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Super Baby Food: Absolutely everything you should know about feeding your baby and toddler from starting solid foods to age three years. » (Revised)

Book cover image of Super Baby Food: Absolutely everything you should know about feeding your baby and toddler from starting solid foods to age three years. by Ruth Yaron

Authors: Ruth Yaron
ISBN-13: 9780965260312, ISBN-10: 0965260313
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Roberts, F. J. Publishing
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: Revised

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Author Biography: Ruth Yaron

Book Synopsis

ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING you should know about feeding your baby and toddler from beginning solid foods through age three years.  The Super Baby Food Diet is a super healthy lacto-ovo vegetarian diet composed only of the most wholesome foods, including whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, vegetables, fruits, and yogurt.  It is the most complete baby food reference book on the market today. 

Here's a list of the information included in the book. 

  • How and when to start your baby on solid foods, with detailed information on the best and safest high chair, spoons, bibs, and other feeding equipment.
  • Which foods to introduce to your baby during each month of his first year, with details on proper food consistency, amount, and temperature.
  • How much you can expect your baby to eat and drink during the months of her first year with information on her digestive system at each age.
  • Interesting details on your baby's physical, emotional, intellectual, and psychological development as it applies to self-feeding and mealtimes; how you can increase your baby's or toddler's self-esteem and self-confidence during mealtimes.
  • The age you can expect your baby to start finger feeding, drinking from a cup, eating table foods, and self-feeding with a spoon and fork.
  • If you choose to make homemade baby food, this book will give you the knowledge and confidence to make your own healthy and safe homemade baby vegetables, fruits, cereals, (meats--which are optional), and other Super Baby Foods.
  • Extensive information on food allergies; foods considered choking hazards; foods likely to cause digestive problems in young babies; and safety precautions to prevent burns and poisoning.
  • Thousands of money-saving and time-saving child care and kitchen tips.
  • How to make meals fun! Food decorating! Cute cake patterns! Toddler party snacks and favors! Many other entertaining ideas!
  • More than 350 quick, easy, delicious, nutritious, and sometimes entertaining recipes for babies and toddlers, including imitation homemade recipes for: Pop Tartsr, Grape Nutsr and other breakfast cereals, instant breakfast drinks, hot chocolate mix, Shake-N-Baker, Pamr, Fruit Roll-Upsr, Stove-top Stuffing Mixr, homemade vanilla extract, Hamburger Helperr, and more. So much cheaper and healthier (no preservatives needed!) to make for your toddler and family!
  • Recipes for homemade play dough, finger paints and brush paints, bubbles for blowing, and dozens more children's arts and crafts recipes and ideas.
  • Ideas for Halloween, Christmas, Easter, birthday parties, and homemade toddler toys and gifts.
  • Extensive information on nutrition and your baby, including nutrient tables of all major vitamins and minerals with convenient baby-sized portions to help you be sure that your baby is getting proper nourishment.
  • How to save money by making homemade yogurt, fruit leather, and how to grow sprouts, fruit plants, and herbs in your kitchen for fun and food.
  • Easy, economical recipes for homemade baby accessories, such as baby wipes, diaper cream, and many more.
  • Baby-safe and environmentally-friendly recipes for household cleaning products, such as baby-safe drain cleaners, furniture polish, window cleaners, and more. These recipes cost only pennies to make and are so safe that most are actually edible!!
  • Tips for removing crayon, spit-up, and urine stains from baby clothes, carpets, and furniture.
  • This book is the most complete and well-researched baby food book on the market today. Even though it is 600 pages, it is cleverly designed for the busy parent to read only a small part each month as baby grows.

Table of Contents

Introduction
How to Use this Book to Get the Most Information in the Least Amount of Time
PART I FEEDING YOUR SUPER BABY
1. Beginning Solid Foods: When to Start? Which Food First? What Consistency? How Much?
2. The Feeding Area and Equipment
3. Baby's Very First Meal
4. Food Allergies and the Four-day Wait Rule
5. Important Safety Warnings
6. How Much Should My Baby Eat?
7. How Much Should My Baby Drink?
8. Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
9. Mealtimes and Your Baby's Development
10. A Month-By-Month Summary Schedule for the Introduction of Foods in Baby's First Year
11. Feeding Your Super Baby During the First Few Weeks
12. Feeding Your Super Baby at 6 Months
13. Feeding Your Super Baby at 7 Months
14. Feeding Your Super Baby at 8 Months
15. Feeding Your Super Baby at 9 Months
16. Feeding Your Super Baby at 10 Months
17. Feeding Your Super Baby at 11 Months
18. Feeding Your Super Toddler
19. The Super Baby Food Diet
PART II PREPARATION AND STORAGE OF SUPER BABY FOOD
20. Kitchen Equipment
21. Kitchen and Baby Food Hygiene
22. Methods of Freezing and Thawing the Super Baby Foods
23. Vegetables and Fruits
24. Super Porridge Cereals
25. Whole Grain Super Baby Foods
26. Legumes: Dried Beans, Peas, and Lentils
27. Nuts, Seeds, and Sprouts
28. Yogurt and Dairy Foods
29. Egg Yolks
30. Miscellaneous Super Baby Foods
31. Meat
PART III MORE THAN 350 RECIPES FOR TODDLERS (AND GROWN-UPS)
PART IV FUN STUFF!
33. Food Decorating
34. Let's Have a Party!
35. Arts and Crafts, Gifts, Costumes, and More
REFERENCE AND APPENDICES
A. Specific Fruits and Vegetables
B. Homemade Baby Products and Accessories
C. Baby-Safe, Environmentally-Friendly Cleaning Products
D. Your Kitchen Window is a Green Mine
E. Nutrition 101: A Crash Course in Nutrition
F. Nutrient Tables with Baby-Sized Portions
G. Measures and Metric Equivalents
BIBLIOGRAPHY
RECIPE INDEX
INDEX
QUICK REFERENCE PAGES INDEX

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