Super Baby Food
by Ruth Yaron
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Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron is about making homemade baby food for your infant and toddler. I found a lot of the book quite informational and a good resource for keeping your child's diet varied and nutritionally balanced. It also had easy ways to make stuff like homemade fruit rolls and arts and craft type of things.
However, she is a little alarmist about bacteria and meat. Sometimes you wonder how the human race managed to survive without refrigeration and anti-bacterial soap for s...more
However, she is a little alarmist about bacteria and meat. Sometimes you wonder how the human race managed to survive without refrigeration and anti-bacterial soap for s...more
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Read in July, 2008
SBF has been really helpful as Josie has recently started solids. I copied the summary schedule on page 86-87 and put it on the fridge to give me both guidance and inspiration. I want Josie to experience and enjoy lots of different tastes and textures, so it's good to see how I can vary her diet day to day right in front of my face.
I have really enjoyed making baby food and found it convenient and easy. Whenever I'm in the kitchen working with an ingredient that can be come baby food, I...more
I have really enjoyed making baby food and found it convenient and easy. Whenever I'm in the kitchen working with an ingredient that can be come baby food, I...more
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Read in April, 2008
recommends it for:
Parents of young children
At first, I wasn't much impressed with this book - it seemed like it had its own complex system of doing things and I'm not big on "systems" not of my own devising. However, reading though more, I've come to appreciate its comprehensive coverage and the many options it gives parents, all with a degree of openness. To give just one example, when Yaron gives suggestions for packaging homemade baby food for storage in your freeze, she suggests several methods, including easy and standard ...more
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Read in December, 2007
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New Moms & Dads who don't want to choke their babies with Rice Krispies
Man, I wished I had read this book before I gave my 4 1/2 month old baby a spoonful of sweet potatoes and rice cereal.
I've learned so much already from just the first 30 pages. For instance, I am so dumb I thought "rice cereal" was like...Rice Krispies. NO! It's like Cream of Wheat!!! So here I was with my husband forcing my poor baby to swallow freaking rice puffs and saying "I can't believe our pediatrician would recommend feeding such a young baby such a huge choking ha...more
I've learned so much already from just the first 30 pages. For instance, I am so dumb I thought "rice cereal" was like...Rice Krispies. NO! It's like Cream of Wheat!!! So here I was with my husband forcing my poor baby to swallow freaking rice puffs and saying "I can't believe our pediatrician would recommend feeding such a young baby such a huge choking ha...more
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Read in January, 2005
This book has developed a cult following, and it is helpful in learning about nutrition and feeding of babies. Tons of recipe ideas. Direction on how to introduce new foods and how to identify/ handle allergies, as well as addressing common questions (is my child eating enough?, am I providing a healthy diet? etc.)
However, the tone of the book is a bit... arrogant. This woman has an opinion on EVERYTHING about child raising. She also provides sections on home made crafts (helpful, but not so...more
However, the tone of the book is a bit... arrogant. This woman has an opinion on EVERYTHING about child raising. She also provides sections on home made crafts (helpful, but not so...more
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Read in July, 2008
I'll admit, I didn't read this book, I just skimmed through it. And, since I don't have a baby, I didn't actually try any of the recipes. BUT, from the bit of skimming I did and the amount of charts the book suggests using to keep track of what foods your kid is eating and the amount of planning it would take, I don't think this book would be incredibly practical for a typical mom. I thought this might be the case, but I wanted to check it out for my sister who has a 1 year old. I will admi...more
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Read in January, 2002
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My three stars comes with a preface: the author is super annoying! This is an excellent resource for feeding your kids. It goes through each age which foods are best to introduce and how much. It's what finally got me to kick all the white starches out of my diet. I've even used it as an adult when I'm looking for foods with a certain nutrient in it. Everything you could ever want to know about nutrition is in this book, just catered to a child's diet. What I don't like are stupid comments like ...more
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This was an invaluable tool when I began feeding my child solid food. I had a goal to never feed my kid a jar of store-bought food, and of course had no idea where to start. I agree with many of the reviews here that tell of the author's sometimes-irritating barrage of information. She certainly packed a lot into one book, and a rather large chunk of that has nothing to do with food. But as a mom who was pretty clueless there in the beginning, I found much of the book very useful. I have since g...more
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Read in March, 2007
While the author can get little extreme at times about making entirely every little thing your baby eats yourself (jarred food is convenient, and often times the cost is worth the time saved in effort), there are many helpful tips and ideas in this book about making your baby's food yourself. Most importantly, after reading through this book, not only was I motivated to make much of my baby's food myself, but I felt like it was doable. This book is a nice resource for making baby food, but I w...more
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This book is great if you want to make your own baby food. She has an excellent section on preparing your own whole-grain baby cereals, and another excellent section on vegetable and fruit preparation and storage. Those two sections are worth the price of the book all by themselves.
