The Multi-Cooker Baby Food Cookbook: 100 Easy Recipes for Your Slow Cooker, Pressure Cooker, or Multi-Cooker – From First Purées to Healthy Finger Foods

by Jenna Helwig

Making your own fresh, unprocessed baby food is as easy as “setting it and forgetting it” when you enlist your multi-cooker or slow cooker

Here, Jenna Helwig, author of Real Baby Food and Baby-Led Feeding and the food editor at Parents magazine, shares 100 recipes to nurture your baby’s development and cultivate wholesome family mealtimes. Best of all, making baby food in a multi-cooker or slow cooker gives you the gift new parents need most— time : You simply put the food in the pot, set the time, and walk away. Here are some of the great reasons to make your own baby food using a

• You’re in You’re not limited by the varieties on supermarket shelves and can customize foods for your baby.
• It’s easy and Most recipes require just one pot, and the machine does all the work for you. Many of these recipes are ready in 30 minutes or less.
• The timing is Many of the recipes can be made fast or slow using either a pressure or slow cooker—flexibility that’s priceless when you’re juggling irregular schedules.
• It’s Making your own is much less expensive than buying the same amount of jarred baby food.
• It saves Make and store big batches, and you’ll have dinner at the ready for weeks.

From starter foods to family meals, recipes include DIY staples like yogurt; single-ingredient fruit and veggie purées; finger foods like Purple Sweet Potato Patties, Blueberry Banana Bread, and Chicken Nuggets; and toddler-friendly meals like Cauliflower Mac ’n’ Cheese, Meatballs, and Savory Steel-Cut Oats. All recipes are vetted by a registered dietitian and include nutritional information to help ensure healthy mealtimes.

256 pages, Paperback

Published November 19, 2019

About the author

I'm the author of the upcoming mystery novel The Foreign Correspondent's Wife. Set in post-War Paris, the wife of an American foreign correspondent stumbles on the body of her murdered classmate at culinary school and becomes tangled in a web that stretches from the halls of diplomacy to the city’s underworld.

I'm also the food director at Real Simple magazine and the author of five cookbooks including the bestselling Baby-Led Feeding and the time-saving, stress-reducing Bare Minimum

I love to cook, bake, and eat, and am a giant cookbook fan. (Check out my newsletter Cookbookery Collective on Substack!) I also love to read fiction and am a particular fan of literary fiction and mystery novels. I live in Brooklyn, New York with my family.

Reviews

[Kristen McBee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you have a baby? Do you want to make your own baby food but are intimidated? So was I! Do you also have an InstantPot or Crock Pot? Then you’re in luck! Jenna makes it so easy and actually fun to make your own baby food. I have made so many different things and learned things and have been inspired to make other things for baby and for the chewers in the house. Give this a try!

[Egwiggs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great use of instant pot. Easy to follow recipes

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clear instructions for all of the basic foods to start with and great recipes as you move past the single ingredient phase.

[Grace Cheung · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent introduction to making baby food using your Instant Pot.