Growing Up Gourmet: 125 Healthy Meals for Everybody and Every Baby

by Jennifer Carlson

Overview

This colorful, accessible, kitchen-tested, and pediatrician-approved cookbook features 125 delicious organic recipes—from banana coconut cookies to butternut squash macaroni and cheese—that will appeal to the whole family. Perfect for fans of The Healthy Family Cookbook and Forks Over Knives Family.

We would all love to create nutritious, delicious, home-cooked meals, but with busy modern life, is it possible to find the time to prepare all those meals from scratch? Jennifer Carlson has spent the last ten years obsessed with finding ways to ensure that our children enjoy the highest quality meals in the most time-efficient way possible.

Gourmet food does not have to be challenging—it just starts with the freshest, most wholesome ingredients available. And the trick here is that many of the recipes work for the entire family. Filled with adult-friendly meals that also complement baby’s food development schedule and translate into something baby will take readily and digest easily, Growing Up Gourmet is an expansive and nutritious cookbook that will have everyone in the family finishing their plates and asking for seconds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781982158064
Publisher:	Atria Books
Publication date:	04/04/2020
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Carlson is the visionary behind Baby Gourmet, one of the top-selling organic baby food brands in North America, which specializes in nutritious and delicious food for infants and toddlers. She is an inspiring and motivating speaker for women, entrepreneurs, and busy moms, and a mother herself, with two well-fed children.

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Growing Up Gourmet

Table of Contents

Introduction viii

1 Introducing your baby to solids: the adventure begins 1

2 It's all about the ingredients 29

3 Become a gourmet baby food maker 65

4 Simple purees: 6 months+ 71

5 Creative combos: 6 months+ 89

6 Adventurous eaters: 8 months+ $

7 Independent toddlers: 12 months 143

8 Feed the whole family: one meal, two ways 175

Acknowledgments 218

About the author 219

Notes 220

Index 222

Editorial Reviews

"Jennifer Carlson’s knack of weaving together her rich travel experience and her innate sense of food and nutrition offers an easy way to open up your baby’s world of textures, aromas and taste without ever sacrificing wholesomeness or convenience. These recipes are so delicious and nutritious, you will want to serve them to the entire family. A MUST read book for every parent and grandparent of babies and toddlers."

Kantha Shelke

"The food here is vastly better for your baby. And vastly better for you, too. It’s never too early to begin a culinary life path of distinction. Growing Up Gourmet is both proof and path.

Huffington Post

"Preparing healthy food for one's family is one of life's greatest gifts. Jennifer Carlson ties this gift in a big bow with creative and irresistibly delicious recipes for infants, older children and the entire family."

Kimberly Lord Stewart

06/01/2016
Carlson, founder of the food brand Baby Gourmet, shares over 100 recipes and advice for healthy eating for infants and toddlers. Carlson began selling her gourmet baby food, now "one of the top-selling organic baby food brands in North America," at the Calgary Farmers' Market. Ingredients such as coconut milk, whole grains, and seeds along with vegetables and fruits are considered with suggestions on how to buy, store, and use these items. Allergies and intolerances are discussed and a seasonality chart helps with meal planning. "Tools of the trade" include a vegetable peeler and potato masher and are complemented by pantry essentials such as lentils. Some interesting combinations include pear pumpkin banana and apple sweet potato berry swirl. For adventurous eaters, there is Moroccan lamb with couscous and spiced pumpkin flax teething biscuits, among others. Toddlers will enjoy mango carrot smoothies, fresh minty pea hummus, and teenie beanie burgers made of chickpeas. Also noted is how to make recipes gluten free. The last chapter provides meal ideas for the whole family. VERDICT There is plenty here to tempt young foodies and develop their gourmet tastes.—Barbara Kundanis, Longmont P.L., CO

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