First-ever cooking-with-your baby book from eebee’s adventures combines nutrition, play and family time
Baby mealtime just got easier, smarter and a lot more fun. Inspired by the playful idea that if you can mash it, smash it, oosh it, goosh it, shake it, coat it or stir it, your baby can participate in the process of preparing meals. With eebee’s Mix & Mash adventures parents of babies and toddlers can play a game, build nutritional skills, and have story time – all while feeding their baby!

“Mix&Mash is an “organic” extension of eebee’s everyday, everywhere approach to celebrating the magic in a baby’s day to day experiences,” says Stephen Gass, president of Every Baby Company.

Much more than a collection of mealtime ideas, this oversized baby board book features six nutritious and simple hands-on baby food recipes, playful rhymes on every page, and richly photographed pictures of eebee and real babies actively engaged in a range of tasty, tactile, and interactive “cooking” experiences and discoveries with real food. In addition, Mix&Mash is also a baby book about color, from the all white design on the tofu recipe spread to the all blue design used in the “blueb-eebee soup” spread.

“Playful, creative, and smart, eebee’s Mix&Mash adventures is the perfect solution for families who want to start building good nutritional habits from the very beginning,” notes Today Show nutrition expert, Joy Bauer.

Each recipe is designed to encourage playful interactions, as well as set the stage (and table) for rich language-skill building exchanges. For example, in the “Guacamol-ee Crunch” recipe, babies help to mash/mush/moosh fresh avocado and crushed cereal together in a sealed plastic bag which naturally leads to a “discussion” about colors, textures, and sounds.

Mix&Mash also includes a DVD, co-produced with Parents TV, which features Parents TV anchor, Juli Auclair, eebee, and Kristy Glass, eebee’s play partner in the popular eebee’s adventures series, demonstrating and discussing the learning opportunities and nutritional benefits of each recipe. Activities such as these, called “eebee moments,” are also currently featured on Parents TV.