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Summary: An easy and tasty baby food book for your little one and you
Review: Cathe is a great writer and has made a wonderful book that I will be able to use for many years and pass down to my children. Anyone who invests in this great book will not go wrong. The recipes are simple to use and delicious. Plus she has great information of all kinds of nutritional value of the foods and when you can feed them to your baby. !!
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Summary: A must have for all parents!
Review: Cathe's book is filled with fantastic ideas and super recipes. They are simple, easy to make, and offer great choices for all types of healthy diets - meat eaters, vegetarians, and vegans. Such a helpful book with so many tips and sandwich and snack suggestions. The ideas in her book make you say "oh yeah - that's perfect for my child". You'll feel good about feeding these foods to your precious one! And my husband and I are even enjoying the fruits of Cathe's labor!
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Summary: Finally a healthy cook book!!
Review: Finally a heathy cookbook for kids. All the other books have refined sugar or milk etc, ingredients that my baby can't have or I don't want her to have. I have been looking for a book that uses quinoa, millet and other incredibly wonderful grains. For those of you mainstream, it might be a bit of a challenge, but try this book. Find out about these grains. Do some research on the ingredients in this book. They are delicious, easy to use and sooo good for your baby.
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Summary: EsMummy
Review: Get your freezer space ready. Many of these recipes make large quanties, but it all freezes well. I found myself cooking a lot for several days, but since I can store the food in my freezer and use small quantities at a time, I then have a week or so off from cooking. If you already practice eating whole foods and buying in bulk, chances are that you will have most of the ingredients laying around anyway. I did have to pick up a few specialty items at the local food co-op, but I shop there all the time anyway! The food is good, and my husband and I eat it as well. I have seen an improvemnet in my son's sleeping habits since we began practicing the recipes in this book. This is not only a book of recipes, but also a book about lifestyle change. I have learned so much. I wish I had this book a year ago! It is now a must buy for anyone I know who is having a baby.
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Summary: simply wonderful
Review: Get your freezer space ready. Many of these recipes make large quanties, but it all freezes well. I found myself cooking a lot for several days, but since I can store the food in my freezer and use small quantities at a time, I then have a week or so off from cooking. If you already practice eating whole foods and buying in bulk, chances are that you will have most of the ingredients laying around anyway. I did have to pick up a few specialty items at the local food co-op, but I shop there all the time anyway! The food is good, and my husband and I eat it as well. I have seen an improvemnet in my son's sleeping habits since we began practicing the recipes in this book. This is not only a book of recipes, but also a book about lifestyle change. I have learned so much. I wish I had this book a year ago! It is now a must buy for anyone I know who is having a baby.
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Summary: What a Disappointment
Review: I bought this and Mommy Made because of all the great reviews. I missed one towards the end that said don't buy this, several of the recipes call for ingredients such as sea kelp, sea vegetables (I didn't know there was any such thing), or things like tahini, millet and quinoa. I don't even know what those are. I should be able to buy the ingredients in a regular grocery store. It also goes to the other extreme (also noted in a previous review)and actually gives recipes for juice pops (pour juice into an ice cube tray). I mean really. There are very few actually usable recipes in this book, and it is a very thin and small book to begin with. For the most part this book will be under the Mommy Made book. Buy that one, its much thicker, has much more recipes and uses regular every day ingredients. This one was a waste of money.
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Summary: A good collection but many aren't really recipes.
Review: I bought this book based largely on the great reviews, and while it does have a few recipes my son has enjoyed, it is a very slim book. I'm not kidding when I say it has a recipe for cinammon toast! Other "recipes" literally have three ingredients and the direction "mash." Now, I'm no gourmet chef, but I was looking for a little more-mainly sneaky ways to get my son to eat vegetables. I was hoping for recipes a little like those at the back of the "What to Expect" books. It does have some good ones,(great first birthday cake),just don't expect a thick volume.
