Annabel Karmel’s New Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner: No.1 Bestseller with new finger food guidance & recipes: 30th Anniversary Edition

Easy recipes, lots of choice & great grounding and advice for new parents on the process of weaning - highly recommend and love the meal planners for ideas

I am not a good cook at all, I even hate cooking and I need to rely on cook books to come up with a proper edible food for my family. I bought this book and have been cooking recipes for my baby for the last one month, as we started solids, and the baby has really enjoyed everything I have cooked from it (did not know babies actually know what tasty, delicious food is :D), the recipes are really delicious and nutritious, they seem balanced and combinations well thought through, plus great layout, great pictures and good amount of useful and important information about foods, food groups, stages, and planning baby weaning . The only thing I did not do: I did not cook bathes to freeze. Just prefer to give baby freshly cooked food every day, however later on maybe it is a good idea to have something stored in the fridge. All in all, this lady is a genius and I am so grateful I can rely on this book and do not need to squeeze my brain to come up with baby food recipes myself.

We purchased this book to get some ideas of what to cook for our little girl, she's our first and weaning just seemed like such a daunting task! I am having so much fun with it using these recipes! They are great and are easily adapted so that me and my husband can have the same meal as our daughter!I have found that it is actually giving us a healthier, more balanced diet, while introducing our little one to a whole new world of tastes and textures... She is really enjoying it.The recipes are easy and simple to follow and the guidance throughout the book and weekly meal planners just give a great idea of how to balance your baby's diet.Although a lot of the recipes in the first stages are suggested to be made as purées, you can adapt them to whatever your baby is ready for, my baby is fine with lumps at almost 7 months, so we leave her food lumpy! It's completely up to you, but the flavours and ideas in this book are great and if you're worried at all about starting weaning, then this really is the book for you.

I actually bought a copy of this when I made three of the recipes after getting them off a friend, when I'd eaten the dishes at her house.This is most definitely not just food for babies and toddlers. Many of the dishes are suitable for everybody and really popular when I cook them for extended family dinners or lunches. One great thing about the recipes is that you don't need to buy a load of special ingredients that you're only going to use once, before throwing them away when they go out of date. They're not complicated to make either.

I bought this book again aftrr years, for my daughter after the birth of her first baby, my grandchild, because when I had my babies all those years ago, this book was so helpful and insitful and full of recipes. For first time mummy's, that let's be honest, don't know we're to start lol 😂 it's brilliant. Really it is!!!

Good book

Right now is a really strange and confusing time for babies and their mums and dads who are trying to give them a balanced and wide diet in the lead up to the one year mark then beyond into independant feeding.This book and its sister publications have become my bible since we started weaning and this book in particular has a special place on my shelf - great tasting dishes from the first tastes all the way to independance where you can adapt all the previous meals to the stage your baby is at! I love the recipe guides with freezing instructions and how many avereage portions it will make and the weekly planners eventually helped me see how much of everything my girl was supposed to be having each week i.e. meat, fish, poultry, veg and such we now do our own meal planners switching about all the meals that are in the original ones!also helped me realise that my daughters portion sizes were too small and ways to encorage her to eat a little more and reduce the 30-35 oz of milk she was having to three bottles a day. She sleeps well on these meals too, she was very windy/ill with pouches or jars!Nothing beats homemade and this is the ultimate in baby cooking!

There is a lot to like about this book. It's clear, colourful, nicely laid out and full of interesting recipes and good information. But there are a few things that (so far) are slightly annoying.1) every recipe I've tried, for purees from the stage 1 section, has come out far too watery. The pictures show that the purees are meant to be more solid but following the quantities faithfully results in a overly runny consistency.2) the portion guidance makes no real sense. In particular, it seems to bear no relation to the Annabel Karmel range of trays for freezing. I would expect that her own range would tally with the portion guidance in these recipes but it doesn't appear to.3) there is the odd inconsistency in terms of information. For example, page 23 says not to feed children peanut butter until they're five years old whereas page 15 says "peanut butter and finely ground nuts can be introduced from six months".