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Summary: Better book than "Super Baby Food"
Review: "Super Baby Food" has it's strong points but the recipes are a bit to froo-froo for my taste and they seem to go to the vegetarian extreme. "Mommy Made" however, contains great basic recipes that anyone with a steamer and blender can make. The author is very informative about introducing new foods to your baby and provides a timeline as to when you should introduce them. The receipes are not grouped by age but by food (ie fruits, vegetables, meats, etc) however, if you look carefully at the sidebar notes that the author makes, you will notice that she puts them in order within each category. For instance, applesauce is the first food listed and is therefore one of your baby's first foods. Make sure to read the sidebars as you go so that you can tell what foods are appropriate to introduce at what age. I do agree with another reviewer that there could be more information on how to freeze and store the prepared food but that is a minor detail and just about anyone can figure it out on their own. This is a great book that you can use over and over. I highly suggest it!
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Summary: Great book to feed that hungry little baby
Review: After spending a fortune on canned baby food I finally decided it was enough! I had a food processor. I know how to cook! So a friend recommended this book and I couldn't have been happier. My son loves the recipes and is always happy for more.
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Summary: Best explanation of baby nutrition!
Review: Congratulations for thinking about making your own baby food!
We started with sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving and didn't realize what great parents we were being until Christmas, when we bought the stuff in a jar because we were traveling. Yuck. This book is an eye-opener in terms of explaining what foods to start with and in what order. Even if you never make any baby food, it's well worth just reading the first section. I bet you will be inspired like we were, however, and you will be amazed by how simple it is to get started. Our grown-up palates even benefitted--I would have never known how delicious butternut squash is without this book. I ordered a prettier baby cookbook along with this one and ended up returning it because the author's theories were a little too homemade, even though her physician husband was listed on the cover as a medical consultant. You may have noticed that there aren't many copies of Mommy Made available on the Marketplace, and the prices aren't much lower--this book is a definite keeper! Enjoy that baby!
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Summary: mommy made and daddy too:home cooking for a healthy baby and
Review: first off there only appears to be only one pediatrician listed in the recognition section of the book. this is the worst book i have ever read about baby food. i am making my own baby food and wanted to get recipes and techniques on how to make the foods. the book starts out with buying brand name cereal. the whole idea of making at home baby food is to make it at home. there are many other rice or other grains that you can buy ground up that are not processed into flakes. i did it with my first child. another thing that really bothered me was that commercial juice was named as the best juice for your baby. In another chapter alcohol is mentioned for the adults to put into their own drinks when they want to spice things up or make them fun. If you are making food for your children why are you drinking around them. Coke was also said to be okay to give toddlers when they are sick as long as it is flat. YOU DON'T GIVE CHILDREN CAFFEINE! Any doctor tells you this whenever your child is sick or otherwise. I don't see how they could allow this woman to teach a mommy cooking course. This book disgusted me and i shipped it back. Paying postage to send it back was worth it just to get it out of my home. I wouldn't dare sell it to someone that was really wanting to make baby food. I am not one of those moms that restricts their child from everything but come on, common sense tells you not to do these things. Your childs health is the number one concern, that is why you are looking at this book right. Skip to the next one this is just terrible. If i had more than a 1,000 word minimum you would definitely hear more things that were written in this book.
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Summary: Baby Food Made Easy
Review: I bought this book and Ruth Yaron's Super Baby Food. I would highly recommend this book. It is very easy to use and it lays out exactly what to feed your child when. (I found that the Super Baby Food book was a bit too complicated to navigate.) The only thing that it could do better is discuss more about food storage. Otherwise, I think it is the best baby food book I've found.
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Summary: General info you could figure out for yourself
Review: I bought this book encouraged by the reviews and am very disappointed. The information is pretty broad stuff like you find in all the free baby magazines. As a vegetarian, I found the author's warning to "seriously consider" raising a vegetarian child insulting. Is he not aware that vegetarianism is seriously thought-out? And that vegetarians are often more conscious of putting together a balanced diet than non-vegetarians? I was looking for some suggestions on what protein-rich foods to feed my baby, when, and how. But aside from some obviously generic tofu suggestions, there wasn't much there. I will say there was one good chart that listed which foods are appropriate when. However, even these foods are the most common ones, without alternatives listed.
