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| Super Baby Food | 
 enlarge | Author: Ruth Yaron
Publisher: F. J. Roberts Publishing Company
Discount Category: Book
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Customer Ratings:  644 comments
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (pounds): 1.6
Dimensions (inch): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0965260313
Dewey Decimal Number: 649
EAN: 9780965260312
Publication Date: June 1998
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Condition: Several wrinkled pages, several dog-eared pages. A few stray markings. Covers lift.- Careful packing and prompt shipping with email notification
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Amazon.com Review
Ruth Yaron cares deeply about what your baby is eating--so much so that her bestselling Super Baby Food is encyclopedic in both scope and size. Ounce for hefty ounce, this manual/cookbook/reference guide is worth its weight in formula, packed as it is with detailed information on homemade baby food, nutritional data, feeding schedules, cooking techniques, recipes, and other invaluable feeding tips. Yaron builds her compelling argument for making baby food at home on the simple premise that food profoundly impacts health, especially when an infant's developing digestive tract is involved. Parents will learn why babies should start out on rice porridge, bananas, avocados, and sweet potatoes before advancing to more difficult-to-digest foods such as wheat cereals and milk products. While Yaron's passionate stance and vegetarian bias may turn off some parents, others will be grateful for her strict attention to potentially harmful additives and chemicals. No matter what their eating philosophy, most parents will appreciate the economy and surprising ease of making baby food at home. This is not gourmet cooking; all you have to do is learn how to boil water and operate a blender. For veggies, simply steam some vegetable chunks and blend. For baby porridge, just grind some whole grains in a blender and boil. It's that simple. And when you're feeding your baby, simple is best. --Sumi Hahn
Product Description
ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING you should know about feeding your baby and toddler from beginning solid foods through age three years. How and when to start your baby on solid foods, with detailed information on the best and safest high chair, spoons, bibs, and other feeding equipment. Which foods to introduce to your baby during each month of his first year, with details on proper food consistency, amount, and temperature. How much you can expect your baby to eat and drink during the months of her first year with information on her digestive system at each age. Interesting details on your baby's physical, emotional, intellectual, and psychological development as it applies to self-feeding and mealtimes; how you can increase your baby's or toddler's self-esteem and self-confidence during mealtimes. The age you can expect your baby to start finger feeding, drinking from a cup, eating table foods, and self-feeding with a spoon and fork. If you choose to make homemade baby food, this book will give you the knowledge and confidence to make your own healthy and safe homemade baby vegetables, fruits, cereals, meats, and other Super Baby Foods. Extensive information on food allergies; foods considered choking hazards; foods likely to cause digestive problems in young babies; and safety precautions to prevent burns and poisoning. Thousands of money-saving and time-saving child care and kitchen tips. How to make meals fun! Food decorating! Cute cake patterns! Toddler party snacks and favors! Many other entertaining ideas! More than 350 quick, easy, delicious, nutritious, and sometimes entertaining recipes for babies and toddlers, including imitation homemade recipes for: Pop Tarts, Grape Nuts and other breakfast cereals, instant breakfast drinks, hot chocolate mix, Shake-N-Bake, Pam, Fruit Roll-Ups, Stove-top Stuffing Mix, homemade vanilla extract, Hamburger Helper, and more. So much cheaper and healthier (no preservatives needed!) to make for your toddler and family! Recipes for homemade play dough, finger paints and brush paints, bubbles for blowing, and dozens more children's arts and crafts recipes and ideas. Ideas for Halloween, Christmas, Easter, birthday parties, and homemade toddler toys and gifts. All about nutrition and your baby, including nutrient tables of all major vitamins and minerals with convenient baby-sized portions to help you be sure that your baby is getting proper nourishment. How to save money by making homemade yogurt, fruit leather, and how to grow sprouts, fruit plants, and herbs in your kitchen for fun and food. Easy, economical recipes for homemade baby accessories, such as baby wipes, diaper cream, and many more. Baby-safe and environmentally-friendly recipes for household cleaning products, such as baby-safe drain cleaners, furniture polish, window cleaners, and more. These recipes cost only pennies to make and are so safe that most are actually edible!! Tips for removing crayon, spit-up, and urine stains from baby clothes, carpets, and furniture. This book is the most complete and well-researched baby food book on the market today. Even though it is 600 pages, it is cleverly designed for the busy parent to read only a small part each month as baby grows.
