The Amazing Make-Ahead Baby Food Book: Make 3 Months of Homemade Purees in 3 Hours [A Cookbook]

I love this book! It shows you how to make a 3 month supply of 18 different purees in 3 one hour sessions. We timed them and they do take roughly one hour. We did not find that we could manage the grains - the food processor did not really chop up the rice, for example - but these we just purchased.It also includes recipes for several additional purees and it has a section on what purees you can mix together that would taste good.Without this I think making our own baby food would be pretty intimidating and time consuming but with it, it was pretty easy and did not take long.The equipment you need:-Steamer (could get away with steamer bags if you had a lot of them but it would take longer)-food processor-one ounce ice cube trays (they say 6 trays that fit 15 cubes but we had an 8 pack and used them all and more)-things to cut and peel vegetables with-freezer storage-spoon and spatula to fill ice cube traysThat's it!

This is my third baby food book, and by far the best. For your reference, the two others were  Fast & Fresh Baby Food Cookbook: 120 Ridiculously Simple and Naturally Wholesome Baby Food Recipes  and  The Best Homemade Baby Food on the Planet: Know What Goes Into Every Bite with More Than 200 of the Most Deliciously Nutritious Homemade Baby Food Recipes . I was hesitant purchasing this at first, because I did not need to make ahead 3 months of baby food, but this book is amazing even if you don't need it.I used the 'The Best Homemade Baby Food' book for my first child 5 years ago, and was pretty happy with it. However, when I got this one, I was shocked that baby foods can be so diverse. Cooking method is mostly the same for all baby food books. Cut, steam and blend. What makes this book so unique, is that it introduces so many variety of vegetables, fruits, grains and legumes. Some of them I didn't even notice they existed. I love the fact that I can introduce all kinds of food out there to my 6 month old, and hopefully he'll develop a habit of trying a variety of healthy foods later in life too. My 5 year old daughter is still a very picky eater and she has a hard time trying new food. Sometimes I wonder if that could have been changed at least a little if I had this book when she was a baby. Probably not, but still...On top of variety, this book also has 'Food Compatibility Chart'. You can pair and mix your cubes of babyfood to give them thousands of variety for their palate. This will be especially good when the baby rejects one flavor but you still want to give it to him. Mix it with something he likes in the chart, and he'll like it better than one flavor alone (such as kale or broccoli). (I haven't tried this myself though, as I only had this book for 4-5 weeks. My son liked everything I made so far, except sweet peas. I am planning to mix it with something else and try again soon.)The only downside is, when to introduce which is not specified by month. If you are starting solids at 6 months, I think you can just follow sample schedule in the book (which is also amazing by the way). But because I started solids at 5 months, I referenced 'The Best Homemade Baby Food' book for introducing which food when. (I actually lost my copy but found that it was only $2.99 in kindle, so I bought it again.) I do recommend supplementing with another book if you are confused with the timing of introduction. Or maybe you can google when to introduce what.This book is made beautifully, and I really recommend it. I read it everyday just because the book is so pretty, and it has very good information in picking and purchasing the right food. Although I didn't follow the make ahead schedule, I'm sure it would come in very handy for those who need it too. Recommended cooking tools is also helpful, as I love the silicone trays described here, opposed to expensive baby food freezing trays.

Don't listen to negative reviews & just buy this book! Even if you don't follow the make ahead plan that is laid out for you (which is awesome) there is so much info in this book about how to prepare just about any baby puree. It's clear the author put a lot of thought into this book. The information is laid out organized and consicely.

This is one of my top three things I recommend to all new moms. This book is truly AMAZING. I am not a cook as my husband does most of our meals. When I do help in the kitchen I have to follow a recipe to the letter. This book was beyond perfect. It lays out your shopping list, it says while this is cooking on the stove, defrost this in the microwave, and work on chopping this. I followed every step as it is laid out except instead of one 3hr session I did two hours on a Saturday and two hours on a Sunday. Instead of molds, I used breast milk bags to store all of my prepared baby food and let them lay flat to freeze. Then the book also has the meal plan laid out so I didn't have to do any thinking there either. It shows which food to introduce which day and all I had to do was check that schedule and then have what I needed for the next day in the fridge to defrost so that I could just grab a baggie, pour it into a bowl, and heat it up! Traveling was also a non-issue as I didn't have to rely on storebought baby food. I could just put my baggies in a travel cooler and have what we needed at the ready. If I wasn't going to be able to heat it through I just swapped out for things that were okay to eat cold or at room temperatures like apple puree or pear puree. I'm telling you, this book could be titled how to introduce foods and prepare all of your baby food for dummies. I'm so grateful to the author. Everyone who wants to make baby food NEEDS this book!

Had lots of content and good summary pages. Definitely a good buy and great for parents new to introducing solids. Useful for a long time

Revise varias referencias antes de comprarlo y no me equivoque. El libro trae cosas muy interesantes como menú para 3 meses y varias recetas para combinar sabores, tips de compra y guía para preparación de alimentos. Me parece muy sencillo y práctico. De seguro lo recomendaría.

Bought it for my daughter. She loves it!

This book is excellent! The author is very well versed in baby food preparation and offers step-by-step instructions on how to prepare homemade baby food that is free of unmessasary preservatives and chemical additives. There is a bit of page-flippimg required as some instructions require you to gather information from various pages but overall very much worth the extra bit of effort.

Love this book! It also gives a 3 or 4 month menu of foods and when to introduce them. I bought the silicone baby food freezer tray at the same time and have a pretty decent stockpile of food ready to go in the freezer for my little guy.