You know, it’s not that easy to find a homemade baby food cookbook with truly healthy, delicious foods. After reading Super Baby Food, which is on the extreme end of healthy, I felt confident enough to go ahead and start preparing my own baby food. In practice, I noticed the author didn’t care about how good it tasted (no spices!), as long as it was super healthy. My clue was when she wrote in one of her musings about her sons’ porridge: “I force myself to eat the leftovers.”
Wow. Now, I don’t know about you, but I don’t think children are like dogs or pigs. Even dogs sometimes have discriminating taste (think Paris Hilton’s pooch). Is it too much to ask for nutritious and delicious?
Annabel Karmel is a good author. I like her. She makes it easy and the glossy, eye-catching professional photography can only help. I read three of her books: First Meals, First Foods and Top 100 Baby Purees. Of these, I like Top 100 Baby Purees better. Not only is it prettier, but it’s really easy to thumb through. The problem is, many of the stuff I wouldn’t eat. I made a few of the purees for Angeline, and she turned her nose at most except for the mango and whole milk yogurt (mostly yogurt) combination. I happily ate her leftovers of only the mango and yogurt. The rest I simply wouldn’t after tasting them. Do you see a connection here? Now the risotto looks really good! But some may argue not healthy enough with its more liberal use of butter. Her fruit purees are often extremely sweet as well.
I think most of mainstream America and UK will find Annabel Karmel’s books user-friendly and an excellent buy. As a matter of fact, they have. She’s a bestselling baby food author.
