Product Description

All parents want the best for their children but when it comes to food, it is hard to know how to deliver the best options. This book gives clear and balanced advice on how to deal with problems and answers questions on eating habits and diet which crop up for every parent. Meal planners are included to help with the daunting task of weaning onto solids and recipes are provided to correspond to all stages of development.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9136 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-10
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Synopsis
All parents want the best for their children but when it comes to food, it is hard to know how to deliver the best options. This book gives clear and balanced advice on how to deal with problems and answers questions on eating habits and diet which crop up for every parent. Meal planners are included to help with the daunting task of weaning onto solids and recipes are provided to correspond to all stages of development.

About the Author
Suzannah Olivier is a member of The Guild of Health Writers and The Guild of Food Writers has a masters degree in Nutrition Information and has studied at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition.

Customer Reviews

Not great as a weaning starter book
What Should I Feed My Baby?: A Complete Nutrition Guide
by Suzannah Olivier

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not great as a weaning starter book, 13 Mar 2008
By Ms. Tamara M. Shand "tshand22" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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Though this book created more problems for me when I was first weaning I found it a useful reference when my daughter was ten months old.

The material is not organised in a way that makes it easy to find what you need to know when you are starting out. I felt I had to become an expert on nutrition before I could begin which made the weaning process stressful.

Olivier's early weaning recipes have a strong emphasis on wholefoods and fibrous foods like lentils, brown rice, sweet potato which are not particularly good for a young baby's immature digestive system.

That said, the nutritional advice is incredibly detailed and I am finding it a useful reference point four months on. The recipes for older babies and toddlers are imaginative and go beyond the meat and potatoes fare you find in other baby recipe books. Not all of them are tasty but they inspire thinking on spices you can use - mild curry powder, delicious fresh juices, walnut pesto for pasta.

Best food book for babies I have
I've found this book by Suzannah Oliver the most comprehensive of all of the books I have on food for my baby.

After receiving no help at all from my community health visitors on what or how to feed my first child, my sister-in-law bought me this book and I have used almost all of the recipes so far. It's been a godsend!!

The information on preservatives and pre-packaged food is invaluable and I now prepare all of my son's meals from scratch. He loves them and I have no worries about what has gone into them. All it takes is a little time and effort.

A truly useful book with fantastic easy-to-follow recipes.

Great nutritional advice and recipes
A comprehensive and wonderfully easy to read book on nutrition for babies.

Suzannah Olivier provides excellent information on how to introduce a wide and nutritious range for foods to your baby helping develop a strong immune system.

Many authors, of cookbooks for babies, rely heavily on dairy and wheat and it is difficult to find books which provide interesting alternatives for parents who wish to avoid or delay introduction of these foods. This book provides excellent recipes and menu planners to do just that.

I would recommend this book along with any book by Lucy Burney.