Feeding Your Baby & Toddler [Hardcover]

Annabel Karmel is a leading authority on feeding the under-fives and is a trained Cordon Bleu chef and mother of three. What she does particularly well is encourage a healthy approach to diet while making the recipes truly tasty--in part, by making recipes that are easy for parents to cook, but also, importantly, ones that parents would actually want to eat too--why always make separate food for your children? Feeding your Baby and Toddler: A Complete Guide is also a guide to how to feed your children and what the experience of weaning is like for the children--valuable information that is long overdue in a book like this.

With sections on basic nutrition, suggestions for your store cupboard, equipment, techniques for freezing and reheating, and food hygiene parents will find the book invaluable; for example, the section on introducing solids actually shows how to feed from a spoon--something that isn't taught in parentcraft classes. The book is structured around sections based on age, with each one having its own introduction to that age group's special feeding issues and problems, and is followed by the author's delicious recipes--such as Sweetcorn, Cherry Tomato and Tofu Kebabs and Singapore Noodles--and fun serving and decoration suggestions. There are also recipes for desserts--Banana Muffins or Fresh Fruit Ice Lollipops--there being no reason why sweet food cannot be part of a well-rounded diet. The book ends with a menu planner for each of the age groups, one per page, which suggests a menu for each day of the week. A great idea that could also serve to introduce parents to what constitutes a healthy diet and how to put it together.

The book's approach is one that takes into account the total experience of eating when you are doing it for the very first time; new textures, flavours, holding your own spoon--all these are new experiences for baby. As such, it is much more than just a cookbook; it is a culinary guide to living with under-fives. Highly recommended for parents in general, but especially for first-time parents. --Alison Jardine

Structured around age, it answers all questions related to each stage in feeding. It is full of delicious recipes, which kids are sure to adore. (Baby & You ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Comprehensive and illustrated guide to feeding the very young inspiring confidence in all who care for children. Advice from weaning babies to devising tempting meals for fussy toddlers and dietary needs at key developmental stages is invaluable. Over 150 recipes.

Annabel Karmel MBE is a bestselling author and respected authority on child nutrition and cookery who has written multiple bestselling books. She writes for magazines and newspapers including The Times, Sunday Mirror and Daily Mail and appears regularly on radio and television. In 2009 Annabel won the Mother & Baby Lifetime Achievement Award. Annabel's 'Make Your Own' cooking equipment range is sold in Boots and M&S and her award winning 'Eat Fussy' ready meals are available in Sainsbury's and Ocado. She is teaching cookery at Haven Holidays, her TV online channel launched in 2008 and she has kid's restaurant menus in Thorpe Park, Chessington and Legoland. Annabel lives in London. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.