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Summary: Working moms, pick & choose
Review: This is a good book if you want to pick up some info on how to cook, freeze & serve sweet potatoes for your baby (as I'm currently doing at 6 monts, 2 weeks). However, there are large parts of this book that I just have to ignore. I can't serve new foods to my baby in the morning... I breast-feed at 6:30 am and take him to day care and that's that until I pick him up at 5. The best time for me to check for allergies is in the evening... contrary to this advice. The idea of me doing intricate crafts is annoying...even if I had the time, I don't have the skill or the interest. However, if you are a working mom who wants to make her baby's food, this is a good reference book. Please take it *ahem* with a grain of salt (the advice, not the baby's food). I'd also suggest you start baby with cereal, then veggies, then fruit (unlike this book's suggestions). jg
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Summary: perfect book - the only one you need for feeding baby!
Review: This is the best, most comprehensive book about feeding baby I have found. I am following Yaron's suggestions to the T, with a green light from my pediatrician. (Including eating cooked egg yolks and the nuts and seeds suggested.) He says over and over again how lucky my son is to be getting such wholesome food! I started out thinking that I would just make some of my own baby food, but each thing I tried was easier than the one before, and before I knew it, I was making all the food for my baby. I really find it hard to believe that anyone buys baby food, especially things like cereal and bananas. But, even if you are not planning to make all (or any) of your own baby food, I still think this book is a must have. It gives detailed information on exactly what foods can be started at what age, what constitutes a balanced diet for a baby or toddler of any age, how to select, prepare, store, ripen, freeze or cook anything you want to serve baby, and tons more. No pediatrician could possibly provide this much information. I think a lot of Yaron's general household "Tips" throughout the book are sort of silly, but I have found a few of them to be very useful. This is the encyclopedia of baby food. It is a must have for all moms!
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Summary: Much more than "Super Baby Food"
Review: After deciding to attempt making homemade baby food, I purchased this book. To my surprise, it was not only easy to prepare, freeze and serve the baby food, but it was alot of fun, too. This book has been the best reference for making nutritious and tasty food for my son since he was four months old. I started using the book as soon as he was able to enjoy "people food" and I still use it today now that he is able to feed himself. The recipes, crafts, and cleaning ideas at the back of the book are wonderful. There is some much more to this book than just the foods. I consider it a total nutrition reference book! The breakdown by month is very helpful in determining the types of foods to introduce and the four day wait period is a good measure to rule out any allergies. To this day, people are amazed at the foods that my son will eat. From avocado to ground millet to tofu and more. His favorite is Avocado, who would have thought? Although my son is in daycare, I have noticed that he does not get sick nearly as often as the others in the infant room. I truly believe that it has something to do with his diet, although I can't prove that. If you ever thought about making your own baby food, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. It is easy, more cost effective than jars and really does not take much added effort. You will definitely feel as though you are giving your child the very best nature has to offer. SUPER BABY FOOD IS A WONDERFUL REFERENCE BOOK! I WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO ALL NEW MOM'S.
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Summary: Great book for How am I suppose to do THIS?!? (feed baby!)
Review: This is a great book that helps out with exactly how, when and what to feed baby from first solid food on. The book offers a very detailed step-by-step approach, month by month. Ruth Yaron is very good about explaining how easy, nutritious and economical it really is to make your own baby's food. I recommend this book constantly in my New Moms group and Toddler group as well. I tell everyone to pass it by their pediatrician, which they do, and everyone has always given it a 'thumbs up'! Ruth Yaron is very conscientious about food sensitivities and helps you know what are the common foods that cause sensitivities and how to avoid trouble in the first place. The book keeps going with nutritional recipes, baby-safe cleaners and more. She is relatively "anti meat," and can be perceived as a little "granola-crunchy," but her methods for helping with first timers are very helpful and help you get started on the right foot. We took what we liked out of this book (which was a lot) and left the rest (we eat meat!) :)
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Summary: A perfect way to save money and keep your child healthy
Review: I bought this book 2 years ago for my first child. As a first time stay at home mom I needed referance material that would give me a list of foods to feed my child and at what age,I also wanted a referance on how to save money by preparing it myself. It was very important to me to find a way that would give my child the least amount of sugar and preservatives like in pre made baby food, and the most vitamins and minerals. So when I found Ruth Yarons book I was so excited because there were no other books that gave you step by step instructions. Now my Daughter is very healthy and only had 2 colds in her first 2 years of life. I directly attribute it to breast feeding as well as feeding her healthy foods prepared with love. I am not a vegitarian so I listened to my doctor about when to start meat and I converted the program to fit my childs needs. It was a great basis to guide me in my first experience with an infant. With any thing you have to come up with your own decisions especially when It comes to your prescious children. This book not only was a wonderful guide but it helped save us a lot of money and I knew exactly what my child was eating.
