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10/22/2012

Better Baby Food: Your Essential Guide to Nutrition, Feeding & Cooking for Your Baby & Toddler Review

Better Baby Food: Your Essential Guide to Nutrition, Feeding and Cooking for Your Baby and Toddler
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I bought this book hoping to get some good advice and/or structure as to what exact foods my son should start eating once he was 4-6 months old. I was very disappointed that there was only one chapter that dealt with this and even there it doesn't give you any advice as to what fruit/veggie you should start with once the time is right. I'll keep it for the recipies I can use later but a more accurate title would be "Better Toddler Food" because it seems to focus on the 1 year old and up food arena with the recipies, etc that take up the vast majority of space in the book.

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9/09/2012

Whole Foods for Babies and Toddlers Review

Whole Foods for Babies and Toddlers
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I purchased this cookbook when my baby started eating whole foods and I have used it everyday since. My husband and friends enjoy the recipes as much as our 15 month old. Recipes are simple and tasty. All of my friends have borrowed the book for feeding their own children. I would recommend it to anyone.

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This introduction into the world of whole foods will help parents introduce their baby to solids and give them the knowledge to encourage healthy eating for all ages.Contains updated information on the inferiority of processed and prepackaged baby good and the superiority of whole foods.This book will prepare to give a strong start toward a lifelong commitment to health and fitness.Recipes are also included.

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7/15/2012

Feeding Baby: Everyday Recipes for Healthy Infants and Toddlers Review

Feeding Baby: Everyday Recipes for Healthy Infants and Toddlers
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NOT A SAFE BOOK FOR BABY! Had high hopes for this book, until I opened up the book to find that most of the recipes had SUGAR (at least a tablespoon or more) in a majority of their recipes. What a preposterous thought. Sugar for a 6 month old baby! Would NOT reccomend this book as providing "healthy infant recipes". Just absurd! Glad I checked it out at the library before purchasing. Also, it reccommends feeding your baby solids at 4 months (breast milk should and is the only nutrients a baby needs until 6 months), and does not take into account introducing one food at a time to observe your baby for allergies. It suggets feeding multiple food items at a time. NOT A SAFE GUIDE FOR FEEDING YOUR BABY!

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7/07/2012

Finger Food for Babies & Toddlers: Delicious Nutritious Food for Little Hands to Hold Review

Finger Food for Babies and Toddlers: Delicious Nutritious Food for Little Hands to Hold
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This book is a fantastic resource, especially for those who want to follow the increasingly popular "Baby-Led Weaning" method, which bypasses pureed/mashed foods altogether and goes straight to finger-foods. Do look into BLW (which is a wonderful thing, by the way, and such a time-saver!), but if it isn't for you and you'd rather go the traditional route with purees, wait until you introduce finger foods to go for this book.
It *is* written by a British author but the ounces/grams conversions are present and using weights is, in my opinion, easier than cup measures so long as you invest in a kitchen scale, which you can find on Amazon for less than $15, or use a home postal/diet scale.
I haven't found a recipe in this book that my son hasn't liked, and while you may need to search a little for American equivalents to the British versions in a very few of the recipes, it's full of healthy, easy meal ideas that all either are vegetarian or can be modified to be vegetarian. The book was a fantastic help to me when I was scrambling to find quick meals for a hungry baby!

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Faced with a perpetual mealtime battle with her baby Millie, Jennie Maizels discovered it wasn't that Millie did not want eat, she just didn't want to be spoon-fed by anyone else. Faced with this independence, Jennie Maizels was forced to dream up ideas for foods that Millie could hold, like a mini pizza or a rice ball, until she was able to feed herself, and life became simple again. But all babies go through a stage when finger-held foods are the best way to feed them. Jenny Maizels has come up with a beautifully illustrated book using a wide range of healthy ingredients, cooked and uncooked, hot and cold, savoury and sweet.

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6/12/2012

Baby and Toddler Meals For Dummies Review

Baby and Toddler Meals For Dummies
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I ordered this book because I wanted to get help trying to figure out what to feed my 9-month-old daughter. Upon receiving the book, I immediately went to the chapter on feeding 6-12 month olds. On page 96, the books says that you should avoid eggs for your baby, but that "egg whites are okay." Actually, egg whites are the very part of the egg that is NOT okay. They are the part with the allergen. Babies can have egg yolks but NOT egg whites. Now I don't know if I can trust anything else in this book.

