Product Description
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 Details
| Publisher | F. J. Roberts Publishing Company |
| ISBN | 0965260313 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Author | Ruth Yaron |
| EAN | 9780965260312 |
| Label | F. J. Roberts Publishing Company |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Dewey Decimal Number | 649 |
| Studio | F. J. Roberts Publishing Company |
| Number Of Pages | 608 |
| Title | Super Baby Food |
| Publication Date | 1998-06 |
| Manufacturer | F. J. Roberts Publishing Company |
Customer Reviews
Great information, horribly organizedReview by Meghann Bozic, 2010-08-24
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
Review by MB, 2010-08-13
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
Review by Nina Butt, 2010-08-09
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
Review by feminaformosa, 2010-08-07
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.
Great book
Review by JP, 2010-07-23
This served as a great resource for my son and I plan to use the book again for my daughter. Since I gave my prior copy away, I'll need to buy a new one.
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