that Joe Wicks has brought out to date. I love what he is trying to achieve and know that many families will make and enjoy these recipes but this contains less realistic options for my family in particular (and that is completely our own fault).

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Beautiful pictures throughout, enough to make your tummy rumble! I’m a fan of Joe’s books, I own most of them so I was delighted to get the opportunity for an advance peek at his latest.

Lots of healthy choices in there, we’ve picked a few recipes to try with our fussy kids and I can’t wait to see how they turn out!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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Excellent selection of recipes that I am definitely going to use with my family. I am a big fan of Joe and his mission to get people eating simple healthy food and this is another great book to add to his collection!

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I loved Joe’s previous books so was excited to try some new recipes out and it did not disappoint! My favourites were definitely the smoky chickpea jacket potato and the butternut and ricotta filo pie. My only real downside that I found is that there were a lot of recipes with nuts and I have a severe allergy to them but aside from that there were some fab recipes for kids that were healthy snacks that were actually tasty! I don’t have children yet (just one on the way!) but my husband and I really enjoyed them all the same.

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Brilliant family recipes. I have a large family and struggle to find healthy, tasty meals for everyone. Have tried a few out of this and they are delicious! Easy to follow and just a lovely book to have.

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I liked this book and thought it had lots of great ideas. I felt as it is a family cook book though that it may have had more recipes which were suitable to make with children. I was hoping as Joe is so inspirational to children through his pe lessons that he may have aimed this more towards them.

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Having several of Joe's books and loving his recipes I look forward to trying some of his new recipes. It's also good reading about his family.I have no family do can't say how children would like the recipes.bright and colourful
Covers i think it will appeal to many people. YUmmy

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Joe’s Family Food by Joe Wicks is a fantastic family friendly cookbook. The book is divided into 7 different sections with lots recipes for each section. Featuring lots of photos of both food and Joe and his family this is designed for all the family to try and be healthier.

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I loved this, I’ve so many of the recipes on my list to make. I particularly loved the traybake, which I would never have dreamed up myself. Such a good breakfast.

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I've been following Joe since his PE days in Lockdown 1.0 so have been seeing this recipe book progress on Instagram.
I was so excited to receive a copy and incredibly excited to start making some of the recipes in the book. Although I wouldn't say that all the recipes in this book would be suitable for my family there have been some favourites marked already including the peabut butter chicken and brocolli carbonara.
A lovely addition to my recipe book collection!

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I'd previously thought Joe's cookbooks had been overly health-food centric so was interested to see how that translated to "Family Food".

A good mix of recipes from simple quick 5 minute noodles to recipes you can spend more time on when you have it.

I was honestly very surprised at how tasty a lot of the dishes sounded and the photos are fantastic. I will definitely be taking a few recipe ideas from this.

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Made life far easier & tastier!
This has been an excellent addition to our kitchen. The kids are loving trying new things and we're all more energetic for it!

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