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Summary: Solution to Ingredients Problem
Review: I have not read this book, but I plan to purchase it based on the many positive reviews. The main negative review I've read is difficulty finding some of the obscure ingredients. The ingredients problem can be easily solved no matter where you live. The reason why I am writing a review is to add a comment to that discussion.
Thanks to the internet, it is no longer necessary to live in Northern California to have easy access to obscure ingredients. If you like the idea of the book but are worried about finding ingredients, buy them online!!
One reviewer had a hard time finding brown rice flour. Try www.barryfarm.com. You will find a 1 lb. bag for $1.29.
Another reviewer mentioned Quinoa. Try www.mannaharvest.net. You will find a 12 oz box of Ancient Harvest Organic Quinoa for $3.25.
These are only two examples of thousands of resources online. A great way to find any of these ingredients is www.froogle.com (Google's shopping search site).
Yes, you will have to pay for shipping, but...
1. If you can buy a lot of ingredients from one store, the shiping is a small percentage of the total price.
2. You often don't pay sales tax online, which can offset the shipping cost. (In fact, if you have to pay sales tax, that means you're in the same state as the store which means you probably have easy local access to these ingredients anyway).
3. The shipping cost can be worth the added convenience of having these items delivered to your door.
4. Some online stores offer free shipping if your order is over a minimum dollar amount.
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Summary: Easy, Delicious and loaded with Great Tips!!
Review: I just love this little recipe book!! I think I use it at least once a day. The recipes are so easy to make, yet very healthy and very, very YUMMY! The author Cathe Olson, has included loads of great tips that are easy to follow and very helpful. Thank-you Cathe for helping me to give my baby baby a healthy start in life.
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Summary: Great Little Book
Review: I love this little book. I know a past reviewer criticised the book for being too thin but that's one of the things I like about it. I have always enjoyed cooking and bought quite a few baby cook books when my daughter was very young thinking I would potter around making her perfect gourmet meals but soon realised that there are many days when the thought of even leafing through the pages of those cookbooks is too much effort. I just find them too overwhelming and invariably reach for this book because the recipes are simple but still tasty. You don't need to be a great cook to be able to make these recipes, the instructions are very easy to follow.Despite being a slender volume, the book packs a lot of information into its pages, and still has a great collection of recipes.
I never found it to be a problem finding any of the ingredients. I have to admit that even though I consider my cooking to be quite wholesome I had never used some of the items like dried seaweed (you only use a pinch) and ground seeds myself, but after reading in the book just why these things are included, I found myself adding them to my own food as well. They are incredibly nutritious and such an easy way to bolster your child's immune system which I found so reassuring during the winter. I'm sure you can order these ingredients online if you can't find them in a store nearby. You use such a small amount that they will last for ages. And you can always leave those items out if you prefer. The book is written in a very friendly manner and is a nice balance between educating and guiding you as to what your baby's and toddler's developmental needs are with easy to follow recipes. A reviewer below wrote that the last thing they needed was to be making their own baby cereal. Well I guess if that's your mindset then this book isn't for you because honestly it takes all of two seconds to make the cereal, and the jar lasts a very long time when you are using a couple of tablespoons at a time! Not that you can't find good organic packaged baby cereal, (I did try that myself but my baby would never eat it). And there's nothing stopping you from using the recipes as guides and substituting purchased products for some ingredients if it makes life easier. The book takes you right through to when your child is a toddler with tips that help you sneak vegetables into their diet and great snack ideas too. There are some lovely recipes for cookies and cakes as well, which is nice, it's very realistic in that although you want to feel that you are presenting your child with yummy healthy food, there's always a place for sweet treats in life. I'm not personally a fan of soy products which some of the recipes call for, but I just substitute the tofu or whatever with chicken,lamb or fish. I went online to check out the authors website and was happy to see that the adorable little girls on the website who I assume are the author's daughters look like very happy and healthy children. They are a great advertisement for the book.
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