Cooking for Baby: Wholesome, Homemade, Delicious Foods for 6 to 18 Months

From celebrated children''s-food author Lisa Barnes, Cooking for Baby is a fully illustrated, gorgeous, four-color book that takes parents through the basics of preparing nutritious, delicious (and easy ) meals for your child, from six to eighteen months.

Parents today know that one of the best ways to give a baby a great start in life is with wholesome, homemade foods. While ready-made baby food is a convenience that any new parent can appreciate, feeding everyday fresh foods is the best way to teach a child healthy eating habits and an appreciation for good food from the cradle onward.

The eighty recipes in Cooking for Baby make preparing delicious meals for babies and toddlers a breeze, even for busy parents. The recipes are organized by age, showing how to introduce cereal grains and simple vegetable and fruit purees to your infant at six months, how to move on to chunkier foods by eight or nine months, and how to graduate to real meals for young toddlers of twelve to eighteen months to enjoy along with the entire family. When you see how easy it is, with a few smart tips on preparation and storage, you''ll never go back to the jars.

With Cooking for Baby, your youngster will enjoy a wide variety of fresh and interesting foods for a very happy and healthy beginning.

Lisa Barnes is the founder of Petit Appetit (www.petitappetit.com), a culinary service that teaches parents how to provide fresh, healthy, organic foods to their children through private in-home cooking classes, cooking demonstrations, and parenting workshops. She is the author of The Petit Appetit Cookbook: Easy, Organic Recipes to Nurture Your Baby and Toddler, which won an iParenting Media Award. She lives in Sausalito, California, with her family.