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Summary: A little overwhelming and difficult to read but great info.
Review: I've checked out tons of books on baby food since my little one started eating solids and there's all kinds of conflicting, confusing information out there. This book has so much information in it, it's really difficult to sit down and read it, especially if you have a little crawler roaming around. I'm a vegetarian and rather health food minded but I jokingly call this book "Super Hippie Baby Food" because it's a little much even for me. I'm giving it four stars though simply because it does encourage people to cook for their babies and not participate in the baby food buying maddness. It also encourages people to start feeding babies whole, healthy foods. I'm game, so I'm going to try out the "super poridge" and see how it goes over I also think it's a really good idea to make your own yogurt so I'm gonna give that a try. As for recipes... I think I'll stick with "Animal Crackers and Wild West Beans" it's easier to read.
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Summary: Weird food suggestions, hard to read
Review: I got this as a gift and did not like it. I want to feed my baby healthy stuff but wheat germ?? No, thanks. Plus it's hard to find your way around the book. I want something easy and practical, that book is not it.
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Summary: A Health Consciences Mom's Best Help
Review: I am a mom of an 11 month old and this book saved me from going insane when it came to starting to feed my boy solids at 6 months. I believe that there is nothing more perfect than breast milk for your baby - but you can't feed them that forever. This book helped me get over the fear of feeding my baby solids by giving me the power of deciding on exactly what I am putting in his mouth. It gave me the confidence and knowledge to make my own (super) baby food by explaining when and what kind of nutrition my growing baby needs and how can I provide that to him. It is also a great guide on how to pick, prepare and store every kind of veggie and fruit you can think of. I am still using the book almost everyday, reading and rereading certain sections of it. Someone complained about the scattered references all over the book. I think that is one of the most useful features, which by the way the writer explains in the very beginning. You don't need to read the whole book right away, which you don't have time for anyway, but read into the sections that are age appropriate and anything related to that. That is where the scattered references come to your help. I am really sorry for the moms who have a hard time appreciating this book. If you read it carefully you would understand why it is important to feed your baby tofu, nut butters or millet, kelp, tahini or kale. It doesn't just tell you to do that but gives you a logical and scientifically backed explanation. Scientifically to the point that any mom can understand it. All you need is open mindedness. And a little effort that will go a long way!!! It takes some time to get into making your baby's food from scratch but the book has great suggestions on how to manage your time in the kitchen. Since I started using this book I bought a copy to all my pregnant friends. It is one of the greatest things you can do for your baby: feed him right. Doesn't it make you feel bad to put all that commercial garbage into your baby's mouth, full of chemicals and additives and missing all the original nutrition because it was processed? My baby will eat everything and anything I offer him. He had no chance to develop a taste preference. His favorites are tofu and avocado because of their texture. Some of the foods taste a little different than what you might be used to but because of the detailed explanations behind everything the writer suggests to use, you can make an INFORMED DECISION yourself on giving it to your baby or not. My parents and in-laws were a little skeptical in the beginning but my son is the healthiest, happiest baby they have ever seen which reassured them that we are doing the right thing following this book. As an added bonus: this book is slowly changing the whole family's diet to a much more health consciences one. It is a wonderful book that every mom should have access to.
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Summary: excellent resource
Review: If you are planning on making your own baby food this book is a must. It has been a superior guide in planning my son's meals and successfully introducting a wide range of solids. This book goes into to extensive detail and does an incredible job covering what you will need to know about feeding you baby a healthy, well balanced diet. The only thing that is keeps this book from being my sole infant nutrition resource, and keeps me from giving it a full 5 stars, is that the information in this book is designed for strict vegetarian diets and does not cover preparation of meats for the baby or include the what the proper integration of meat should be in an infant and toddler's balanced diet. It does, though, do an amazing job at covering absolutelty everything else and I recommend it whether you are vegetarian or not.
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Summary: Good intentions, highly disappointed
Review: The author may have had good intentions writing this book, but it needs a lot of help. First of all, yes, it is very opinionated. Furthermore, the lack of common sense, especially BABY know-how gets quite annoying early on - before you even read the preparing homemade food section. Any good parent, vegetarian or not, young or old, knows better than to give a young baby some of the foods recommended in this book - nuts, eggs, turnips, tofu - no way!! I thought the idea was to provide the best for your baby, not encourage food allergies and further distress on a fragile digestive system. Want to know how to make your own baby food? It's simple, buy the fruits and veggies you'd like your little one to eat, the same ones you can find in a baby food jar, and maybe some of your own safe, unique varieties. Clean it, cook it (steam, boil, etc), puree it in a blender. Adjust consistency as needed with either water to thin or rice cereal, etc to thicken. Freeze it in small portions. The author's freezing storage method is handy, but you may come up with a better idea for your needs.
