Super Baby Food | 
 enlarge | Author: Ruth Yaron
Publisher: F. J. Roberts Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  623 reviews
Sales Rank: 564
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 608
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0965260313
Dewey Decimal Number: 649
EAN: 9780965260312
ASIN: 0965260313
Publication Date: June 1998
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Condition: Cover has some edge wear, page edges and a few pages have some marker scribbling, this makes a few pages hard to read .
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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
Book 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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 Best gift for new parents!!! July 1, 2008
C. Mclaughlin (West Coast USA)
A must for new parents, this book will improve the way the entire family looks at nutrition. Many questions answered for first time mothers and fathers, on when to introduce new foods, what foods are the most nutritious, and how to prepare them.
 Mostly good, but educate yourself r.e. food FIRST June 9, 2008
kn (NY)
I found this book mostly good, but its written in a very scatterbrained way. It constantly makes reference to other pages and chapters, lacking basic cohesion. Because of this it was difficult for me to read, and I had to read the book in its entirity before using its information. It also had some ideas different from mine, such as introducing nuts so early. On the other hand, it was indeed chock full of useful information, for instance, the author would gush about the endless uses of plastic bags (!). The best thing about the book was her Super Porridge recipe and we use it all the time, so that alone was worth the cost of the book to me. Overall, I agree with other reviewers that a slightly less superior attitude, more organization, a discussion r.e. obviously controversial food intruductions in the appropriate areas, and less overall wordiness would make this book more of a stand out.
informative guide to make natural baby food May 31, 2008
K.H. (Illinois)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I liked the section of what ages the baby can start eating foods and it gives you ideas and recipes to use home grown products.
Clothes Dryer Lint Play Dough! May 30, 2008
Carla Wong (Hawaii)
This book is about more than food. This book is the product of an amazingly frenzied maternal mind. Yes, there is a recipe in here for play dough made with lint gathered from your dryer. Amazing!! How can you not love that. There are so many other tidbits in this crazy delightful creation. Sure, it is also outdated--definitely check with doctors re: what to introduce when. No nuts before 2 I would say, to be on the safe side. Other reviewers have mentioned this of course.
Good for a reference, but use your own instincts... May 28, 2008
Christie Unruh
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased this book on recommendation of my sister-in-laws who have all used it. I work full-time out of the home, continue to pump and nurse my baby, and desire to feed him as nutriciously and healthy as possible.
First off, the book is a jumbled mess. This woman appears to have no editor, and poor self-editing techniques. She includes so much information in such a poor format that it literally took me a month of reading and a stack of posty-notes before I had organized it the way I found it to be the most user-friendly. Upon the advice of several other women, I tabbed the areas I would need, and forgot about the rest.
The advice on when to start the certain foods, how to pick and cook them, and the section on super porridge are all I really use. I have "Baby Wised" my baby, and therefore do not agree that a child needs to be nursing 6 times a day, eating three full means, and eating snacks at 9 months old! That is ridiculous, and my son would never eat that much! He is at a healthy, chubby weight, and only nurses three times a day, two of which are combined with a food serving.
The point is, the book is good, but it isn't the Bible. Take the advice you need, and leave the rest (such as serving Peanut Butter before 1 year old!). My son hates jarred food, but I do try to serve it to him at least once a week for the occasional emergency that may arrise (i.e. flying out of town for a family death and didn't have the time or means to carry 4 days worth of frozen food with me).
Added bonus: While I'm purchasing and cooking fresh veggies for baby to eat, I've started to make more for hubby and I to eat! We've both become more healthy because we are feeding are baby homemade foods! :)
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