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4/24/2012

Feeding the Whole Family: Cooking with Whole Foods Review

Feeding the Whole Family: Cooking with Whole Foods
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I have the first edition of this cookbook and it rates up there with my 5 most used cookbooks. I have bought multiple copies and given them as gifts to friends and family members. I cook primarily whole foods for my family, which in common terms means that I cook from scratch about 18-20 of our 21 weekly meals. Many of these recipes can be made quickly (30 minutes) with some planning.
The author gives wonderful advice for cooking beans, basic recipes for various grains and family favorite sauces. Most of the soup recipes are staples in our house. The introduction of 'new' and different grains...millet, quinoa, buckwheat...is a great way to add variety to your family's diet and most are quick and easy to make. Our culture eats far too much wheat and making some wheat-free meals is a welcome change in most families.
If I had just 1 box of books I could keep, this would be one of the books I would be sure made its way into the box.

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4/16/2012

The Baby Food Bible: A Complete Guide to Feeding Your Child, from Infancy On Review

The Baby Food Bible: A Complete Guide to Feeding Your Child, from Infancy On
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I bought this book thinking I would get a good idea of how to prepare nutritious baby food...I got that and then some! It offers recipies as well as a list of some of the best foods for your baby AND theory behind HOW to feed your baby and why. It includes charts on how much to start feeding and when. Way worth the price

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THE TIME TO ENCOURAGE HEALTHY EATING HABITS AND SMART FOOD CHOICES FOR YOUR CHILD IS NOW.Unhealthy food is everywhere–colorfully packaged, cheap, and full of fat, calories, and sodium. It's no wonder childhood obesity has become an epidemic in the last thirty years. As a result, by the time most people reach adulthood, they're already wired to overeat. Family nutrition expert Eileen Behan posits that good nutrition and good eating habits start on day one. The Baby Food Bible features a guide to more than 100 foods recommended for infants and toddlers based on the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines, tells parents when to introduce these foods into a child's diet, and emphasizes the importance of setting healthy eating routines that center on family meals at the dining room table–the perfect time to build good habits. In a clear, accessible style, Behan describes how to:• foster an appetite for a healthy variety of new foods (there's more to life than string cheese)• avoid everyday pitfalls, such as relying on too much fruit juice or labeling your child a picky eater • establish a meal and snack schedule (children will feel more secure and eat better)• decipher the many labels and ingredient lists at the grocery store• prevent and treat common food-related issues, including allergies, colic, choking, and iron deficiency• encourage the foods that will discourage chronic disease, from high blood pressure to heart diseaseThe Baby Food Bible also features an alphabetized index–from apples to zucchini–that explains how to buy, store, prepare, and serve more than 100 foods, with delicious recipes for every meal, wholesome snack ideas, and advice for eating out. There's no better way to ensure your child will grow up to have a happy and healthy life!

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4/15/2012

Sugar-Free Toddlers: Over 100 Recipes Review

Sugar-Free Toddlers: Over 100 Recipes
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I almost wasn't interested in this book because the title made me think that this book would have bland and boring recipes. But after flipping through it I saw lots of things that sounded good to try. And almost every recipe so far has been a huge hit with my 18 month old son. This is amazing to me because I thought he was picky. I guess I just wasn't giving him the kind of foods he likes. This book is, as other critics have noted, NOT sugar free. Fruit juice is a sugar. But I do not consider this a drawback because I think that people who don't eat any sugar of any kind are kidding themselves. The key is to use healthy forms of sugar and not too much. The main reason I was anxious to try these recipes is that nearly all of them use whole-wheat flour or some other whole grain flour and I am a big believer in using whole grains. So nutritious and full of fiber. Best recipes so far that I can highly recommend: Orange-date snack cake, Pilgrim pancakes, and Toddler date bread stix. The Coconut Pineapple cookies, however, were not very good. They were not even remotely sweet enough and were more like a pancake than a cookie. But I heated them up and buttered them and my son ate them for breakfast! So really, what it comes down to is that toddlers DO like these recipes. My son prefers them over the white flour, preservative laced stuff from the store. You can't protect your kids from sugar their whole lives, so give them a healthy alternative.

