Completely revised, First Meals bursts with dozens of new color photographs and more than 200 recipes to entice even the fussiest baby or toddler. This classic cookbook covers the essentials-from flavorful first purées, winning lunchbox combos and easy-to-make family meals to finger-licking picnic and party noshes-while delighting the eye and providing hardworking information on nutrition, preparation and cooking times, freezing instructions, and tips on how to handle food allergies, additives, and tricky eaters.

Reviews

"Annabel Karmel's First Meals may be the perfect new-mum gift... it's real charm is for the decoratively challenged (or the desperate); fun food-presentation ideas, like chicken-sausage snails." -- Time magazine

"For help from an expert, try First Meals, a beautifully illustrated, easy-to-follow guide to cooking for kids up to the age of 5." -- Newsweek

"If your little darling is a food snob who has you jumping through hoops at every meal, Annabel Karmel's First Meals may be just the inspiration you need...an all-round nutrition guide, with lots of pull-out charts, photos and lively graphics." -- New York Daily News

'Annabel is truly amongst the best when it comes to creating tempting and nutritious children's food that would entice even the fussiest of eaters', Great Ormond Street Hospital .

'The children's food guru', Daily Express .

Author Biography:

Annabel Karmel's experience with her own children inspired her to research the interaction of food, diet, and young children. A trained Cordon Bleu chef and the author of several bestselling books, including Superfoods for Babies and Children, Karmel contributes to a variety of newspapers and magazines, and appears regularly on television.