Better Food for Pregnancy: Nutrition Guide Plus Over 125 Recipes for Healthy Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

by Daina Kalnins M.Sc. R.D., Joanne Saab RD

Expert nutritional advice and tasty recipes for a healthy pregnancy. Pregnancy is not a time for guesswork about nutrition. Expecting women have specific nutritional needs and will find it useful to have a sensible guide to this vital information. Better Food for Pregnancy is that guide. Written by experts on staff at the renowned Hospital for Sick Children, this book is comprehensive and authoritative. The first half of the book The second half of the book features 125 recipes ideally suited to expectant mothers. Each recipe has a complete nutrient analysis plus there are handy meal plans and Snacks on the Go that help prevent nausea and vomiting. Every page of the nutrition section is packed with tips, sidebars, recommendations, and common-sense guidelines presented in easy-to-use tables and charts. Better Food for Pregnancy is an invaluable tool to help women make the best decisions during a critical time in their child's development.

288 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

Reviews

[Sarah G. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good general information, but quite dated and entirely based on the Canada’s Food Guide. Not a bad resource but not recent enough and not diverse enough for my tastes.

[Josh Olsen]

Wife brought this book home for me to read today. It's kinda strange though, it doesn't really give recipes to assist in someone getting pregnant, they're all recipes to give the proper nutrition to a currently pregnant woman. Not sure why she gave this to me, I'll probably ask her when she finally starts talking to me again.

(BTW- Best estimate is she's 6 weeks along. If you know my or Jenn's parents, don't say a damned word, they've got a great Christmas surprise in store for them)

[Sarah Law · Rating 5 out of 5]

I made almost every recipe in this book throughout 2 pregnancies & breastfeeding and thought most of them were fantastic. I love how it tells you which ones are good sources of calcium, folate iron, etc and gives you sample meal plans. I think this been really helped keep my nutrition on track. It also goes over health issues during different stages of pregnancy and gives a lot of tips on breastfeeding. Overall a great book and I am happy to have it.