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Baby Food Recipe Books For Your Registry

When it comes to feeding your baby solid foods, and their eventual transition to feeding themselves, we always turn to Jenna Helwig’s two baby food recipe books, Real Baby Food and Baby-Led Feeding. Jenna Helwig is not only the author but she’s also the food editor at Parents magazine, so you could venture to guess that she really knows her stuff when it comes to baby food recipe information, infant nutrition and feeding approaches. When it comes to finding a baby food recipe or two that work for your little one, Jenna Helwig’s books are a wealth of information and education – many parents tell us that even they love to eat the baby food recipe that they make for their little one!

Jenna Helwig’s first baby food recipe book, Real Baby Food, is a must-have for new parents (and one of our favorite gender neutral baby shower gifts), and even gets the seal of approval from chef and mom, Nikki Dinki. Real Baby Food makes the art of creating a baby food recipe so simple, even for busy moms and dads. Jenna Helwig guides you through the early days of simple foods, to adding spices to your baby food recipe, meats, flavors, and even multi-flavor blends like Salmon, Kale, and Sweet Potato Smash. With over 100 baby food recipes in the book, your little one is sure to have a head-start on their culinary palate!

Jenna Helwig’s second baby food recipe book, Baby-Led Feeding is a must have essential to help you plan your baby’s transition into finger foods; Baby-Led Feeding helps parents navigate the way to naturally raising happy, independent eaters, and working together to make mealtime a happy and joyful time. Gugu Guru’s founder, Monica, did a video overview of Baby-Led Feeding, where she shows off some of the gorgeous baby food recipe photography, ideas, and discusses the helpful guidelines Jenna includes, as well.

With more than 100 ideas and baby food recipes, Baby-Led Feeding is a must have for any foodie mom or dad. One of the things we love about Jenna’s books is they’re beautifully designed, and Baby-Led Feeding is no exception. This bright, photo-driven book includes chapters on the benefits of this approach, when and how to get started, essential safety and nutrition guidelines, frequently asked questions, basic fruit and vegetable prep, more complex finger foods, and family meals. Plus, all recipes in Baby-Led Feeding have been reviewed by a registered dietitian and include nutrition information to ensure a healthy mealtime.

Set yourself up for success when it comes to creating and making a baby food recipe that your little one loves, as Jenna Helwig helps parents navigate this new journey of helping your baby learn to not only love food, but love the process of cooking, and eating together, too! We love giving Jenna Helwig’s baby food recipe books for baby showers, as they become a cookbook staple for your family.

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The Baby HealthNut Cookbook - Healthnut Nutrition

What's inside:

  • A 52-page digital cookbook with helpful tips, resources and guides to starting your baby’s journey of “first bites” between the ages of 6-12 months to Toddlerhood.
  • Over 30+ nutrient-rich recipes from breakfast, mains, snacks and sweets, made with real ingredients and no added sugar or salt.

  • Focused on purees and handheld foods whether you spoon feed or follow a baby led weaning approach.

  • Easy, step by step instructions and beautiful drool worthy photos for every recipe covering breakfast, mains, snacks and sweets.

  • Family friendly and baby tested and approved recipes!

  • A complete list of ingredients and favourite ‘go-to’ staples to keep in your pantry. 

  • Freezer friendly, meal prep friendly and plant based options included. 

I hope by the end of this cookbook you feel confident and ready to
introduce the world of flavour to your baby outside the world of puffed stars.

Give me the d-EATS!

With over 30+ nutrient-rich yet delicious recipes, made with real ingredients, this ebook will help make raising an adventurous eater as easy as 1-2-3! Making the transition from liquids to solids can feel overwhelming and stressful. This “first bites” edition is focused on the introductory stage of food between the ages of 6-12+ months up to toddlerhood. This ebook is your complete guide to get started stress free and provides options for purees, preloaded spoon friendly foods and hand-held baby led weaning style meals. Behind each recipe lies the idea that from the start of their eating journey, little ones should be enjoying real, whole foods and ingredients that you can feel good about introducing to your growing babies.

Variety, quality, and taste are the pillars of each recipe, allowing you to give your baby the fuel needed to grow, develop, and very importantly, LOVE food. The Baby HealthNut Cookbook will get your littles excited for meal time with each recipe bringing out the smiles, giggles, and signs to communicate that each bite is more delicious than the last.

Featuring Green Blender Babycakes, Apple Pie Quinoa Oatmeal, Nutty Monkey Pops, Baby Kale Chips, Zucchini Edamame Hummus, Quinoa with a Chance of Meatballs and so much more, you will have a hard time resisting putting these recipes on your own plate.

