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Summary: Not user friendly
Review: This is a great book if you have hours on end to sit down and read the small print. The pix are black and white...the information is overly in depth. I don't want to have to cram for my baby's nutrition exam...I just want to feed him healthy food that will benifit him in the future. The book is more like the encyclopedia of how to make baby food. It is not all bad...go to a bookstore and thumb through it before you order.
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Summary: Horrible book
Review: I bought this book in a moment of weakness at the bookstore, and I am very sorry I didn't do my homework first. I agree with many of the other reviewers - don't buy this book. It's preachy, condescending, wordy, inconsistent, and unhelpful. Her extreme anti-meat stance is startling, and her grudgingly added chapter on meat, for those of us who apparently don't care that we're poisoning our children, is absurd. Although I am trying to feed my son organic foods, whole grains and even tofu, her "my way or else" attitude is really irritating.
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Summary: Microwaving food destroys nutrition
Review: I found that this book does have some neat reipes, but I must agree with others who have reviewed the book; it is quite wordy. And when you're trying to take care of a baby (and older siblings) that is not what you're looking for. Also, if this author cares so much about nutrition, I am surprised that she recommends microwaving food. Microwaving anything pretty much removes any nutritional value it had and adds radiation. The stovetop is often just as fast as the microwave and heats food much more evenly.
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Summary: Worth separating the wheat from the chaff
Review: First the problems with the book: 1. This book is *very* scattered and disorganized. Charts are not very clear. The use of many different fonts and sidebars adds to the confusion. A good editor should be *required* for the next edition. 2. Some of the advice is contradictory. For example, the author states that whole grain cereals are not appropriate for infants under 6 months of age because they do not yet have the enzymes required for digestion. She recommends boxed, processed cereals. In the same paragraph, the author states that she only believes in feeding her own children whole grains and so has never used processed cereals. Well, which one is it? We fed our son whole grain rice and oats before 6 months without problem. 3. The author's "helpful" hints are obvious and not very helpful...they border on being downright stupid. They should be deleted from the next verion of this book, if there is one. 4. Unusual foods such as brewer's yeast, desiccated liver and powdered kelp are recommended to supplement foods to improve vitamin balance. We use Dr. recommended liquid infant vitamins so we do not have to resort to these unusual foods. I will not feed my son anything that I would not eat myself. The good parts of this book: 1. This book provides a good basic framework for the introduction of solid foods to infants. Tables stating which foods are appropriate for which months of age are very helpful. Chapters organized by month are extremely helpful as one can just turn to the specific month and know what to expect. 2. The ice cube system is a very good idea. It saves a lot of time and effort. Basically, it makes homemade baby food possible as one does not have to make food from scratch for each meal. One can make food in batches, store it in individual servings in the freezer and use as needed. We would not be able to make our own baby food without such a system. In conclusion: This book is not without faults, but an intelligent reader can separate the wheat from the chaff and manage to raise a happy and healthy baby on homemade food. My wife and I have used this as our sole (in conjunction with the advice of our son's Dr.) resource for feeding our son. The strengths of this book make it worthwhile despite its many weaknesses.
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Summary: Do not buy this book
Review: Someone who buys this book based on the front & back covers will be unpleasantly surprised to find out that this is a vegetarian book. First of all, I NEVER intended to put my baby on a vegetarian diet so I felt very misled. In fact, I love meat and her chapter on meat was not only offensive but also ridiculous and totally misinformed. You wonder how someone so stupid was ever allowed to publish a book that deals with babies' health. Even if you are a vegetarian, I would think three times before buying this book because the author's only qualifications are her healthy twins and how they never got sick. To top it all, the tone of the book is VERY annoying and preachy, so much so that I'm here warning all mothers not to waste their very limited and valuable time and money with this horrible book.
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Summary: Author apparently paid by the word
Review: I appreciate what the author is trying to convey, that a healthy diet is important for a healthy child. Unfortunately she requires about 600 pages to do it, when probably 150 would have sufficed. After slogging through it, my opinion is that it should have been written more like a reference book, with clear sections and concise information. Instead it is very disorganized and littered with phrases like, "Please re-read the passage about Water on page 98." "Refer to page 142 for information on soybeans." What a pain. I'm sure there's a better book out there (and I'll let you know when I find it).
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Summary: Vegetarian based, but maybe a good thing?
Review: After investigating several baby food books at the local bookstore, I decided on this one despite its vegetarian nature. Although I agree with the other reviewers that think the author's preachy and fanatic distaste for meat is unnecessary, the book is much more complete in all other areas. It includes all the recommended dietary guidelines for babies, including allergy information and what foods to start when. It includes more useful, intelligent, scientific information about child nutrition than the books that simply give stupid decorating suggestions (e.g. "shape chicken nuggets into animals and your kids will love it!!") As for the vegetarian nature, I figured it's good to know about the other protein options this book presents for when it's still too soon for baby to eat meat ("solid" foods can start as early as 4 months, but meat is not recommended until around 8 months!). Also, it's possible baby won't like meat - but still needs to get his protein from somewhere!
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Summary: Should Be Called Super VEGETERIAN FOOD!
Review: BUYER BEWARE!Important to Read! For those of us who eat MEAT!
I decided before my son was 4 months that I was going to be making his baby food in my own kitchen, so I decided to buy this book to help me in the process of how to prepare fruits, veggies,legumes and meats. Well to my surprise there was alot of great info on fruits, veggies and Legumes etc. but only one chapter dedicated to meats (which the author states is a horrbile bile thing to give to your child and is not part of the Super Baby Food Plan. That a Vegeterian diet is the best meal plan for baby, which was really offensive to me.)but she has a right to her opionion.
When I read the front and back of the book I was under the impression that this covered it all and was not at all a tree hugging Vegeterian book! The pages gave me alot of info on fruits and veggies but not to good of info on the Meat. I would say this is a good book but does not give those of us who plan on feeding there children (free ran, Hormone free meat) to our children. If you are a Vegeterian this is the book for you! This author must be suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder! You'll see when you read the book!-------------
Subject matter seems to be spread out over the book....I thought this book to be very misleading in the discription on cover and back of book although it did give me great info on how to prepare all other foods besides MEAT!
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Summary: Excellent way to feed your baby
Review: In a world filled with preservatives, sugar and poor quality foods, this book fills a need if you want to start your child off in life with a healthy beginning. Easy to read, easy to use, and filled with practical ideas. Tips about how to feed your baby (how/when/what), how to deal with (and uncover) allergies. Ideas for holiday foods. Contains many great recipes. Will even get you to eat better! Also recommended for natural baby care: Gentle Baby Care by Elizabeth Pantley
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Summary: Cool Info for baby and toddler
Review: GREAT book for baby and toddler. What a nice surprise to know that someone decided to respect what the doctors have been saying for years, watch out for preservatives and chemicals in babies and toddlers. My older children really do have common food allergies just because we introduced them to too many things at once. What a terrible experience they (and me) have had. With the recent baby, someone gave this to me for a gift. Now I know what is good and when it is right. Also recommemded: Mommy-CEO, by Jodie Lynn. She writes a book about the most tried and true tips in parenting and my opinion is that if we feed our children good food to keep them healthy, we can get even better results if we feed our own mind about good parenting skills. Good food equals super health - and good parenting skills equals super kids along with peace of mind. One other book we have really used is On Becoming Baby Wise, by Gary Ezzo. Buy all three and please tell others about them. Your freinds will really appreciate you just as mine did. Best of all, you will see a huge difference in your family and in your own outlook. These three books don't have all of the answers, but boy do they ever help!
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