Annabel Karmel
Annabel Karmel is a children’s cookbook author and recipe creator helping families with first foods, fussy eating and everyday meals through books, videos and her recipe app.
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Overview
- From
- London, England
- Work
- Children’s cookery author, recipe creator and entrepreneur
- Breakout
- The Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner, first published in 1991
- Before the cookbooks
- Professional harpist
- Recognition
- MBE for work in child nutrition, 2006
Mini bio
How it started.
Annabel began developing recipes while trying to tempt her fussy baby son to eat. After the death of her infant daughter, she poured her energy into making food for children. That personal beginning became The Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner, published in 1991.
Finding her readers.
Her debut cookbook established a career built around helping parents feed their children. She has since published more than 50 cookbooks and expanded into a recipe app, supermarket meals and brand partnerships. Her work ranges from first tastes and finger foods to meals the whole family can share.
Still creating.
Books remain part of Annabel’s everyday work alongside recipes and feeding support online. Finger Foods for Babies and Toddlers arrived in 2025, followed by collaborations in 2026 on a parent guide and a restaurant children’s menu.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
- 2025Finger Foods for Babies and ToddlersAuthor
- 1991The Complete Baby and Toddler Meal PlannerAuthor
Food collaborations
- 2026Drake & Morgan children’s menuMenu collaborator
- 2026The Infant Gut Health JourneyRecipe contributor
Television
- 2011Annabel’s KitchenPresenter and executive producer
Awards
Quotes
Weaning is an exciting opportunity to help shape a child’s lifelong relationship with food.Annabel Karmel, SMA Nutrition launch announcement
Speaking about the recipes she created for the Infant Gut Health Journey guide in July 2026.
Trivia
- Before her food career, Annabel worked as a professional harpist.
- She created her Mini Chicken & Apple Balls for her once-fussy son Nick.
- She told Great Little Trading Co that she encouraged her children to cook Friday supper when they were four, six and seven.
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