The Baby Cookbook, Revised Edition: Tasty and Nutritious Meals for the Whole Family That Babies and Toddlers Will Also Love

by Karin Knight and Jeannie Lumley

Newly revised for the 1990s, The Baby Cookbook is the final word on infant nutrition. In addition to hundreds of wonderful recipes, it includes vital new information on vitamin requirements, allergies, childhood obesity, nursing, introducing solids, and balancing meals. It also features all the facts on the health benefits and risks of milk, eggs, salt, fluoride, and complete and incomplete proteins. The Baby Cookbook also includes the author's personal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688103588
• ISBN13: 9780688103583
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A cookbook I keep out all the time!

I found this book 8 years ago when my first baby was just getting ready to try eating. I checked out a dozen likely-looking books from the library. The rest went back, but this was renewed until I bought my own copy. I devoured this book! The nutrition information was very helpful for me in general, the suggested order for introducing foods was something I practically memorized, and a great help especially with my baby who turned out to be allergy-prone. The diary was a nice break from all of the information, more of an anecdotal resource. It also helped to give me an idea where the author was coming from and how to put foods I wasn't used to into an everyday setting. The recipes are astounding - simple to make, wonderfully healthy, tasty for the whole family, and there's a little bit of everything in there. I've tried new foods from these recipes and been encouraged to re-do some of my own recipes with a more healthful eye. I've given away several copies and bought my most recent when my latest son arrived. He's 2 now and I still pull this book down for ideas 3 or 4 times a month. I can't imagine feeding a baby without this book - it's the best I've read! I cannot recommend The Baby Cookbook highly enough!

Nutrition Bible

I used this book on a daily basis. I started studying it long before my first child was born. I refered back to the charts each month to help me see which foods could be introduced to my baby now. I loved the diary about her own child, these entrys also helped give me direction on food choices. I believe my children had much better and more whole food than most babies. I used the book so much the cover came off. I then passed it on to one of my nieces who is very much into organic and natural foods. You can't go wrong with this book.

Practical, Helpful Advice on Feeding Infants

Of all my baby feeding books, this one is the one I kept going back to. Hard to find ingredients? I'm not sure what the other reviewers are talking about. Rice, eggs, chicken, fruit, vegetables, plain yogurt, canned tomatoes? These are all things readily available. The recipes are super easy, and most important, healthy. I know what I'm talking about as an avid cookbook collector with 100+ cookbooks, the recipes don't get much easier than this. And don't involve any processed food. Why introduce junk food to kids any sooner than need be? The sample menus and the detailed summary of what foods to introduce at what months is worth the price of the book alone. The easy fruit custard that takes about 2 minutes to make was a simple way to introduce something sweet to my infant without processed sugar and involved mixing canned baby food with a couple other things. As a working mom, it was homemade, fast and easy. This is not some health-nut type of cookbook, but rather healthy and simple. Even those who have hectic lives and eat out more than they make stuff will be able to quickly prepare these recipes without too much involvement and hassle. This is a book that moms will come back to over and over again. I agree with one review that the food diary about her daughter could have been left out.

Full of great information...

...just what I needed 5 years ago when I started feeding my 1st son. The information about nutrition, allergens, and when to introduce food was invaluable and neatly gathered in one place, The recipes were very interesting, some basic, some regional (California), some ethnic (Scandinavian). We just about wore out our copy before passing it along, and have purchased several copies as gifts. Now we're getting a new copy for our new baby. I cannot recommend this book highly enough - it's in the top 2 or 3 of it's category, and the one I find most usable.

just what I needed!

Raising a baby is enough of a challenge -- this book, given to me by my pediatrician, really saved my life! Quite readable too! Great job Ms. Knight