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3/17/2012

The Big Book of Recipes for Babies, Toddlers & Children: 365 Quick, Easy, and Healthy Dishes Review

The Big Book of Recipes for Babies, Toddlers and Children: 365 Quick, Easy, and Healthy Dishes
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My 1 year old is starting to move away from baby food and eat primarily table food. I am so sick of chicken fingers, french fries, grilled cheese and fish sticks. Not to mention, I was feeling guilty about all the frozen foods. I had searched online and on parenting websites and chat rooms for any ideas on meals that would be healthy, quick to make, and appealing to both infants and adults (making 2 separate meals each night was a drain on time).
Finally, I found this recipe book. I was grateful for the "search inside" function so that I could browse the index at the recipe titles. But you really can't tell how wonderful this book is until you purchase it. The book starts out with an informational chapter about first foods, and the types of nutrients that are essential for growing babies. Some of it is common sense, but the explanations are great none the less.
Then, the rest of the chapters are broken out by stages. So the first stage gets into first foods (oatmeals, and other pureed foods). I skipped right ahead to the self feeding stage. The recipe ideas are simple and easy with lots of colorful pictures. Each recipe includes prep and cooking times, as well as symbols that indicate vegetarian meals, recipes made with peanuts, and other tips.
The first lunch I served was hummos on toasted pita with chopped up red peppers (chopped really tiny). My son ate it up like he'd been starving for days! I've since tried several other foods. We haven't had chicken fingers in days! We now have a vast repertoire of veggie burgers, ground lamb, taboule.... the list goes on and on.
I will definitely give this as a gift to several new moms I know! 5 stars! And thanks to the author!

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More than a cookbook, this indispensable kitchen companion not only offers delicious recipes for every day of the year, but also contains a wealth of information on child nutrition-from weaning and introducing solids to packing lunches and serving up party foods for older children. It emphasizes an easy approach to food preparation, with no complicated measurements or methods. Most important of all, there's a wide variety of recipes for every stage of childhood development, complete with 50 "first food" recipes, 7-day meal planners, and sound snack ideas. Practical tips accompany the dishes, including methods for promoting healthy eating habits that support brain development and a strong immune system.

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3/13/2012

First Meals Revised: Fast, healthy, and fun foods to tempt infants and toddlers Review

First Meals Revised: Fast, healthy, and fun foods to tempt infants and toddlers
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I've read most every baby food/nutrition book on the market. This book is by far the prettiest: it has beautiful color illustrations that make you feel as if feeding your baby will be an exciting and colorful journey. However, once the romance of the first feeding is gone (and after you've scrubbed dried brown banana off your child's tray for the thousandth time), I fear that this book will get lost in the dusty recesses of your kitchen bookshelf, as my copy has.
My main criticism is that the book doesn't deliver what the cover promises: "Fast, healthy, and fun foods." The book should be subtitled "Fun foods to make if you are in culinary school and have a whole lot of free time on your hands." Check out these suggestions: vegetable croquettes, apple, mango & apricot muesli, paella, chocolate profiteroles & puff pastry mice. Even the purees are exotic and complicated: dried apricots with semolina, spinach, potato, parsnip & leek, tasty ground meat with rutabaga & tomato. Now if someone wants to really knock themselves out for a special occasion, I think that these menu suggestions could be very inspirational. But, the average parent just needs someone to tell them that they can steam carrots in the microwave with a little water then mash them with a fork.
I really lost hope when I noticed that they devote an entire page to "making purees with a mouli." Where would I even begin to find a mouli, and if I did, where the heck would I find room to store it? Have these folks never heard of a food processor or blender? Why make life so complicated? I've got to imagine that the authors of this book live a very priveledged life or that they've never had small children clinging to their legs!
I also think that the time estimates for the recipes are inaccurate. Many of the recipes involve quite elaborate decoration suggestions, yet the prep time is listed as only 20 or 30 minutes. Again, the pictures are lovely, and I really do wish my food could be so inventive. But the pictures remind me of the Christmas cookie covers of magazines that showcase all those elaborately decorated cookies that I could never hope to reproduce. Hey, we are not talking high art here, a good day for me is when there is more food in the baby than there is on the floor.
Another complaint I have with this book is that it covers too much ground without much depth. This book begins at birth and goes to five years, and it's only 145 pages. With so much space taken up with glossy pictures and exotic recipes, there is not much room to cover any one topic effectively.
All in all, I think this book might be a good supplement cookbook to have. You might pull it out some day when the sun is shining and you are feeling especially ambitious. But, on the average day, I can think of five other cookbooks I'd pull out before it.

