Homemade Baby Food Pure and Simple: Your Complete Guide to Preparing Easy, Nutritious, and Delicious Meals for Your Baby and Toddler

by Connie Linardakis, Lorna Dolley Eby (Editor)

You Can Prepare Wonderful Food for Your Baby—No Matter How Busy You Are!

You want to provide your baby with the very best foods, right from the start. Homemade baby food is tastier and nutritionally superior to commercially processed foods—and making it is easier than you think! With simple ingredients and a few handy hints, you can begin serving your baby delicious meals that will provide the foundation for a lifetime of good health, energy, and vitality. Homemade Baby Food Pure & Simple shows you how. Inside you'll

•Tasty, easy-to-make recipes that your baby will love
•Pediatrician-approved nutritional guidelines and advice
•Practical hints and tips to save time and money
•Sample menus and food introduction charts
•Special recipes for allergies and sleep difficulties
•Simple ways to teach good eating habits for life

"This book is a valuable and unique resource for mothers who want to provide the very best for their babies." —Mary Cadieux, M.D., University of Washington, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Genres: Parenting

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is not very useful to parents looking for advice on how to simply mix up purees for their baby. I was enraged before the third chapter. The second chapter is called "Breast, Bottle, or Both?" It starts with a little story about a VERY smug asshole named Angela who nurses her baby and puts her back in the bassinet, thinking about how night-time feedings are SO easy when you breastfeed. Then the chapter talks only about the benefits of breastfeeding. Yeah, I breastfeed, good for me, etc, but night-time feedings were still exhausting. And what if I couldn't, or didn't want to? That chapter would be useless to me, other than making me feel worse about my choice or circumstances. It also contains a little quip about another asshole named Natalie who cries because the nurse insists that she at least try to breastfeed, even though she isn't comfortable with it, and then later happily pats her chest when her husband asks if she packed the baby's food. WTF. There was not a section called "benefits of using a bottle", at all. I can't believe it was so blatantly one-sided.

Finally, I got to the information on making baby food, and while it was nice to know I don't have to cook banana before mashing it, my eyebrows went up when I saw that peanut butter was said to be okay at eight months, if thinned with breast milk. Peanut butter, being a very common allergenic, is okay at about a year, not eight months. This made me distrustful of the other information in the book, particularly when they suggested that baby's first birthday cake be frosted with peanut-butter honey frosting. Seriously? I know a one year old can finally have peanut butter and honey, but I don't know if both should be given to them the second they turn one.

[Jensa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was alright - not my style of cooking. It had several good ideas, though, that I hadn't thought of feeding my toddler before.

[Becca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great (and easy) ideas for homemade baby food if you would just rather have your baby not eat the jar stuff.

[Astrila · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was just okay... It has some outdated info. There are some useful lists and charts, but there must be a better book out there. Not recommended.