Good weaning books.

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My DD is a good sized, hungry baby and I'm looking ahead to weaning, what books and recipe books would people recommend? I'm ideally looking for guidelines on "how to", "when to" and a good range of recipes.

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Dare I say it out loud for fear of being shot down but Gina Fords 'Contented Book of Weaning' I found really good. Covers off the basics and has some tasty recipes. I didn't like any of her other contented baby stuff but her weaning advice was spot-on. The only thing I didn't do was feed tea after a bath (how mad is that).

Anabel Karmel is another I've used for both of mine. I've got her meal planner book but all of them are good.

For later on, someone recently recommended to me - Finger Foods by Jenny Maizel so I'm going to give that a try next.

Good luck

Kellymom have some good resources.

And if you wait until 6 months, you don't have to bother much with recipes, you can just give table scraps.

i bought a book by johnstons its fab i always found that the books i looked at went from 6-9months with just puree but this gives month by month its fab and gives good tips etc

Annabel Karmel one has some good recipes and is handy for checking when to introduce different foods etc but you'd have to be some sort of super-human to follow her meal plans/timetables!

Just thought I'd say that as I remember talking to a mum at baby & toddler group who felt bad that she wasn't following it to the letter -there weren't enough hours in the day to peel/puree/freeze etc. enough food !

i agree taht annabel karmel is great. the food plans i would say are 'aspirational'. but there are plenty of genuinely good and easy recipes in her books

Good tasty recipes from the annabel karmel book as well, had a quick glance at the meal plans and thought, aye that WILL BE RIGHT !!

Not so much a book as a webpage I would recommend this:
sequence of adding solids for the allergic infant . I was concerned about allergies as Harry had eczema and some family members have hayfever, but as it turned out I needn't have been as his eczema has completely cleared up & he's not really had any problems at all with food! Even if you don't have allergies in the family I think it is a useful guide to introducing foods gradually so as not to overload a little'un's digestion. We skipped the purees & went straight onto finger foods so all I had to do was make sure that what we ate included something from the list! Easy & no need for any extra work. DS nows eats like a horse and has excellent manual dexterity as a result.