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Wheelymate
19 yrs ago
Any other recommendations besides those by Annabel Karmel as we already have them?
We are looking for yummy recipes that are suitable for our baby (10 months) and we can easily make an adult version of for mummy and daddy with abit more seasoning.
Thanks!
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I briefly looked through Gina's book but didn't buy it because lots of the recipes seems to require the oven and sadly our current place for the next 2 years doesn't have one! I might buy a free-standing one though just to tide over these 2 years.
I already have 2 Annabel Karmel ones but think I might check out the one that is specifically for family meals.
There is the wholesomebabyfoods website mentioned before on previous threads but I think that's better for solids introduction than actual recipes.
I intially went on amazon but the selection is too wide for me to narrow down to a few!!
Already 7 months, how time flies!!
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Atta
19 yrs ago
My intention is not to take over this thread with advertising, but you might be interested in knowing that I am teaching a course on healthy cooking for infants at the YWCA (English members department) on 23rd January.
I will discuss reasons for making baby food at home, when to introduce solids, when to add texture and when to start finger foods. I will also demonstrate recipes incorporating all the important food groups and some handy tips on preparing and storing baby food.
Have a look at this website or if you have any questions you can send me a PM.
http://esmd.ywca.org.hk/
Course title: Healthy cooking for infants
Course Code: MI001
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Here are some things I have found useful - "Big Book of Recipes for Babies, Toddlers & Children: 365 Quick, Easy and Healthy Dishes (Paperback)
by Bridget Wardley (Author), Judy More (Author) It's on UK Amazon. I really like it as it has some quick fix ideas - even jacket potatoes for example/ using stock room essentials like tinned tuna/salmon and shop bought salsa when a bit older and in a rush. good soup recipes too.
Also I really liked the "baby Nosh" leaflet published by UK Dairy Council which gives advice on weaning and menu planners. Download from publications at www.milk.co.uk
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TC
19 yrs ago
You could do worse than to visit Bumps to Babes (Pedder Building in Central & Horizon Plaza in Ap Lei Chau) and check through the books they have available.
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it will be an expensive trip to Bumps to Babes, seeing that i'm based in singapore!
shahirakk, thanks for the recommendation, will check them out.
waffle_HK, i have superbabyfoods too but we're not veegtarians so need something that offers meat recipes.
:)
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STB, i agree! but i guess every family is different - some kids have allergies, some are fussy eaters, etc so maybe the same meals style doesn't work.
I am also trying for us to eat the same stuff because as it is, I spend most of his naptimes and his bedtime cooking his meals!
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TC
19 yrs ago
Sorry about the confused locations. I have to look out the window myself each morning as a reminder re which city I'm in.
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tc, no worries!
stb, i am just looking at amazon now and bridget wadley book recommended by shahirakk seems quite well reviewed. also another lady called lorraine kelly. other than that, it's mostly ananbel karmel.i think i'll need to get my act together and trek down to a bookshop soon.
i also wished there was a chinese cookbook for toddlers!
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wheelymate-do you actually follows all the recipes?like you,i like to buy cookbooks,but always ended up flipping through and taking the cookbooks for references only.:))indeed,there is a chinese cookbook for babies,i bought mine in hongkong.
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WM-try vitakids at forum shooping mall...try their cod liver oil and multivites...fantastic quality but a bit expensive!!!i had to carry some to hk,and is so heavy but totally worth it!!!
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I started doing same meals for baby and mom and dad from a year. I just cooked whatever I made for my husband and me and then put some aside before I over seasoned. I always had a good broth - meat bone broth is very common in Korea, full of calcium, brown rice, and then whatever side dishes my husband and I were having (Korean banchan)- usually all vegetables. If there was some meat, then I would cut that up into tiny pieces and have the baby chew on it.
The key for our family is making sure we have a soup, (usually the beef bone broth, or seaweed soup, or some soybean paste cabbage soup) and cooked rice. Everything else, kimchee, side dishes all can be made easily. I generally cook a big pot of soup twice a week and store it in the fridge and take out what our family needs.
If I don't do Korean style, I do a lot of pasta. AGain, make it, and before I season it to match my husband and my food, I take a portion out.
If the adults eat well balanced meals, then it is pretty easy to take what the adults are eating and make it suitable for children - cooking it a bit more to make it softer, cutting it up smaller, and seasoning it less spicy and less salty.
However - like my sister in law, whose husband NEVER eats anything green (I'm talking NOTHING) she says she STILL feels like she has to cook multiple meals because her husband doesn't eat anything.
I found that trying to suit the food to well balanced meals for my baby's diet helped my husband and me also eat better meals.
Good luck! I am a huge fan of www.marthastewart.com Everyday foods recipe section for lots of inspiration. Many of those recipes are quite nice for toddlers.
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ellie55, what is the title of the book you mentioned?
hkcc, i totally agree that ensuring baby has well-balanced meals have helped me to review what hubby and i eat. pre-baby, we ate out alot and if i did cook, it would be basic stuff like stews and pastas. but because i wanted baby to have proper homecooked meals, i have never cooked so much before! and because i try to cook for hubby and i the same stuff, i've come to realise that we can still have lots of healthy, tasty meals without excessive salt and what not.
i have used a couple of martha stewart recipes before, shall take a look again and see what i can adapt for baby!
your post just made me wonder - you say you cook lots of korean food, is it very much like chinese cooking with multiple dishes? if so, how do you organising the cooking since your kids have dinner before you do if they are foods that might not keep as well as say, western casseroles?
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hmmm...good question wheelymate.
Korean food, has a lot of make ahead "cold" side dishes. The vegetables are cooked and chilled, and so, unlike a lot of "freshly cooked" chinese style veggies, ours are prepared ahead of time and then can be served later. I can see how the Chinese vegetables could be hard to be prepared ahead of time for baby - but have you thought of having the soup base, and then adding the vegetables and cooking the veggies in that? And then serving with rice? That way, you have one soup, but you can add the veggies to it and just serve it with rice and whatever else you'd like to. A bit of meat, I guess.
Does that make sense to you? For example, tonight, 3 of us, are having a soup with rice cakes and dumplings in it. (korean style.) I made a bone soup base, a couple of days ago, which has been prepared. Now, Emily will eat first - and so I just take a small portion of the soup base, and add some vegetables and whatnot, and put the dumplings, and she'll eat it first. Thenwe'll have the same soup base, but i'll add our mix of vegetables and stuff alter.
I have to say, for us, the bone soup base is a MAJOR lifesaver. I use it for everything.
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Hi Wheelymate -
just went onto the marthastewart website - and there are some really nice soups - that I think would be GREAT ...some are somewhat chunky, so you could make it, take out what your baby will eat, season it lightly and puree it. Then there would be a separate portion for you and hubby.
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