Top 100 Baby Purees: 100 Quick and Easy Meals for a Healthy and Happy Baby by Annabel Karmel Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Top 100 Baby Purees: 100 Quick and Easy Meals for a Healthy and Happy Baby
Book Review: Absolutely fantastic!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have used this book from beginning to end. My son is now 12 months old and loves all of the recipes, and more importantly will eat anything as a result. As I also work full-time I found that I could cook up a batch of meals from the book every few weeks and freeze them, and knew I was giving my son healthy, nutricious meals every day. I would recommend this book to everyone - I haven't needed to use anything else.Book Review: Any body heard of Baby led Weaning?
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this book before I had come across the concept of Baby Led weaning. This is a process of introducing your baby to food that the family eats. Babies are perfectly able to pick up and eat solid food from as young as 6 months. The gag reflex they have is not chocking, it is a natural response from stopping them eating before their gut is ready to receive solid food. In this book the purees introduce solid food into a babies gut at a time that may not be appropriate. If your baby can push things to the back of it's mouth and swallow then it is ready for solid food. Mushing food up and forcing it past their gag reflex can actually damage your baby and cause digestion problems for the rest of it's life.
Breastfeeding mothers will also be aware of the concept of letting the baby decide how much it would like to eat. If you give your child the freedom to pick up solid food from the start of weaning then there is a huge reduction in the likelihood of childhood obesity. Mushing up food and expecting them to eat a set amount is not helpful.
Ditch the purees and give your baby it's veg in handy chunks. Throw this book away and just cook with no salt - the adults can add it to their dinner and it means everyone is eating the same thing together!
Go on...give it a try!
Book Review: Modern Mushy Peas?
Summary: 1 Stars
I really don't need yet one more unqualified would-be dietician telling me I need to keep cramming mush into my baby. Even UNICEF now reccomends we drop the facination with purees, so I'll quite happily stop giving Ms. Karmel my money to tell me how to puree the family meal. Book Review: Love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this book. My baby eats better than I do.
I've cooked most of the recipes and my baby loves them all. In fact I do too. I recommend making at least double a recipe to save time and if you do extra you can have some for your own dinner before pureeing/freezing the baby's. Recipes are adaptable too if you want to change or omit the odd ingredient.
Book Review: Great book, however be advised...
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a fabulous book with lovely delicious recipes that once you've tasted, you cannot deny are good enough for the rest of the family. The book is split into recipes for the appropriate ages which is very helpful, and although the book is entitled top 100 baby 'purees', as the baby gets older many of the recipes included are not really purees, but rather just mashed loosely, or for example with small pasta pieces. However one word of caution, although many of the meals are indeed 'quick and easy', a number of them are not 'quick' as they involve you making up your own stock by boiling and simmering vegetables/chicken carcasses for 1-2 hours, then cooling for 2 hrs/overnight. Whilst this is fantastic for flavour and nutritional goodness, it is simply a fact that this is a real pain when it's 5 o'clock already and for those of us who aren't always particularly well organised, you've only just picked up the book to decide what to make your baby for dinner. To be perfectly honest it can sometimes be simply too much hassle as well to take the time to make up the stocks to then use them to make up a fresh puree. You can get around this of course by simply purchasing the Heinz ready made stocks or alternatively just being more organised! I'd definitely still recommend this book to anyone. My baby has eaten everything happily, and there's a wide range of foods suggested, including exotic fruit such as mango's and papaya's that I'd never even tasted myself until adulthood, yet my baby's enjoying them in the first year of her life!