Editorial Review:

The essential illustrated guide to giving your child the best nutritional start in life.

• Written by an acknowledged expert on feeding young children
• From first solids to meals that the entire family can enjoy-- the best foods and when to introduce them into your child's diet
• More than 150 imaginative, fully illustrated recipes with labor-saving tips for streamlining food preparation
• Advice on nutritional requirements for every stage of your child's development
• Healthy foods that babies, toddlers, and young children really like to eat

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Disappointing!:

I got this book on the advice of a friend and boy am I disappointed and wish I had not bothered.
For me it was a waste of money for two reasons. One, I was hoping for more advice on a picky eater and there just isn't a whole lot in this book. Two, many of the recipes are nothing that my toddler would eat, and many aren't recipes I'd even want to bother with creating. I have a toddler, I don't have an hour to prepare a lunch for him. Overall I was just really hoping for something that would give me some... more info

teachermommy:

Meals are good, and has good ideas, but takes lots of advance planning to make sure you have what is needed on hand.

Mediocre baby and toddler food book:

"First Meals: Fast, Healthy, and Fun Foods to Tempt Infants and Toddlers" is a nice hardcovered book with an interesting layout and lots of pictures. The recipes taste good, but really take some time to put together. Occasionally I will make a recipe out of this book, but not often.
A problem I had with this book was that it seemed to introduce foods too early, things like vegetable sticks at an age when a chunk could be bitten off and choked on, or before a baby was able to eat that particular... more info

Look for the 2004 edition...:

Home cooking is an economical option and, as the recipes in this book show, it need not be time-consuming. There are many excellent purees that do not involve cooking and other recipes suitable for batch-cooking that allow a whole month's food supply to be prepared in a couple of hours and then frozen. ~Annabel Karmel
Annabel Karmel's ambitious baby food book is for infants and toddlers but adults will also enjoy some of the recipes.
The recipes in this book can be used occasionally in order to... more info

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