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Super Baby Food |  | Author: Ruth Yaron
Publisher: F. J. Roberts Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 608
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0965260313
Dewey Decimal Number: 649
EAN: 9780965260312
ASIN: 0965260313
Publication Date: June 1998
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Amazon.com Review
Ruth Yaron cares deeply about what your baby is eating--so much so that her bestselling Super Baby Food is encyclopedic in both scope and size. Ounce for hefty ounce, this manual/cookbook/reference guide is worth its weight in formula, packed as it is with detailed information on homemade baby food, nutritional data, feeding schedules, cooking techniques, recipes, and other invaluable feeding tips. Yaron builds her compelling argument for making baby food at home on the simple premise that food profoundly impacts health, especially when an infant's developing digestive tract is involved. Parents will learn why babies should start out on rice porridge, bananas, avocados, and sweet potatoes before advancing to more difficult-to-digest foods such as wheat cereals and milk products. While Yaron's passionate stance and vegetarian bias may turn off some parents, others will be grateful for her strict attention to potentially harmful additives and chemicals. No matter what their eating philosophy, most parents will appreciate the economy and surprising ease of making baby food at home. This is not gourmet cooking; all you have to do is learn how to boil water and operate a blender. For veggies, simply steam some vegetable chunks and blend. For baby porridge, just grind some whole grains in a blender and boil. It's that simple. And when you're feeding your baby, simple is best. --Sumi Hahn
Product Description
ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING you should know about feeding your baby and toddler from beginning solid foods through age three years. How and when to start your baby on solid foods, with detailed information on the best and safest high chair, spoons, bibs, and other feeding equipment. Which foods to introduce to your baby during each month of his first year, with details on proper food consistency, amount, and temperature. How much you can expect your baby to eat and drink during the months of her first year with information on her digestive system at each age. Interesting details on your baby's physical, emotional, intellectual, and psychological development as it applies to self-feeding and mealtimes; how you can increase your baby's or toddler's self-esteem and self-confidence during mealtimes. The age you can expect your baby to start finger feeding, drinking from a cup, eating table foods, and self-feeding with a spoon and fork. If you choose to make homemade baby food, this book will give you the knowledge and confidence to make your own healthy and safe homemade baby vegetables, fruits, cereals, meats, and other Super Baby Foods. Extensive information on food allergies; foods considered choking hazards; foods likely to cause digestive problems in young babies; and safety precautions to prevent burns and poisoning. Thousands of money-saving and time-saving child care and kitchen tips. How to make meals fun! Food decorating! Cute cake patterns! Toddler party snacks and favors! Many other entertaining ideas! More than 350 quick, easy, delicious, nutritious, and sometimes entertaining recipes for babies and toddlers, including imitation homemade recipes for: Pop Tarts, Grape Nuts and other breakfast cereals, instant breakfast drinks, hot chocolate mix, Shake-N-Bake, Pam, Fruit Roll-Ups, Stove-top Stuffing Mix, homemade vanilla extract, Hamburger Helper, and more. So much cheaper and healthier (no preservatives needed!) to make for your toddler and family! Recipes for homemade play dough, finger paints and brush paints, bubbles for blowing, and dozens more children's arts and crafts recipes and ideas. Ideas for Halloween, Christmas, Easter, birthday parties, and homemade toddler toys and gifts. All about nutrition and your baby, including nutrient tables of all major vitamins and minerals with convenient baby-sized portions to help you be sure that your baby is getting proper nourishment. How to save money by making homemade yogurt, fruit leather, and how to grow sprouts, fruit plants, and herbs in your kitchen for fun and food. Easy, economical recipes for homemade baby accessories, such as baby wipes, diaper cream, and many more. Baby-safe and environmentally-friendly recipes for household cleaning products, such as baby-safe drain cleaners, furniture polish, window cleaners, and more. These recipes cost only pennies to make and are so safe that most are actually edible!! Tips for removing crayon, spit-up, and urine stains from baby clothes, carpets, and furniture. This book is the most complete and well-researched baby food book on the market today. Even though it is 600 pages, it is cleverly designed for the busy parent to read only a small part each month as baby grows.
