Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Super Baby Food
Book Review: A bit too earthy crunchy for me...
Summary: 3 Stars
Ms. Yaron proudly tells us how her baby happily eats brewers yeast. Ick, I say. This book may serve as a good reference for your shelf - the section listing how to prepare and serve each fruit and veggie is informative - but I have taken a more of a middle-of-the-road approach to feeding my son. I prepare fresh fruits and veggies, but rely on the store-bought, iron and zinc fortified baby cereals instead of grinding my own and then giving him supplements.
Also, she is not an expert. Personally, I prefer "Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health : Birth Through Age Six" by Susan B. Roberts, Ph.D. and Melvin B. Heyman, M.D. Both of these doctors are experts in the field of nuturition, specifically infants. They not only give you practical, easy guidelines for WHAT to feed your child, they discuss in detail HOW to feed him to ensure you don't instill food hangups and weird emotional attachments. I found this to be a much more moderate approach that fits with my family's lifestyle.
Book Review: A book like this is a rarity!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just purchased SuperBabyFood a week ago, and haven't been able to put it down! Ruth Yaron has really done her homework, and does a wonderful job of explaining what your baby should be eating at each age, and why, along with how to easily prepare the foods yourself. This information is invaluable in an age where most people just mindlessly feed their babies whatever is on the grocery store shelf. My baby is already a year old, so I feel like we have a little revising and catching up to do on the food scene. But with the information in this book, I've already been able to make improvements in just one week. How rewarding it is to know that after breastfeeding. you can continue to give your baby the healthiest foundation possible. Thanks, Ruth!Book Review: A complete resource to feeding your baby healthy food.
Summary: 5 Stars
Super Baby Food has given me, a first time mother, a complete guide to feeding my baby a wholesome, healthy diet. It also is going to help us save a lot of money, which is important because I am a stay at home mom. I cannot believe that people would choose to pay 45-50 cents for a dinky jar of baby food that most likely has sugar, water, and fillers in equal amounts of the real food, when it is so easy to give them 100% of the real thing for 1/4 of the price! Ruth gives detailed information on every step of the process,and more information on nutrition than you ever want to know. She also gives hundreds of great recipes to use into toddlerhood. She even includes sections on how to make your own toys and cleaning products. It is an unbelieveable feeling to make food from scratch and have your baby love it. It is a true act of love. Thanks Ruth!Book Review: A comprehensive guide to feeding your baby, loaded with misinformation and arrogant tones, and no credentials
Summary: 3 Stars
A comprehensive guide to feeding your baby, loaded with misinformation, arrogant tones, and no credentials.
Ruth Yaron is a mother of two. She decided to write a book about what she fed her children.
She has some very good ideas for parties, healthier versions for fruit snacks, great manners in which to prepare baby food and offers loads of information about each fruit and vegetable. The advantages for making your own baby food are you can control what goes into the food. This is wonderful if you have children with allergies. Also, you can control the texture. When I fed my children homemade baby food, they seemed to adapt quicker and easier to new foods and table foods much easier than their friends who ate from store brands. Despite that my children are picky like everyone else's, they love fruits and vegetables and I get comments all the time on how well they eat.
Unfortunately, despite the wonderful potential this book has, it is also loaded with extra misinformation. Ruth Yaron recommends feeding nut butters as early as ten months of age. Most pediatricians (if not all) do not recommend giving children any food considered a high allergen until they are older. Imagine having an infant suffering from an anaphylactic reaction? Would you be able to identify one? Or would you feel safer following your doctor's advice and wait until your child is older where the symptoms would be easier to recognize? Also, she suggests feeding spinach and carrots early as well. Depending on where you are getting your spinach and carrots, they can be loaded with chemicals.
What adds to all of the misinformation in this book is the fact she writes with a patronizing attitude and has absolutely no official training outside of parenting. She is not a nutritionist, nor is she a dietician, and she is not even a doctor!
Then, as if that was not enough, she strays off topic from her book's title, Super Baby Food and suggests tie dying stained onesies, not owning an iron in the house as it may be too dangerous, making your own crayons, a section on bibs, and how to clean your house. Some readers may find this extra information as a bonus. I found this to be an annoyance. If I wanted a book on how to clean my house, I would have bought one. I wanted a book on feeding my baby. What she may have considered was renaming this book to suggest that these types of suggestions were included in this book, or come up with a second book.
Parenting is a tough job. No one wants to be told that what they are doing is wrong. Each child does not come with his own instruction manual. Then, you get this book where Ruth Yaron preaches her beliefs and basically infers if you do not raise your children her way, then you are not being a good parent. After reading this book, it would be really hard for any mother not to take her tone personally.
If you are an intelligent person who can sift through the information in this book, listen to your doctor and use your instinct for raising and feeding you child, than this is a good book. But, if you are a person that believes everything in print, and you plan to follow this book like it is the Bible, then this book could be dangerous to you.
My suggestion is for someone who is a registered nutritionist get together with a pediatrician, and revise this entire book. There are too many people out there that take everything at face value and do not research on their own. Having a book like this on the shelves was a wonderful idea yet it was poorly executed.
Book Review: A fabulous, sensible way to approach baby food.
Summary: 5 Stars
This book changed my ENTIRE outlook on not only baby food, but kitchen cleanliness, overall efficiency at home and the art of maximizing your money and food. The ideas are fresh, sensible and will help any mother to better prepare herself for the world of solid food. My little one has never been cleaner or more satisfied with her meals. Cheers!