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3/07/2012

The Petit Appetit Cookbook: Easy, Organic Recipes to Nurture Your Baby and Toddler Review

The Petit Appetit Cookbook: Easy, Organic Recipes to Nurture Your Baby and Toddler
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I bought this book along with Baby Blender Food, and I really like this one the best. It has practical information RE: safe food handling, the meaning behind nutritional and organic terms on product packaging, suggestions for stocking your pantry, and ideas about how to incorporate meals for the family from the recipes for the baby. It's not rocket science, but sometimes I get caught up in the baby food process and don't think about how to modify some of the ingredients for my own meal. She also has a helpful key that lists vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free recipe options. The recipes are pretty simple, and I've found that it's easy and fun to make food for my son. It also feels really good to know exactly what's going into his food. I like the layout of the book, and I appreciate the information in it. Another review mentioned that she doesn't outline food hazards like nitrates in the body of the recipes, but if you read the book from the beginning, she has pretty comprehensive explanations of what is safe to prepare and when it's safe to prepare it.

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Fresh, wholesome meals that give little mouths something to smile about... In The Petit Appetit Cookbook, mother and professional cook Lisa Barnes offers a healthy all-organic alternative to commercially processed, preservative-filled foods to help create delicious menus, nurture adventurous palates, and begin a lifetime of positive eating habits for children. Includes: - 150+ easy, fast, child-tested recipes for ages 4 months to 4 years - Mealtime solutions for even the most finicky eaters - Nutritional information for each recipe - Time-saving cooking techniques - The right age- and stage-appropriate food choices - How and when to introduce solids to baby's diet - Adapting family recipes for young children - Recognizing signs of food allergies and intolerances

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3/06/2012

The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook: 130 Easy, Nutritious Recipes That Will Help Your Baby Learn to Eat (and Love) a Variety of Solid Foods - and That the Whole Family Will Enjoy Review

The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook: 130 Easy, Nutritious Recipes That Will Help Your Baby Learn to Eat (and Love) a Variety of Solid Foods - and That the Whole Family Will Enjoy
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I was already well into the BLW process when we bought this book, but as an avid BLW evangelist, I had to have it anyway, for the lending library, at the very least.
I wish I could take my original BLW book back and get just this one instead. The first several chapters are, in essence, a re-hashing of the original BLW book, but explained in a much simpler way, laid out more nicely, and with visual aids (charts, graphs, and -- of course -- completely adorable pictures of babies). It does offer some nice bullet-pointed lists absent from the original book that are tremendously useful -- things like "What to Expect," "Keeping Mealtimes Safe," "Common Allergens," and the like, as well as charts of relevant feeding skills by age. Also, this book offers nice long lists of actual suggestions of a variety of first and second foods, which the original book did not.
Truthfully, it just looks nicer and reads more easily than the original book.
As for the recipe section, I think it's quite useful. I'm a fairly good cook and menu planner, and part of the point of going the BLW route was so that the baby could quickly transition to eating basically what we (the adults) were eating. However, I know that I found myself befuddled after having the baby in how to suddenly cook as a Mom. In the old days, I could spend all afternoon preparing complex and leisurely meals... the transition to quick, one-pot cookery was not a graceful (or particularly tasty) one for me, and trying to develop meals based on how quickly I could eat them with only one free hand was tricky, to say the least. It took me several months to really find my rhythm in the kitchen again, and I suspect this cookbook might've helped. Simple, nutritious, cross-cultural recipes that are written lightly, as loose frameworks and templates so the cook can tweak as needed... it's a simple, inspiration-stirring bunch of dishes.
The recipes are not ethnocentric -- Thai, Japanese, Moroccan, British, American, French, and Italian recipes are all represented. As, for us, part of the appeal of BLW was raising a child who enjoyed a wide variety of flavors and ingredients, it's great to see that inclusiveness represented.
I appreciated the book's quiet support of long-term breastfeeding, though formula-feeding parents need not fear... the book's language and message is applicable to anyone who fed their baby on cue from the beginning, regardless of whether they were on the breast or the bottle.

