Annabel Karmel Books

Annabel Karmel is known and trusted by millions of parents for her unrivalled advice on feeding babies and children. In association with Great Ormond Street Hospital, she puts her wide expertise and knowledge to use in a broader parenting arena, providing a comprehensive planner for you and your baby. Divided into clear, easy-to-find sections for pregnancy, 0-3 months, 4-6 months, 7-9 months and 10-12 months, Complete First Year Planner provides your optimum diet for pregnancy and ensures a healthy, happy, stress-free first year for you and your baby. With clear charts and tip boxes throughout, this is the book no parent can be without; packed with essential, at-a-glance planners, indispensable advice on feeding and superb recipes, crucial information on the practicalities, effective techniques to deal with crying and sleeping and easy methods to encourage your child's development.

Annabel Karmel has been writing best-selling cookbooks for 10 years and now she is handing the kitchen over to the kids! From sweet treats to simple family meals, young children will love trying out the exciting range of tasty and healthy recipes.With step-by-step instructions Children's First Cookbook is the perfect starting point for any budding young chef. "She's a miracle woman" Jools Oliver.

For the last 10 years the New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner has been helping mums everywhere feed their babies and young children the right foods to give them the best possible start in life. Annabel, the leading authority on children's food, has now revised her international bestseller to help ensure that your child gets the very best start in life. Her innovative collection of mouth-watering recipes, time saving tips and reassuring menu charts is based on her own practical experience of feeding a young family. Thoroughly revised and updated to include fresh recipe ideas and the latest advice on nutrition, the New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner is now even better than before.

A new edition of the meal planner that has helped many parents to create tempting and nutritious food for their young children, from weaning onward. As well as recipes, it includes advice on nutrition, time-saving tips and menu charts.

Filled with fun, tasty recipes that will help parents inspire young children with a love of cooking, food and healthy eating.

And for those children with food intolerances, there is a whole chapter of recipes covering dairy-free sauces, gluten-free pizzas and a wheat-free birthday cake.

In this indispensable book Annabel tackles the daily task of packing your child's lunchbox. Day in, day out, the contents of the box have to be tailored to suit your child's taste, create a balanced diet and ensure the food can be eaten in the limited amount of time that is made available. Having catered for her three children over the past 10 years, Annabel has packed more than 5000 boxes and so is ideally placed for passing on recipes as well as valuable hints and tips for easing your morning routine. Within this book there Ideas for quick, nutritious and attractive packages; Sandwiches, savoury specialities (which includes soups and salads); sweet surprises (cakes and cookies); fruity delights; dairy diversions and drinks. Recipes that assume there is only a limited amount of time for preparation and, where possible, show how they can be made in advance and then kept in the fridge or freezer. With additional yummy extras such as break-time extras and bite-sized foods, how will any child be able to resist the contents of their lunchbox from now on?

Designed to provide today's busy parents with the information necessary in order to plan and prepare simple, nutritionally balanced meals for babies and toddlers. This book covers a range of meals possible for the first year of a baby's life, explaining how to wean your baby and providing a countdown for when to introduce new tastes and textures. As well as providing nourishing and creative ideas for every meal, there are flexible, easy-to-use menu planning charts. The same health-inspired thinking is applied to feeding toddlers, with ideas for everyday meals to be shared with the family, weekly menu planners, snacks and suggestions for birthday treats and vegetarian meals.

"Moms' favorite children's nutrition expert Annabel Karmel shares her delicious baby and toddler recipes and expert nutritional advice, covering every age from breastfeeding and weaning, through preschool and beyond. Cook up over 200 quick and simple recipes, from tempting food for picky eaters and menu planners for every age, to lunchbox ideas and healthy family recipes you can all enjoy. We all know that what we feed our children is crucial for healthy growth and development. Armed with this easy-to-use baby and toddler cookbook, you'll discover how to prepare enticing food to give your child the best start in life."

Get cooking with your child and make tasty, healthy food with child nutrition expert, Annabel Karmel Cooking and eating together are great for encouraging kids to eat healthily! Annabel Karmel shows how you can create all kinds of lip-smacking finger food with your child that�s good for them, too. Step-by-step photos show you (and them) exactly what to do and will help your child develop basic cookery skills: from weighing and counting to mixing and rolling, while you take care of the sharp knives and hot ovens. From munchy oat bars and lettuce boats to perfect party treats, this is food that�s yummy and good for any size tummy. Whatever you cook up, it will be as much fun to make as it will be to eat.