Cooking is not a chore (Feeding Your Baby and Toddler - Annabel Karmel)

Member Name: LittleKim

Product:	Feeding Your Baby and Toddler - Annabel Karmel
Date:	26/05/09 (24 review reads)
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Advantages: My son eats anything and everything

Disadvantages: none

Annabel Karmel is one of the top babies and children's Nutrition experts, she has numerous books out on how to wean your baby, dealing with fussy eaters, right through to books about feeding the whole family. What this women does not know is not worth knowing, in my eyes she is a saint.

I am a really big Annabel Karmel fan, as she has helped my son become one of the best little eaters there is (he will eat everything and anything).

Annabel Karmel's Feeding your Baby and Toddler was brought for me when i was pregnant and I have been using this like my bible ever since.

The book is hardback with a picuture of a baby on the font being fed with a purple heading stating the book is by Annabel Karmel - Feeding you Baby and Toddler, the book is 192 pages with many chapters in ranging from Bottle feeding and Breast feeding and through the stages of weaning up to 7 years plus and feeding the family:-

The Chapters included are:-

INTRODUCTION

Early Nutrition
Healthy Eating
Food Allergies
Kitchen Basics

WEANING YOUR BABY

Startin Solids
Exploring Tastes
First Tastes: recipes
New tastes and textures: recipes

9-12 MONTHS

Growing appetites
A varied menu: recipes

12-18 MONTHS

Changing Needs
Food for the senses: receipes

18 MONTHS - 2 YEARS

The active Toddler
Fast food for toddlers: recipes
The fussey eater: recipes

2-3 YEARS

Early childhood
Fun foods: recipes

3-7 YEARS

Pre-school and beyond
Healthy snacks: recipes
Family Meals: recipes
trying new tastes and textures, growing appetites 9-12months, Food for senses 12-18 months, Fast Food

This book covers everything as stated in the chapters, and it was really helpful to find out about allergies and at what age a child is supposed to be eating strawberries, peanuts, honey etc.

Before i had my little boy i did not have a clue, but this book has guided me through all the weaning process and when he would be ready to move on to more textured food and then to solids. there are well over 150 recipes in this book from vegetable and fruit purees to lasagne for the whole family. One of my sons favourite weaning recipes was peach, apple and strawberry puree.

I found all the recipes in this book really easy to follow, and the ingredients were always easy to find in your supermarket (we all know what its like when following a recipe and you can't find that last ingredient). At the top of each recipe it states how long it will take to make, how many portions for, what the food provides e.g. fibre, vitamin C and E and potassium etc, and whether the recipe is suitable for freezing.

Alot of the food in this book can be batched cooked and then frozen in individual portions, so you only have to take the food out as and when you want to use it.

I have not tried all the recipes in this book but probably about 85-90% and i can say they have all come out looking and tasting delicious. There are also recipes in the book that show how to hide vegetables for the children who will refuse point blankly to eat any.

Now my son is alot older we make the chocolate brownines and oaty biscuits together we have not made for a while but it is back on my list now summer is nearly here is natural strawberry and yogurt ice lollies which he loves. Even my partner is grateful i read this book he gets fed better than ever now.

The book cost about £9.99 (when i have seen it in mothercare) but i guess you can get it cheaper on places like play.com or amazon. If there is one book that you are going to buy for your children and family this is it.

Summary: Fantastic book if there is one you should buy this is it