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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.
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
Too much information but worth itReviewed by Elissa Rudenauer, 2010-03-02
I got this book because it came highly recommended to me by my
friend. She said, not only does she like it, but her kids do too.
So I decided to get it and see how it went. Like many reviewers, I
felt that there is just too much information. Don't get me wrong,
the information is great but some of it would be better suited in
another book. Quite honestly I am surprised this book was even able
to be published with all of the information. The editor should be
fired for not separating some of the information. You have your
Super Baby Food and then all this other information and tips that
the author shares with you. Like I said, it's good information but
would be better in another book.
I cannot comment on the recipes yet because my baby just started
solids. I look forward to making the Super Porridge though. That
way I know what is going into my baby's food.
I do however disagree with her stance on Soy. She mentions using
organic and non-GMO produce and food but Soy is one of most (if not
the top) genetically modified crops.
I have not finished reading the book, but I find myself skipping a
lot of information that is obvious to me or that is constantly
repeated.
Even my mom (who has not read the book) flipped through it and said
right away "Too much information".
So overall... I am happy I got the book and will be using it for
years to come, just be prepared for a lot of unneeded info.
This book needs editing!Reviewed by J. Spivey, 2010-02-23
There is some useful information but the same thing could have been said in less than half as many pages. It seems that it wasn't edited. And sadly, the interior appears to have been 'designed' in Microsoft Word rather carelessly without thought to readability. There is way too much digression into other related topics when the reader just wants to get to the info about making and storing the baby food.
Very handy resource!Reviewed by Cindy Barnett, 2010-01-22
I purchased this book on the recommendation of a friend and because it had good reviews. I knew some people had said there were things to watch out for, but I've gotten enough information from my daughter's physician to make educated decisions. This book is a very handy resource to have around if you're going to make your own baby food (which is so easy to do). I love the pages on each fruit & vegetable and how to prep/cook/store each one. Yes, there is some information that we shouldn't go by, but don't you take everything with a grain of salt when it comes to your baby? This book also has lots of other tips on safer household cleaners and things.
First Foods - Be Careful!!Reviewed by J. Sheehan, 2010-01-18
I've never written a book review but after our experience I felt it
necessary. If you're a new mom or dad you know sometimes it all
about the poop! Yaron suggests avocado, bananas, sweet potatoes and
rice cereal as first foods. Three out of the four can cause
constipation in your little one. After five poopless days (three of
which we decided to put the food introduction on hold and only
nursed), I learned from three different health care providers that
bananas, sweet potatoes and rice cereal can be binding. My little
guy had 5 days without a bowl movement, the first two he was only
fed a couple teaspoons in the morning prepared as Yaron suggests.
By the way, my son's first food was avocado and he loved it! My
practitioner suggested sticking with the "p" foods for first foods
such as pears, peaches, plums, etc...
To give you a little bit of context:
* We started introducing solid foods at 5.5 months and followed
Yaron's first food suggestions for baby's less than 6 months
old;
* Before introducing solids he was exclusively breatfeed;
* I had hoped to hold out until at least 6 months before starting
solids but he showed all the signs of being ready for food such as
nursing more often (every 1-2 hours day and night), reaching for
our food, fixated on everything we ate that I feel guilty eating in
front of him (!), etc;
* He is 20lbs. at 6 months old.
I too agree with the other reviews that there is WAY too much extra
information that is completely unnecessary and makes the book
challenging to digest. I don't need someone to tell me that I can
conserve energy by keeping a lid on a pot so it will boil quicker.
It could be MUCH shorter, information could be streamlined and
therefor easier to highlight the key points. I found myself
re-reading the same sections over and finally got out the
highlighter for the key points.
All in all I wish I had done more research before starting...I
guess that's what sleep deprivation will do to you...
DrearyReviewed by J. C. Good, 2010-01-17
The book spends more time setting out menus than actually on the recipes and food preparation. The nutritional information is inaccurate in many places. The tone is condescending, and, quite frankly, it's a dull read.
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