DETROIT – The book is called "Hashbrowns," and it's teaching urban children how to cook using healthy ingredients already found inside their home.
Kristy Sager and her 7-year-old daughter, Lillian, are making a healthy snack. Lillian is doing most of the work thanks to "Hashbrowns."
"It's great. A resource that a lot of parents especially can use,” said Sager. “The recipes are easy. I really like the way that she breaks down certain foods."
The book was written by Kamaria Gray.
"'Hashbrowns' literally just popped in my head," explained Gray. “It's a heavy focus on black and brown children. I thought 'Hashbrowns' because it has the word brown in it, so there's that correlation, but when you think about them they're all colors."
She wanted to give Detroit children healthy options for food they can make at home with standard ingredients.
"They should be things that are in your cabinet already like flour, sugar and butter, oatmeal, coconut and coconut oil,” said Gray. “People already have these things on deck so I'm just taking what's in your fridge or cabinet already and making something from it."
And for those items you might not have, Kamaria has made them simple to find, listing the stores around Detroit that carry them and the prices so you can buy the most affordable healthy ingredients.
"At the end of the day it's math,” said Sager. “You have so much money coming in and you've got to make it work. You've got to feed your family."
These days it's Lillian feeding the family with these simple recipes for kids. She's even more motivated to cook because she can take notes. Oh, and she's pictured throughout the book.
"Hashbrowns" is available online for just $15. For more information, click here.