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Summary: Not a bad book, but best for vegetarians and organic-types.
Review: I bought this book based on the great reviews, but was disappointed. It contains some good information, but I only used it a handful of times (and only the section on when and how to introduce specific fruits and vegetables which could probably be found in another book) and my baby is now a year old. Yaron is a very organic, earthy type who does not believe in giving meat to chidren, and who does believe in making everything yourself (including toys and household cleaners as well as your baby's food). I attempt to choose healthy foods for my family at least as much as the next person (we eat meat moderately--mainly chicken and fish--and eat lots of fresh produce), but I'm also practical about it. The ideas in this book require a lot of work and the availability whole foods store, which not everybody has access to. If you're a vegetarian or regularly shop at a whole foods store already, this book may just be for you, but if you're the type that isn't opposed to the occassional meal of macaroni and cheese and hotdogs, you should probably keep looking. I know I am.
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Summary: An excellent resource and guide for novice parents.
Review: I found Superbaby Food to be exceptionally helpful as a first-time parent. I must confess to not following all the suggestions religiously, however, it is so loaded with information that I was able to pick and choose beneficial aspects for my baby. I am not the super organic type and do use commercial baby foods but am able to supplement those thanks to the information found in the book. I have found a happy medium for myself and my baby. The nutrition tables are very thorough, making it easy to calculate a child's nutrtional needs as they grow. The author includes many recipes that enable parents to "sneak" healthy things into tasty treats that kids will actually eat. She also goes on to provide multiple ways to save money on baby products such as diapers and wipes, toys, and clothing, information which is as valuable as gold these days. She is also very careful to state that all dietary matters should be discussed with one's pediatrician --very commendable. I have recommended this book to friends and will continue to do so.
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Summary: the BABY FOOD BIBLE
Review: I was looking for an informative book about baby food, and I certainly found it! Ruth Yaron's book has now become my bible. It is chock full of useful information - presented in an easy-to-read and highly accessible format. My one regret is not purchasing it earlier. Thank you!
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Summary: A very good resource
Review: I ordered Super Babyfood at the recommendation of several friends, and I must say it is an excellent and comprehensive resource for getting baby started. I like the fact that Ms. Yaron is a "no compromises" Mom -- just like me. There will be time enough for compromises later. I must say, though, that I found some of her "recipes" kind of off-putting. I have used the information extensively, I have used her lists of foods to introduce as a prompt to keep adding new foods (it can be so easy to fall into a rut of offering what's popular) -- but I have opted against using many of the recipes. If I wouldn't serve it to guests, I don't offer it to my son. (...)
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Summary: One source for all the information you need to get started
Review: Plus, make food for your baby at about 1/4 of the cost of buying the food in jars!! **We spend at most $15 per month on food for our 1 year old!** For those of you out there who are disappointed with the wealth of information in this book, there are some of us who have been searching for all the nutritional information for infants at each age, and for each individual food, so that we can make our own intelligent decisions about what to feed our children. If this is what you are searching for, this is the book for you. For those who like more information about various things you read, the cross references in this book are an amazing help. If you choose to feel guilty for not following all her recommendations, that is up to you. But the best thing about this book is that you can pick and choose what works best for you. Just because there are lots of healthy foods out there, doesn't mean you have to use them all, and it doesn't mean you can't supplement with commercial foods in a pinch. For those of you that think some of the ideas are weird or gross, I'll admit, I agree, BUT you forget that kids aren't born with the same categories of weirdness that we as adults are accustomed to. My son, a typical testy eater, will eat organic whole milk yogurt (bitter stuff that I can't stand), mixed with fruit puree, brewers' yeast and commercial cereal (to thicken it) for breakfast. For lunch, he'll eat beans(for protein)mixed with carrots, green veggies and potatoes, along with other add-ins, such as spirulina. I personally wouldn't care to eat it, but during the youngest years, if my son will eat healthily, why prevent it? He even likes whole grain breads and crackers, so why spoil him on animal cookies and other less healthy foods? I found other baby food books (with bright and colorful pictures taking the place of valuable information) to be far more limited in scope, and too "trendy" and complicated for me. For a child who happily eats dust bunnies, dirt, sticks, paper, etc, I would challenge the importance of "visual appeal" as a primarily adult sensibility. All of my friends to whom I lent this book absolutely loved it as well, because it frees you from thinking in terms of what commercial marketers and the media would have you think. For my next child, I'll get to try even more of the suggestions in the book. Happy reading!
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