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

    By Annabel Karmel

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    This essential collection of best-ever purees by British TV personality and children’s nutrition expert Annabel Karmel features 100 quick and easy recipes that will make for a healthy and happy baby—all the recipes are suitable for babies aged six months and above, and are so tasty you will want to eat them yourself!

    Babies grow more rapidly in their first year than at any other time in their lives, so how you feed your newborn will be one of the most important decisions you make for your new baby.

    Making your own baby food is not only more economical than buying commercial brands, it also assures that your child consumes only the freshest, top-quality ingredients. British television personality and children's nutrition expert Annabel Karmel's essential collection of best-ever purees grants new parents their wish: one hundred quick and easy recipes that will make for a healthy and happy baby. From first tastes and weaning, right through to meals for older babies, all the recipes are suitable for children aged six months and older. And with all these fruit and vegetable favorites, and innovative fish, meat, and chicken purees, the dishes are so tasty you will want to eat them yourself!

    In addition to easy and delicious recipes, Top 100 Baby Purees also includes information on:
    -Weaning your baby and transitioning to solid foods
    -Food allergies
    -Time-saving food preparation tips
    -Freezing and reheating your homemade baby food
    -Tricks on finding the hidden nutrition in everyday foods

    Featuring a preface by Dr. Michel Cohen, New York pediatrician and author of The New Basics: A-to-Z Baby & Child Care for the Modern Parent
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateSep 22, 2009
    ISBN9781439183540
    Top 100 Baby Purees: 100 Quick and Easy Meals for a Healthy and Happy B
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    Annabel Karmel

    With a career spanning over thirty years, London born mother of three, Annabel Karmel, has pioneered the way families all over the world feed their babies and children. Credited with starting a food revolution with her trusty recipes and methods, she has become the UK’s no.1 children’s cookery author, bestselling international author, and the mother of all feeding experts with over forty cookbooks including Real Food Kids Will Love and Annabel Karmel's Baby-Led Weaning Recipe Book. In 2006, Annabel received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her outstanding work in the field of child nutrition, and she has since become recognised as one of the UK’s leading female entrepreneurs.

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      Annabel Karmel

      Top 100 Baby Purees

      100 quick and easy meals for a healthy and happy baby

      ATRIA BOOKS

      New York  London  Toronto  Sydney

      Contents

      PREFACE by Michel Cohen, M.D.

      INTRODUCTION

      Starting solids

      Food allergies

      Weaning preterm babies 18

      FIRST-STAGE WEANING: 6 MONTHS

      AFTER FIRST TASTES: 6 TO 7 MONTHS

      SECOND-STAGE WEANING: 7 TO 9 MONTHS

      GROWING INDEPENDENCE: 9 TO 12 MONTHS

      BASICS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      INDEX

      Preface

      Why bother with making baby food? What’s wrong with baby food from a jar, anyway? Take one of those jars and look carefully at the expiration date. The substance inside has been designed to last for two years past the date of purchase. That’s not exactly the fresh food that you intended to feed your baby. But that’s not the worst of it. At their best, commercial baby foods are bland and tasteless. In most cases, they’re simply unappealing. How can children develop any sense of taste if they start out with foods that don’t have any?

      I have seen countless parents of ten-month-old babies who complain about their child’s lack of interest in new foods, when in fact what they’re really witnessing is their baby’s determination to avoid eating any of these unctuous, flavorless purees. The second six months of life is the only window of opportunity you have to develop your baby’s taste buds. If you miss this precious time, your child may join the ranks of picky eaters simply because of a lack of exposure to interesting, delicious food.

      There is nothing wrong with giving babies prepared foods for the sake of convenience, but-don’t believe these preparations are a healthier option. The healthiest baby foods are the ones you make yourself. The result will certainly be fresher and far tastier than anything manufactured by a giant baby-food corporation.

      To help you in this, Top 100 Baby Purees offers a wealth of resources for you to start making food for your baby. In an enjoyable way, you will learn how to introduce a variety of nutritious foods and seasonings that you never thought your baby would like. I guarantee you will get applause and big smiles. Most of all, you will put your baby and your family on the road to good health by offering balanced nutrition and creating healthy eating habits.

      Dr. Michel Cohen, M.D., author of The New Basics: A–to–Z Baby & Child Care for the Modern Parent

      Introduction

      Starting solids

      Babies grow more rapidly in their first year than at any other time in their life, so how you feed your newborn will be one of the most important decisions you make for your new baby.

      Don’t be in a hurry to wean your baby onto solids. For the first six months or so, breast milk or formula provides all the nutrients your baby needs, and should remain the main source of nourishment. Breast-feeding exclusively is recommended for this period.

      At around six months, however, your baby will reach a stage where she needs solid foods as well as milk in her diet. For example, the store of iron that she will have been born with will have been used up, so it will be important to include iron-rich foods in her diet (see page 8).

      There is no right age at which to introduce solids, though, as every baby is different. However, solids should not be introduced before seventeen weeks after your child is born. A young baby’s digestive system is not sufficiently developed before this time and there is a greater risk of allergy developing. If you feel that your baby needs solids earlier than at six months, speak to your pediatrician or GP.

      Signs that your baby is ready:

      • still hungry after a full milk feeding

      • demands feedings more frequently

      • wakes at night for a feeding previously slept through

      Your baby’s nutritional needs

      The nutritional needs of babies and toddlers are different from those of adults—a low-fat, high-fiber diet is good for a full-grown person but not appropriate for babies or young children, as they need more fat and concentrated sources of calories and nutrients to fuel their rapid growth. With this in mind, it is best not to give low-fat dairy products, such as milk and yogurt, to young children, but choose instead the full-fat variety.

      Neither should they be given too much fiber, as it tends to be bulky and can fill them up before they take in all the nutrients they need for proper growth and development. In addition, excess fiber can flush out valuable minerals and cause other problems such as diarrhea. Consequently, fibrous foods like dried fruits, beans, and peas should be given in moderation, as should whole-wheat bread and whole-grain cereals like shredded wheat. Likewise, fruit purees, such as apple, pear, and plum, shouldn’t be given too frequently.

      Babies should eat a wide variety of fruit and vegetables, however, to ensure they have plenty of vitamins and minerals in their diet. After the first few weeks of weaning, make sure that, as well as fruit and vegetable purees, you give foods that are relatively high in calories, such as mashed avocado, fruit mixed with yogurt, or Vegetables with Cheese Sauce (see pages 30, 55, and 71).

      Iron is very important for your baby’s mental and physical development. A baby is born with a store of iron that lasts for about six months. After that, it is important that your baby gets the iron she needs from her diet. Iron in foods of animal origin, like red meat or poultry, is much better absorbed than iron in foods of plant origin, like green vegetables or cereal. Vitamin C helps boost iron absorption, so give your baby vitamin C–rich fruits like berry or citrus fruits (but not before six months—see page 9), or vegetables like broccoli or sweet pepper.

      Vitamin supplements

      For most babies vitamin supplements are probably unnecessary, so long as they are eating fresh food in sufficient quantity and drinking formula milk until the age of one. However, government health agencies have recommended that if your baby is being breast-fed (breast milk doesn’t contain enough vitamin D) or is drinking less than 18 ounces of

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