Annabel Karmel

Children's Food Expert and Author

Annabel Karmel is the UK's best-selling author on baby and children's food. She is an expert in devising tasty and nutritious meals for children without the need for parents to spend hours in the kitchen. As a busy working mother of three, she has first-hand experience of the difficulties of feeding young children while knowing how important it is to provide them with healthy and tasty food.

She wrote her first book, The Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner in 1991 and this became big hit and has now sold over 4 million copies worldwide. Since then, Annabel has gone on to write 21 books on feeding babies and children, family meals as well as teaching children how to cook.

She has created the UK's the number one branded range of chilled ready meals aimed at young children, Eat Fussy, as well as innovative baby foods all sold in supermarkets. She also launched equipment for making baby food and her menus are served in theme parks, hotels, nurseries and holiday parks nationwide.

Her popular website www.annabelkarmel.com has more than 70,000 members and offers parents delicious recipes for babies, children and adults as well as information on all aspects of nutrition.

Annabel was awarded an MBE in June 2006 in the Queen's Birthday honours for her outstanding work in the field of child nutrition.

Annabel won the prestigious Caterer and Hotelkeeper Excellence in Food awards for her children's meal; Spaghetti Bolognaise with Hidden Vegetable Sauce, as well as the Lifetime Achievement award at the prestigious Mother and Baby Awards in 2009.

She has also won the Media category of the First Women Awards 2010, which recognise women at the top of their professions who are leading the way for the next generation

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Can anyone help??

Asked by lmariebeauty.

My little girl is ready to go onto rice and porridge but shes really constipated at the min. Im giving her raisin water which helps abit but wondering if i put her onto rice and things that it will make her more constipated dont know if solids do that or not?

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frubes!!

Asked by nifagurgleEditor.

i just tried kay with a lil bit of frubes for my finger he couldnt get enough, and is trying to grab it outta my hand now lol!!

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LO breakfast

Asked by mialou86.

hi my LO is 8 and half months now n i want to get her onto normal foods for breakfast other than the baby porridge (its costing me a fotune lol) what can she eat at this age any suggestions for breakfast would be good. I dont want to just give her toast cos she does eat a lot of bread which seems to be her fave food

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Weetabix.

Asked by Administrator.

When can I give Scott weetabix? He has just turned 6 months also do I mix it with cows milk or formula? Thanks x

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Stage 2 food help

Asked by mewskichan.

My son is coming up to 8 months old and he won't eat any stage 2 food and only mashed food I can get him to try is a banana. My HV told me to keep trying but that's a bit useless advice! Are there any things I can use that are good beginner foods to mash up like the banana? Are there any stage 2 ready made food that you have found to be easier for moving from purée to lumps? Cow & Gate seem bit too chunky, Organix seem better but he still won't have anything to do with it unless it's a banana and even then it's small and soft lumps. Also he loves rice cakes, carrot sticks and baby biscuits, he has no problems with finger foods at all! It's just food which may require bit of chewing.

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Let the fussy kids eat what they want?

Asked by sarah_ma1.

Now when I say 'fussy kids' I think a lot of kids go through the phase of only wanting certain foods! So we were talking about it at work the other day and one person was saying their kid would only eat pasta and salt and vinegar crisps, so we all gave him helpful suggestions of which he had tried all of poor guy and one person said well it doesn't matter what they eat at that age as long as they're eating enough to keep their little bodies with the energy they need.... Interesting theory, what do we think? x

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Annabel Karmel

Children's Food Expert and Author

Can anyone help??

frubes!!

LO breakfast

Weetabix.

Stage 2 food help

Let the fussy kids eat what they want?

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