Blender Baby Food: Over 125 Recipes for Healthy Homemade Meals

New to motherhood, the is one BIG help!
Wanting to make everything my baby eats from fresh foods, I purchased this book to know where to start. It's fabulous, for a first timer! The first section talks about eating organic and the health benefits, then the rest is broken up into sections dedicated to the types of food you can give your baby at each stage. I didn't start my son on solids until he was 6 months, and even then I was skeptical about making them, so I first bought pumpkins jarred and pears jarred because I thought I should get him use to eating from a spoon before I went through all the work of making him foods, but boy was I wrong, he didn't like the jarred stuff much, and making the foods was SO easy with this book (and the Beaba Babycook), but I did get one good thing out of buying jarred foods, plenty of glass jars to re-use for the food I make.

I really like that the first foods section gives the nutritional value of each food and whether or not you can freeze or refrigerate each food. It tells you just how much liquid or whatever else you can add in the blender to help with the flavor of some not-so-lovable tastes.

Also, the way the book it written makes it easy to flip through and find what you want, not graphics or images, just plain simple recipes with bullets and not a ton of reading like other baby food books.

So far, my baby has eaten everything I've made from this book, which has all been basic single fruits and vegetables, but I'm glad he is enjoying the flavors and I know I'm giving him the most nutritious diet available to him right now.

Yes, the information is very basic, but for someone who doesn't know squat about making baby foods, this is a prefect starting point. I do also have another book written for Williams Sonoma that has more interesting recipes for later on, but for now, since my baby is only 7 months old, getting him use to the flavors and textures of the full range of fruits and vegetables is what is most important, and I would be lost without this book.

Anyone can do this!
I'm not a Betty Crocker mama, but since her first day of solids, I've made all my daughter's foods using this book. This is SO easy, I can't fathom why anyone would NOT make their baby's food. The time commitment is minimal; I make big batches ever other weekend of a variety of veggies, then freeze and thaw as needed. The book's recipes are easy, tasty, and exposing my daughter to a ton of different tastes and textures. And as other reviewers have mentioned, if you think commercial baby food is basically the same as homemade--taste them. While traveling, I bought some commercial green beans, peas, sweet potatoes and squash. I sampled them right along with my baby and YUCK. They are so ridiculously bland compared to the "real" thing. And if the taste isn't important to you, how about the cost? Those tiny jars of baby food are awfully pricey compared to the giant batch a single butternut squash makes. Do the homemade baby food thing--it makes a difference!

Great book for what I needed
I wanted a book that would give me all the information I needed to make my own baby food, and that's exactly what I got from this book. There are a few recipes in it that seem like they weren't necessarily for an infant, but everything is modifiable and you use the info you want and skip over the recipes you don't.
One thing I really like about this book is that the recipes start out very basic (for 6 months) and then get more complex. I had read a review on this book that thought it was silly to buy a book that told you how to steam your vegis when that is such an easy thing to do. But I liked having a reference on things like how long to boil a certain fruit, or how much water to add and stuff like that. Also, a lot of recipes have suggestions on how to make it an appropriate meal for older kids. It's nice that I can continue using even as my baby gets older.
I feed my infant homemade baby food exclusively and have only used this book to get my info. If I only wanted to make his own food once in a while, this would still have been a book that I would have wanted.

Fabulous!
The whole wheat pancakes that a prepared in a blender are my son and my husband's favorite! This book is so worth purchasing!

Makes preparing baby food easy for busy parents!
Yes, the book is basic but that is why it is perfect for busy moms and dads! One of the other reviwers said that you could find all of this information online ... probably true, but I don't have time for that! This has been my one stop book for knowing how to prepare my son's meals.

I wouldn't know information about how long certain foods stay good or the actual values for nutrition without this book. I think I'm becoming a better eater, even!

I wasn't sure how long I'd be able to keep up making my son's homemade meals, but with this book, it takes the guess work out and builds confidence for busy parents!