Annabel Karmel’S New Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner: No.1 With New Finger Food Guidance & Recipes: 30Th Anniversary Edition

Great book for learn and have ideas

It’s a must have for first time parents. My baby is 6 months now and we started her on solids. This book is really helpful.

its a great book, highly recommended

I learned so much from the book Recommend

This is easy to follow and a great start for any weaning baby. Most of the recipes can be frozen, so you can make up decent sized batches of purees and serve as they are needed. I used it for both my children at the puree stage, and continue to make their favourites (salmon footballs, for example). As a GP I recommend this to any intelligent and motivated parent who is interested in trying to feed a baby the best food possible without letting it completely take over your life. For those who just reach for the next jar of shop-bought flavourless mush, this would be a waste of money, but it offers a great deal of well-thought-out advice, as well as meal planners and superb recipes, so I think it is one of the best books to buy for the early years of baby-rearing.

This book is very useful for starting solids, it has lots of ideas and recipes.

Easy recipes to follow

Excellent book. Annabel Karmel is a recognized world author of making infant, toddler, and children's meals. It is easy to use. Breaks things down so you are only learning what you need to know for the age of child you are cooking for. She gives you important information in the beginning that was a wealth of knowledge. It wasn't too much but focused on the important stuff that everyone needs to know. Great quick reference when you are not sure about something. This book has all the recipes that you need. Once you get the hang of it you can tailor it to your own child's likes. I bought quite a few books because I wanted to make all of my own baby food. This is the one that I used. Many of the others I took to the used bookstore. If you are interested in making healthy, yummy food for your little ones this is a must have.

I like the book, it has very useful recipes. many are simple and I already knew them but then the author provides new ways of mixing different vegs or serving them. For example making vegetable puree but with milk to make it more creamy. I have only used the baby section so far so cannot comment in detail on the toddler recipes but they look good and easy as well. Anyway I read several books on weaning and the good ones are very similar. It is important that it contains recipes, some advice on storage and food divided into sections for different levels of weaning. Gina Ford's book additionally ha some "case studies" which I found useful but this book does not have them. The only thing I would complain about is the pictures in the book. they are really too colourful and too perfect (a baby eating carrot pure with a carrot in his hand but with a perfectly clean white bib, and all the clothes, equipment in matching colours). Yet, since it has nothing to do with the recipes or advice the book still gets all stars.