Simply Natural Baby Food: Easy Recipes for Delicious Meals Your Infant and Toddler Will Love by Cathe Olson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Simply Natural Baby Food: Easy Recipes for Delicious Meals Your Infant and Toddler Will Love
Book Review: this book is great
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this book. It was just what I needed to find out about making baby food. The recipes are easy and the author explains how to make the first purees and then move on to more texture and ingredients.
The best thing is that the ingredients for all the recipes are whole foods - no refined flours, grains, or sweeteners. Our family meals have never been better now that we have nutritions soups, entrees, snacks and desserts. We have all benefited from these healthy and nutritious recipes.
But yes - you will need to go to a health food store for some ingredients (thought that's where I prefer to shop anyway).
If you are looking for a wholesome, non-processed way of eating, you will LOVE this book.
Book Review: Just a comment
Summary: 5 Stars
I haven't read this book yet, but I've read most of the reviews. I realize that these types of ingredients are not always easy to find, but in the case of some, you may be looking too hard. Brown Rice Flour, for example, is listed several times as this mysteriously hard to find ingredient. Take some brown rice, put it in your blender/grinder, blend for 1-2 minutes. You have brown rice flour. Very easy.Book Review: Baby Food
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked the idea of making my child's rice cereal and oatmeal. For a very first food, I could not get the uncooked rice or oats quite as finely ground as my baby needed it. They were still a little to chunky. I used my blender for this. As he got more used to eating solids, he was able to eat these cereals.
Many of the recipes do call for unusual items like sea vegetables and fermented foods. If you have access to these items then you will enjoy this book.
Book Review: Best shower gift I got
Summary: 5 Stars
I suppose if you have time to spend surfing the internet you may be able to find all the info in the book like the previous reviewer suggests but as a mom of an infant and a toddler - where would I get the time. I'd much rather have someone do all the research and recipe testing for me and put it all together in one place - and with the relatively low price of this book - it is well worth purchasing.
Simply Natural Baby Food has all the info I need to start my baby on solids while lots of fun, healthy recipes for my toddler - and great meal ideas for the rest of the family as well.
I like that it is a small, well organized book - unlike some of the other baby food books that are huge and overwhelming. This book is so easy to use - I can find what I need quickly and easily.
I especially like the soups, the cookies and crackers, and the Better Than Ice Cream has to be one of the most delicious desserts I have ever tried. I love that the recipes are so easy and that they are made from whole foods. I enjoyed Olson's other book, The Vegetarian Mother's Cookbook as well.
Book Review: Very Basic Book
Summary: 3 Stars
This book teaches how to prepare the first meals all the way through toddler foods. I give it 3 stars because it does cover the information, but the same info can be found on the web for free. I would start at www.wholesomebabyfood.com and go from there. This book is certainly not going to teach you things you can't find elsewhere. Save your money.