Jan 26 2009
The Petit Appetit Cookbook Easy Organic Recipes to Nurture Your Baby and Toddler
The Petit Appetit Cookbook Easy Organic Recipes to Nurture Your Baby and Toddler
Fresh, wholesome meals that give little mouths something to smile about…
In The Petit Appetit Cookbook, mother and professional cook Lisa Barnes offers a healthy all-organic alternative to commercially processed, preservative-filled foods to help create delicious menus, nurture adventurous palates, and begin a lifetime of positive eating habits for children.
Includes:
– 150+ easy, fast, child-tested recipes for ages 4 months to 4 years
– Mealtime solutions for even the most finicky eaters
– Nutritional information for each recipe
– Time-saving cooking techniques
– The right age- and stage-appropriate food choices
– How and when to introduce solids to baby’s diet
– Adapting family recipes for young children
– Recognizing signs of food allergies and intolerances
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars If you only buy one baby cook book
This would be it! This book was exactly what I needed. I enjoy cooking, but needed the basic instructions of how to puree baby food. The best thing about this book is it focuses on integrating baby into the adult eating. Just tonight I made my 8 month daughter the chicken puree, mixed it with the black beans and rice. I was able to have the same — not pureed, or course! It makes the experience feel more like a family meal than a chore.
5 Stars Delicious and easy recipes
I have a bunch of recipe books for baby/toddler food, but this one is my favorite. I’ve made about 10 recipes from the book and each one is easy to make, healthy and delicious. Most of the recipes are great for the whole family – not just toddlers, and I love that she emphasizes the value of organic food. I’m ordering another copy now to give as a gift.
5 Stars Best Book I’ve Found
This is the best baby cookbook I’ve found!
I love it, it has a couple options for cooking the baby food, making it easy for anyone to do.
It has A LOT of recipies from babies to toddlers, its great!
I highly recommend!
4 Stars a comparison between Baby Blender Food and Petit Appetit
i got this and baby blender foods from the local library before i purchased either one of them.
at first i liked the baby blender foods better. it seemed more down to earth, more what i would expect. i wasnt thrilled with the petit apetit. it seemed a little haughty toighty for me.
but when the time came to make a copy or two of recipes that i wanted to test drive, i found i was pulling more out of the PA than the other one. the recipe that especially impressed me was the egg free milk free pancakes (which i just made and our daughter gobbled them up).
baby blender foods is a good typical baby food cookbook. it delivers everything you would expect. you could find the same material for free at [...] PA on the other hand has a much more diverse menu. It also goes beyond just the basics of what tehy can have, but it says what is in each recipe, if it is vegetarian or vegan, wheat free, egg free, etc… And (this is what also sold me) it follows the feeding schedule for the baby not just up until 12 months but up to four years! It really takes you beyond the jarred food and the good old stand bys.
It does say use all organic and free range whatever… and realistically we can’t all afford to. At first i thought it was a bit snobby. If i could afford it, i probably would. but it’s not always possible. so if you can get past that and just understand that replacements are totally doable, then you’ll be fine.
1 Star You don’t need this to cook for your baby
If you are new to cooking this may be worthwhile. Otherwise you are wasting your money on “recipes” for pureeing single foods (seriously, she calls those recipes) and poorly researched advice on diet for children. You can easily puree foods on your own for the few months your child is eating them and by the time they are ready for more, you can teach yourself how to modify what you are eating to share with them. This book perpetuates the fear about feeding our own children, that somehow we have to have another person’s advice to feel confident about our choices. Any child reference book, like Dr. Sears baby’s book, will have a basic list of foods to avoid and that’s all you really need.
