What to Feed Your Baby: A Pediatrician's Guide to the Eleven Essential Foods to Guarantee Veggie-Loving, No-Fuss, Healthy-Eating Kids

by Tanya Remer Altmann

As a pediatrician, spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, and mother of three boys, Dr. Tanya Altmann knows that good nutrition is essential for healthy kids. In What to Feed Your Baby, Dr. Tanya provides the latest nutritional recommendations and best practices for feeding babies and young children. The simple, fool-proof program focuses on serving eleven foundation foods: eggs, prunes, avocado, fish, yogurt/cheese/milk, nuts, chicken/beans, fruit, green veggies, whole grains, and water.  What to Feed Your Baby helps parents set their children up for a lifetime of healthy choices—and say goodbye to picky eating forever!

Genres: Parenting, Cookbooks, Nutrition, Nonfiction, Cooking

330 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 5, 2016

Reviews

[Crystal Hooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

I know every body, individual, and family is different. But this reaffirmed what I know/believe. She talked about 11 foods to feed your baby or toddler (so we all should be eating these foods every week). I love where it said our job as parents is to provide healthy meals and eat them. It's our child's job to decide whether to eat and how much. So we shouldn't stress if they don't touch their dinner. Just keep offering healthy foods. That's our only job! Here are the 11 foundation foods that I want to make sure are part of our weekly menu!
1. Eggs
2. Prunes
3. Avocado
4. Fish
5. Yogurt, cheese, milk
6. Nuts & but butters
7. Chicken/lentils/beans
8. Summer berries & Winter Citrus
9. Green veggies
10. Whole grains
11. Water

[Bianca Orellana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will never really be "done" reading this book, because there is so much good information, and I can constantly refer back to it. Provides advice and recipes for ages 4 months through late toddler years, so I'll use this one for a long time. 4.5 stars.

[Danielle Robertson Robertson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is exactly what I needed! I'm a food scientist and I know a thing or two about nutrition. But I've been feeding my son a variety of random fruits and veggies and protein in a way that didn't feel like a cohesive plan. This book helped!
The book has recommendations on the 11 key foods to make sure you include, as well as easy recipes not even I can screw up (yes I'm a food scientist but I'm no chef). The book contains meal plans and snack ideas for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. The advice is easy to follow and realistic for even the busiest, budget conscious family.
This book also touches on a variety of issues like GMOs, vegan/vegetarian diets, alternative milks, troubleshooting for picky eaters, and more. I can't recommend this book enough!

[Renada Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Recommended by our pediatrician. I found this straightforward and non-stressful as we're beginning solids with our baby. The 11 foundation foods were easy to remember:

1. Eggs
2. Prunes
3. Summer berries/winter citrus
4. Yogurt/cheese/milk
5. Whole grains
6. Chicken (or legumes)
7. Nuts/nut butters
8. Avocado
9. Green veggies
10. Fish
11. Water

[Stefanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

My pediatrician recommended this book when I expressed concerns about my super picky toddler. I wish I had this book from the beginning of parenthood because its straight to the point and would have helped me a TON. As for my picky toddler, there were some bits of useful info I will definitely be implementing, but not as much as I was hoping for.

[Melissa Cripps · Rating 4 out of 5]

Straightforward book by a pediatrician - a solid resource for feeding kiddos. Offers 11 essential foods to focus on. I appreciate the lists of age appropriate snack and meal ideas. There’s a lot of repetition as the book is organized primarily by age.

[Samantha Velazquez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great tips for how to feed your baby these specific foods at different stages of development. I also really enjoyed the segment on how to help a picky eater become less picky. Will probably be picking up and reading this multiple times with a baby.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clear, practical and down-to-earth advice to feed your baby well early on.

[Natalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are really great charts that you can use that give information on the amount, type of food and way to serve it.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I appreciated her break out of the 11 essential foods but felt a lot of the book was common sense. I did find some of the chapters under the Tricky Issues section to be helpful. As for the recipes, I was hoping for a little more creativity.

[Gail · Rating 5 out of 5]

Common sense and medically sound advice about feeding babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Has up to date information about allergies and vegetarian diets for little ones. I like that it includes a short list of foods to focus on helping children love from the start rather than stressing about the child not eating everything.

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you know some basics about nutrition, you can probably get by without this book. Not really any information I found groundbreaking or surprising, but it reinforced habits and ideas I already knew to be important or healthy.

[Bethanny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Common sense guidelines which was super helpful!