Actual Child Meals: Straightforward, All-Pure Recipes for Your Child and Toddler
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Easy Recipes for a Healthful Begin
Nothing compares with making your personal child meals: It is contemporary and unprocessed, you select what goes into it, and it’s a scrumptious option to introduce your baby to a world of flavors. In Actual Child Meals, Jenna Helwig helps you match this loving act right into a busy day’s routine by making the method straightforward, quick, and versatile with 100 meals to start a lifetime of wholesome consuming—from the second your child takes her first chunk of strong meals via her toddler years when she’s fortunately ensconced in a booster seat on the household desk.
Actual Child Meals is your information to those necessary first years of consuming. Discover the constructing blocks of beginning your baby on strong meals, acknowledge meals allergic reactions, and straightforward methods to cook dinner in bulk. Recipes progress from single-ingredient purées to multi-flavor blends like Salmon, Kale, and Candy Potato Smash; then transfer on to finger meals—Turkey Meatloaf Bites, Maple Graham Animals—and at last toddler meals and snacks. Most will be made forward and frozen, many are simply tailored for grown-up tastes, and all embrace full dietary info.
From the Writer
Maple Graham Animals from Actual Child Meals
Makes about 60 small crackers
Skip the trans fat and high-fructose corn syrup discovered in lots of processed animal crackers. Combine up this evenly sweetened whole-grain dough as a substitute and lower away. Animal-shaped crackers are cute, however little circles and stars additionally delight.
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a big bowl, whisk collectively the 2 flours, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Utilizing an electrical mixer, beat within the butter, milk, and maple syrup simply till a stiff dough kinds.
3. Sprinkle a clear work floor with flour. Switch the dough to the work floor and roll it out to ¼-inch thickness. Utilizing small cookie cutters (about 1 ½-inches huge), lower shapes from the dough and place them on the baking sheet. Re-roll and lower the remaining dough. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes or till golden brown.
Make Forward: Maintain the animal crackers in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 5 days.
Vitamin
Per serving (6 crackers): 93 energy; 1g protein; 5g fats (3g sat. fats); 12g carbohydrates; 1g fiber; 3g sugars; 31mg sodium; 21mg calcium; 1mg iron; 66mg potassium; 0mg Vitamin C; 143IU Vitamin A
Substances 1/2 cup whole-wheat graham flour or whole-wheat flour 1/2 cup all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened 2 tablespoons milk 2 tablespoons maple syrup
Writer : Harvest; Illustrated version (April 28, 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 0544464958
ISBN-13 : 978-0544464957
Merchandise Weight : 1.15 kilos
Dimensions : 8 x 0.41 x 8.5 inches
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Erica B. –
My Go-To cook book for EVERYTHING!
This. Is. My. Favorite! Seriously. I love this book. I bought it on a whim as I was in a food rut for the baby and the adults. I have cooked probably about half of this book and have enjoyed nearly every recipe. Two have been ho-hum, but most have become regular staples.For example, tropical pork, HECK YES. So easy and so good. My 11 month old at the time, carried around his pork medallion for over an hour, eating it and sucking on it, he was terribly upset when we decided pork was not the best thing to carry around the living room. We eat the mac n’ cheese probably 2-4 times per month, and ricotta on toast, GENIUS! I don’t want to ruin all the surprises, but what I can tell you is my guests with children probably think I am crazy, I have pulled this book down at birthday parties, dinner parties, and coffee dates, just to rave about it. Add cute pictures and great information, it is perfect.We bought it as a baby led feeding family, but it has delicious purees, wonderful family meals, and great advice for all types of diets. It certainly helps bring out the adventurous eater in our little one!UPDATE 7 years later!We’ve added one kiddo in 2017, but this is still a go to book! I still make all the recipes above as well as a few others. Still recommend it to all new and seasoned parents. It really is such a sweet little book, hope you find some recipes you love as well!
mxpxchic1 –
Great recipes, written well, lots of pictures!
Since my daughter was born I wanted to and planned on making her baby food. I just didnt feel good about buying and feeding her jarred stuff that I really didnt know all of the ingredients on. I know it says “just peas” or what have you but there are hidden things like dairy and preservatives in them. I purchased a food processor that is mainly for making baby food, assembled my freezing trays, etc and lastly bought this book! It has such amazing recipes and suggestions, tips in it. At first I was a little intimidated about making my own baby food but this book helped ease those fears and made me feel even more empowered that I was doing what I felt was best for my baby. Shes loved all the recipes I’ve made and I love how easy they are and pictures are helpful too 😉 I can adjust the recipes accordingly to if my daughter is eating a certain food or not or needs it thicker or more of a true puree. Thanks to this book my daughter has the best start with a healthy relationship with food that I could give her 🙂
PT15 –
Worth Every Penny!
