RealSmart Baby Food: How to Make 3-Months Worth of Delicious, Nutritious Baby Food In 3 One-Hour Blocks of Time - Softcover

Barrangou Ph.D., Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988588706 ISBN 13: 9780988588707

Publisher: RealFood Doctor Press, 2013

Synopsis

IMPORTANT: RealSmart Baby Food is being re-published in updated format through Random House (Ten Speed Press).  RealSmart Baby Food is no longer available. Pre-order The Amazing Make-Ahead Baby Food Book, to be released April 28, 2015!
RealSmart Baby Food is a comprehensive guide containing everything you need to know about feeding baby, including a unique and novel strategy to create 3-months worth of delicious, nutritious baby food in 3 one-hour blocks of time. Who wouldn't want to have a 3-month supply of premium homemade baby food purées at their fingertips, with the tools to effortlessly combine those purées into flavorful, fun meals like Peachy Strawberry Salad, Coconutty Mango Lassi, Plum Gingered Broccoli Quinoa, and Purple Papaya Flax Yogurt? There is no reason to resort to overly processed, nutritionally inferior, void-of taste jarred baby foods, when making premium homemade baby food, from fresh whole foods, is so easy to do.

RealSmart Baby Food includes:

• A novel strategy to create 3-months worth of delicious, nutritious baby food in 3 one-hour blocks of time
• Over 70 individual whole food recipes
• How to select specific whole foods, including when to choose organic 
• Feeding timelines and milestones
• What to feed baby, in what order, and how much 
• How to manage food hazards (allergies, choking, foods to avoid)
• How to manage digestive health and specialty diets (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free) 
• In-depth nutrition information 
• Safe food handling and preparation guidelines

"An excellent resource for any parent who wants to make their child's first foods. An easy and informative manual to help make introducing solid foods a delicious and healthy start to a lifetime of good eating."--Dr. Blair J Guidera, MD, FAAP

"A terrific resource for both new and experienced parents who want to encourage healthy eating from an early age."--Dr. Michelle Wong, MD, FACOG

"Mums Baby Magazine we're really impressed with this clear and concise guide to creating baby food. We especially favoured the charts and guides which can be followed easily to produce daily and weekly feeding guides which offer children a wide range of flavours in an order specifically tailored towards infants...The RealSmart Baby Food book is well written and enables parents to gain the confidence and structure required to feed their children appropriately and healthily. We therefore give this book 9/10."--Mums Baby Magazine

About this title

From the Author

How did your book come to life?
My college studies lead me into the fields of nutrition and food science, and eventually into working in the food industry, where I saw first hand exactly how processed foods are made. When I became pregnant with my first child, I knew that these would not be the foods for him. I was adamant about giving him fresh, real foods, right from the start. I took so much pleasure in creating his food for him, and eventually my two additional children, watching them happily eat foods like kale and beets, that I myself had not even tried until my adult years.

I began advocating making homemade baby food to my friends with infants, but found that most of them struggled with how to provide a diverse offering of foods, without spending countless hours in the kitchen creating them. I then had the idea to start a homemade baby food service, and I began making the baby food for friends and eventually other local clients. That service lead me to create a system that produced 3-months worth of baby food within 3 hours, all safely made in the clients' kitchen, conveniently packaged and compactly stored in their freezer, taking up no more space than a small basket.

Realizing how many parents could benefit from my knowledge and efficient baby food making system, I turned it all into the book, RealSmart Baby Food.

What sets your book apart from others similar to yours?
RealSmart Baby Food's 3-months in 3-hours strategy is the first distinguishing characteristic. Rather than providing a plethora of complex gourmet recipes, RealSmart Baby Food offers single ingredient recipes which combine to build flavorful, nutritionally balanced meals. RealSmart Baby Food is a comprehensive guide for feeding baby, packed with concise information, in a very organized, easy to follow format. Additionally, RealSmart Baby Food is set apart by offering more than just a book. A kit providing essential baby food making supplies is also available to purchase  to complement the book at Realsmartbabyfood.com.

About the Author

Lisa Barrangou, Ph.D. is a former corporate food scientist. After becoming a mother, she founded a homemade baby food company offering personal chef services for infants, as well as private cooking instruction and baby food making workshops. She is a food enthusiast and food educator who passionately encourages healthy living through eating unadulterated, unprocessed whole foods. She holds a B.S. in Nutrition, Food and Agriculture from Cornell University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Food Science from North Carolina State University. Visit her website at www.RealSmartBabyFood.com

Edition details

• Publisher: RealFood Doctor Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0988588706
• ISBN 13: 9780988588707
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186