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Complete table of contents of The Super Baby Food Book

Chapter 1. Solid Foods: What Age to Start? Which Food First? What Consistency? How Much Food? Click here to read this chapter in its entirety.

Chapter 2.   The Feeding Area and Equipment

Chapter 3.   Baby's Very First Meal
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Chapter 4.   How to Prevent Food Allergies

Chapter 5.   Important Food Warnings (Choking Foods and Digestion Hazards)

Chapter 6.   How Much Solid Food Should My Baby Eat? Is My Baby Eating Enough? Is My Baby Eating Too Much? Is My Baby Too Fat?

Chapter 7.   How Much Breast Milk or Formula, Water, and Juice Should My Baby Drink?  The Importance of Enough Breast Milk/Formula.

Chapter 8.   Vitamin /Mineral Supplements: Which Ones Should Baby Take?

Chapter 9.   Eating Milestones: Why Baby's Mealtimes are an Important Learning Time and So Crucial to Baby's Psychological, Emotional, and Intellectual Development. When and How to Introduce Finger Foods, the Cup, and Table Foods. When Baby Should Start Self-Feeding with a Spoon, Tips on Traveling Foods

Chapter 10.   A Quick Page-at-a-Glance, Month-By-Month Summary Schedule Reference Table for the Introduction of Foods in Baby's First Year.

Chapter 11.   Feeding Your Super Baby During the First Few Weeks

Chapters 12 through 18 (see below) include this information for each age in months:

  • Which foods to introduce at that age.
  • The consistency to make the foods at that age.
  • The amount of food, breast milk, and other liquids you can expect your baby to eat daily.
  • The average size of a food serving for a baby at that age.
  • A sample daily feeding schedule for each age with info on baby's digestive system at that age, much more.

Chapter 12.   Feeding Your Super Baby at 6 Months

Chapter 13.   Feeding Your Super Baby at 7 Months
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Chapter 14.   Feeding Your Super Baby at 8 Months

Chapter 15. Feeding Your Super Baby at 9 Months

Chapter 16.   Feeding Your Super Baby at 10 Months

Chapter 17.   Feeding Your Super Baby at 11 Months

Chapter 18.   Feeding Your Super Toddler

Chapter 19. The Super Baby Food Diet


PART II.
IF YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE HOMEMEADE BABY FOOD INSTEAD OF BUYING COMMERCIAL JARS AND BOXES, THIS PART SHOWS YOU HOW TO SAFELY PREPARE AND STORE THE SUPER BABY FOODS.

You won't believe how quick and easy it is to make homemade Super Baby Food!

Chapter 20.   Kitchen Equipment Needed to Make Super Baby Food:  It's Probably Already in Your Kitchen

Chapter 21.   Kitchen and Baby Food Hygiene:  Keeping Commerical and Homemade Baby Food Safe and Free from Dangerous Bacteria

Chapter 22.   How to Safely Freeze and Thaw Super Baby Foods

Chapter 23.   How to Make Vegetables and Fruits for Baby  

Chapter 24.   How to Make Homemade Super Baby Cereals

Chapter 25.   Whole Grains and Why They are SOO Important to Baby's Health

Chapter 26.   Legumes/Pulses: Dried Beans, Split Peas, and Lentils

Chapter 27.   How to Feed Your Baby Nutritious Nuts and Seeds

Chapter 28.   Yogurt and Other Dairy Foods

Chapter 29.    Egg Yolks

Chapter 30.    Miscellaneous Super Baby Foods

Chapter 31.    Meat


PART III.
QUICK, EASY, AND HEALTHY RECIPES

Chapter 32.   This part includes over 350 super quick and easy recipes for babies and toddlers, which grown-ups will also like. Many suggestions for making decorative meals that toddlers will find funny and fun! Dozens of nutritious Super Snacks, and how to save time preparing them. 

PART IV.
FUN STUFF

Chapter 33.   Food Decorating

Chapter 34.   Let's Have a Party!

Chapter 35.   Arts and Crafts, Toys, and Costumes

PART V.
APPENDICES

Appendix A.   Details on Specific Fruits and Vegetables

Appendix B.   Homemade Personal and Baby Products and Accessories

Appendix C.   Baby-Safe, Environment-Friendly Household Products

Appendix D.   Your Kitchen Window is a Green Mine

Appendix E.    Nutrition 101: A Crash Course in Nutrition

Appendix F.    Nutrient Tables with Baby-Sized Portions

Appendix G.   Common Cookbook Measures and Metric Equivalents