Parenting: Love in Spoonfuls

by Parenting Magazine

From the experts at Parenting magazine comes this essential resource for parents looking to create a menu of easy, tasty, and nourishing meals for baby. Featuring 75 recipes for children aged 6 months to 2 years, Love in Spoonfuls grows with baby and offers a wide variety of tastes and texturesfrom baby's first purees and bites, to more sophisticated flavors like Baby Bolognese or Flaked Fish with Leeks and Carrots. Gorgeously photographed, and packed with tips, tricks, creative mealtime ideas, and solutions for picky eaters, this is the ultimate family cookbook for new parents.

Genres: Food, Parenting, Cookbooks

160 pages, Paperback

First published March 17, 2010

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first 20 or so pages of this book are quite useful. They tell you when to start feeding baby food to your baby, what to start with, hot much you should feed the baby, and how to prepare and store the food. Beyond that, I wasn't really all that impressed. Many of the recipes involve steaming and mashing a vegetable or fruit and adding a liquid. Wow. I would have never thought of that on my own. *insert sarcasm here* Oh, yeah, and don't forget that your liquid of choice can be breastmilk. The other recipes seemed to be things like oatmeal or miniature versions of grownup food like tiny meatballs, small pancakes, or french toast cut into squares. It all sounds like a really bland recipe for making your child a picky eater by offering it bland boring foods or really yucky things like applesauce with pureed spinach in it. I'm of the opinion that if you start your child off eating flavorful foods with herbs and spices in it that you're not as likely to have a child that only wants bland foods later on. After all, breastmilk is infused with the flavors of all the things you eat. Why switch a baby to a gross, bland diet just because it's switched to solids.

I will refer to this book for baking and steaming times for some of the fruits and vegetables listed here, but I don't think I'll use it for anything else.

Note: While I critique both purchased and free books in the same way, I'm legally obligated to tell you I received this book free through the Amazon Vine program in return for my review. Blah blah blah.

[Molly · Rating 5 out of 5]

The recipes in here are really easy to follow-they even show you what to do with frozen fruits/veggies. And the toddler meals look good enough for adults to eat! I'm currently renting this from the library, but will probably go buy it when it's due back.

[Lori · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly good cookbook for babies/toddlers and probably younger kids. I love the easy recipes and huge pictures...just can't decide if its worth buying.

[Goo]

Another baby cookbook for the new baby.

[Trish · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was okay. They tried to make the recipes healthy, but I don't know very many 18 month olds who would eat fish with a mango sauce.