Annabel Karmel is the best-selling author of cookbooks for children and their families. Relied on by millions of parents, Annabel knows what children like to eat and how to make family meals as trouble-free as possible.

In this collection, Annabel has chosen 100 recipes that will suit kids and grown-ups alike, from healthy breakfast muffins, to tasty tea-time snacks and light meals to nutritious family suppers.

Recipes include: American–Italian mini meatballs, Frozen berries with hot white chocolate sauce, Potato pizzette bites, Power-packed oat bars with cranberries, apricots and pumpkin seeds, Fruity chicken curry, Chicken yakitori with noodles, Diner’s blue plate special meatloaf, Jewelled cupcakes, Mini fish pie, Nasi goreng, Breakfast burrito, Spinach, ricotta and tomato lasagne, Best ever banana bread, My favourite chicken fingers, Peach and banana smoothie, Ratatouille omelette, Sticky salmon and Chinese fried rice, Raspberry ripple cheesecake…

SAMPLE RECIPE

Annabel’s granola (pictured left)
This delicious granola is very versatile. You can have it for breakfast with milk. It’s also very good on its own as a snack or layered with yoghurt, honey and fruit. If your child is anti-nuts or allergic then you could substitute pumpkin seeds instead, or double the quantity of raisins.

Serves 6–8
175g (6oz) rolled oats
70g (2½oz) coarsely chopped pecans
20g (¾oz) shredded/desiccated coconut
¼ tsp salt
60g (2¼oz) soft brown sugar
2 tbsp canola or sunflower oil
4 tbsp maple syrup
50g (2oz) raisins

Step one – Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/gas 2.
Step two – Put the oats, pecans, coconut, salt and sugar in a large bowl and mix with a wooden spoon.
Step three – Whisk the oil and maple syrup together in a jug or small bowl. Pour over the oats and mix well.
Step four – Spread out on a lightly oiled baking sheet and bake in the centre of the oven for 40–45 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes. Transfer to a bowl, stir in the raisins and leave to cool.
Wholegrain cereals are a good source of iron. However, it is difficult for our bodies to absorb iron from a non-meat source (red meat provides the most easily absorbed form of iron). To improve the absorption of iron from breakfast cereal you need to give your child vitamin C-rich fruit, such as kiwi or berry fruits, or vitamin C-rich juice, such as orange or cranberry juice.

Author Biography

Annabel Karmel, a busy working mother of three, has written 18 bestselling books, including the New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner. She is a celebrity chef on BBCi, the BBC website, has contributed to the Mothercare.com site. She also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines, including The Times, Mail and Sunday Mirror, as well as Practical Parenting and Mother and Baby, and appears frequently on radio and TV as the UK's expert on children's nu­tritional issues. Annabel's ‘Make Your Own’ range of equipment and foods, as well as her own ‘Eat Fussy’ chilled ready meals, are available in all major supermarkets.