Ignore everything else. No, seriously. Her breastfeeding advice is either outdated or completely nutty or both, she has lengthy and irrelevant sections on how to throw a birthday party and how to recycle ordin...more
Ignore everything else. No, seriously. Her breastfeeding advice is either outdated or completely nutty or both, she has lengthy and irrelevant sections on how to throw a birthday party and how to recycle ordin...more
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Read in January, 2005
I used this book in making food for my son when he was first eating solids. You don't really need to own it, the principles are pretty much "steam & puree veggies, grind and cook grains in water, and use plain yogurt". But, I did refer to it a lot because I wasn't used to doing this and because it has a lot of ideas of foods I wasn't cooking before. It was very interesting and has a lot more info in it. Some of it is extreme (I'm not a vegetarian and really not that obsessed wi...more
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Read in June, 2002
This is a wonderful book. It is a great resource. The author has basically packed every good idea she has ever had into one book...and she has many good ideas. It is full of knowledge regarding what nutrients your children need, how much, and where to find them from food sources. She has recipes (which are tasty), craft ideas (which are creative and clever), house care and cleaning guides for non-toxic alternatives, and much more. I love it! I think even if I did not have children I would ...more
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Read in May, 2007
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parents of babies
Overall, this was a really useful book. I'd like to photocopy large parts of it to use as a reference. She gets sidetracked from talking about food sometimes to all the other aspects of parenting, organic living, etc., which bogs the book down. In addition, I grow weary of books that are packed with "useful" information that most adults don't need (how to make a shopping list, useful kitchen tools). I really like her sample menus, her easy instructions on how to prepare each vegetable,...more
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While I recommend this book highly- there is invaluable information and hints for preparing your own baby food- I feel morally obligated to warn the world that the author is completely, totally nuts. You do have to wade through some looniness to get the goods. The woman is excited to have found a use for dryer lint, for the love of pete (its for playdough... not food. She's not that crazy.)
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rachel at my work (total hippy and first time mama with one chil
recommends it for: mamas and dadas
recommends it for: mamas and dadas
now that i have read this book i have decided that i have fed all my previous children wrong. if only we could have redos. oh well, at least i am getting it right this time. the only negative i have is that there is too much information so unless you want to dedicate hours to the solid feeding of your infant in addition to the hours he spends attached to your breast, i would recommend just heading for the charts. the charts are fantastic and simple, which everything should be made to be for ...more
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Read in June, 2008
I found this book somewhat useful when I started feeding solids to my baby, but it's usefulness is quite limited. A lot of the "great ideas" are pretty obvious, and she spends a fair amount of time giving explicit instructions on how to do very simple things. She also makes a lot of statements that are based on her personal experience rather than research, which can be risky or misleading (such as "no refreezing frozen foods" -- frozen peas can be COOKED and then pureed and...more
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recommends it for:
crunchy granola mommies
I liked this book--my review is not based on the information the book provides--I do think that's excellent and worthy of 5 stars. I couldn't give it 5 stars, though, because I couldn't read the whole book (Non-Fiction has to be REALLY incredible for me to be able to actually read it) and I never was able to try any of the recipes. They were either too complicated or required things I didn't actually have. Or, they weren't, but the way I read the book made me think that they were. And of course ...more
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New moms who are like me, and don't know what they are doing.
I liked this book as a reference book. I followed the recommendations, and have made a lot of my own baby food, which is easy, Katelyn loves it, and it is cheaper. I didn't do the Super Baby Porridge, though, because it just seems like too much work. It has a month by month guide as to what foods you can and should be introducing to your child at specific ages. As Katelyn gets older, I'm sure the section on fun things to make and do with food will be great! Overall, I have liked the book.
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I love this book, which was passed on to me from a good friend. There is a lot of conflicting info out there about how to feed a baby, but this book about healthy baby foods and feeding is very helpful. The writer's straightforward, non-judgmental writing, backed by good research and personal advice, is just what I needed. There are also a lot of great vegetarian recipes for toddlers/children. It could be a little better organized, so that relevant info is easier to find.
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This is a very dense book that tells you everything you could ever want to know about cooking your own baby and toddler food. Sometimes I think she goes into a little too much detail, although I suppose she's just trying to cover all her bases, and cater to even those people who don't even know how to boil water. With that said, it is a great resource with lots of recipes and creative ideas to make cooking baby food easy, fun, and economical.
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