French Kids Eat Everything

How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters

By: Karen Le Billon

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North American eating habits while they were all living in France.

At once a memoir, a cookbook, a how-to handbook, and a delightful exploration of how the French manage to feed children without endless battles and struggles with pickiness, French Kids Eat Everything features recipes, practical tips, and 10 easy-to-follow rules for raising happy and healthy young eaters - a sort of French Women Don’t Get Fat meets Food Rules.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2012 Karen Le Billon (P)2019 HarperAudio

Required Reading!!

Extremely engaging! It is highly insightful on not only kids and picky eating, but also a close analysis of North American culture and their relationship with food through the lens of an unsuspecting nation, not to mention a compelling family story spread across two continents. 10/10 recommend to parents, parents to be, and parents never to be. This book is as important for rearing the next generation as it is for any North American.

I wish I had read this sooner

This book answers so many questions about the way I was raised and in turn how I have raised my child. My wife and I are picky eaters so of course our child would be too. We have a bad good culture in our country that pushes snacking and other bad habits. Before you know it you are teaching your children these same bad habits. This book does a good job of identifying those bad habits and reasonable solutions.

Enjoyable book!

I enjoyed this book very much. Fun, informative, thought-provoking and great narration. I can't wait to put many of these traditional yet enjoyable "food rules" into my family's routine.

Great Book, Bad Narrator

Good:
This book was so incredibly helpful as we’re starting to try to diversify our toddler’s diet. The French way of associating meals and food with positive things and a festive environment takes so much stress out of mealtime! It was also nice to feel like I could give myself permission to relax if my son doesn’t eat something the first or second time. I feel much calmer around food now. I tried some of her recipes on my toddler with varying success, but my husband and I love the new tastes and have started having family meals, which has honestly had the secondary benefit of strengthening our marriage bond as well, as we were often eating in front of the TV after our son went to bed.

Bad:
Good grief, this narrator is bad! Her tone is sharp and has a weird air of snobbery that makes this a tough listen. Her French is terrible, which is understandable considering she’s not a native speaker, but you’d think they could have written the phrases out phonetically for her. Someone should also let her know how to pronounce the word “anecdote.” Hearing her say “antic-dote” like 14x made me roll my eyes and question whether any of these recordings pass through the ears of an editor.

It is a quick listen, be aware of the narrators terrible French impersonation

A nice memoir. There is sufficient anecdotal information to give you a good start on how to change your behaviors with your children and get them to start focusing on their food. The narrator, however, was very frustrating. The accents she did verged on Transylvania and at one point a character sounded Bengali. if you can ignore all that nonsense it’s a pretty good magnifying glass on the good eating habits of the French.

Good story but terrible terrible French

Just as a lot of people have mentioned, the reader has the worst French accent! Her efforts to speak “French” sometimes comes off sounding Indian. Besides that, great information and great story.

Pretty Good

Extremely eye opening and informative although the story can be a little boring at times

yum

a great way to get ideas or understand more about picky eaters and food

America, we need this!!

It’s such common sense when you hear (or read) it. My eyes were opened. This book got my wife’s attention immediately in the first chapter when she quotes a French saying “tell me how your child eats and I will know what kind of parent you are“. She felt attacked. And then listened intently to try to do better. Such a great read

A lovely book!

This book was a fantastic balance of entertainment and education! The writer conveys both wit and valuable information in his delightful read