to find Annabel Karmel really irritating?

[YesSirICanBoogie]

I've got a few of her books and the recipes can be fab, but...

She looks like a very groomed American. How does she have the time? Do her children really ask for salad instead of a biscuit? Is she ever so tired she buys her kids fast food? I'd like her far more if these were different!

I find it so irritating to have to buy one grape, a squeeze of fresh orange and a million bits of veg to make a dish that seems designed to disguise as many healthful ingredients as possible. I could take any one of her recipes and completely de-faff it.

What is a mouli anyway??

If you practise Baby-Led Weaning, her recipes and all that religious puree-ing are irrelevant anyway.

she explains the mouli in the front with a picture in my book

I feel mildly irritated at canelloni presented to look like a row of little girls sleeping under a quilt, complete with eyes and mouths and straggly hair. I am not saying it is BAD, just somehow irritating.

The 'fun' arrangements of food is the equivalent of the bunting lifestyle that no self-respecting mother would have any time for. But it feeds an image of a certain type of mothering to aspire to.

Poo.

Totally agree with the ready-meal point.
The article about her and her son is so smug but hilarious!

Her Fish Pie ready meal is brilliant. Ds loves it.

It's our standby - because of this, all is forgiven.

And her fish pie that they serve in Tootsies is so dry that it's feckin' inedible. And we have had it twice at different branches (DD doesn't learn from experience) and each time it's been dry and sauceless despite it supposedly having a cheesy sauce, and utterly disgusting.

So there.

We bought her top 100 finger foods for babies and toddlers. Full of sugar, fried foods and not a lot of healthy stuff. So very disappointed.

I remember spending hours just before DS1 was ready to be weaned, slaving over her recipes, cooking them in bulk to freeze down.

He turned his nose up at every single one of them and preferred Baby Organix jars. DH had to eat all the AK stuff and I think he'd almost forgotten how to chew by the time he got through it all.

I was going to comment but I see I already have - two years ago!! (different name back then)

She looks a bit spooky - my mum saw her picture when I was weaning my two, pursed her lips and said 'Now THERE'S a woman who's had work done' (on her face, I think she meant).

And I could never be arsed with making my kids' fruit salads look like a butterfly, or their lasagne look like a picture book or whatever - I think it's better for children to have food that looks like...food. I just have visions of loads of adults in twenty years time sitting at swanky restaurants, having a hissy fit at the waiter because their risotto isn't in the shape of a tractor....

No
Cant stand her, and loved when she dumped herself in the dark stuff with her gaff re salt in her food

How many recipes can one woman recycle?

She's got a new TV show.

I don't get this whole cooking for kids thing- always given mine whatever we were having, as babys it was whatever veg we were having mashed up and by about 8 months they were having thai curry watered down with milk, as a result they eat pretty much everything so I am one of those smug perfect mums who children sit delightfully in resturant and turn their nose up at chips in favour of salmon risotto. ( But I am also the mother with the 4 year old who still wets himself A LOT so not totally perfect)

I don't get this whole cooking for kids thing- always given mine whatever we were having, as babys it was whatever veg we were having mashed up and by about 8 months they were having thai curry watered down with milk, as a result they eat pretty much everything so I am one of those smug perfect mums who children sit delightfully in resturant and turn their nose up at chips in favour of salmon risotto. ( But I am also the mother with the 4 year old who still wets himself A LOT so not totally perfect)

I don't get this whole cooking for kids thing- always given mine whatever we were having, as babys it was whatever veg we were having mashed up and by about 8 months they were having thai curry watered down with milk, as a result they eat pretty much everything so I am one of those smug perfect mums who children sit delightfully in resturant and turn their nose up at chips in favour of salmon risotto. ( But I am also the mother with the 4 year old who still wets himself A LOT so not totally perfect)

I find her desperately irritating and know someone who worked with her and said she was truly awful - a real diva. And it really annoys me that her books are all full of the same recipes but just re-packaged. And rubberduck has hit the nail on the head when she says why bring out a range of ready meals when harping on about it should all be home cooked?!

All that said, I did use her books at the beginning with ds and found them useful

Still doesn't stop her appearing to be ridiculously smug.

YANBU I find her highly irritating with dubious ethics.

WandersOffToGiveTheCubSweetsForJustThinkingAboutHerTiggaxx

She also advocated weaning at 6 months in her books until she brought out her own processed foods which state from four months. Not that it matters to me but obviously the bottom line dictates her advice.

Never heard of her