Annabel Karmel’s New Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner: No.1 Bestseller with new finger food guidance & recipes: 30th Anniversary Edition Hardcover – Day to Day Calendar, 5 May 2016

This baby meal planning book is perfect for all those meal times when you wonder what to cook for baby. The recipes are easy to follow and a great way of being able to include for family meal times too. We now have several favourites from the book.

Easy recipes, lots of choice & great grounding and advice for new parents on the process of weaning - highly recommend and love the meal planners for ideas

Right now is a really strange and confusing time for babies and their mums and dads who are trying to give them a balanced and wide diet in the lead up to the one year mark then beyond into independant feeding.This book and its sister publications have become my bible since we started weaning and this book in particular has a special place on my shelf - great tasting dishes from the first tastes all the way to independance where you can adapt all the previous meals to the stage your baby is at! I love the recipe guides with freezing instructions and how many avereage portions it will make and the weekly planners eventually helped me see how much of everything my girl was supposed to be having each week i.e. meat, fish, poultry, veg and such we now do our own meal planners switching about all the meals that are in the original ones!also helped me realise that my daughters portion sizes were too small and ways to encorage her to eat a little more and reduce the 30-35 oz of milk she was having to three bottles a day. She sleeps well on these meals too, she was very windy/ill with pouches or jars!Nothing beats homemade and this is the ultimate in baby cooking!

I actually bought a copy of this when I made three of the recipes after getting them off a friend, when I'd eaten the dishes at her house.This is most definitely not just food for babies and toddlers. Many of the dishes are suitable for everybody and really popular when I cook them for extended family dinners or lunches. One great thing about the recipes is that you don't need to buy a load of special ingredients that you're only going to use once, before throwing them away when they go out of date. They're not complicated to make either.

My cousin and friend recommended this book to me.... There daughters are 16 and 4 neither are fussy eaters (unlike I was)It makes sense, however, the new weaning rules make some information confusing but you're the mother you know best take it as you wish! Professionally my daughter is too young to wean, only by a few weeks but tell me that when you see the excitement on her face when a spoon is coming towards her food or no food, I believe she is ready so yesterday I prepared her first bit of food and so the journey starts...Thank god this book is clear with a slowly slowly step by step easy and healthy way to do this daunting task. It won't be easy it won't be quick but my little girl will be healthy and that's all I care about! The recipes look interesting and good enough to carry her through to when she starts to learn to cook there is no added sugar etc and it explains what babies can and can't digest I could go on telling you the entire book but there is no point, my cousin and friend should sell it alone because that was years ago and they still remember the name of the book that weaned their children!

Definitely a must have book for first time mums . Found it a great book for starting my son on solids.

If you've no idea where to start with baby food and you want to make your own this book is good. I will say however Annabel Karmel is no more a baby food expert than 'Dr' Gillian McKeith is a food expert. Many of the recipes need much longer to cook than stated. The portions vary wildly...a recipe that claims to make 3 portions makes more like 7 sometimes and vice versa. Some of the recipes just don't work...they make a congealed lumpy mess which no baby let alone adult would touch. You'll need to stock up on sweet potato as pretty much every recipe uses it. Plus she recommends using gruyere and parmesan cheese an awful lot which are unpasturised... Not recommended when pregnant so I'm certainly not feeding them to my baby! On the whole I have found it useful for maybe 1/3 of the recipes in it if only to get me started and to vary little ones diet but you could probably do better searching for recipes on the internet on baby websites.

This book is great for all parents weaning their child. I used it for my kids and they are just starting to use it for theirs now