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In Baby-Led Weaning, public health nurse and mom Gill Rapley and journalist Tracey Murkett introduced a commonsense, easy, and enjoyable approach to feeding your child-skipping purees and allowing your baby to participate in family meals right from their first introduction to solid foods.

Now, The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook offers comprehensive recipes and meal plans to follow so that the entire family can help your little one grow into a happy and confident eater!

Full of healthy and delicious meals that the whole family will enjoy, and with photos throughout, The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook also includes:

simple advice on which foods to start with
essential at-a-glance information on nutrition and food safety
ideas for quick snacks and lunches as well as desserts and family dinners
anecdotes and quotes from parents who follow baby-led weaning

The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook will give parents the confidence to create exciting and enjoyable mealtimes that will encourage little ones to develop food skills at their own pace.


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2/29/2012

Start Fresh: Your Child's Jump Start to Lifelong Healthy Eating Review

Start Fresh: Your Child's Jump Start to Lifelong Healthy Eating
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Realizing that healthy eating involves eating as a family, Tyler Florence has filled this book with recipes that work for everyone in the house. Last night I made Roast Turkey with Herbed Vegetables (page 72). Not only was it easy to make, but it was delicious! Roasting is a nice way to make a flavorful meal without a lot of work. I can throw it all together, pop it in the oven and then play with the baby, or give him a bath while it cooks. The food that I portioned out for the baby and pulsed in the food processor was the perfect consistency for him. The leftovers have kept well and he had "seconds" warmed up today for lunch. He liked the flavors, as much as he does the Sprout baby food pouch meals.
I felt really good about serving my whole family the same meal. This book makes it easy to have a family meal that is healthy, appealing and delicious for everyone at the table. The ingredients are easy to find in the average grocery store provided they are in season, this means a lot to me as I do not want to plan a meal and then have a hard time finding everything I need to make it. The flavors are powerful without overwhelming the sensitive palate of a baby or a toddler, while at the same time pleasing the adults at the table.
This book will see a lot of use in my household. I highly recommend!

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Chef Tyler Florence believes that everybody deserves to eat delicious, flavorful food prepared with care and the freshest ingredients —and that goes for babies, too. In Start Fresh, he takes the expertise he has used to create his own line of organic baby food and presents quick, user-friendly recipes for 60 purees packed with simple, easy-to-digest fruits, vegetables, and grains straight from the earth—nothing fake or processed allowed.

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2/20/2012

The Everything Organic Cooking for Baby and Toddler Book: 300 naturally delicious recipes to get your child off to a healthy start (Everything (Cooking)) Review

