A great starting point (Feeding Your Baby and Toddler - Annabel Karmel)

Member Name: Medusa

Product:	Feeding Your Baby and Toddler - Annabel Karmel
Date:	18/08/00 (31 review reads)
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Advantages: Great for ideas and nutrition information

Disadvantages: Some recipes are fiddly and require time

This book is an ideal first read for anyone facing the daunting task of weaning babies and feeding toddlers. It has good basic information on foods and divides recipes in to age ranges beginning at 4-6 months and ending with 3-5 years.

The recipes are lovely, although I would have liked more vegetarian options. Some items are more suited to parties or gatherings of several children, as they are time consuming to prepare for just one child. An example of this is the Chicken Sausage Snails which uses three tiny strips of carrot, a tiny amount of shredded cabbage and four peas for decoration. In this instance, it would be ideal if the whole family ate the vegetables, therefore a few items are used for the toddler meal.

On the whole I have found that visual meals, such as shaped cheeses, bread and items made in to faces, boats etc. don't work for my children but the menu ideas and ingredients are well worth reading.

It'll be a wonderful guide when I do need to think of children's parties.

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