Free of added salt, sugars, and artificial dyes/flavours, this digital book will allow you to cook nourishing foods in an affordable, easy and fun way. You’ll find easy to follow instructions, meal prep tips, a list of pantry staples, a plethora of resources, and the comfort of knowing that you are not alone on the journey to help your baby become an adventurous eater. Now let’s EAT!

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  • Feel confident about feeding your baby at every meal with real ingredients.
  • Introduce your baby’s taste buds to the world of colours, flavours and textures one spoonful at a time.
  • Mommy and baby approved healthy and delicious recipes to serve your little ones that will soon become weekly staples in your household.
  • Helpful tips and resources for raising an adventurous eater.
  • Your complete stress free guide to get started on your baby’s food journey.

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About Nikole

Hi, I’m Nikole, the face behind HealthNut Nutrition (one of Canada’s top healthy food and lifestyle YouTube channels) and bestselling author of The HealthNut Cookbook. Most importantly, I am a new mom to my now one year old daughter, Sage. She is a rambunctious little girl who is always on the go, exploring and discovering. When she’s not bossing mom and dad around, she is sitting in her highchair enjoying every last bite on her plate. Sage LOVES food and we often joke that if we let her, she would sit there all day asking for more peas, strawberries and pancakes.

Books about food, products and digestion - Best Children's Books

Masha is having lunch

Age: 0+

Silva Kaputikyan: Masha is having lunch

The hour of dinner has come, and everyone is hurrying to the table: the faithful dog Arapka, and the cat Murka, and the laying hen. Everyone did a great job and deserved a treat. A kind poem by Silva Kaputikyan will remind the child of the daily routine, and the drawings of Andrey Brey, a recognized master of children's book illustration, will bring joy from communicating with the book. Order


Food. How does she feel

Age: 6+

Giancarlo Ascari: Food. How does she feel

Food has many tastes and smells and is constantly on the move. Food appears above the ground, and under the ground, comes to us from there and from here. When we like it, we are ready to "lick our fingers"; when we don’t like it, we spit it out (although, of course, it’s better not to do this in public). Did you know that carrots began to be grown in Afghanistan 5,000 years ago? That pasta was invented by the Arabs in the 9th century, and the first chops were cooked by Mongolian nomads? And the famous corn flakes were invented by a doctor whose patients needed to... Order


How does a pear get into the brain?

Age: 0+

Ilya Kolmanovsky: How does a pear get into the brain?

How do we eat? How do we know what to eat and what not to eat? How is the tongue connected to the stomach, and how is the stomach connected to the brain? What is a healthy eating pyramid and what happens to us if we ate something wrong? The author of the book, Ilya Kolmanovsky, knows best how to talk to children about science, because he wrote the first book in the series "Why don't birds fall?", answered children's questions in his podcast for many years, and now runs the biology laboratory at the Polytechnic University (with whom we published this wonderful book). Order


Miracle - you and trillions of your residents

Age: 16+

Jan Schütten: Miracle - you and trillions of your residents

This book is about you. More precisely, not really. It is about what preceded your birth, about how two completely random cells turn into a person, about how your brain is 86 billion neurons and 100 billion glial cells. About cells that are even more amazing than Star Wars spaceships, about substances that can make you clean up the room, about Andreas Vesalius, who stole corpses from graves, about Michel Lotito, who ate an entire plane, and about that you have every right to speak of yourself in the plural, because you and the bacteria living in you are a very large company. In general, this is a book that you are a real miracle. Order


Children about nutrition. An incredible journey through Nutrilandia

Age: 6+

Ekaterina Mirimanova: About nutrition for children. Incredible Journey Through Nutrilandia

This book is for curious kids like you! After all, you probably want to learn a lot of new and interesting things, as well as become the strongest and most dexterous. As you travel through the world's most fun country, Nutrilandia, you'll complete exciting quests, read gripping comics, and do some unforgettable exploration. We wish you an incredibly tasty and active journey! Order


Educational tales

Age: 0+

Amber Stewart: Capricious

Funny, touching and instructive verse tales about forest kids bring up very useful qualities in children - prudence, patience, generosity and courage. Their author, contemporary English writer Amber Stuart, receives many letters of thanks from her parents. Order


If you want to be healthy

Age: 0+

Elena Kachur: If you want to be healthy

Why and how to exercise? What is hardening? What food is healthy and what is not? Why can't you sit at the computer for a long time? How to wash and brush your teeth, sunbathe and swim? Young readers will learn a lot of interesting and useful things about a healthy lifestyle. Order


