The Gina Ford Baby & Toddler Cook Book: Over 100 easy recipes for all the family to enjoy [Hardcover]

"stands out from the rest: Gina Ford's Baby and Toddler Cookbook by the revolutionary childcare expert"

"With glossy pictures of happy, well-fed children and tasty recipes, this is a pretty impressive package...It's all very yummy stuff"

A fully illustrated one-stop guide for feeding babies, toddlers and their parents from Britain's no. 1 childcare expert.

The importance of good childhood nutrition has never been more topical. Parents are constantly being reminded of the need to offer their children healthy, home cooking and cut down on the number of fat, salt and suger-laden ready-prepared meals they feed them instead. Yet busy lifestyles dictate that family time is in short-supply and it is often hard to balance this need with the practicality of cooking for every family member. Gina Ford is here to help, providing the solution to this common parental dilemma in this highly accesible family recipe book.

Picking up from where The Contented Little Baby Book of Weaning left off, The Gina Ford Baby and Toddler Cook Book addresses the next stage in childhood nutrition, from the age of nine months. Simplicity is the key to Gina's advice and her realistic approach to the demands of modern-day parenting account for the time restrictions of parents who want to provide good nutrition fast.This invaluable feeding manual includes chapters on:

- juggling the needs of all the family: recipes for mothers and babies; recipes for mothers, babies and toddlers

-ideas on batch cooking: how to make twelve meals for the freezer at one cooking session

-quick and tasty breakfasts

-how to make vegetables appealing

and much more!

'This book could be your salvation!' The Daily Telegraph on The New Contented Little Baby Book

A fully illustrated one-stop guide for feeding babies, toddlers and their parents from Britain's no. 1 childcare expert.

There are many different views on the various aspects of raising children, but the area in which all parents are united is the need for their child to eat well. I truly believe that establishing good feeding habits in babies and young children contributes enormously to healthy, happy childhoods, and leads to a sensible and healthy approach to food in adulthood.
You don't have to be a wonderful cook or have a great love of cooking to be successful at creating delicious family meals. Simplicity, good ingredients and tips for catering for the whole family are key to my recipes.
I hope you find something to appeal to all the family in this book.

Gina Ford

Gina Ford is Britain's bestselling childcare author whose first publication The Contented Little Baby has sold over a million copies and keeps going! With over thirty years hands-on experience as a maternity nurse, her advice and methods have been a godsend to tired, stressed parents throughout the world and have helped a generation of children go to bed on time and sleep calmly through the night. She runs a hugely popular website: www.contentedbaby.com and has published over twenty parenting books.

Sample tips from The Gina Ford Baby and Toddler Cook Book.

Soups:
Soups are a great way of using leftovers to create nutritious and easy meals. This section offers a number of different soups that can be prepared in under 10 minutes and cooked in around 20 minutes - ideal at teatime when time is limited and energy levels are low for both mother and child.
Soups, where the vegetables and other ingredients can be pureed or left in larger pieces, are also a wonderful way of getting your baby to progress from mushy to more lumpy food.

Lunch:
In my experience, it tends to be better for toddlers and pre-school children to have their main meal in the middle of the day, so most of the recipes in this section are quite substantial.
A good healthy lunch will mean that by teatime, when everyone is getting tired, you can take a fairly relaxed view if your child doesn't show much interest in food because he'll already have had a substantial nutritious meal that day.

Vegetables on the Side/Accompaniments:
We are all aware of the importance of eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. For most young children, eating fruit is a pleasure, whereas getting them to eat and enjoy vegetables can be more of a problem. During my travels around the world, I have picked up many tips on how to cook vegetables so that they look and taste delicious and appeal to even the fussiest of young eaters.