Super Baby Food

This is the best, most comprehensive book about feeding baby I have found. I am following Yaron's suggestions to the T, with a green light from my pediatrician. (Including eating cooked egg yolks and the nuts and seeds suggested.) He says over and over again how lucky my son is to be getting such wholesome food! I started out thinking that I would just make some of my own baby food, but each thing I tried was easier than the one before, and before I knew it, I was making all the food for my baby. I really find it hard to believe that anyone buys baby food, especially things like cereal and bananas. But, even if you are not planning to make all (or any) of your own baby food, I still think this book is a must have. It gives detailed information on exactly what foods can be started at what age, what constitutes a balanced diet for a baby or toddler of any age, how to select, prepare, store, ripen, freeze or cook anything you want to serve baby, and tons more. No pediatrician could possibly provide this much information. I think a lot of Yaron's general household "Tips" throughout the book are sort of silly, but I have found a few of them to be very useful. This is the encyclopedia of baby food. It is a must have for all moms!

"Super Baby Food" is the most complete book on making your own baby food. It explains to you step by step how to make the most nutritious and healthy food for your baby - it makes it so easy, especially for people like me who don't even cook ! It is also full of information on how to buy and store vegetables and whole grains as well as lots of valuable information on nutrition and many other goodies ! I have found "Super Baby Food" to be an extremely valuable resource !

I have the first edition of this book and bought the second edition when it became available because it contained even more recipes and tips for food and play.Yaron brings together expert advice and common sense from a variety of sources. In this one volume a reader can find nutrition information we previously had to gather from a variety of books, experts and real-life experience. Her information on nutrition and safety is cutting-edge. While I gathered tips and advice from my pediatrician and from parenting newsletters available through my state Extension service, Yaron's book delivered more information in more detail and an easy-to-read format. Nutrition information can be referenced food by food or by a child's age of development. Whenever I had a question about the appropriateness of a certain food for my baby, I could quickly look it up. I learned quite a lot about general nutrition that's been helpful to my own diet. The book will be of special interest to vegetarian or vegetarian-leaning parents.The recipe section is invaluable for those "I don't know what to prepare" snacks and mealtimes. Yaron's tips are also money-savers for those on a tight budget. The new edition has more "do-it-yourself" ideas for play and parties and serves as a nice reference for the times when the reader's own creativity is lacking.

Wow! Where to start? First, I bought this and The Healthy Baby Meal Planner by Annabel Karmel at the same time. While Karmel's book is "prettier" and has some interesting looking recipes, this one far outweighs it as a resource tool, which was what I was looking for. I admit, I was intimidated at first by the sheer volume of information contained in this book, but after reading the author's suggestion on how to read the book, I felt that I had a better handle on it. The book is very well organized, from when to introduce specific foods, to how to prepare and store them (one of my favorite sections!), to the recipes, which I really haven't gotten to yet. Yaron doesn't make the reader feel guilty about having a few jars of commerical baby food on hand, so in this sense, she's not militant about doing Everything from scratch. The only area which I feel is a bit weak is the very short chapter on meat, which she states she added for the "readers who (no matter what I say!) have decided to feed it to their babies." Yaron is very obviously a vegetarian, which is fine, however, I (and many other moms) are not. This does not stop me from enjoying her book, and I probably will start preparing more grains-and- legumes meals as a result of what I'm learning, for variety, if not for the health benefits.This is definitely the book to own if you can only buy one!