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 Information Overload - But I Loved It! January 6, 2009
Ms. Yaron took the time to write an extensive review of baby nutrition and recommendations. She is definately "type A" as far as I am concerned and I appreciated someone else compiling such an excellent source of good information. As with many many aspects of parenting, each person needs to develop their own approach. For example, my baby doesn't even like the super baby porridge! But her concepts on food combining and calories per pound are very important to know and to be conscious of when you are preparing your baby's meal-even if you are not vegetarians. Moreover, her recipes in the back are EXCELLENT-especially the spreads! And her "bonus" section on household cleaning agents (safe and organic), party tips, etc has been very helpful, cool and fun!
She does also make this point that her babies have been especially healthy and she believes its due to the Super Baby Food diet. I think this may be possible (who am I to say?) but my kids eat really well, very healthfully, but still get sick, maybe 3-4 times per year. I think if kids socialize and go to school (or preschool) they are going to get sick, with or without super baby food.
All in all, an excellent resource!
The Baby Food Bible January 1, 2009
This is the book you need if you are going to feed a baby, toddler, or child. You don't even have to want to make your own to get good use out of this book. This book tells you which foods to start when, how much to feed, and how often. It tells you how to make your own (step by step directions for each food) and why you might want to. It has time saving and money saving tips and not just for food. The back section is loaded with toddler-tempting recipes that are easy to make, healthy, and that a toddler might actually eat. I have loved the purple book through two kids and have shared it with many mom friends. This would be worth buying for yourself or for a mommy you know.
 Confusing and time consuming to figure out December 29, 2008
I bought this book in hopes that I could prepare some food and as a basic guide to help me with what to feed my twin girls. I was confused most of the time. I kept reading about this wonderful "Super Porridge", but have yet to find a well-written out recipe for it and then have the substitutions/adding of ingredients to follow. It also has you referencing so many pages, you might forget where you started. It was just not the book for me.
Too risky - read with caution December 27, 2008
I am rating this book two stars because of two main concerns: 1) the introduction of nuts and other foods too early, which is a risk for babies with undiagnosed allergies, and 2) the overall tone of the book, which is very "preachy." The risk of allergies is the biggest reason to be wary of the book. The author is good at advising people on how to avoid issues like choking (she recommends buying a tool for sizing food portions), but disregards any specific issues with food allergies. We took the safe route and did not try any of the peanut recipes, which turned out to be very fortunate: our son developed a nut allergy (with no history in either of our families - it was a complete surprise). We tried to convert a couple recipes to nut-free versions and they were horrible failures. I can't blame her for our failures, but I think that an author who takes such a strong stance on other safety issues like choking hazards would at least touch on allergy avoidance and not introduce nuts. She provides no guidance on what to do if an allergy occurs (e.g. tagging certain recipes as nut-free).
New parents that are looking for guidance on healthy food for their children can find a lot of great things in this book, but they have to take the information with a grain of salt: the author has very fixed ideas of how to bring up healthy kids, and goes so far as to make the reader feel guilty for not following her advice. If you do get the book, use the schedule at the beginning and the tips on making home-made baby food. When the book makes you doubt yourself or the safety of your child, put it down.
I found this book to be wonderful! December 19, 2008
I got this book back when I had my first baby! it was a tremendous help especially being a young exclusively breastfeeding mother! I took the advice I wanted from it and didn't take the advice that I didn't agree with! it was in words I understood and made it very simple for me to make my baby's food at home, store, freeze and refeed!! I highly recommend the book! ..
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