Review:Cookbook for Pregnant Women
Every Woman’s Guide to Eating During Pregnancy Very Informative
Every Woman's Guide to Eating During Pregnancy is a one-stop cookbook with recipes, meal plans, and nutritional information to help women eat healthy for their babies.
Pregnant women do not want to feel bullied by advice that makes them afraid that everything they are or are not eating is compromising the health of their babies. The best meals help women enjoy eating well and maximize what food does for their babies and bodies. The cookbook Every Woman’s Guide to Eating During Pregnancy by Martha Rose Shulman and Jane L. Davis, M.D. is an excellent resource for eating well for every woman who wants to be or is pregnant.
Packed with recipes, meal plans, nutrient information, and specific information for women in various states of their pregnancies – by trimester, watching weight gain, and after delivery – Every Woman’s Guide to Eating During Pregnancy is user friendly, informative, and approachable. The collaboration between Shulman, a cookbook author, and Davis, an ob-gyn, ensures that recipes are equally nutritious and delicious.
While it is organized like a traditional cookbook with sections for breakfast, snacks, sandwiches, soups, main dishes, vegetable dishes, and desserts, Every Woman’s Guide to Eating During Pregnancy also provides nutritional information about what different women need and meal plan suggestions for how to best meet the needs for themselves and their babies. Each of the 100 recipes includes a list of nutrients so women can get ideas of how to further combine foods.
No matter what stage of pregnancy she is in, if she has gestational diabetes or carrying multiples, or is nursing or preparing for pregnancy, the cookbook contains recipes and suggestions. The meal plans are flexible, and include suggestions from the cookbook as well as prepared foods. The cookbook acknowledges that some women are time-pressed or just don’t like to cook, and it includes a list of prepared foods, take out options, and easy-to-make recipes. The lists of prepared foods help steer women toward healthier brands such as Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine, Health Choice, Morningstar, Near East, and Zatarain’s.
Many of the meals can be made ahead, frozen for later, and in a short time frame. The recipes also acknowledge that pregnant women have fierce cravings and a need for dessert. If a woman follows a generally healthy eating schedule with recipes from the book, the occasional or even daily ice cream or cookie will be an easy addition. Women get advice from many sources about what and how to eat well, Every Woman’s Guide to Eating During Pregnancy is a one-stop resource for recipes, meal plans, and nutritional information.
The advice, information, and menu suggestion are critical aspects of Every Woman’s Guide to Eating During Pregnancy. However, the most important part of the cookbook is that the recipes are delicious and relatively easy to make. Cooking recipes from the cookbook starts pregnant women on a path to healthy eating, and the recipes can be made at any time of life for a healthy household.
