Top 100 Baby Purees: 100 Quick and Easy Meals for a Healthy and Happy Baby

"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!"
~ Written on 2008-01-19

"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."
~ Written on 2007-11-21

"This book is great for those who just don't have any ideas on what to give when starting to wean your baby. My son loves all of the recipies so far, tried a few myself and turned them into a family meal. Easy to follow recipies."
~ Written on 2007-10-31

"I bought this book for my son who was 6 months at the time as he didn't really like jarred foods. Now I make up large batches and freeze them and its so easy, just get out meals the day before, heat up and you have a healthy nutritious meal that your child just loves, he likes all of the recipes and eats far more than a child his age should be eating. he just cant get enough of them. I'm buying the baby and toddler ones, because he's 1 now and I would like to continue the fantastic meals. I'm certain he wont object. My husband makes these meals as well."
~ Written on 2007-07-24

"Easy to follow recipes from 6 to 12 months with information on nutritional benefits and whether or not suitable for freezing. Lots of good general advice on weaning from allergies, food storage, weaning pre-term babies to finger food.

My daughter enjoyed all the recipes that I cooked from this book and I had no idea food could taste this good without added salt or sugar!!

To sum, a wonderful little book with great imagery and recipes that babies will love and adults too!!
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~ Written on 2007-03-27