Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 649
EAN: 9780965260312
ISBN: 0965260313
Label: F. J. Roberts Publishing Company
Manufacturer: F. J. Roberts Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: 1998-06
Publisher: F. J. Roberts Publishing Company
Studio: F. J. Roberts Publishing Company

ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING you should know about feeding your baby and toddler from beginning solid foods through age three years. 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, 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 Tarts, Grape Nuts and other breakfast cereals, instant breakfast drinks, hot chocolate mix, Shake-N-Bake, Pam, Fruit Roll-Ups, Stove-top Stuffing Mix, homemade vanilla extract, Hamburger Helper, 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.

All about 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.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Very bad - if you are a normal parent avoid this book
Comment: The book contradicts itself multiple times. For example, "Your baby should be eating 3 meals a day at this point." Then later, "This book is a guideline but you know your baby best." Then later "Your baby should be eating one big super-porridge as her 1 meal for the day." Furthermore, it is poorly organized and poorly written. It is like a choose-your-own-adventure book. For example, it says for 9 month old go to a specific chapter. There it says they should be eating beans and protein, and for that, go to some other page. Then on that other page it says for recipes for beans and protein go to yet another page. That other page has 5 paragraphs, and somewhere in there apparently is supposed to be some kind of recipe, but it is not written out clearly for a parent to grab, reference, and cook. If you plan on doing zero development, not working, and basically leaving the house once a week to buy food, this book may be helpful. If you plan on spending any quality time with your baby other than preparing their food, get a different book. The information may be useful, but it is so poorly organized the book is not helpful. It is also full of "shoulds," ... just what a parent needs, more "shoulds."

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Way too preachy
Comment: I checked out the book from the library (glad I didn't waste money on this book). She is way too preachy and opinions on somethings (meat) are over the top and also dangerous (nuts). My older daughter is allergic to peanuts and I wouldn't think of starting my 6 month old on nut butters as she thinks is just fine. I'm glad that I'm not a stupid person to take everthing she says to heart. Take with a grain of salt or find out how to make baby food with another book. I hope other books are better than this one.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Terribly written, but veggie cooking tips helpful
Comment: This book is absolutely painful to read and needs a good editor, but I would buy it again just for the section at the back on preparing and freezing different types of fruits and vegetables. There were foods that I knew might be good for my baby, but I wasn't sure which form of cooking would be best. If you plan to feed your baby animal protein, don't rely on this book for help or recipes in that area.

The author's holier-than-thou attitude is incredibly irritating, and I find her to be a bit on the bizarre side. For example, she details precisely how to clean broken glass off a kitchen floor, noting that her final step is to walk on it barefoot to see if any fragments remain. Hmmm.... That said, I still think the cooking info and SOME of the info about when to introduce certain veggies and fruits makes the book worth buying (used if you can).

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Customer Rating:
Summary: It is a great book but a lot of information
Comment: I really like this book. She breaks down month by month what is safe to feed your baby and why. She gives great hints as to how to store and make baby food and what brands to buy if you can't make it. Sometimes the information is a bit overwhelming but if you take it one chapter at a time and pick and choose what you need, it is a great resource.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: best book ever
Comment: I use this book all the time. The best book ever and I recommend it to all my friends. Very helpful for first time moms and all moms that want to make baby food.

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