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The Best Baby Food Cookbooks

Whether you plan to make all, most, or some of your baby’s food, having a baby food cookbook at the ready will be a tremendous resource for you when your little one starts solids. And believe it or not, I would argue that even if you don’t plan on making any of your baby’s food, a baby food cookbook is still a good investment. That’s because the best books will offer much more than recipes—must-know infant nutrition info, how to prevent food allergies, and strategies for handling picky eating. As the long-time food editor at Parents magazine and a baby food cookbook author myself, I’ve surveyed the offerings, and these are my picks for the best baby food cookbooks.

And, look, of course I’m going recommend the books I wrote! I know how much time I spent testing recipes, the care I put into research, and how closely I collaborated with a pediatric dietitian and other experts. I believe in these books—and I’ve received such positive feedback from families—that they’re first up :).

For each of my picks for the best baby food cookbooks, you’ll see that I’ve included links to both Amazon and Bookshop. What’s Bookshop? It’s a way to shop online, but still support independent bookstores—basically, my new favorite way to buy books!*

Baby-Led Feeding – Baby-led feeding is my take on baby-led weaning, the newly popular method of starting solids that skips the spoon and offers baby finger foods from the very beginning. The book is packed with over 100 recipes, from first foods to baby-appropriate family meals, plus visual glossaries for how to safely cut finger foods and helpful essays on how to prevent food allergies, how to raise a vegetarian or vegan baby, and how to taste train your baby. Recipes include Roasted Apple Slices, Zucchini Bread Waffles, and Slow-Cooker Maple Dijon Pork. (Amazon/Bookshop)

Real Baby Food – If you’re looking for a more traditional take on starting solids this is the book for you. Like Baby-Led Feeding, this one is written with pediatric dietitian Natalia Stasenko, and is chock-full of nutrition info, a guide to when and how to start solids, and easy recipes from purées to family meals baby can enjoy too. Some of my favorite recipes include Red-Lentil Spinach Purée, Apple-Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal, and Cornflake Chicken Cutlets. You’ll also find a recommended feeding schedule with portion sizes, advice for introducing beverages to baby, and how to go easy on sugar in your toddler’s diet. (Amazon/Bookshop)

Around the World in 80 Purées – One of the things I believe most strongly about baby food is that it doesn’t need to be bland. And babies are never more accepting of new flavors than before age 1. So take advantage and introduce them to big flavors early.Yes, you want to skip added sugar most added salt in baby’s food… but there’s a world of other tastes to add! This book proves it, with recipes that tap into flavors from Nigeria, Mexico, China, Morocco, and beyond. Plus, how can you not love the clever title? (Amazon)

Born to Eat – One of my favorite books about feeding babies, this excellent guide by two registered dietitians is more than a nutrition book or a cookbook. It’s about a food and eating philosophy that champions bringing baby to the family table right from the start, banishing diet culture (which believe it or not can even affect how we feed our babies), and raising intuitive eaters. You’ll learn about baby-led weaning, yes, but also be inspired to think deeply about your family’s food culture. (Amazon/Bookshop)

The Pediatrician’s Guide to Feeding Babies and Toddlers – Written by two pediatrician parents, this book takes you stage by stage through baby’s food needs. It includes a few simple recipes, but I like it best for all the questions and answers that are included. With this book in the house you’ll feel like you have a pediatrician on call for virtually any feeding question you have, including about breastfeeding, food allergies, and picky eating. (Amazon/Bookshop)

You can see five more baby and toddler food books I love (including The Multi-Cooker Baby Food Cookbook!) here on my Bookshop shelf. Also, check out my all-time favorite I-would-take-these-with-me-to-a-desert-island cookbooks!

*If you buy one of these best baby food cookbooks from Bookshop, I may receive a small commission.

