The Slow Cooker Baby Food Cookbook: 125 Recipes for Low-Fuss, High-Nutrition, and All-Natural Purees, Cereals, and Finger Foods - Softcover

Meade, Maggie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558329080 ISBN 13: 9781558329089

Publisher: Harvard Common Press, 2018

Synopsis

Slow-cooking our food has been around for centuries--and feeding babies, well, that's been happening even longer.

In this book, we combine a fabulous and convenient way to cook (in most cases, just add a few fresh ingredients to a slow cooker, set the heat level, and walk away!) with new and wonderful ways to feed babies as they transition from a diet of breast milk and/or formula to the amazing, tasty world of solid foods.
Now you can prepare, puree and store a batch of foods and meals easily when you cook with the slow cooker. Cook baby and family meals during the day and prepare the meal later on. You can then store meals in the fridge or freezer for easy access to future meals.
From purees and fruit sauces to cereals, spoon and finger foods and meals the whole family will enjoy!

About this title

From the Back Cover

Doctors and nutritionists nowadays recommend that babies eat a wide variety of foods, beyond what can be found in jarred baby food. For that reason, and also to save money and to make sure only fresh and safe ingredients are used, parents are making more baby food at home than ever before. The slow cooker is the perfect tool for the job. You can make big batches ahead of time, and things that take a long time to cook, like squashes or potatoes, don't require you to stand next to the stovetop watching and stirring.
Baby-food expert Maggie Meade fills these pages with terrific recipes and super-useful tips and tricks, including:
* Recipes for cereals, fruit sauces (and not just applesauce!), and first finger foods and spoon foods, along with dozens of purees
* An entire chapter full of fruit-plus-vegetable combination purees
* Each recipe has specific instructions for storing, freezing, and reheating, so that you can save time by making big batches that last for days or even weeks and months
* Every recipe also shows, in a section called "For the Family," how to add ingredients and flavorings to the baby food recipe so that you have something to serve to older kids and parents--virtually making this book two books in one
* How to cook flavor-packed baby foods without salt or sugar, and how to watch for and adjust to allergies and intolerances your baby might have
* The latest and best guidance on what babies should be eating at Stage One A & B(4 to 8 months), Stage Two (8 to 10 months), and Stage Three (10 months and up)

From the Inside Flap

This book offers parents a sane and simple method of cooking for baby and the entire family, at the same time. More than just a book of baby food purees, this guide offers a broad range of recipes suitable for babies of all ages and stages, easily made in one appliance.
Cooking foods for everyone in the family, in the same pot, eases the pressure placed on busy parents to feed their kids healthy, wholesome, and nutritious meals that don't come from a package, a pouch, or a jar. With recipes suitable for babies just starting out on solid foods, this book makes a progression from first foods to finger foods and on to meals suitable for older babies, toddlers, and the entire family.
Making baby food in a slow cooker is a brilliant and convenient method of cooking for babies while cooking for the whole family. The slow cooker allows parents to prep the food, fill the cooker, and go about their day while tasty, nutritious foods and meals cook. At the end of the day, a delicious and nutritious meal is ready to be served and portions are ready to be pureed for baby. It's a true win-win for busy parents and hungry babies!

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Common Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1558329080
• ISBN 13: 9781558329089
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216