Here is an article I stumbled upon from Center for Science in
the Public Interest:
Cheating Babies:
Nutritional Quality and Cost of Commercial Baby Food by Daryth D. Stallone,
Ph.D., M.P.H. and Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D
Thanks to Maggie on FoodsForChildren for that link.
Starting Solids and Preparing Meat, Fish, and Chicken
A few tips and information I collected.
Need help Preparing Fruit and Vegetables?
This site has very useful information to help you cook those fruit and vegetables for your baby. Neith (the mom-of-twins/author of this site) offers quite a few very interesting fruit &/or vegetable combinations such as "butternut squash and grapes" and "Apples and Sweet Potatoes" and also some recipes using vegetable/fruit combination and chicken or beef.
Homemade Baby Food Guidelines
from Virtual Hospital [University of Iowa Department of Pediatrics]
Food Allergy Network is a great resource for recipes and advice for people suffering from food allergies. They have a different recipe of the month, each month, as well as classics which they do not remove from the site such as a Milk-free, Egg-free, Peanut-free, Nut-free Birthday cake recipe.
Food Allergies Links
from the Open Directory Project. A list of links to sites that cater to food allergies. Not all "tot" oriented but helpful.
Wholesome Baby Foods from Scratch
from The Vegetarian Resource Group; you will also find on this site great ideas for Healthy Fast Foods for Pre-Schoolers
Dos and Don'ts from the Recipe Goldmine. Valuable tips and helpful reminders as to what to, and what not to, do.
The Weekly Toddler
The Weekly Toddler is a wonderful and free weekly newsletter of links to printable activity pages for kids 18 months (or less) to 5 years old. To subscribe, send an e-mail to weeklytoddler-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or visit The Weekly Toddler page on Yahoo!Groups.
FoodsForChildren
I was thrilled to find a great email group on Yahoo!Groups called FoodsForChildren, it is a wonderful place to discuss all sorts of children's food oriented stuff. Join and see for yourself.
If you are already a member of Yahoo!Groups you can simply send an email to subscribe-foodsforchildren@yahoogroups.com.
Once you've subscribed, please introduce yourself, it'll be great to see you there!!!
A Guide to Infant Feeding
From Birth to 24 Months from the Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University Kingston, Canada
Baby Center
A wealth of information from pre-conception to ... the next baby :o) Make sure to check out their many BBS on a variety of topics. You're likely to bump into me at the Recipe Swap board!
Nutri-Facts
Where you can find nutritional information on food. Beware though, as most of the info there is correct, I have spotted a few numbers that simply made NO sense. I still find it is a useful site.
Baby Food Recipe Sites
from the Open Directory Project. List of links to over 50 sites pertaining to homemade baby foods and preparation and storage of food for little ones. I was very proud when in September 2001 my site got added to the directory. In April I was proud to have been accepted as one of the volunteer editor of the Baby Food section of the ODP.
Since I list in the ODP any site I find that relates to baby food recipes, I will not list the same sites in this category.
Just for a bit more gossip:
At the end of May 2001, I was granted permission to edit in the main Cooking Section, I encourage you to visit. It is a very comprehensive directory of cooking sites, and recipes, on the net.
Make sure you also visit the ODP's Children Recipes' section, and come back here when you're done!
All books previously reviewed in this section are now found in a new section called The Book Shop, where you can find links to buy the books, or where you can browse at your leisure.
Neith's Recipes
A site by a mom of three, two of which are twins, which presents interesting recipes. It's also referenced in the food preparation section of this page.
Neith's site has a link to France's Kitchenette
BrightonBaby
UK Parenting website featuring product reviews, parenting freebies, parenting information and baby food recipes. Made for parents by parents.
Brighton Baby has a link to France's Kitchenette
Advanced Book Exchange
I bought a book through them from a bookstore in Chicago, and the service was excellent, the bookstore shipped the book the day they got the order and I received it (in Australia) 8 days after my online order! They ship to quite a few places, but that often depends on the book "seller"! Worth a look if you're looking for something.
Half.com
Looking for an out of print or second hand book? This is a place to stop by. Ships only to the US.