One Handed Cooks: Boosting Your Basics (Making the Most of Every Family Mealtime - From Baby to School Age)

The creators of the One Handed Cooks blog have put together this collection of recipes and mealtime advice to provide inspiration and ideas for family-friendly food that’s healthy, simple to prepare and packed full of flavor. You’ll find helpful solutions to tackling the most challenging fussy eating behaviors. They explain how to introduce solids, textured meals and finger foods to babies in ways that encourage mindful eating and food acceptance, as well as how to make every meal count by maximizing the nutritional content of favorite home-cooked meals, snacks and sweet foods using easy swaps and additions. Readers will also learn how to manage and move on from common fussy eating behaviors, including food jags and food refusal, and create happy family mealtimes that nurture positive associations with food. They advocate daily structure, mealtime routines and pre-meal sensory-based activities to reduce anxiety around eating and instead encourage discovery and enjoyment. They also teach readers how to adapt a single meal to suit the whole family (baby, toddler and adult) and how to cater to common allergies and intolerances with simple substitutions that don’t compromise on nutrition. Includes dual measures.