The Everything Organic Cooking for Baby and Toddler Book: 300 naturally delicious recipes to get your child off to a healthy start (Everything (Cooking))
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This is exactly what I wanted in a baby food book. I wanted more longevity then the simple purees and I love the organic info and eating healthy. Lots of info in simple quick paragraph/pages. I don't need chapters and pages full of why you should feed/eat organics like most books do - bore you to death. I wouldn't have gotten the book if I didn't want to do organic. This one is precise, doesn't overdo the organic theories and just gives you the info you need to make the food. It gives recipes for up to ages 3 but really most of these recipes past 12 months are great for any kids 10 or younger - heck even adults. I have tried a few on my 8 year old (lentil soup, lemony rice, veggie lasagna, cherry coconut rice pudding) and she loves them. Me too! My 7 month old has had more then 10 recipes and they are great. Also, the items do not have to be organic if you can't afford them. The recipes are different but almost all of them have the items in a basic grocery store. All you need is a blender.
Chapter 1: ORGANICS 8 pages explaining what constitutes organic, what items are a must, what items are not as important, what items to get pesticide-free, when to get canned, frozen, fresh, How things will last in fridge/freezer.
Chapter 2: INTRO TO FEEDING Gives you a layout on when to start items, best times to introduce, watching for allergies, how long to wait to try new items, what items can cause constipation/diarrhea, food safety, sample kitchen equipment, etc...
Chapter 3: 4-6 months that are common sense but still needed to be written. When to mix with water or formula/breast milk. Most are one items for starting out but some are mixtures like banana pumpkin mash, pear mango puree, avocado and barley cereal.
Chapter 4: 6-9 months and WOW there are so many types of various recipes here. Coconut chicken and banana, kasha with peach and pear puree, lamb and pumpkin mash, orzo and sweet pea puree, island breakfast cereal, beef stew mash, etc...
Chapter 5: 9-12 months and the recipes keep coming. Mango honeydew sorbet, quinoa & peaches, turkey chili, happy birthday vanilla cake, carrot and zucchini muffins, lentil soup, etc...
Chapter 6: 12-18 months. Spaghetti squash and herbs, caribbean baked risotto, chicken pot pie muffins, cinnamon yogurt fruit dip, lemony rice asparagus salad, etc...
Chapter 7: 18-24 months: Broiled pineapple with frozen yogurt, zucchini yachts, cherry apple coconut rice pudding, eggy boats, veggie stir fry, pinto bean roll-up, etc...
Chapter 8: 24-36 months: veggie lasagna, white chili, breakfast pizza, beef brochettes, sunflower seed butter cookies, tofu stuffed shells, lemon rasberry ice pops, etc...
Appendix A
Shows sample weekly organic menues for all of the ages above. (I LOVE this!!!)
Appendix B
recommended websites to refer to if needed
Appendix C
Nutritional info for all the common baby foods (LOVE this too!!)
Appendix D
Glossery of basic cooking terms
Then an INDEX of all the recipes by name and also listed by ingredients.
Hope this review helps - I love the EVERYTHING books and this does not disappoint - highly recommend this book.


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2/08/2012

Top 100 Finger Foods: 100 Recipes for a Healthy, Happy Child Review

Top 100 Finger Foods: 100 Recipes for a Healthy, Happy Child
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After purchasing Karmel's Top 100 Baby Purees, I plunged in for three Finger Foods- one for me (grandma) my daughter (9 mo old) and my daughter-in-law (6 month old). I think these recipes are great, and I will be more than happy to purchase greek-sytle yogurt (more protein, no fat) and leeks. A lot of the recipes- I do have the ingredients on hand. I plan to make a lot of these for my HUSBAND - started with the sweet potato parsnip crisps. My son in law made the tortilla pizzas the day they received the book. I love the side bar that states preparation time, cook time, servings, if "suitable for children under 1" and if "suitable for freezing". I want to make the mozzarella sticks after my next grocery trip. I'm happy!

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Following up on her hit bestseller Top 100 Baby Purees, British media star and Today show favorite Annabel Karmel presents Top 100 Finger Foods, a scrumptious guide to creating tasty tidbits that young children can really sink their teeth (or gums!) into. By the age of nine months, many babies are ready and eager to start feeding themselves. Although they might not be able to handle a spoon, children of this age can master the art of eating on their own—as long as the food they're served is right-sized! Finger foods are the perfect solution. Featuring quick and easy recipes that are just as nutritious as they are delicious, Top 100 Finger Foods gives busy parents the tools they need to create snacks and meals that will keep kids from going into hungry meltdown mode—and that even give their bossy toddlers an all-important sense of power and control. The recipes in this collection include sweet corn pancakes; sticky soy drumsticks; Teriyaki Salmon; muffins made of natural, healthy choices like pineapple, carrot, and coconut; fresh fruit ice pops; and much, much more. Loaded with simple instructions and luscious four-color photography, Top 100 Finger Foods is the ideal source for making mealtime fun and productive, creating healthy, happy, and contented children.

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