The Well-Fed Baby: Easy Healthful Recipes for the First 12 Months [Paperback]

O. Robin Sweet (Author), Thomas A., Ph.D. Bloom (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1994

This baby food cookbook addresses parents' health and cost concerns with more than 100 fast, easy recipes for the pre-tooth infant prepared from fresh, nutritious ingredients. Developed by chefs for their own children, the book also presents recipes for the child who is teething and starting to eat solid food.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A great deal of our interaction with babies centers on food. And since they thrive on good, wholesome, healthy food, why not learn the best, easiest ways to prepare food that nurtures their developing minds and bodies and spirits."-- Dr. Dale Atkins, noted New York child psychologist, author of numerous books on parenting and children's health, and host of "Mothering" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

0. Robin Sweet produces her own line of healthful, frozen, organic baby food, under the name The Well Fed Baby, which is sold in major supermarket chains nationwide. Trained as a pediatric nurse, she is president of The Well Fed Baby, author of numerous books on families, health, and nutrition, and is cofounder of The Well Fed Baby Adoption Foundation, which subsidizes domestic and international adoptions.

Thomas A. Bloom, Ph.D., was a professor of food science and food management, as well as president and CEO of the California Culinary Academy and vice president of the Culinary Institute of America. He wrote the award winning television cooking show and cookbook Cooking at the Academy, He is a freelance writer, lecturer, and food consultant.

Robin and Thomas have three children and live in San Diego

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan General Reference (December 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0020453701
• ISBN-13: 978-0020453703
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 6.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #592,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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149 of 151 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Baby Food Book I Bought!, November 29, 1999

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L. Stabler (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Well-Fed Baby: Easy Healthful Recipes for the First 12 Months (Paperback)

I had planned to make my own baby food, so I bought several books on the subject. This book was by far the best one of the lot. It gives clear, concise guidelines for what foods to feed babies at different ages, done in bulleted lists that make the book very easy to read. The recipes are fairly simple and don't use alot of esoteric ingredients like many of the other baby cookbooks. Overall, this is the best laid out and most informative baby food book out there. A great buy for anyone interested in cooking their baby's food.

96 of 108 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars USE WITH CAUTION, September 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Well-Fed Baby: Easy Healthful Recipes for the First 12 Months (Paperback)

There is some confusing and questionable advice in this book. For instance, it's commonly held that babies shouldn't have cow's milk before the age of one year, yet there are many recipes in here that call for 2 cups or more of cow's milk for 6-month-olds! Also, there are recipes that call for "brown rice", again for six-month-olds, with no explanation as to whether they mean cooked brown rice, like Uncle Ben's, or if there's an infant brown rice cereal (I've never seen it). There are even some recipes that recommend citrus for young babies, but I've read you should wait until at least a year to introduce citrus fruits. This may be a decent recipe book for older babies, but I don't intend to use it for my beginning eater.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not really what I needed, February 24, 2003

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K. J. Hoffman (Chaska, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Well Fed Baby: Healthy, Delicious Baby Food Recipes That You Can Make At Home (Paperback)

I purchased this book because I was looking for help in making all of my son's baby food. The book doesn't really help with this, since all of the recipes are multi-ingredient, and (of course) when just starting out, you really need preparation instructions for single ingredient stuff.

I decided not to keep the book even after my baby was eating mixed food because: 1) The recipes are not very inventive (it was all stuff I would've come up with on my own); 2) The book is not very easy to work with (it's small and doesn't stay open to a given page very easily); 3) There are no illustrations or other aids to help you find ideas quickly.

A friend of mine brought over Super Baby Foods and I purchased that instead. I wish someone had mentioned *that* book to me before I'd bought this one - that's why I'm writing this review. If you're looking for help getting started making your own baby food, like I was, Super Baby Food is the book for you - not this one.