The Healthy Baby Meal Planner by Annabel Karmel offers new parents simple recipes, age-appropriate advice and, as the title suggests, recommended meal plans based on your baby's age or experience eating solid foods.
Karmel, a Cordon Blue cook from London, England, breaks her book down according to baby's age, with chapters such as "The best first foods for your baby," "Four to six months and weaning," "Six to nine months," "Nine to twelve months" and "Toddlers." Each chapter describes a baby's eating tendencies, what foods can be introduced and at what consistency as well as recipes and suggested daily meal plans.
The first chapter describes methods of cooking and storing homemade baby foods, and the second chapter lists many first foods to start with and how to cook them. The remaining recipes offer interesting blends of foods, such as banana and avocado, kiwi and banana, and peaches and rice. At the nine to twelve month stage, Karmel recommends introducing meats and offers a wide range of recipes for chicken, fish and red meat.
This book is especially helpful to first-time parents, who may be concerned about how much food is appropriate for the baby. Experienced parents will also appreciate the recipes, which are geared to be adapted for the entire family (especially the baked bananas -- yum!).
American readers of The Healthy Baby Meal Planner should keep in mind that, because the author is British, there are some terms, such as rusk and Sharon fruit, that may not be familiar to them. In addition, the author refers to milk often, and it is not always clear if her meaning is breast milk, formula or cow's milk. At any rate, parents should follow the current recommendations of not introducing cow's milk to babies prior to their first birthday, to avoid allergies as well as other chronic diseases, such as asthma and inflammatory bowel diseases, associated with a too early introduction of cow's milk.
At $15, The Healthy Baby Meal Planner (ISBN: 0-671-75019-4) is well worth the investment, and will provide parents with encouragement and the confidence to make their own homemade baby food.
Karmel, a Cordon Blue cook from London, England, breaks her book down according to baby's age, with chapters such as "The best first foods for your baby," "Four to six months and weaning," "Six to nine months," "Nine to twelve months" and "Toddlers." Each chapter describes a baby's eating tendencies, what foods can be introduced and at what consistency as well as recipes and suggested daily meal plans.
The first chapter describes methods of cooking and storing homemade baby foods, and the second chapter lists many first foods to start with and how to cook them. The remaining recipes offer interesting blends of foods, such as banana and avocado, kiwi and banana, and peaches and rice. At the nine to twelve month stage, Karmel recommends introducing meats and offers a wide range of recipes for chicken, fish and red meat.
This book is especially helpful to first-time parents, who may be concerned about how much food is appropriate for the baby. Experienced parents will also appreciate the recipes, which are geared to be adapted for the entire family (especially the baked bananas -- yum!).
American readers of The Healthy Baby Meal Planner should keep in mind that, because the author is British, there are some terms, such as rusk and Sharon fruit, that may not be familiar to them. In addition, the author refers to milk often, and it is not always clear if her meaning is breast milk, formula or cow's milk. At any rate, parents should follow the current recommendations of not introducing cow's milk to babies prior to their first birthday, to avoid allergies as well as other chronic diseases, such as asthma and inflammatory bowel diseases, associated with a too early introduction of cow's milk.
At $15, The Healthy Baby Meal Planner (ISBN: 0-671-75019-4) is well worth the investment, and will provide parents with encouragement and the confidence to make their own homemade baby food.
Kristine ;-)
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