The Everything Organic Cooking for Baby and Toddler Book: 300 naturally delicious recipes to get your child off to a healthy start (Everything Series) Review
I own so many baby & toddler cookbooks. I have always made my own organic baby food. Honestly, until probably 10 months you don't need a book because you can only try one new thing every few days - you've got to try them before you can combine them. This is the one book I wish I would have had when he was around 10 months. He loved organic lentils out of the jar (we used when traveling) but I had no good baby lentil recipes. This book provides a lot of vegatarian recipes that contain mostly things I already had on hand (had to buy coconut milk & flax oil). I was really happy to see several recipes using quinoa & lentils for protien sources - it's hard when my little guy only wants eggs & peanut butter for protien. I only wish they had some pictures.
The Everything Organic Cooking for Baby and Toddler Book: 300 naturally delicious recipes to get your child off to a healthy start (Everything Series) Overview
Parents want the best for their children, starting with what they eat. This book includes both information and recipes so readers can educate themselves about organics and prepare all-natural meals for their children. Readers will discover how to know if foods are really organic, prepare natural baby and toddler meals at home, grow their own organic produce, make delicious dishes like Apple and Carrot Mash and Potato-Crusted Vegetable Quiche, and more! This book gives readers all the tools and know-how they need to shop economically, find the best organic foods, and prepare the perfect meals for their little ones.
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Customer Reviews
Looks delicious - Jenny S - Mesa, AZ
I purchased this for a friend as part of the baby shower gift. I did go through it and found a whole bunch of delicious looking recipes that I would love to make for my 3 yr. old so I am also going to buy it! The recipes were simple and not time consuming which is what I need.
Complete waste of money - anna_r - San Jose, CA
I'm very disappointed by this book. It turned out to be a complete waste of my time and money.
I was looking for two things: some sort of a schedule of what foods can be introduced at what age, and good tasting baby food recipes - rather, combinations of ingredients. Recipe is such a strong word for baby food :) Since the target audience for this book is interested in cooking organic, you can safely assume that they all know how long it takes to steam cook carrots...
This book provided neither of the things I was looking for. Not sure if the author tasted any of the foods she suggests in the book - it sure doesn't look like it! And if you don't like the taste, why would your baby? I tried several recipes and they tasted simply horrible. In all honesty, I can't attribute this to bad cooking or bad ingredients - it's a simple puree made of fresh veggies after all! Let's face it: quinoa just doesn't taste good. Like most of the combinations suggested in the book. It was also very odd that they kept calling buckwheat 'kasha' - it's simply not correct. I am of Eastern European decent and the word 'kasha' doesn't mean 'buckwheat' - it stands for ANY cereal. Shows you how well the author did her homework! I wanted this book so that I won't have to waste my time trying dozens of various kinds of veggies/fruit combinations to figure out which ones taste good (I'm a working mom - yeah, yeah, I know, every mom is a working mom, though those of us with a full time job know the real difference!). After all, that's what I ended up doing. And this worked way better than the recipes from this author.
The second disappointment was the lack of any compact easy to follow schedule of when various foods can be introduced. The book does, however, have some information about organic foods (hello, I'm already interested in organics and know the pros and cons!) - and, ta-da! on breastfeeding and formula feeding (hello, my baby is six months old - I have figured this out by now!).
The point is - don't waste your time and money. Seriously. This book provided no info that I hadn't known and was useless in helping with making delicious purees.
Not just for babies/toddlers! - Irishlawlass -
I borrowed this book from the library first and was so impressed with the recipes I bought the book. I have been trying to eat healthier and include things like agave nectar, flaxseed, etc. into my meals. I am also passionate about using organics whenever possible for my now 15 month-old daughter and also for my husband and myself. These recipes are good and they're meals that adults can eat as well and enjoy. It's a nice introduction to eating healthier for any member of the family.
Whose baby eats this??? - E. Payne - Santee, CA
I am a working mom who LOVES to cook, bake, and create. My son has a pretty refined palette and eats a lot of stuff other 10 month olds do not: green veggies, steak, flax meal waffles... but this cookbook is ridiculous. Most recipes require several ingredients and I cannot be bothered with all of work. There are no pictures and I cannot serve my kid the mush recommended in this book. At the same time I purchased this book, I also ordered the Sneaky Chef and spent a week cooking through it. It has food my baby, husband, and I can all eat. (I just use organic ingredients.)
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