Safe & Simple Food Allergy Prevention:
A Baby-led Feeding Guide to Starting Solids & Introducing Top Allergens

Starting with your baby’s first bite, reduce the risk of food allergies and make mealtimes easy and fun with dietitian-approved tips and 80 family-friendly recipes.

How you feed your baby during infancy can lower the risk that they will develop food allergies as they grow. Starting solids with simple, wholesome finger foods and offering baby-friendly versions of common allergens like peanuts and eggs early and often helps encourage self-feeding, early motor skills, and lifelong adventurous eating.

From the author of Simple & Safe Baby-Led Weaning, this accessible, practical guide to starting solids will empower you to safely introduce top allergens, navigate existing food allergies and intolerances, engage your baby in family meals, and build a balanced baby meal from recipes the whole family will enjoy.

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With easy-to-follow tips from pediatric dietitian and infant feeding expert, Malina Linkas Malkani, this comprehensive handbook includes:

  • A flexible 9-day road map for safely introducing top allergens

  • Practical advice for navigating food allergies, intolerances, and sensitivities

  • 4 weeks of meal plans to ensure your baby is exposed to top allergens frequently

  • 80+ nutritious cornerstone recipes that will make meal prep simple and satisfy the whole family

  • Guidance on balancing finger foods, purees, and breast milk or formula

  • Tips to encourage your baby’s oral motor development, palate expansion, caregiver bonding, fine motor skill advancement, and more

Safe and Simple Food Allergy Prevention will help you sail through the process of starting solids and introducing allergens, streamline your approach to mealtimes, and feed your family with confidence and ease.

What people are saying...

“Featuring tummy-warming, comforting, nutrient-rich recipes, Safe and Simple Food Allergy Prevention transports mealtime from a chore to a chance to get the jump on food allergens, create moments for learning and bonding, and introduce your child to the joys of eating.”

Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN,
Registered dietitian nutritionist, founder and lead dietitian at Maya Feller Nutrition, author of Eating from Our Roots, and cohost of the Well, Now podcast

“Finally, a complete, up-to-date, evidence-based resource for starting solids, baby-led weaning, and reducing the risk of food allergies, all in one place. Malkani blends the art of cooking with the science of food allergy prevention in this easy-to-follow infant feeding guide and cookbook that will infuse family mealtimes with everything parents need to grow adventurous, healthy eaters.”

Kelly Fradin, MD
Pediatrician, speaker, consultant, and author of Advanced Parenting

“Safe and Simple Food Allergy Prevention is a practical and family-centered resource that can help take the guesswork out of introducing complementary foods, including common allergens. Malina builds food allergy prevention into recipes that the whole family can enjoy together”

Michael Pistiner, MD, MMSc
Director of Food Allergy Advocacy, Education and Prevention for Mass General for Children