Coming up with new recipes for your baby and toddler can be quite tricky. So whether your little one has specific allergies, dining preferences, or simply enjoys hovering around the kitchen while you prepare a meal, here are our favourite categories of baby and toddler cookbooks for you to try out in the comfort of your own kitchen.
Organic & Wholesome Cookbooks
Baby food doesn’t always have to be tasteless mush in a tub or jar, and toddler food needn’t be boring and bland all the time. It’s always great to experiment with your own fresh ingredients and whip up a delicious and healthy meal for your baby or tot. These four cookbooks consist of over hundreds of wholesome and organic recipes for babies and toddlers to indulge in. The fresher, the better!
1. The Wholesome Baby Food Guide | Maggie Meade |Â Kinokuniya
2. 201 Organic Baby Purées | Tamika L. Gardner | MPH Online
3. The Petit Appetit Cookbook | Lisa Barnes |Â Book Depository
4. The Everything Organic Cookbook For Baby & Toddler | Kim Lutz &Â Megan Hart |Â Amazon
5. The Organic Family Cookbook | Anni Daulter |Â Kinokuniya
6. Super Baby Food | Ruth Yaron |Â Kinokuniya
7. Ice Pop Joy | Anni Daulter |Â Kinokuniya
Baby Purées Cookbooks
If you’re a fan of blending your babies food and storing it ahead of time, or perhaps your busy schedule requires that you pre-batch your baby’s food and freeze it ahead of time, these books are the books for you. Consisting of over hundreds of blended recipes, feeding a fussy baby should be a breeze with one of these books in hand. No more boring concoctions when you’re fully armed with these recipes!
1. The Best Homemade Baby Food On The Planet | Karin Knight |Â MPH Online
2. Blender Baby Food | Nicole Young & Nadine Day |Â Kinokuniya
3. Top 100 Baby Purees | Annabel Karmel |Â Kinokuniya
4. Easy Gourmet Baby Food |Â Che Jordan Wagman &Â Jill Hillhouse |Â Kinokuniya
Vegetarian Recipes Cookbooks
These vegetarian cookbooks contain everything a parent needs to know in order to raise healthy and happy vegetarian youngsters. Even if you don’t live in a vegetarian household, it’s always good to know that your baby gets all the nutrition he/she needs by consuming their daily dose of veggies and these books will guide you through the healthiest and most nutritional meals possible!
1. Raising Vegetarian Children | Joanne Stepaniak and Vesanto Melina | Kinokuniya
2. Baby And Child Vegetarian Recipes |Carol Timperley |Â Kinokuniya
3. New Vegetarian Baby |Â Sharon K. Yntema and Christine Beard |Â Kinokuniya
4. Feeding Your Vegetarian Child | Cheryl Newman Symmes |Â Kinokuniya
5. Fresh Start: Farm-To-Table, Plant-Based Baby Recipes | Erika Krebs | Kinokuniya
Gluten-Free & Allergy-Proof Cookbooks
If you have a toddler who suffers from celiac disease or gluten intolerance, or one who is just prone to being hypoallergenic, these books teach you how to cook up a delicious meal as well as snacks for toddlers in the most healthiest, allergy-proof method possible! Jamie Jong’s Eggless Cakes & Cookies has a great compilation of baked goods recipes to try, and Carrie S. Forbes 201 gluten-free recipes are a hit with kids – gluten-intolerant or not! We know that gluten-free foods may not be the most delicious selection in store, but this recipe book has a range of kids’ favourite dishes – and all gluten-free. Also, culinary expert Leslie Hammond presents techniques on how to use natural allergy-free ingredients and substitutes in the most delicious and rich way possible maintaining all the greatness in flavours – ensuring that your tot can enjoy his/her meal without having an allergy attack.
1. 201 Gluten-Free Recipes For Kids | Carrie S. Forbes |Â Kinokuniya
2. Eat Like A Dinosaur: Recipe & Guidebook for Gluten-free Kids |Â Paleo Parents &Â Elana Amsterdam |Â Kinokuniya
3. Allergy Proof Recipes For Kids | Leslie Hammond & Lynne Marie Rominger | Kinokuniya
4. The Food Allergy Mama’s Easy, Fast Family Meals | Kelly Rudnicki | MPH
5. Gluten-Free Family Favourites |Â Â MPH
6. The Ultimate Allergy-Free Snack | Judi Zucker & Shari Zucker | Kinokuniya
7. Eggless Cakes & Cookies | Jamie Jong |Â MPH
Family Cookbooks
These family cookbook recipes are just brilliant, offering recipes that work well for the whole family as well as batching and freezing, and meal-planning techniques for babies and toddlers. They offer a range of healthy and quick meals for babies, toddlers, children and even adults that can be served ready and hot, or batched and frozen for a rainy day and this is exactly why we highly recommend them, especially for new mums!
Or, maybe your tot is not a fussy eater, but the type to hover over you while you cook your meals every day? This is where The Disney Princess and New Junior Cookbooks will come in handy as they offer a range of recipes in which tots can enjoy cooking alongside mum in the kitchen.
1. The Baby-led Weaning Cookbook |Â Gill Rapley &Â Tracey Murkett |Â Kinokuniya
2. Family Kitchen Cookbook | Caroline Bretherton |Â MPH Online
3. The Disney Princess Cookbook |Â Disney Book Group &Â Disney Storybook Art Team |Â Kinokuniya
4. Better Homes and Gardens New Junior CookBook | Better Homes & Gardens Books | Kinokuniya
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