Princess and Polka Dots

Age: 0+

Caryl Hart: Princess and Polka Dots

A prophylactic funny tale for young princesses (and princes) who don't want to eat vegetables... Everything was cloudless in Lily's life... until this nice girl refused to eat green peas. The doctor discovered a dangerous disease in Lily - princess syndrome - and prescribed her life in the royal palace. Order


Charming intestines. How the most powerful organ governs us

Age: 12+

Julia Enders: Charming gut. How the most powerful organ governs us

One might be shocked by the researcher's frank treatment of the "forbidden" topics of digestion and defecation; some may find the experiments on mice and volunteer patients described in this monograph too extreme, even unacceptable. Someone will doubt the omnipotence of tiny organisms that control our lives. And for some, the assumption that the intestines have their own "brain" and "nervous system" will generally seem absurd and unscientific. But remember that the new and unknown always frightens a person, such is his nature striving for self-preservation, and this book is just another small step forward on the path to discovering the secrets and mysteries of our body. Order


Secrets of Anatomy

Age: 6+

Carol Donner: Secrets of Anatomy

How is my own body? Why doesn't the stomach eat itself? Why is the immune system needed? Max and Molly, the characters in the book Secrets of Anatomy, like all children, ask these questions. Only unlike ordinary children from the real world, reading encyclopedias, asking parents and teachers, Max and Molly had an incredible story. Once, in their grandmother's attic, they found an old book on human anatomy, and as soon as they opened the book, the children were blinded by a sudden flash of bright light. And now, Max and Molly are no longer in the attic of their grandmother's house, but travel inside a living human body. Order

Books selected by Nadezhda Krasheninnikova

8 good books about food for children and parents - "Food"

The world of books about baby food is diverse and inexhaustible. These are books for parents who want to instill in their children a love for a variety of foods and tastes from childhood, and for children who want to feel like home chefs. They can affect both baby food organization systems and cooking technologies for individual dishes, they can be serious and fun, encyclopedic and motivating, containing a lot of text or pictures. nine0008

From all this limitless variety, we have chosen eight books that we love ourselves and that our children love. With them, perhaps, you can start building a children's culinary library.

Ali Buzari Ingredients. Chemistry and alchemy of gastronomic creativity»

The book is written for adults, but in a way that any curious teenager can understand. Why stick together pasta? Why are fried potatoes crunchy? How does jelly freeze? Ali Buzari explains the fundamental principles of working with products, talks about the reactions and metamorphoses that occur with proteins, fats and carbohydrates - and he gets it briefly, but very capaciously and clearly. In addition, the book is well illustrated and even looks like a comic in some places. nine0008

Buzari proposes to consider this work as a short course on the laws preparation and consumption of food, dissecting water, fruit peel, meat fiber and explaining in an accessible language why it happened this way, and not that way. This is an entertaining chemistry and physics, and after this book, without even looking at the product, immediately you understand what you should or should not add up with and what result you will achieve: “Each substance has its own character, what he can or cannot do, his modus operandi, so to speak. I AM familiar with all these features: it depends on them what effect it has on us food, and they help me understand cooking. After reading this book, you understand them yourself and be able to answer all the questions that arise. nine0008

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Silver Spoon for Children

"Silver Spoon" - the most important Italian cookbook, first published in 1950 and has gone through dozens of editions since then. "Silver spoon for children "- it is the same, only adapted for the little ones. four dozen recipes written for kids to handle hits Italian cuisine without the help of adults - and at the same time no coquetry with the form and flirting with the choice of recipes. The book is illustrated with bright visual pictures, but it is ideal for children. school age, not younger. True, we must remember that Italian culinary traditions are freer than Russian ones, and you should not be surprised when you stumble upon a recipe fried lamb leg. In addition to recipes, the book contains the necessary rules safety precautions and there is a helpful chapter on Equipment and Cooking Utensils. nine0008

The book was published in Russian by the Eksmo publishing house in 2011 and now it is not found in stores, but it regularly appears on Avito.ru. We hope that Eksmo will reissue it.