I've read lots complaints about the anti-meat thing. Animal protein is very healthy, especially for a developing child. I personally don't like the dog-food smelling meat-only commercial baby food preparations and buy the meat and veggie type blends. You can do the same thing at home, with properly cooked, unseasoned meat pureed with a selection of veggie(s).
Making homemade baby food and feeding your child isn't difficult. Getting through this book is. Check it out at a library if you really want to read up on the food prep, or borrow it from someone you know. This book was given to me as a recommendation. If I browsed through it in a store it would have gone right back on the shelf. It could do without 580 other pages, but it's her book, so she's entitled to add the other stuff in it. I'm sure there are far more intelligent, simple, and "food safe" baby food book selections out there.
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Summary: The worst book
Review: I was looking for a book that would help me to stay away from jarred food and this book did not help at all. I wanted to know just how much water to add to things but this book does not do it at all. Also I wanted to know who to prepare meats and this book says, "in my opinion, meat is dangerous to eat, or even to have in the kitchen." Also there are things that it says that you should give to your baby such as nuts, seeds and eggs that in several other sources that say you should never give to your child till they are over a year and nuts until they are almost 2. Also there are many things in the book that I have never heard of. Such as millet, kelp, tahini and kale. And many things I would never even think of giving any child oh any age. Such as parsley, beats rhubarb, rutabaga, and turnips. This books wants you to give these things striate, not even in something. Due to this book and frustration on not finding information on how to make baby food I am now using the jarred junk. I wish there were a book that told you exactly how to make baby food. I would not recommend this book at all
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Summary: Get this book from the library instead
Review: If you are interested in making your own baby food, check this book out from the library and spend your money on a different book (if you feel you must buy one). I got this book before my son was born and felt some of the additives unnecessary and recipes unappealing. I made my own baby food for him, but I used more common sense than this book. I also could never find the author's qualifications, so I don't know if the author is a qualified nutritionist, or just someone who wrote a book about feeding her kids.
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Summary: great for twins and month to month foods
Review: I really like this book. I have twins and found it to be way better than most. The month to month schedule on foods babies can eat is pretty darn accurate in my house. So what if you have to look at little harder for topics? If you want the best food for baby, just go with the flow. I had just bought it and then found it was recommended by family expert and columnist, Jodie Lynn, in her Parent to Parent column. Since I am a fan of her as well as her own book, Mommy-CEO, that also has some tips on feeding baby, I was quite joyful with my selection of Super Baby Food. Don't be such complainers. Leave that to the real bundle of joy. My two offer plenty of perfect but massive gripes.
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Summary: A solid and valuable text
Review: Why does this book offend so many people? "Super Baby Food" is a great reference text, full of vital, important information. Sure, Ruth Yaron is no Hemmingway. Her writing style is too colloquial (perhaps). I spent a good amount of time with our library's vast baby food collection and no book provided high-quality reference like this. Month-by-month, this book provides a checklist of the foods your child can eat. Each month's section gives good advice on what you can expect. The book starts at 4 months and may continue too long into the child's life. Yaron provides two essential references - a nutrional guide and a technique guide. The information on Blackstrap Molasses, Brewer's Yeast and Wheat Germ is fantastic. After reading about these 'super-additives,' I went on to reserach them and learned about how nutritive all three are. I plan to incorporate them into my diet, as well! Yaron may falter in two areas. Often her enthusiasm to make food comes across too strong. But again, reading is passive, inherently. If you don't like the message, skip to the next section. Second, the organization of chapters could be better. But that's more a publisher error. I can't understand why people find her message offensive.
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Summary: Not so unusual, but scattered.
Review: I agree with many of the points of the other middle of the road reviews here. Yes, the author is preachy at times and presents a confusing, reference system throughout the book. Yes, the additional sections, although cute, seem out of place and irrelevant to the book.
But, she has many good points.
I am a normal, every day woman, but things like powdered kelp, millet, and brewer's yeast are a regular part of my diet. My mother made all of our own food, had an organic garden as our main staple for fruits and veggies, and I grew up eatng these foods. Now that I am a mother, I feel more than confident doing the same for my son and the ingredients are readily available. I don't live in a metropolis, just a small city in the middle of nowhere with stores that carry these ingredients, which, as the author points out, are typical foods in other parts of the world. Don't knock it just because you haven't yet tried kelp (although if you've ever eaten soup at a Japanese restaurant, you sure have tried kelp!). Give it a go! Incorporating these interesting foods ito your diets eliminate the need for processed vitamins and supplements in your diet, just imagine how much better that is for your child! I was happy to find a cookbook that could offer me ideas as to how to incorporate these nutricious foods into my homemade baby food and found this part of the book to be one of its shining lights, not setbacks. So, this book is alright. I have since read better and more helpful, especially considering that I am focused on finding a book about feeding my baby healthy, organic foods that, along with breastmilk, will completely meet all of my son's needs. My recommendation, borrow it from the library!
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