Baby and Toddler Meals For Dummies [Paperback]

Dawn Simmons (Author), Curt Simmons (Author), Sallie Warren MS RD LD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2006

Includes tips for feeding picky eaters and kids with allergies



Understand your child's nutritional needs and prepare fast, tasty meals

Babies and toddlers need good nutrition to grow and thrive, and this essential, timesaving guide makes it easy to feed your child right. It explains exactly what foods you should introduce at what ages -- and shows you how to prepare fresh, home-cooked baby and toddler meals that beat anything you can get from a jar or box.

Discover how to
* Save money and expand your baby-food budget
* Dish up healthy, well-balanced meals
* Introduce new foods at the right time
* Serve foods with high kid-appeal
* Have fun cooking with your child

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Includes tips for feeding picky eaters and kids with allergies

Understand your child's nutritional needs and prepare fast, tasty meals

Babies and toddlers need good nutrition to grow and thrive, and this essential, timesaving guide makes it easy to feed your child right. It explains exactly what foods you should introduce at what ages — and shows you how to prepare fresh, home-cooked baby and toddler meals that beat anything you can get from a jar or box.

Discover how to

• Save money and expand your baby-food budget
• Dish up healthy, well-balanced meals
• Introduce new foods at the right time
• Serve foods with high kid-appeal
• Have fun cooking with your child

About the Author

Dawn Simmons is a cooking instructor and caterer. The co-author of Cooking For Crowds For Dummies (Wiley), Dawn enjoys cooking for her children, family, and friends, and she’s always on the lookout for a new recipe! You can contact Dawn at [e-mail].

Curt Simmons is a technology trainer and author of more than 50 general computing and networking books. Curt is the co-author of Cooking For Crowds For Dummies (Wiley), and he enjoys gardening and eating Dawn’s cooking. You can contact Curt at [e-mail].

Sallie Warren, MS has been a Registered and Licensed Dietician for the past 20 years and is currently a consultant dietician for hospitals, assisted living centers, and long-term-care facilities. Sallie’s work enables her to work with all ages of people concerning their nutritional needs, including new mothers, babies, and children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 392 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471773840
• ISBN-13: 978-0471773849
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,344 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Gives WRONG information for babies!, February 11, 2010

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Lauren Coyle (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baby and Toddler Meals For Dummies (Paperback)

I ordered this book because I wanted to get help trying to figure out what to feed my 9-month-old daughter. Upon receiving the book, I immediately went to the chapter on feeding 6-12 month olds. On page 96, the books says that you should avoid eggs for your baby, but that "egg whites are okay." Actually, egg whites are the very part of the egg that is NOT okay. They are the part with the allergen. Babies can have egg yolks but NOT egg whites. Now I don't know if I can trust anything else in this book.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful guide for parents, October 20, 2007

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Stephanie Herbst (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baby and Toddler Meals For Dummies (Paperback)

After making the decision to make home made baby food for my son I wanted to try to find a book that would cover a range of important topics. Some of the important topics that our pediatrician said to look for were food allergies, when to introduce food at the right stage and also food preparation and storage. I also was hoping to find a few recipes that werent too time consuming and covered the baics from purees to simple started solids and this book has it all.
The book has a wonderful index so you dont have to read it in order if you dont want to, you can bop from subject to subject as you find necessary. It is also stocked up with nutritional information such as which vitamins and minerals were most important and what foods contained these.
One of the most important thing for me was knowing when to feed my son which foods and this book has taken the mystery out of it all. The section that starts with what to feed baby first goes in order. For example you want to start by feeding a basic rice cereal and then about a week or so later you can move onto oats or barley. In that section the recipes go in that order so as not to confuse you!
As a concerned mother who wants to do the right thing by making the healthiest, freshest foods for my child I can honestly say that this book makes my life much easier and has helped calm a lot of my worries as to what and when to feed my son. It is also very reassuring that a nutritionist and a RD helped to co-write this book. It is basically a how-to guide for beginners in the world of baby food, with the added bonus of some wonderful easy-to-make recipes.
The only thing I noticed while reading through with a fine tooth comb was that they do say at one point (in the section on what to buy for making baby food) that you can buy berries of any kind. This isnt entirely true as strawberries are an allergenic food for children under the age of one. They do however cover the allergy and risk of offering strawberries to babies under the age of one in the food allergy section and foods to watch out for- so its a little contradictory however the food allergy section comes way before they tell you how and what to make so you hopefully will have read that by the time you get to making the food!
All in all a wonderful book for all parents who want to know about a wide variety of topics concerning home made baby food for babies and toddlers!

16 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Decent Resource, But Major Mistake on pg 96, January 22, 2008

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Dawn - "Waltz Aficionado" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby and Toddler Meals For Dummies (Paperback)

I bought this book because I wanted some easy recipe ideas for my toddler with some of the basic ingredients that I would have on hand. This book appears to satisfy that criteria.

However, readers should note that there is a very important mistake about allergens on page 96. In Chapter 6: Foods for Your Crawler: 6-12 Months it says "Keep in mind that you must continue to avoid such potential allergy items such as cow's milk, eggs (although egg whites are okay), strawberries, nuts and honey." Actually, egg whites ARE NOT OKAY at that age - egg yolks are ok.