Eating Expectantly: A Practical and Tasty Guide to Prenatal Nutrition - Softcover

Bridget Swinney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067157048X ISBN 13: 9780671570484

Publisher: Meadowbrook, 1996

Synopsis

Eating for two can be more enjoyable than eating for one...if you're Eating Expectantly!

Rated one of the "ten best parenting books of 1993" by Child Magazine, this originally self-published book is now totally revised and updated for the expectant mother.

This comprehensive guide reviews nearly every aspect of nutrition, from prepregnancy planning to the postnatal period. It combines information on proper nutrition with over 100 practical recipes and 200 complete menus, all of which have an important feature -- they taste good!

Here is a book that details dietary information for each trimester, with extra tips on shopping and cooking, including:

• How to cook and store foods so as to preserve the natural vitamins.

• How to make meal planning easier, with sensible ideas for such times when you "don't feet like cooking," you "don't feel like eating," and "company's coming," Other menus include "vegetarian meals on a budget" and "using leftovers with flair."

• What to do about eating during high-risk pregnancies (such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or bed rest).

• How to add variety and nutrition to snacks.

• How to lose weight after the baby is born.

About this title

Review

Few situations are more chaotic than being pregnant and having to eat nutritiously. In Eating Expectantly, Bridget Swinney tackles the daunting task of nutrition during pregnancy with information, recipes, ideas, and--best of all--no finger shaking. Swinney provides eating advice for days when you don't feel like eating and for days of morning sickness. You'll learn how to deal with diabetes, gestational or otherwise; how to get enough calcium in your diet; and all about food safety. Particularly wonderful are the chapters on vegetarian eating, including the detailed breakdown of appropriate food at 38 fast food establishments. The recipes are delicious and nutritious--for both the expectant and the merely hungry.

Review

Eating Expectantly is a practical guide to prenatal nutrition with 100 delicious, easy-to-make recipes and 200 complete menus that are as nutritious as they are delicious. Eating Expectantly shows how to cook and store foods to preserve the natural vitamins, how to make meal planning easier, what to do about eating during high-risk pregnancies, how to add variety and nutrition to snacks, and how to lose weight after the baby is born. Eating Expectantly is a highly recommended addition to any personal or community library cookbook collection. -- Midwest Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Meadowbrook
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 067157048X
• ISBN 13: 9780671570484
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 360