Super Baby Food

I love this book because it tells me exactly how to feed my baby "from scratch". I know many reviewers thought there was too much detail in the book, but I LIKE that aspect of it. I'll never need another book about baby food. My baby started out with her first solids using Ruth Yaron's plan and she's healthy and glowing with all the good foods we feed her.Several reviews talk about extra chapters detracting from the "food" aspect of the book. I have found those extra chapters to be very helpful. The advice about arts and crafts and how to save money on those expensive supplies is very sensible. I love the ideas about birthday parties and other kid activities. The book is more comprehensive than the title indicates.Ms. Yaron really makes it easy to prepare the foods, buy the ingredients, and stock up the freezer in advance, so that the actual feeding time is stress-free. I know some reviewers complained that the ingredients are too hard to find. I live in Beirut, Lebanon, and even here I can find EVERYTHING I need. Some reviewers complained that the book was too "pro-vegetarian" or that some foods aren't introduced at the right time. This didn't bother me because I'm planning on limited red meat anyway, and I use my doctor's recommendations along with this guide. She said OK to citrus at 8 months, and OK to flaxseed, too. As with any book about your baby, you have to go with your own instincts and what feels right.What feels right to me (and to the majority of others, it seems from the reviews here) is that this book is a mother's all-in-one guide to healthy eating for years and years.

I have raised 2 healthy, happy children from infancy using this book as a guide. The book contains great nutritional information as well as a guide to new parents on how to organize time and uncomplicates the goal of most parents -- giving your children the best. I have seen the criticisms from fellow reviewers, and would only say that a) one book should not be the source of all information for everything, b) risk of allergic reaction can be calaculated by looking at family history of allergies, and c) Yaron certainly does speak about allergies and phasing new foods into your child's diet -- so calm down everyone! To this day, my 4 year old vegetarian son, who is off the charts in height and in the 90th percentile for weight, happily eats a funny brew we made up, using ideas from this book, that includes flax seeds, tahanini and wheat germ all in one meal, and craves it when we eat out. We are not the type of family who would make wheat germ birthday cake or eat tofu every day, but I feel confident that -- through ideas largely culled from this book -- my kids are healthy, both inside and out. I think this book provides nutritionally-conscious parents some great strategies for making sure children meet all their nutritional needs. I highly recommend this book.

This book have valuable information including a timeline of which foods baby can eat at what age. It also has excellent guidelines to help you decide how much food to feed baby. Both of these sections of information made the purchase completely worth it to me.However, the author does go a bit over board pushing organic food and a vegetarian diet. The meat section is completely worthless and doesn't even have a place in the book. The section talks about why is she vegetarian, why meat is so awful for children and adults, and then shares 3-4 recipes that the author hasn't even tried.The author is also extremely concerned about bacteria being introduced to baby's food and goes to extreme measures to keep baby's food, utensils, etc, sterilized, bleached, and in high cabinets away from any human contact. If you have a clean house and good hygiene, it is enough, but the author makes the reader feel like keeping baby in a bubble.Other than those two kinda wacky observations, this was a wonderful book.

I ordered this book after reading the reviews about it. The book is even better than expected and is really an easy read. It really gives useful information on how to make your own baby food and there are many "tips" on how to make baby life easier. The book is organized very well and the recipes are realistic for a Mom to be able to cook. The Author explains why certain things should and should not be done when making baby food or just feeding a baby/toddler.I am now making my own yogurt after reading Super Baby Food, making baby food and freezing it in portion sizes so that is it available quickly. This is a book I would highly recommend to anyone interested in feeding their baby Real and Fresh food instead of jar or uggh PLASTIC container baby food. I find it amusing that the stores sell organic baby food packaged in plastic! Don't get me wrong I am not a fanatic...I use jar food if I need to, but when I can I try to use my homemade baby food. It really is not hard and much cheaper than buying premade food. It really isn't a mystery, jar food does not have any magic potion in it...you can do it if you can boil water!

No idea why the ratings for this are so high, what a waste of money. It's the worst written book I've read, there's so much information on each page and things repeated just to fill up the book. I bought this so I could find out some unusual superfoods/best superfoods to buy and there's nothing there. She does go on about this cereal to make about 50 times but that's about it. In the beggining of the book she goes on about what high chair to buy and what to eat from, suggesting toxic plastic spoons! It's just a waste of time and money, you're better off with google!

Very good book

not at all what i was expecting. waaay too hippy dippy for me.

This book definitely contains EVERYTHING one needs to know about your baby's nutritional requirements, that's for sure. I however found that the author tends to go into such minute detail that it actually irritated me.

So much great information in this book.Highly recommend it.