Feeding Littles and Beyond: 100 Baby-Led-Weaning-Friendly Recipes the Whole Family Will Love: A Cookbook

I am one who is NOT a cook at all. Actually, my husband does all the cooking haha but with having a new baby who grew into a toddler eating toddler food instead of baby, I had to do something! Seen a lot about this book and decided to give it a go. I’m so glad I did! I’m a picky eater, so a lot I wouldn’t eat, but there’s a WIDE variety of foods to make that I LOVE for my girl! I want her to try different things! But the recipes are super versatile, easy, and from what I’ve tasted so far, super tasty! But the important thing was, it being easy for someone like me who doesn’t cook to follow! Which, it is!

Great book with lots of pictures! All the recipes look very yummy and there seems to be a big variety.

This book is so amazing I love it! It has so many recipes plus some have variations you can try. I make stuff for my baby and toddler. It even has plate pictures so you see how to serve each food. I love it.

Our family found several recipes that even our picky eater would eat!

I was recently recommended to follow @feedinglittles on Instagram by a dear friend of 25 years. We grew up together & now we’re raising babies together! She’s a mama of 3 and also a Rock -Star Nurse Practitioner not to mention her dad was my pediatrician. So naturally, I pick her brain about everything! Since following FL online, I’ve learned so about BLW do’s and don’ts. This account has helped me gain confidence as I start out on this journey with my first born who is currently 4 months. When I learned they had a cook book coming out, I quickly preordered it without any hesitation. When it arrived in the mail I was really impressed by the quality and presentation! It has beautiful and helpful pictures along with easy and simple directions to follow. I also really appreciate all the extra tips along the way to make your dinner a success for the busiest of mamas. There is also a lot of good education on BLW and safety knowledge. Most recipes only take about 20 min which is the perfect amount of time I have for putting a meal on the table for baby and the rest of the family. This cookbook was thoughtfully put together by some amazing professionals who you can trust and it truly shows!

I really appreciate what this book is trying to do. It does succeed in the sense that the recipes are indeed baby led weaning friendly, and there are some great healthy snack recipes. I haven’t tried a lot of the recipes, but there are some really good ones that I like, such as the salmon cake recipe. Very tasty!All of the recipes are pretty easy and mostly allergy friendly, or adaptable.The cons:The design is not well thought out. Most recipe books have a table of contents that show you where to find meats, vegetables, desserts, and so forth. This does not. It’s table of contents has titles like “less is more”, “mostly home made “, and so forth. That makes is really really hard to remember where a specific recipe is located and I end up dog earring pages so that I can find recipes. There is an index, so of course you can use that. But let’s be honest. Indexes can be hard to use unless you use them all of the time and remember how they work. I confess I don’t.Also, to be perfectly honest, many of the recipes are simply not appealing to me and certainly wouldn’t be appealing to my extremely over the top picky children.Another con:I understand where the authors are coming from in their child/food philosophy and they are not entirely wrong. I have their course that they put together and it is certainly helpful. The problem is, it doesn’t matter how food is presented: if a child has made up his mind that he doesn’t like something, he’s not going to want to eat it. Even if it’s shaped like a dinosaur. Children are really smart, but not very wise. They do NOT know what is best for them, but their parents do because we are adults. We have to be willing to admit that sometimes teaching kids to eat new foods is a discipline issue and not simply due to the newness of the food.

Finally got my copy last night so I haven’t gotten to follow any of the recipes, but I already know it’s going to be something I refer to all the time just from my first thumb through. As someone who religiously reads comments on products, I do have two thoughts on other reviewer’s feedback in case someone also likes to read these posts and is curious on a different view point: 1. A few people commented that they’d rather see more pictures. This book is a pretty standard cookbook in it’s picture to text ratio. Plus, less pictures = more room for actual content — a win to me. And 2. If you’re looking for a book that’s about sneaking in “heathy” foods or tricking your toddler into eating something without them noticing, this isn’t the cookbook for you. The Feeding Littles entire philosophy is about opening up a new world to kiddos in terms of food. It’s about exploration and giving things another chance and having new perspectives so we can help build the foundation of well rounded eaters. Have I added things like carrots into marinara to give my kiddos some extra veggies? Absolutely! But if that’s your entire food strategy, and something you’re looking for in this book, you’re going to be disappointed because they take an entirely different approach on food.