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 Very Comprehensive September 7, 2010
J. Adams
This book is intimidating at first, but definitely not bad once you get started. Follow the "instructions" in the beginning of the book so you do not get overwhelmed. I'm feeling pretty confident that I will be able to make some of my own baby food. There is A LOT of nutritional information and advice about keeping your baby healthy. Don't feel like you have to do everything the book says. While reading, just pay attention to what you think you can do and go from there.
 Great information, horribly organized August 24, 2010
Meghann Bozic (Philadelphia, PA)
This book has a lot of helpful information for parents who choose to make their own food. I found the book very difficult to navigate and thought it didn't flow well. I definitely would recommend this book, but be warned that you'll have to jump around a bit. Hopefully future editions of this book will have better editors!
A must have for new mothers and fathers August 13, 2010
MB (WA)
An avid cook with plans to make all my own baby food, this book was recommended to me by another fellow mother. I love it! There is wealth of information about nutrition and eating a balanced diet that applies not just to feeding your baby and children, but for feeding yourself and partner as well. Each chapter introduces new foods and groups and discusses the reason why each food is being introduced at that time. Ruth also gives recipes and instructions on cooking, storing, and keeping food for prolonged use without destroying the health benefits during the cooking and storing process. Most of her recipes are great and my children love them. There are so many that you cannot help to experiment with your own ideas and as you do, you will discover that cooking and making healthy food is much easier than picking up a jar of Earth's Best at the supermarket. Even though my youngest is almost two, I still use this book for snack ideas and nutrition references.
Super Baby Food August 9, 2010
Nina Butt (BROOKFIELD, WISCONSIN, US)
great book. It saved us a lot of money by teaching me how to do it myself. This is something you can use for your child even into school age. There are also recipes and tips that help your entire family.
 Good recipes for toddlers and vegetarians, but otherwise, questionable advice August 7, 2010
feminaformosa (USA)
I bought this book because I wanted to learn more about starting solids for my infant, both an eating plan for what to start when and recipes. I am going to return it, because there is so much in here that I disagree with and that goes against what I want to do for my child.
Although there are plenty of recipes for food for toddlers, she gives only general ideas for what to do for 6-12 month old babies in terms of how to make the recipes. As other reviewers said, she is against the idea of eating meat, so only addresses it in the briefest of chapters, most of which is dedicated to food safety. Instead of meat, she suggests adding food to your child's diet that are highly allergenic- nuts, wheat, soy, and dairy. Wheat and dairy are not that big of a deal, but if allergies run in your family (like they do in my husband's), and you're not going to give those foods until your baby is 12 months, you are out of luck with this book. The soy in particular is very worrisome to me, as more and more research is coming out showing that unfermented soy is really not that great for people. I don't think a little soy is going to kill anyone, but there is a LOT of soy in her recipes, such as the "super flour," "super porridge," and many many of the tofu-based recipes in the book. I personally am not comfortable with giving my child this much soy. I also don't think that meat is the awful, disgusting thing that she claims it is. If your family is vegetarian, you might find the recipes in this book to be very helpful.
Other reviewers have also mentioned that the book is unfriendly to breastfeeding. It is and it isn't. The author does not come out and say it directly that I could find, but she seems to assume that you are going to wean within 12 months. She pays lip service to the idea that most of your child's nutrition should still come from breastmilk or formula during the first year (even in months 6-12), but the diet she lays out is very solids-heavy starting at about month 8, and it is hard to imagine how a child on this diet would still be getting most of his or her nutrition from either breastmilk or formula. If you are going to wean your child at or before 12 months, I think her diet plan would be fine. But if you are unsure whether you want to wean then, or if you know you don't want to, you need to find another plan for feeding solids.
About a quarter of the book is dedicated to tips etc. that are totally unrelated to food. I thought that some of these were fun and nice, but not worth the rest of the book.
The bottom line is that since my child is not yet a toddler, and I'm not vegetarian, I was really disappointed in this book. I was hoping for a helpful guideline for introducing solids along with a variety of good recipes appropriate for babies from 6-12 months old, and this book comes up short.
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