Baby Food Bible: A Nourishing Guide to Feeding Your Family, From First Bite and Beyond

by Julia Tellidis, Lauren Skora

Baby Food Bible takes the fuss out of introducing solids to your baby with 100+ nutritionist approved recipes that the whole family will love. Forget about making a separate meal for your baby, the simple recipes in this book are family favourites that everyone can enjoy. Featuring highly nutritional easy meals and snacks, many of the recipes in this book can be made in 20 minutes or less to make that end of day rush a little easier for busy families. Written by qualified nutritionist Julia Tellidis, and baby nutrition consultant Lauren Skora, every recipe has been carefully considered to provide your family with a balanced diet packed with essential nutrients to support your little ones through key developmental milestones.    Starting from the very beginning, Baby Food Bible will teach you how to introduce solids to your baby’s diet with a mix of purees and advice for baby-led weaning. Explainers are provided along the way, covering food safety, choking and how to safely introduce common allergens. From breakfast to pram pleasers, lunchboxes, easy dinners and even sweets, this book will show you how to create adventurous eaters from the very beginning, while also ensuring you can still get those greens into even the fussiest of kids.   Feel empowered to make healthier choices with Baby Food Bible. This is the only recipe book you will ever need to feed your family.  

Genres: Parenting, Cooking, Cookbooks

288 pages, Hardcover

Published June 11, 2024

Reviews

[Ruchama Pliner · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is beautiful and the recipes are interesting. However, not only are there multiple spelling mistakes/editing errors, there are no citations at the end to back up any of the numerous health claims made throughout the book. There is also no nutritional index for each recipe, which I personally think should be included given that this was written by health professionals.

[Grace Knox-Horton · Rating 1 out of 5]

It actually didn’t inform me anymore than what I already knew. Not great if you don’t want to do BLW.

[Holly · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is beautiful. The recipes look interesting and simple enough and I will try some.

They say you need simple tools to make the recipes but every recipe calls for a food processor or blender.

There’s a little bit too much pseudo nutrition science for my liking.

[Rambling Reviews · Rating 2 out of 5]

Red flags galore, primarily

1. Constantly coding foods as healthy or unhealthy, rather than just focusing on nutritional content (given babies often eat so little, you want what they eat to pack a punch). This is eating disorder language.
2. No citations. Heaps of nutritional claims but no backing.
3. Errors.

And lastly, it’s not baby food if a good half of the recipes are for babies over 12 months, with many being over 18 months or over 24 months. The recipes look ok, but I prefer the organisation of boob to food’s book milk to meals, as it is sorted by age.

Lastly, I wish more of these books had a ‘good enough’ approach. Tell me what is non-negotiable (backed by science, not your personal opinion) and what is nice to have. I’m not making my own wraps, guys. I do not have time. But I will be hard and fast on no honey before 12 months.

I just don’t want mums out there thinking they have to make everything from scratch.

[Jordan Maclaurin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was running out of ideas for my 10month old and this helped so much! I love that they are baby recipes with actual flavour so they’re delicious for the whole family. Definitely not for the budget conscious though.

[Lalena Kiszewski · Rating 5 out of 5]

All the information you could want about starting solids. Recioes are thoughtfully put together. Can‘t wait to get cooking!

[Sylv Chara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a well structured book. Easy to read. Have tried plenty of the recipes. So easy and delicious!

[Anisa MacLean · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this cookbook and use it daily!