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Summary: A truely useful book to have around your house!!!
Review: How to make Healthy Baby Food? Yes, and in my opinion so much more...endless amounts of suggestions on child care; growth charts, feeding charts, and recipes my child actually enjoys eating! Excellent safety tips for you and your child - even how to prevent botulism and salmonella, how to clean my home safely - even your pet safely (Murphy's Oil soap kills fleas on contact and safe too! I'm impressed! Make your own vanilla, bubble blowing solutions, homemade gifts, costumes, edible play dough, play dough cookies, and learn the basics on nutrition while you have fun! Trying to give your child a good start in healthy eating is not easy, new fangled toys are always tempting...learn to feed your baby with healthy foods, spend time with him/her with crafts that cost very little, you'll both have a great time and you won't have a dent in your budget! You'll find yourself refering to this book many times for many many years!!
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Summary: Great book for new parents!!
Review: We looked at a lot of books and this one is the most comprehensive. It has an emphasis on healthy easy-to-make baby foods and has lots and lots of recipes. Even if you don't follow all the diet plans, if you follow just the breakfast plan alone (super porridge etc), your baby will get more nutrition than most babies get in a whole day. (disclaimer: I'm a Registered Nurse, though not a nutritionist). There are also fun crafts projects and lots of cost-saving ideas. We love this book!
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Summary: If your a first time mom this is a must!
Review: I was feeding my baby organic jarred baby food. One day I tasted it and that was it. I came across this book and have been making her food since. I am by no means a chef of any sort. Super baby food made it easy and tasteful. It is a vegetarian guided book but it's very easy to adapt meat into the diet. Protein is the hardest thing to get into a baby's diet so the books suggestion of tofu and brewer's yeast certainly help meet that goal. I highly suggest it and of course would always check with my pediatrician first. It's a great guideline.
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Summary: If you are not a vegitarian, don't but this book!
Review: I bought this book with the intention of making my own baby food for my son. I wanted to find a book to tell me how to cook and combine some of the jarred foods I had been feeding him, such as sweet potato and turkey, and apples and chicken, but to my surprise found that the meat section in this book is nothing less than an statement about how bad meat is and that we are starving the rest of the world by eating it.Being a vegatarian is great, but I think that the title and book description should include that there are very few meat recipies.
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Summary: The BEST book on feeding your babies and toddlers!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book is truly incredible and was a HUGE help for me. I started feeding my twin boys jarred food for one month before finding this great book. After that, it was only homemade! They NEVER touched another jar of processed food again, and they are now almost 3. It is amazing how easy it is to make your own baby food and how little time it really takes. Ruth did a great job of giving instructions on how to tackle what seems a daunting task, yet is really easy, fast and FUN! One thing I loved about making my own food, was that it was easy to transition to table foods, you just don't puree it as much, it's that easy. And pretty soon, you're not using the blender as much and before you know it, they're eating table foods, without the hassles of going to different 'stages' of jarred food. I'm so glad I read this book, I've given copies as baby-shower gifts and even gave one to my twins club to share w/all the other moms. If a working mom of twins can make her own baby food, anyone can! Try it out, it's really worth it, for you and your baby. Your SUPER BABY will love you for taking the time.
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Summary: A Mommy Necessity
Review: Though I can't make all of my baby's food - this book is a real winner when it comes to nutritional information and what to feed your baby at each month! In a world of fast food and unhealthy children, this is a great book for serious moms.
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Summary: An absolute must for mothers old and new!
Review: I refer to this book as my bible! I was searching for one book that could answer all my nutritional questions for my picky 11 month old daughter, as well as give me valuable suggestions and I found it all in this book! Super Baby Food allows you to use it as an easy flip through reference or as a cover to cover novel. Either way I always take away something new (and healthy) each time I read it.
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Summary: This is the only book you'll need on nutrition for your baby
Review: There is so much useful information in this book. I won't even lend it out! Everything you could possibly need to know about nutrition and feeding your baby. Extraordinarily useful tips and moneysaving ideas. And, in addition, all kinds of ideas and descriptions of things that have nothing to do with food, but EVERY parent would love to know. Recipes for homemade baby wipes and homemade playdough and so much more. Ruth Yaron could have easily written 2 books, but we're glad she put it in one! This book is worth every penny! No need to buy every natural baby food book on the market. It's all in here.
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Summary: Great info. Just one thing... or two...
Review: This book is a great resource. One warning - I'm afraid some fuses may be blown due to information overload if parents start into this book without a some real knowledge on nutrition and whole foods. I picture parents with the best intentions becoming so overwhelmed with instructions, opinions, theories that are second-guessed, and actual facts (whew!) that they resign themselves to the "simple", mainstream method of babyfeeding. Here's what to do. 1. Learn about nutrition from a good source (it's not going to hurt you!). Try any nutrition book by the brilliant Elson Haas, M.D. 2. GET THIS BOOK! 3. Read this book and take from what you will: great info, recipes, and tips. And finally, most importantly, I'm not a big fan of America's meat habits either, but people need to be aware that soy is a phyto-estrogen - a plant based estrogen. (Aha! So THAT's why menopausal women drink soy! Exactly!...) That DOES make it a xeno-estrogen (a substance that, when introduced to the body, behaves like estrogen), not entirely unlike many plastics and pesticides. So, please PLEASE educate yourself on these xeno-estrogens before you feed your developing baby a diet with such a high soy content.
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Summary: Good Resource
Review: This book is full of practical information on starting your baby on solid foods. I particularly liked the advice on making vegetables and fruits--I saved a bundle by making baby food myself, and its really easy. However, some of her information is (in my opinion) extreme and unrealistic, such as her views on meat. I also was not comfortable with the homemade "super porridge", since most registered dietitians recommend using iron-fortified infant cereal for the first two years. All in all, though, the book is very helpful and I refer to it often.
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