Applesauce photo by Lauren Volo from The Multi-Cooker Baby Food Cookbook

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Top 10 Baby Food Cookbooks

Starting Solids

This book is a must-have for parents weaning baby and starting on solids for the first time. It’s loaded with simple, practical recipes and advice. It also does the meal-planning for you! You’ll learn how to put together ingredients, how to explore new tastes and textures and how to deal with feeding problems. From $20, Amazon

The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook

With more than 130 recipes, this guide can help you feed baby from your own plate, so don’t have to serve separate meals for everyone in the family. $16, Kobo

First Meals & More: Your Questions Answered

This book definitely has the baby food newbie in mind. (We’re talking about you, not baby.) It’s got 50 fuss-free quick and easy recipes, plus tons of tips and helpful hints on what kids should eat and why they should eat it. Moms love it for the advice. Babies love it for the menu! From $25, Valore Books

Cooking for Baby

Here’s a cookbook that will carry you through each stage of solids. Cooking for Baby offers something wholesome, natural and fresh for every eater at each age. From grains and purées to finger foods, you’ll have it all. $20, Williams-Sonoma

The Petit Appetit Cookbook

Psyched about using healthy and all-organic ingredients in baby’s meals? Try this book, written by a mom for other parents who want to shy away from processed, preservative-filled foods. $17, Barnes & Noble

Sage Spoonfuls

We’re loving Sage Spoonful’s mix of cooking-from-scratch and using store-bought ingredients. Perfectly realistic for busy parents! This book gives details on everything from food allergies and nutrition to foods to avoid. Plus, there are hundreds of recipes that baby will love to eat — and that you won’t get stressed making. $25, Sage Spoonfuls

Parents Need to Eat, Too

Author Debbie Koenig’s book is a hilarious reminder that mom and dad need to eat. It’s filled with nutritious, delicious and satisfying meals for adults (that you can make with one hand!) with instructions on how to prep baby’s food from the same ingredients. The best part? Every recipe was tested and approved by more than 100 new parents! $12, Barnes & Noble

Super Baby Food

Take baby from his first bites of solid food all the way through age three with this super healthy vegetarian cookbook. It’s got advice to help you get the most out of the best wholesome foods for baby (whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, veggies, fruits and yogurt!). $5, Biblio

Top 100 Baby Purées

Nervous about making the transition to solids? This book will give you the confidence you need. Divided into sections that give you comprehensive advice on what baby should be eating at every age, Top 100 Baby Purees has informative facts on how to prep and store baby meals. $12, Target

The Healthy Baby Meal Planner

Start your menu planning here! Make your own baby food affordably and easily, and get healthy eating advice from infancy to age three. $4, Amazon.com

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Plus, more from The Bump:

Baby-Food Making 101 (It’s Easy, We Swear!)

New Parent Feeding Guide

Which Solids Are Safe for Baby?

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Books about baby food - Encyclopedia Baby food

I have long wanted to write an article about books about baby food, and what influenced me when forming the children's menu. Since the birth of my baby, a lot of literature on baby food has been read, videos on YouTube have been watched.

Some literature and YouTube upset, others inspired, but at the moment I can safely name only a couple of books on baby food that I have at home. They can be called cookbooks, but not books on feeding, although a couple of doctoral or excerpts from interviews are on the computer.

I didn't see in books about baby food any reasoning similar to my thoughts. Basically, the basis of all books on baby food is our national program for healthy eating, which in turn builds on the recommendations of the WHO. Therefore, I can suggest that you simply read these two brochures very carefully, though interestingly.

Excerpts from an interview with pediatrician Yakovlev also had a very strong influence on me. I would really like to read his book on baby food, because I think it would be a worthwhile masterpiece. Komarovsky is also a very useful read, but just for familiarization, there is something that can be adopted, but not his whole concept of complementary foods.

You can also add magazines to baby food books. It is useful to read the Pediatrics magazine, where such interesting articles on complementary foods appear that you wonder, but for some reason they remain there. For example, I learned about this magazine from my pediatrician, so my thoughts from reading various literature almost completely coincided with her complementary foods policy.

That's why I sing praises to her on any occasion, because as a doctor she doesn't stop in conservative thoughts, but constantly develops. It is easy to hear from her what to read here, or she has her own brochures for some cases, for example, when there is not enough milk, a paper blank with recommendations. Thanks to her, I once experienced a milk crisis at 4 months, but this is such a retreat.

