The Petit Appetit Cookbook: Easy, Organic Recipes to Nurture Your Baby and Toddler

by Lisa Barnes

In The Petit Appetit Cookbook, mother and professional cook Lisa Barnes offers a healthy all-organic alternative to commercially processed, preservative-filled foods to help create delicious menus, nurture adventurous palates, and begin a lifetime of positive eating habits for easy, fast, child-tested recipes for ages 4 months to 4 years

Mealtime solutions for even the most finicky eaters

Nutritional information for each recipe

Time-saving cooking techniques

The right age- and stage-appropriate food choices

How and when to introduce solids to baby's diet

Adapting family recipes for young children

Recognizing signs of food allergies and intolerances

Genres: Parenting, Cookbooks, Food, Cooking, Childrens, Nonfiction

424 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2005

Reviews

[Trang · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok but i won’t buy it

It discussed organic food. None one would not know if interested in healthy lifestyle. The book divided into 4 parts:
. About food and how to choose fresh ones
. Recipes for babies
. Recipes for 2 to 3
. Recipes from 3 to 4
Recipes require many ingredients, some sound strange, complicated for a busy mom with a job. I would recommend reading wellness mama cookbook instead

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

No pictures, so it's not so easy to flip through and be inspired, but this book is sectioned by age and is fairly creative. I'm thinking of the Baked Ricotta Cake (which I haven't yet made). One of the greatest recipes is the Baby Bok Choy, which I made the other night - it was a definite improvement over my recipe for bok choy and I will be serving it to my family in the future for sure.

Some people will like that this book clearly marks allergy-free, vegan and vegetarian, and sugar-free recipes with icons on each page, and it has a listing of the nutrition facts for each recipe.

I'd like to pick this one up again.

[Kristin · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some easy recipes in this book for babies and toddlers. Good variety of food choices so baby can try a bunch of different things. Recipes include a label that tells you if it is glute-free, vegan, etc. in case you have a food sensitive child or are raising them meat-free.

After having this books for a few months I found that I only use a couple of the recipes.

Like many other cookbook authors, the recipes are great, but affording all of the ingredients needed can be too much for my weekly budget.

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was both a basic cookbook of baby purees (one ingredient, steam, then puree) as well as a more complicated, multi-ingredient toddler and older baby cookbook. I tried the apple puree cookies, and they taste really gross to me, but James seems to enjoy them. They are (mostly) healthy with oat bran, toasted wheat germ, and whole wheat flour in them, but even some oil and brown sugar couldn't cover up the heavy, nutty flavor. Honestly, you don't really need a baby food cookbook, but there were some ideas that are interesting and that I woudln't have thought of in it.

[Deanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a much more appealing book than Super Baby Foods and has some of the same information, but it doesn't have the reference-like quality. I did like that some of the recipes coordinated with meals for the rest of the family nicely. Depending on your tolerance for the extreme, this might be a better choice than Super Baby Foods. If you are tolerant of "a little crazy", check out both :)

[Michele · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the simplicity of the recipes. I love all of the great information/education in the first few chapters. The recipes are easy and very delicious. We all eat some of the "older kid" recipes. Each recipe tells if it meets special diets, like vegan, or gluten free, or sugar free, etc.
Great cookbook for anyone with children-even older kids.

[Gaelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Appetizing and easy to make recipes but disappointing: not enough recipes and it doesn't emphasize enough on the big picture of baby nutrition. I wanted something that would help me figure out the big scope of balanced meals throughout the week for example, and what's a good ratio between proteins, carbohydrates, veggies and fruits.

[Joanna Weissen · Rating 5 out of 5]

More complete than her Cooking For Baby book, but without the pretty pictures. The only reservation I have about this book is the insistence to use only organic foods, but it is easy to substitute regular ordinary food instead. Lots of recipes that are just as suitable for adults as well as the kids.

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am pretty critical of cookbooks, but this one has passed the test. It has whole food recipes and seems to offer some unique combinations, yet everything is still simple. I like simple. I give this baby/toddler cookbook a thumbs up.

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Of all the books I've collected on babies and food (and I plan to stop now.. for awhile, at least) this is the one I've returned to most. It's a straightforward cookbook with a nice style and easy attitude. I like it.

[Holly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for baby and toddler food recipes. Ranging from simple purees to gormet creations it depinitely will inspire mom's looking to provide fresh organic meals for their little one. I use this book often and have even used some of the recipes for my own meals.

[Meggan Newland · Rating 5 out of 5]

I borrowed this and "super baby food" from a friend when Bradley turned 4 months. This has easy recipes that she loves, even teething biscuits! The superfood book is great for reference but too messy for daily use. Petit Appetit is clean, simple and delicious.

[Shala Howell · Rating 3 out of 5]

We'll see...

[Khinna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't know why I wasn't making baby food before. I love all the organic, healthy recipes for my toddler as well.

[Leslie Abla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent healthy cookbook for preparing good wholesome food for your baby/toddler.

[Keri Zipay · Rating 5 out of 5]

The recipes in here are great, and it gives info on the length of time for steaming a lot of veggies and fruits.

[Jacquie Bryant · Rating 2 out of 5]

i'm going to make baby food and i learned that pears don't ripen by themselves on the tree.

[Aimee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another well-loved healthy children's cookbook that shows much wear and tear. My favorite recipe in here (and there are many!) is Quinoa stuffed peppers. Mmmmmm!!

[Katherine]

We referred to this book constantly when our daughter was starting to eat regular foods. Great, great book.

[May · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good info. Still have to try recipes. Then ratings will prob change.

[Bee · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing. I didn't learn much. I would think everyone pretty much knows how to steam some veggies and puree them together.