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Summary: A must have for mommy and daddy!
Review: A friend let me borrow this book and insisted that it was "the best baby food book ever." I loved it so much I bought my own! This book has wonderful recipes for the "in-between" months - when stage 3 baby foods are too mushy for finger food, and baby can't eat all of the things mommy and daddy are eating. The recipes are simple and easy to follow, and there is a lot of variety. Now that my son is a little older I still use a lot of the snack recipes to make him healthy snacks that he absolutely loves.
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Summary: do not waste your money
Review: A must have for every mom and dad to be that plan on making their own baby food! The authors, Sweet and Bloom, do a great job of presenting a large variety of recipes that are also simple and easy to follow. No searching for California parsley tops like some of the other baby recipe books. My wife and I bought this book just after our son, Zachary, was born and we both found it's information presented in a clear and understandable way. This one is recommended to anyone wanting to go through the effort of making your own...and who wouldn't want to feed that special little baby the best food possible?!!! Good luck and good cooking!
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Summary: A tasty little book!
Review: A must have for every mom and dad to be that plan on making their own baby food! The authors, Sweet and Bloom, do a great job of presenting a large variety of recipes that are also simple and easy to follow. No searching for California parsley tops like some of the other baby recipe books. My wife and I bought this book just after our son, Zachary, was born and we both found it's information presented in a clear and understandable way. This one is recommended to anyone wanting to go through the effort of making your own...and who wouldn't want to feed that special little baby the best food possible?!!! Good luck and good cooking!
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Summary: Exactly What I Needed
Review: I bought Super Baby Foods and was disappointed. It was hard to follow (with many cross-references per paragraph), difficult to make super porridge and other staples, and disjointed. All I needed was a book with recipes to make food for my baby! The Well Fed Baby did just that. The recipes are clear and easy to understand, all calling for fresh ingredients. The recipes use a variety of foods, including all the single-item foods you'd need. The nutritional information is straightforward and easy to read. I used these recipes exclusively from about 7 months to 12 months, and even now, my 14-month old daughter still loves several recipes that I blend chunkier than called for.
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Summary: Exactly What I Needed
Review: I bought Super Baby Foods and was disappointed. It was hard to follow (with many cross-references per paragraph), difficult to make super porridge and other staples, and disjointed. All I needed was a book with recipes to make food for my baby! The Well Fed Baby did just that. The recipes are clear and easy to understand, all calling for fresh ingredients. The recipes use a variety of foods, including all the single-item foods you'd need. The nutritional information is straightforward and easy to read. I used these recipes exclusively from about 7 months to 12 months, and even now, my 14-month old daughter still loves several recipes that I blend chunkier than called for.
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Summary: do not waste your money
Review: I bought this book as an alternative to Super baby food. What a disappointment. This book gives you recipes which are exact copies of earth's best jarred foods. Nothing new or exiciting. Do yourself a favor and do not waste your money.
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Summary: Could've done better...
Review: I got this book for the same reasons everyone else did-to be able to provide my baby with good nutritious food in hopes of avoiding jarred baby food. I found this book to have one main problem, lots of contradictions. At first it told me what I wanted to hear, you can make baby food at home and it's easy and fulfilling. The emphasis seemed to be on providing foods that don't contain extras like sugar, butter, seasonings, etc. Then many of the recipes given contained these extras: sugar, salt, butter, and cinnamon for 10 month olds. I didn't find this very reassuring and not what I was looking for. These recipes came from chefs whom may or may not have kids so maybe that's the reason, but this was certainly not what I had in mind for my baby.
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Summary: A must have for mommy and daddy!
Review: I had planned to make my own baby food, so I bought several books on the subject. This book was by far the best one of the lot. It gives clear, concise guidelines for what foods to feed babies at different ages, done in bulleted lists that make the book very easy to read. The recipes are fairly simple and don't use alot of esoteric ingredients like many of the other baby cookbooks. Overall, this is the best laid out and most informative baby food book out there. A great buy for anyone interested in cooking their baby's food.
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Summary: The Best Baby Food Book I Bought!
Review: I had planned to make my own baby food, so I bought several books on the subject. This book was by far the best one of the lot. It gives clear, concise guidelines for what foods to feed babies at different ages, done in bulleted lists that make the book very easy to read. The recipes are fairly simple and don't use alot of esoteric ingredients like many of the other baby cookbooks. Overall, this is the best laid out and most informative baby food book out there. A great buy for anyone interested in cooking their baby's food.
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Summary: Not really what I needed
Review: I purchased this book because I was looking for help in making all of my son's baby food. The book doesn't really help with this, since all of the recipes are multi-ingredient, and (of course) when just starting out, you really need preparation instructions for single ingredient stuff.I decided not to keep the book even after my baby was eating mixed food because: 1) The recipes are not very inventive (it was all stuff I would've come up with on my own); 2) The book is not very easy to work with (it's small and doesn't stay open to a given page very easily); 3) There are no illustrations or other aids to help you find ideas quickly. A friend of mine brought over Super Baby Foods and I purchased that instead. I wish someone had mentioned *that* book to me before I'd bought this one - that's why I'm writing this review. If you're looking for help getting started making your own baby food, like I was, Super Baby Food is the book for you - not this one.
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