One of the books I'm currently reading is Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron. The book has lots of information on various foods (such as grains and legumes and other odds and ends one rarely hears about), how to grind them, cook them, and store them for your baby. It also discusses the nutritional content of each food, and when to introduce them. It's full of little known facts on certain foods as well. However, she is definitely a vegetarian and a cleanliness freak to the point of paranoia. If I had her attitude towards food, I would be constantly worrying about every single thing I stuck in my baby's mouth. I'm sorry. But my baby will be sucking his brother's toes and eating things off the floor at some point. He may even lick the garbage can. Obviously I try as much as possible to forestall such incidents, but I just caught my almost 7 yr. old gnawing on my coffee table like a beaver this morning!! Stuff happens. Gross stuff happens. That's life, and there's no point obsessing on killing every single bacteria that may enter your baby's mouth. To give you an example of her "Freaked-Outedness", here's a quote on her "Meat Chapter" (a chapter which she would have rather not included to begin with, but did so because of readers' demands). This is from pg. 279, Chapter 31 "Meat": "In my opinion, meat is dangerous to eat, or even to have in the kitchen." Then she proceeds to list all the deadly bacteria found on meat...E. coli, Salmonella...etc.
Other than her weird views on that (and a few other things), the book is great! Really. Lots of good recipes for healthy baby foods too.
...and what other books am I reading???
Currently The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain. It's a pretty funny book. Love the detailed descriptions of life as a Prince, and then life as a Pauper. I also enjoy his sarcastic wit. ;-)
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