Let Them Eat Dirt: Homegrown Recipes to Feed Your Infant and Toddler

Recipes Your Babies Will Love, Made with Ingredients You Trust

Take charge of your children’s health with these delicious, nutrient-dense recipes designed to nourish your little ones. Sorted by the ages and stages of early childhood, these 60 incredible recipes from Andrea Bemis--organic farmer, mother and creator of the popular blog Dishing Up the Dirt--will help you navigate which foods are safe to feed your kids and master the tricky business of introducing solids into your children’s diet. Even better, Andrea offers helpful advice drawn from her own experiences about how to cater to your children’s evolving palettes, aid their digestion and incorporate more vitamins into every meal.

Start simple with pureed Cinnamon Spice Squash that will please even the pickiest baby, or enrich your child’s diet with Vitamin A and amino acids with homemade Chicken Liver Pâté. Made with fresh, all-natural ingredients (and lots of love!), family favorite recipes like mouthwatering Mini Sweet Potato Frittatas or savory Sheet Pan Cauliflower Nachos are sure to help your kids develop a healthy relationship with food early on. Whether you’re feeding a baby or a toddler, one thing’s for certain--the tasty snacks, meals and desserts in this book are sure to be a big hit with your tiny humans.

Andrea Bemis is the author of the cookbooks Dishing Up the Dirt: Simple Recipes for Cooking Through the Seasons, and Local Dirt: Seasonal Recipes for Eating Close to Home, both based on her popular food blog Dishing Up the Dirt. She lives with her family on their six-acre organic farm in Mount Hood, Oregon.