I've read Vysotskaya, and learned only a little from her book on baby food, some of her recipes can be adopted. But in terms of healthy eating, I like Jamie Oliver or Ramsay more, they have interesting recipes for baby food, some I take in the original version, some have to be tweaked for the nutrition of a little man. Basically, I watched videos on YouTube, it’s very convenient, you can clearly see how to cook this or that recipe.

By the way, Jamie Oliver has a book on healthy eating.

I was also very strongly influenced by a book on one diet, but what does a small child have to do with it, you say, and moreover, if you discard the very idea of \u200b\u200bsticking to a diet, and just use recipes for healthy eating, then you can diversify the baby’s menu and your own Same.

There is also a site on breastfeeding, there are many articles on baby nutrition written by practicing pediatricians. A very helpful read.

Books about baby food that impressed me are described above, maybe something new will come up during the new complementary foods with the second child. But everything will be later, now only this. All books are posted in articles here, here and here.

If you are interested, download it, if the link does not work, then write to VK or other social networks. The fact is that it is physically difficult to keep track of these links, over the past year I have updated them 2 times and still they get banned sometimes, so we just write, I can send an e-mail with a bonus from me.

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I try to write honest reviews of baby food books so that new parents do not waste money and precious time in vain. Below is a list of reviews that are already on the site.

1. Baby food in the book "Love and Broccoli"
2. Baby food in the book Madeleine Denis "We eat with appetite"
3. Tasty tales if the child does not eat well.
4. My child does not want to eat. How to turn feeding into pleasure. Carlos Gonzalez.
5. How to wean a child from spitting food. Alexandra Vasilyeva
6. Food. A starting point. What will we become in the future if we do not change ourselves in the present? Wilson Bee
7. We eat tasty. From first feeding up to 5 years. Annabelle Carmel
8. Food and Brain Book David Perlmutter

Basic books or more precisely brochures (manuals) on baby nutrition:

- Feeding and nutrition of infants and young children;
- National program to optimize the feeding of children in the first year of life in the Russian Federation;
- HEALTHY NUTRITION GUIDE FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN FOR HEALTH STAFF.

Children's nutrition books to read:

1) Bill and Martha Sears' book Your Baby. Everything you need to know about your child from birth to two years old ”;
2) The book "Children's food" more than 450 recipes for tasty and healthy dishes, Eksmo, 2007;
3) The book "Children's food from complementary foods up to 3 years" by Elena Kozhushko;
4) The book "The health of the child and the soundness of his relatives" Komarovsky E.O.;
5) The book "Modern aspects of children's nutrition" V.A.Belyakov, I.V.Popova, I.V.Lezhnina, A.V.Kashin, 2004;
6) The book “Handbook for parents. Feeding and nourishing a child from 0 to 5 years old with love and common sense. Ellen Satter.
7) The book “Practical advice. Baby food." A.M. Grinkevich, G.Yu. Lazareva, O.I. Chapova
8) The book "Supernutrition for your child from 0 to 2 years." Ruth Yaron;
9) The book "We eat with appetite." Madeleine Denis;
10) The book "Children's kitchen." 1988
11) The book "Children's food" 1957, 1958
12) The book "Tips of a pediatrician. Nutrition of a child from birth to three years Natalya Ezhova
13) The book "Baby food from birth and older" Julia Vysotskaya
14) The book "Baby food from 6 months to 3 years" Karen Ansel, Charity Ferreira
15) The book "Nutrition at the beginning of life. From pregnancy to 3 years” Research Institute of Nutrition RAMS
16) Book “Still. Babies. Simple, tasty and healthy” Alain Ducasse, Paul Neira, Jérôme Lacressonier
17) The book “How to teach a child to eat healthy. A Culinary Guide for Caring Parents Jane Ogden
18) The book How to Wean Your Child From Sweets. A proven, safe and simple program” Jacob Teitelbaum, Deborah Kennedy
19) The book “For Mom, For Dad. Complete nutrition from birth to school” Natalya Rumyantseva
20) The book “Very good nutrition for children. Complete reference book» O. Anashkina, Galina Lazareva, E. Mullayarova, S. Sizikumova, N. Pavlova
21) The book “Baby food. A Guide for Physicians” Editors Victor Tutelyan, Igor Kon
22) The book “The cook from the cradle.