Product Description

Since it was published in 1991, Annabel Karmel's essential guide to feeding babies and young children has become established as a classic. Word-of mouth recommendation, a thumbs up from the babies themselves and terrific reviews have ensured that the book has remained the number one bestseller in this area ever since. In this new edition, Annabel has brought her collection of mouthwatering recipes completely up to date, and included ten new dishes. Plus she offers time-saving tips and reassuring menu charts to help you shop and plan ahead, all based on her experiences as a busy mother of three. Keep this book in your kitchen and your baby is guaranteed the very best start in life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1795 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Modern Mum
"Keep this book in your kitchen and your baby is guaranteed the very best start in life."

From the Publisher
Already a successful harpist, singer and actress juggling her international career with her role as a mother, Annabel Karmel found herself with a difficult child to feed and no satisfactory source of help. So she turned to and researched thoroughly every aspect of feeding babies and children – and carved herself out yet another career as the top guru on the subject., with six books currently in print with Ebury and regular articles and recipes in national newspapers and magazines. The New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner is the second highest selling cookbook in Britain – over a million sales so far, continuing at a steady 20,000 a year – and is endorsed by a leading paediatrician from Great Ormond Street. The Guardian called her ‘the Delia Smith of cooking for children’; the Express ‘the best selling author and leading authority on feeding children’; and Baby magazine wrote ‘Annabel Karmel has acquired a reputation as a designer of nutritious and popular children’s food that is also simple to prepare.’ And don’t forget to look at her other children’s cookbooks – Annabel Karmel’s Small Helpings, Annabel Karmel’s Quick Children’s Meals, Annabel Karmel’s New Baby and Toddler Cookbook, Annabel Karmel’s Family Meal Planner and Annabel Karmel’s Complete Party Planner.

About the Author
Annabel is 'the children's food guru' Daily Express. She has written a string of bestselling books on feeding children. She is a pioneering food writer and an expert in devising tasty, nutritious and innovative meals for children that can be prepared quickly and easily by parents. Annabel writes regularly for a very broad spectrum of national newspapers and magazines and appears frequently on television.

Customer Reviews

A must for parents facing the weaning process!!
My husband & I purchased this book on the advice of our health visitor and have not looked back since. The daunting task of weaning our son (he is our first) was made very simple by following the sensible & practical advice about nutrition & the introduction of new foods to babies & toddlers Annabel Karmel offers.

By starting our son slowly on baby rice for the first two weeks as suggested & then gradually introducing more adventurous foods, we now have a healthy, lively & energetic 19 month old, who eats everything that is placed in front of him with no fuss.

The recipes ranging from 'Lovely Lentils, Baked Sweet Potato & Orange' to 'Fillets of Fish in Cheese sauce' have meant that our son has been eating balanced & nutritious meals without additives or preservatives since he was four months old.

The meal planners are invaluable, saving time when there is little by having a weekly straight forward outline that is simple to follow. Freezing recommendations & portion guidelines have halved the time spent in the kitchen as favourite recipes can be stored for use at a later date & we get to spend more time with our son.

For our son's 1st birthday all the dishes were made using this cookbook and the adults loved the variety of food on offer as much as the children. Some family favourites are 'Chicken with cornflakes' & 'My favourite pasta with broccoli'

I highly recommend this book as a first recipe book for parents facing the weaning process.

Fantastic - a must for new mums
This book has been absolutely brilliant in helping me to introduce all kinds of food to my baby who is now nearly 10 months old ( I am still using it). Whilst I am a keen cook and have commom sense, when it comes to feeding babies I was not sure on how adventurous I could be. This book has given me total confidence and some great ideas and my baby has not yet refused any kind of food I have given her. By the way, you do not have to be an advanced cook to use this book.It really makes you think about texture and flavour and avoids your baby having pureed pear for months as some other books suggest. A must have in the kitchen and in baby's tummy!!

Great book, particularly for the first time mother.
The information and advice contained on weaning, which foods to offer and at what stage, was comprehensive. It enabled me to offer a far greater variety of foods to my baby than I would otherwise have done, such as sweet potato, butternut squash, leeks and watercress.

The nutritional information and meal planner charts were invaluable and helped me to feel confident about feeding my baby solid food. I used many recipes from the book, all of which were well received, but she particularly enjoyed Fillets of Fish in Cheese Sauce, Fruity Swiss Muesli and Lentil and Vegetable Puree. We all enjoyed Salmon and Vegetable Tagliatelle, Nursery Fish Pie and Penne with Courgettes and Cheese. Also, the ideas for ice lollies were great and we invented many delicious blends of our own once we got started. These are still very popular.

I would enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone who is about to wean a baby, but also to anyone with a young (or not so young) family to feed.