Children's recipe books
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Sian Blunos
Publisher - Carroll and Brown |
Cooking for Coco
"This is an excellent baby food book covering everything from the basics right up to gourmet. The recipes are grouped into common sense chapters such as first foods, everyday meals and one called missy independent. This makes it easy to find the starting point that is right for your baby.
The concept is to introduce a wide range of 'real' foods using fresh ingredients and no added sugar or salt.
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An added bonus is that the majority of the recipes are suitable for freezing and ideal for batch cooking.
The chapter that I really liked was missy independent because I have a militant 15 month old who will not accept any help with eating. Tuna and sweetcorn cakes and cream cheese pastry slices were recipes I had never heard of but they have now turned into firm favourites.
Another bonus is that many of the meals such as chicken and pumpkin risotto are fine for adults as long as you add any seasoning afterwards. The recipes are well described and generally have no more than 5 steps, so they are suitable for less confident cooks.
Overall I was very impressed with the book. I found it far better than Annabel Karmel's similar book because there were more freezable meals and more ideas suitable for adults as well was children.
Nikki
www.amazon.co.uk
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Jennie Maizels
Publisher - Vermillion |
Finger Foods for Babies and Toddlers
"Finger Foods for Babies And Toddlers is a colourful, easy to read book for parents of those little ones who have moved passed mushy foods and into the realm of semi-adult eating.
Jennie Maizels knows all to well the trials of trying to get a toddler to eat healthily so she devised fun, colourful recipes to encourage her daughter Millie to partake.
All the staples are there such as Eggy Bread, meatballs etc but what makes this book interesting is the fact that she includes recipes for all the foods we adults like to eat too, only in toddler versions.
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Since we all know how much kids like to act grown up she has found a perfect way to let the little ones think they are eating like mummy and daddy. My particular favourites were burrito wraps, mini pizzas and vegetables with exciting dips. Maizels doesn't leave out the vegetarians either, with veggie alternatives for most of the meat dishes too.
All in all I found this book invaluable and would recommend it to all my friends
Karen
www.amazon.co.uk
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Annabel Karmel
Publisher - Ebury Press |
Lunchboxes
"I am a great fan of Annabel's 'Baby and Toddler Meal Planner' which I used religiously when my son was a baby. Now he's at school I was very interested to see and try out her recipes for Lunchboxes.
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Adam's lunchbox is always extremely predictable, sandwiches, fruit, cheese, yoghurts and a biscuit and although he's happy with what we gets I thought it would be good to see if I could make it more interesting!
The book arrived and I have to say that most of the recipes look gorgeous and appropriate for both adults and children! I got the most out of the first section of the book in which there are all sorts of ideas and practical advice to help you be more creative. From a good list of lunchbox additions that you can buy in the Supermarket to advice about getting the right balance of nutrients. I also really liked the section on sweet treats that included lots of gorgeous cakes and biscuit recipes that all had an element of healthy eating too!
Unfortunately I've not been able to keep up with my initial enthusiasm to try out the recipes. For one it was quite time consuming and secondly I'm not great at keeping lots of ingredients in the house so I found that special trips to the shops were needed. Also my son's not very adventurous so the more grownup sandwich fillings and hot food options which looked wonderful to me didn't work for him.
Overall I feel that it's a great book to dip into for unusual or special recipes and most suitable for older school children, maybe juniors upwards."
Janet
www.cookingforchildren.co.uk
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