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Summary: Takes the fear out of making your own baby food
Review: I bought this book with Ruth Yaron's Super Baby Food book several months ago, and while the Yaron book is in mint condition from lack of use, this one is dog-eared and stained with pureed squash, peas, and apples. This book has a wonderful approach and gives great guidelines for preparing your own baby food. It's really very easy to do and doesn't take much time at all. I love knowing what my baby is eating and not being afraid to try to the food I'm giving him. We still have the jars of food for when we go out, but primarily he gets fresh fruits and veggies that I steamed & pureed myself. My husband was a little skeptical of my making our own baby food at first, but now he is a big fan. It is incredibly easy for him to take a couple of cubes out of the freezer, defrost & feed to our son (I make a batch and freeze them in ice cube trays, then put them in labeled freezer bags). Plus, unlike the jarred food, you don't have to worry about opening a jar & using it within 2 or 3 days; you can just defrost a cube at a time. It's also very cost-efficient to make your own baby food because whereas a jar of carrots may cost $$$ (if you get the organic kind), you can make the equivalent of 7 or 8 jars for less than $$$. One big difference we noticed was in the peas -- I bought an emergency jar of organic peas and it was a slimy olive green color (my friend's baby wouldn't touch the stuff). I then made my own from a bag of frozen organic peas and they came out bright green -- like they should be. And they're a thicker consistency that my son appreciates. Another difference we noted was in the squash- the jarred kind smells faintly of cinnamon. Supposedly it's just squash & water, but when I made my own it didn't smell that way. I don't 100% trust what's in the jarred foods. We tried one of the vegetable blends of jarred food and my son got a rash. So far he hasn't had any reaction to the fresh foods, though. I can't recommend this book enough! My son is 8 months old and I typically use this book 2 or 3 times a week -- even just to look for what new foods to give him. There are handy sidebars that list when you can start your baby on the food (e.g., primary puree, 7 months, 10 months, etc.) and things you can do later to make it into a toddler food. I only have one very, very small complaint about this book (not enough to decrease my rating): in the introduction area of the book it says to be careful when selecting carrots to cook because in some areas of the country the nitrates in the soil are high, so make sure to get carrots that are grown in low-nitrate soil. However, in the carrot-recipe section of the book, it doesn't say anything about the nitrates. Personally, I think it would have been helpful to reiterate the warning in the recipe section. But that's the only complaint in the whole book that I have and it's a minor one.
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Summary: Very Helpful - I Have One Reservation @ The Book
Review: I found this book to be just what I wanted... very inclusive, easy to find exactly what I needed. Very hard to find a book that addresses each food - cooking, preparing - this one did! I was upset that the authors say that they encorporate the latest guidelines froom the AAP, then go on to suggest you wean from breastfeeding at 8 months! The AAP suggests waiting until at least after he first year, for the health of the child... Also, the authors say that extended breastfeeding is bad for children, when the AAP says this is not the case - the longer the better! I hope to see this revised in the next edition.
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Summary: I'ts Been Useless
Review: I got this book as a gift and was very excited by the prospect of making food for my (then) 12 month old, instead of giving her Spaghetti-os and hotdogs. The problem with this cookbook is that they just assume that your toddler will enjoy the tastes of ginger, avacado, buckwheat, vinagrette dressing, spinach, etc. Sometimes, a serving suggestion is "Serve this soup with crunchy bread and a crisp salad for children over 1 year old." How can a child who has no molars eat salad or crispy bread? Avacado, spinach, and all of those foods taste bitter to a baby. It reminds me of those Family Circle articles that encorage mothers to make "animals" out of asparagus, onions and red bell pepper in order to trick a child into eating them. Well guess what - you can shape spinach and arugula into the shape of a Barbie doll, but your kids will hate them just the same. Palates need time to develop. Mommy Made tries to ignore this fact. I am not saying that kids don't like mild tasting vegetables, like cauliflour, broccoli, carrots, etc. However, this book suggests bitter vegetables, and combinations of spices that even I didn't like until I was 21 years old. I have never used this book and really never plan to. Too bad.
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Summary: Awesome.. Just Awesome!
Review: I just got the book, and let me tell you... it is absolutely fantastic! The recipies are simple enough and my daughter loves them.. and so do we! I love the fact that , now, I know exactly what she is eating. You have to get this book if you are considering the benefits of home cooked vs store bought baby food.
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