I can honestly say that I didn’t really think I could make my own baby food, but I’m the kind of person that has to try everything once. So I bought this book and I with it I have already put over a months worth of baby food in the freezer. It really is that easy! So why buy this book instead of just finding recipes online (which is a question I was asked by my sister)? Well here is my opinion:This book has recipes and ideas that follow through the toddler years making it well worth the purchase. The beginning gives you a nice schedule for your child’s age, and key nutrients that your child will need. Each recipe has the nutritional values included and a way to add a flavor kick. The recipes are broken up by age (i.e.: first bites, to more advance …) Also, You know how they say “never judge a book by its cover”? Well I did, and I assumed this book was going to hound the organic food only topic, instead the author gave it as another option and was very unbiased. So far it’s been a success and I have already recommended it to other new moms.
September L. –
Overall, good purchase
My baby just started eating solids, and I’ve used several recipes from this book. There is some good information in the front sections about starting solids more generally. I like the suggestions for added flavor. I think some of the recipes fall flat. E.g., the red lentils are a really funny texture for a little babe just starting out. And I also think most of the starting recipes are pretty self-explanatory (cook food until soft, then puree). But overall it’s a fine recipe book for your collection. It also has helpful tips for making and storing large batches of baby food.
Alexis Bresnahan –
Great Recipes for the Whole Family!
I bought this book after reading the Maple Graham Animals recipe online. No stranger to making our own purees, I was looking for something more to entice my toddler and broaden her horizons while minimizing the processed part of our snack and meal time. This book includes some really great recipes, as well as good, non-preachy advice for parents just starting to make their own baby foods. I was really pleasantly surprised by the creativity of the recipes for purees, and love the idea of the “kick it up” and “age it up” suggestions to make purees grow with your child. We also like the “Puree Playdates” – a huge chart of combinations of purees that will be useful as we start solids with our 2nd. The real winners for our family are the Family Dinners – great ideas that we as adults loved, and my toddler has eaten EVERY TIME! Since purchasing this book 2 weeks ago, we’ve tried Italian Bean Burgers, Butternut Squash and Pancetta Pasta (we subbed bacon for the pancetta), Egg, Avocado, and Tomato sandwiches, and Zucchini and Carrot Donuts as well as the Maple Graham Animals. The directions are super simple, and the prep is not complicated. Looking forward to making more recipes from this book with both our kids!
Melissa42 –
real AWESOME baby (and adult!) food- BEST COOKBOOK!
THE BEST!!!! I’ve been using this book since my daughter was 6 months old – she’s now over 20 months old and it’s STILL RELEVANT!! Great ideas for meals for the whole family. I absolutely cannot believe how often I pull this book off the shelf! It’s become a staple in my cooking methods and a great way to ensure we have a little healthy eater! Making the tofu sticks right now (they are seriously awesome). And the pancakes – those greek yogurt pancakes are like heaven in your mouth! Such a great resource to create a healthy well-balanced eater from purees through adulthood!!! Can you write another, please?!?!UPDATE: so my LO is now 4 and I have had another baby. This cookbook is still AMAZING and my go-to for so many meals! It has absolutely lasted! Still enjoy making so many things!
Ziad –
I like it so far. Many information about baby nutrition.its great for first time mom 😃
Lu –
Recetas y tips para alimentar a tu bebé.
ALICIA MEDINA RODRIGUEZ –
Love it!!
Amanda –
Bought this book as I am about to begin introducing my 6 month old solids. As a first time mom I have no idea where to begin or what I can and can’t feed him, the only thing I do know is that I want to feed him homemade natural whole foods and skip on the ready made jar food. Upon reading reviews I decided on this book and I am so glad I did. It arrived today (four days from ordering with standard shipping) and I quickly looked through it. The recepies are simple and straight forward and healthy and aren’t elaborate complicated meals that would be far too time consuming. It is sectioned in different stages with recepies from purees to toddler food that you can easily incorporate into meals for the whole family. The bonus of this book is that there are tips along the way on how to feed your baby to what to feed them at all the different stages. With precautions about chocking hazards and even charts that tell you which foods mix well with others.I’m super excited to try out these recepies and begin my baby’s food journey. I love that from the very start I will be able to introduce a variety of flavours to him to hopefully avoid much picky eating in the future.The book is filled with beautiful and colourful pictures. Overall I am impressed and happy with my purchase and recommend it to anyone.
Mama of a 6 month old! –
Love this book. It is super easy to use and the food pairing chart is wonderful. Before purchasing this book I logged a bunch out of my public library to figure out which one met our needs. This book is super easy to use, straightforward, and laid out very logically. Well worth the investment.