Blender Baby Food: Over 175 Recipes for Healthy Homemade Meals - Softcover

Young, Nicole; Day, Nadine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0778802620 ISBN 13: 9780778802624

Publisher: Robert Rose, 2011

Synopsis

Making nutritious, homemade baby food has never been so easy.

This second edition (9780778802624) replaces the first edition (9780778801184).

Like the first edition, this new edition of Blender Baby Food guides readers through the process of making their your own baby food. The blender has proven to be an ideal way to offer new flavors in a baby-friendly texture. Even when a child begins to eat table food, there is always an occasion for a fruit smoothie or a nutritious blended dip.

There are three great reasons for parents to make their own baby food:

1) The ingredients are all hand selected, assuring healthy and wholesome meals
2) Parents can easily tailor the texture to their baby's preferences
3) It will help shape a baby's tastes so he or she can appreciate fresh foods

This new edition features 25 new recipes, information on the basics of feeding babies, color photos and a nutritional analysis for each recipe. The delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes are categorized according to age, making it easy and convenient to create meals that match a baby's progress and development, from six months through to twelve months and older.

The outstanding variety of flavors and textures includes:

• Cherried peaches
• Guacamole for beginners
• Squash and pepper risotto
• Lentil and rice pilaf
• Vegetable paella
• Cheesy beef casserole
• Over-the-top applesauce
• Orange banana smoothie

The book also includes meal plans, helpful tips and techniques and even advice on storing and freezing baby food. Using this comprehensive cookbook, parents will quickly discover that giving their baby the best nutritional advantage is its own reward.

About this title

About the Author:

Nicole Young is an experienced and highly respected recipe developer and food stylist who teaches seminars and classes on making baby food. The mother of two young children, she lives in Toronto, Ontario. This is her third cookbook.

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Preface

A month before I gave birth to my first child, I attended a birthday party for a friend's son. I observed the "veteran" parents escorting their toddlers to the table at mealtime and stared in utter amazement at my friend's son, who sat proudly in his high chair and proceeded to eat his first birthday meal of blanched broccoli and green beans, strips of red peppers and carrots, while the neighboring children pushed away everything but fish crackers. What had my friend done to produce this veggie- and hummus-loving pita eater? As I watched him eat his body weight in produce, I heard his mother's words: "I made all his food from scratch." I was sold.

Over the past five years, I have taught hundreds of classes to parents and caregivers about the merits of preparing their own food for babies. We discuss the issues of variety, quality, ability to graduate textures and cost effectiveness. I demonstrate the simplicity of preparing a variety of purees, even for sleep-deprived parents whose last wish is have an extra task added to their baby-dominated lives. All of these details are included in Nadine's comprehensive introduction.

While it has been many years since I had to make my own purees, the benefits are undeniable. I have two healthy eaters, who still enjoy treats but don't turn their noses up at a platter of fresh veggies. I am fortunate.

More than anything, I want this book to inspire you to give making your own baby food a try. May you and your child have many happy memories of the food from these pages...

About this edition

• Publisher: Robert Rose
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0778802620
• ISBN 13: 9780778802624
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 216