School meals

An important Soviet book from the turn of the 1950s–1960s. Why do children eat? What do they eat? How to cook it? How are school kitchens? How do oats grow? And how to become a good person? The book begins in the words of Nadezhda Krupskaya: “You know, you need to be simpler, you don’t need to be wiser so that food it was healthy, otherwise we sometimes think, as it were, something fatter, puff something and etc. , but this is not useful for the guys.” Interspersed with poems about the first of September, an article "Accounting of the body" and tables describing how much copper and zinc are contained in a person weighing 65 kilograms, options for a children's menu have been developed here. week, where on Monday it is advised to eat peasant soup, on Tuesday - boiled tongue and carrot pudding, and on Sundays pudding from cabbage. Solid benefit, the body is like the construction of the century, in a healthy body - healthy spirit, and what is most remarkable - all this is not a bit outdated. nine0008

The book can be bought on Alib.ru.

Yulia Vysotskaya "Baby nutrition from birth and older"

Like all Yulia Vysotskaya's books, this one is very personal. Articles about complementary foods and gluten are accompanied by photographs of the author's children, the captions under which intelligibly tell how the Vysotskaya family lives, what makes them happy, what and where they eat. You can't think of a better way to start trusting a book from the very first pages. Recipes are divided by age, which is convenient for confused parents who are puzzled over food for very young children and cannot make a choice. Sections are: from 6 to 9months, from 9 to 11, from a year to three, from three to six and beyond the head of the "School".

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Saida Sakharova Academy of Home Wizards

Miracles happen here every day: people are born out of nothing delicious soups, a simple dress instantly becomes elegant, and kilometers of yarn turn into scarves and sweaters. Scissors serve as a magic wand here, needle, knitting needles, ladle, brush and pencil. On the last Thursday before New year, a few leaves fly into the children's room of the Romashov family, on which the recipe for ice cream is detailed, after which a household fairy Kalinka with red rosy cheeks like Ryazan apples, and their life is already will never be the same. A dozen chapters, divided into months, and dozens of times more useful tips for boys and girls, practically the book "Housekeeping", with stories about the need to help others, with a pattern of blue shorts for the fifth-grader Leka (character of the book), with a detailed recipe for brushwood and so Further. On parent internet forums about the “Academy” they write like this: “I am 31 years old, I first read this book when I was 8-9years and still have it causes complete delight. I so wanted to fly into my window enchantress)))".

We have one of the old editions of the book in the photo, but it has been reprinted many times, and it is not difficult to buy it in stores.

Rotraut Susanne Berner, Dagmar von Kramm, The Big Town Cookbook

This is a book with illustrations by the winner of the H.C. Andersen Prize, the German artist Rotraut Susanna Berner, that she drew the four seasonal books “Gorodok”, beloved by children, where meticulously the life of the townspeople is depicted at different times of the year - here is a dog frolicking in the snow, and here is the same dog lying in the shade under a hawthorn bush. "Big Cookbook" divided into seasons: spring with radish and Easter Bunny, summer - currant jam and pie "Drowned cherries", autumn - walnut pretzels and pumpkin soup, and winter, during which it is advised to cook turnip in curry and Rapunzel salad. Compiled book more intelligibly nowhere, all these are full-fledged serious recipes that are taken not from the ceiling, but collected by a gastronomic writer, nutrition expert and large family mother from Freiburg Dagmar von Kramm. And thanks to the illustrations, it is more looks like a toy, and any girl should dream of this edition, even if Haven't gotten around to cooking yet. nine0008

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Pamela Druckerman French children are not spitting food"

Objective, a fascinating and witty description of the French approach to parenting from an American woman who, by the will of fate, raised her children in France. Why are small Since childhood, the French have been eating everything, and even vegetables hated by some adults? Why are they not acting up, but literally - do not spit food? Why French unofficially considered the main gourmets in the world? All from childhood. Druckerman narrates easily and naturally, it seems, you are reading a cheerful autobiography of an American, for whose move to Paris in gastronomic terms turned out to be a landing on Mars. But by the middle of the book you realize how much useful and practical information is contained in this apparent lightness. In addition to stories about nutrition, the book contains a lot of interesting details about the upbringing of French children in general, and most importantly, the philosophy of happy motherhood runs through the whole story: a mother is not a servant of her child, but a best friend. nine0008

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Alain Ducasse, Paul Neyrat, Jérôme Lacressonnière "Still. Babies. Just, tasty and healthy"

The book was written by Alain Ducasse, one of the most titled French chefs, together with the popular in France by nutritionist Paul Neira. Their goal was not to create another collection of recipes, and the development of a whole nutrition system for babies from six months, which would allow you to become a real gourmet by the age of three. 100 dishes divided into age categories, seasons, types of products and cover all possible flavors (yes, even bitter), textures and colors that can be inherent in food.


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