Simply Natural Baby Food: Easy Recipes for Delicious Meals Your Infant and Toddler Will Love
by Cathe Olson
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Author: Cathe OlsonEdition: Paperback
Published: 2003-01-01
ISBN: 0972469036
Number of pages: 132
Publisher: Goco Pub.
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Book Reviews of Simply Natural Baby Food: Easy Recipes for Delicious Meals Your Infant and Toddler Will Love
Book Review: Great little book with lots of information
Summary: 5 Stars
As a working mom with a baby, I knew I wanted to make my own baby food but I wasn't sure where to start. I picked up a copy of this book at a local store, and found it to be just what I needed.
It's a small book, so it's not as overwhelming as many others I've seen, but it has great information and basically follows the advice of my pediatrician as far as when to introduce certain foods, how long to wait before introducing something new, etc.
In the beginning, the foods are really basic. Mashing an avocado or a banana is quite easy, but I hadn't thought about using avacado as a first food. It turned out to be a great first food that my baby really enjoyed--he started with avacado and banana at about 7 months old.
From there it gives you some simple but good combinations, such as apple pear sauce and squash with peas. She goes into the equipment you need, and how to make baby food. I just make up a batch and use silicone ice cube trays to freeze it.
Unlike many other books, this book is not geared toward raising your baby as a vegetarian, but she does say to wait until 10 months or so before giving meat (my pediatrician recommends 11-12 months). There are, however, many vegetarian and vegan meals in the book for children who are either not eating animal products yet, or who are raised vegetarian or vegan. For these children, she recommends additions such as nutritional yeast and sea vegetables to make sure they get enough vitamins and minerals.
I really love the toddler food section, where she has many meals that sound great for the entire family. She also has a number of desserts that don't contain sugar or artificial sweetners (most of them contain fruit or other natural sources of sugar). There is absolutely no reason to ever give a baby or toddler any food that contains sugar, although a few other baby cookbooks I have contain sugar laden recipes.
To answer some of the other critics about this being for "crunchy" people or containing a ton of weird ingredients, I'd like to say that I'm a normal person who lives in Alaska and is a full-time Realtor and a full-time mom. I like to hunt and fish, and we are not vegetarian or vegan. I do try to eat healthy, and buy organic produce when I can, but living in Alaska I'm limited in what is available.
We don't have a lot of health food stores or restaurants here, but I can find the ingredients in her sea vegetables in our local store in the Japenese food section. I was unable to find one ingredient (hiziki I think), so I just used the other ones. I've added them to many foods I cook for myself and my husband as well, since they are a good source of iodine, iron and calcium.
My pediatrician even recommends kelp as a good source of iron for infants at 6 months of age (granulated kelp is found as a salt substitute in the seasoning aisle of my local store). The author always says you can substitute kelp for the sea vegetable mix.
I think this is a great book to introduce people to a few new healthy foods that are easy to incorporate into your baby's diet. I've purchased 5 books on baby food, and this is by far the best. My only complaint is that all cook books should have a spiral binding to make them easier to use while cooking!
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