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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1018 in Books
• Published on: 1998-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

Good reference; Covers both too much and too little
My baby is not a good eater. He is growing, but not at what my ped believes is a healthy curve. I'm therefore on the lookout for a good guide on how to feed my little boy. This book is generally very good. Great advice on starter foods, keeping food hygenic and what you can expect a baby to eat at different stages. However, my baby eats FAR LESS than the recommended amounts, particularly formula (the book says he should have a minimum of a certain # of ounces; my baby eats half that amount). There are not set amounts per my ped, so this can be a bit misleading. Another "beef" I have about this book (pun intended!) is that the author is very opinionated on eating a vegetarian diet. While I respect her views, I need a more comprehensive book that is not so opinionated since I would like to feed my little boy meat (especially given his weight issues; I can't afford to carve out an entire food group!).

In addition, the book on the one hand covers too much: it goes beyond food and discusses making home-made cleaning products for example. At the same time, it did not adequately cover some feeding issues, such as how to schedule or space feedings for babies who are underweight. I am constantly struggling how I can fit all of my baby's feedings in a 24 hour period, and I would have loved some good suggestions.

Wonderful resource
I am a 1st time mom and found this book so informative. It's very detailed and provides great tips. The month by month break down of what to feed your baby, when to introduce foods and how is wonderful. My sister recommended it to me and I am now recommending it to my friends. :) You won't be disappointed in this book- unless you are 100% into feeding your baby food in jars perhaps. The author is into breastfeeding and then later on more into making your own food but provides tips for jar-fed babies as well.

Good, But Just Too Much

This is a great book to find advice about serving size and eating schedules and what foods to feed at what age. This can be an overwhelming book, but if you just take the parts of the book that you need when you need them, it's very helpful and helps to save ALOT of money.

I do not follow everything, but I do what I feel is best for my baby with this and other books as a reference. As a reference, it is wonderful.