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Happy Mother’s Day! To celebrate Mother’s Day, I’m giving away 3 copies of Nina Planck’s wonderful new book, Real Food For Mother and Baby.
Nina Planck, one of the great food activists, changed the way we view old-fashioned foods like butter with her groundbreaking Real Food. Then she got pregnant. Never one to accept conventional wisdom blindly, Nina found the usual advice about pregnancy and baby food riddled with myths and misunderstandings. In Real Food for Mother and Baby, Nina explains why many modern ideas about pregnancy and infant nutrition are wrongheaded and why traditional foods are best. While Nina can be controversial—her op-ed in the New York Times on vegan diets for infants was one of the paper’s most e-mailed articles— she’s no contrarian. Readers applaud her candor; they also trust her research and welcome her advice.
Nina’s basic premise hasn’t changed—whole foods are best—but some of the details are surprising. Pregnant women need meat and salt, not iron supplements. Nursing will be easier if you act like the mammal you are. Delaying the introduction of certain solid foods doesn’t prevent allergies. Cereals are not the best foods for tiny eaters; meat and egg yolks are better. From conception to two years, the body’s overwhelming needs are for quality fat and protein, not for carrots and low-fat dairy. Even as she casts a skeptical eye on the conventional wisdom, Nina is reassuring. She shows you how to keep your baby healthy on good, simple food. Real Food for Mother and Baby will be the new classic on eating for two.
To enter to win a copy of Real Food For Mother and Baby, simply leave a comment below saying why you want to win.
Commenting below is your first entry to win. To get more points towards winning, you will earn one additional entries for any of the following actions:
1. Blog about the giveaway and link back to this page on your blog. Comment below with the link. (5 extra entries)
2. Sign up for my email updates or RSS feed. Leave a comment below telling me that you signed up. You will also get an entry if you already subscribe — make sure to leave a comment! (1 extra entry)
Also, you will get a point if you subscribe to the Real Food Media feed or email updates. A total of 4 entries are possible (Cheeseslave RSS feed, Cheeseslave email updates, Real Food Media RSS feed, Real Food Media email updates). Just make sure you comment about each and every one! (1-4 extra entries)
3. Follow me on Twitter and tweet about the giveaway. Be sure to include the URL to this page in your tweet. Leave a comment telling me that you followed & tweeted. (1 extra entry)
4. Friend me on Facebook and post about the giveaway on your Facebook status. Be sure to include the URL to this page in your status update. Leave a comment below telling me that you friended me and updated your status. (1 extra entry)
5. Email 5 friends about the giveaway, with a link to the page. Leave a comment below telling me that you did. (2 extra entries)
6. Stumble this post and leave me a comment telling me that you did. (1 extra entry)
There are a total of 16 possible entries.
Questions? Comment below.
This contest will end Friday, May 15th at 11:59 PM PST. The winner will be chosen via random.org. The winner will be announced on my blog Saturday, May 16th. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me with his or her full name, address, and phone number.
Sorry, but due to shipping costs, only those residing in the United States are welcome to enter this contest.
Good luck, everybody!
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I’d love to win a copy of this book! I’m especially interested in the information on increasing fertility.
I also subscribe to your RSS feed
I have been drooling over this book for ages! Pick me! Pick me!
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and I also stumbled this post.
I have this book out from the library right now. My toddler has kept me from getting very far in it, but I already know it’s a keeper!
I already subscribe to your RSS feed and Cheeselslave’s RSS feed. I also stumbled this post.
Thanks for offering this giveaway!
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Count me in, I love her stuff.
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Did i screw up? Thought i left a post.
I already follow you. I love the things you write & the recipes you share. And all the resources you provide. Are you going to post about the movie at Newport Beach a couple of weeks ago?
I would love to win this book. I’m not a mama. Trying to be a mama.
You are so sweet to offer this. Thank you for this chance!
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I don’t have a little one myself, but I’d be interested in reading this book!
Now, this really isn’t quite fair for us old followers, is it!
I have all your linkage already. And I would blog about it but I have to go graduate today from gradschool! (oh my excuses) I hope that my deep longing to win Nina’s book can suffice. Now that I am done with my masters, my husband and I are planning on children, would love to have Nina’s book to be my pre-natal prep.
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i would love to read the book to see what it is like.
Oh, I hope I win! I love feeding my 4 children whole, healthy food….and am starting to incorporate more, and more raw foods…and am finding that they love it! Thanks so much for offering this giveaway! God bless you! ~Sue~
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Yay for another chance at winning this book! I’ve entered a contest for this same book before. I’m happy to have another chance.
I subscribe to your blog through RSS and I follow you on Twitter. Here is my retweet: http://twitter.com/fingwindmills/status/1738609448 That status also gets automatically sent to Facebook. I’ll see if I can mention it in a blog post too. Thanks!
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Would love to have this book!
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i subscribe to your rss.
I am already subscribed to your RSS feed, and I’m hitting the RSS button on the Real Food Media updates. I have a 16 month old I’d love to practice on; she’s been on raw milk since she stopped nursing, but I need recipes for some of thr protein dishes. Thanks!
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I would like to have a copy to give to my sister, who is pregnant with her third.
I would love this book because I read her first and that is ultimately what led me to your blog! You are on my Google feed and I friended you on Facebook. I don’t have a blog any longer or I would reference yours. Planck’s Real Food was a real eye-opener for me. Thanks!
Here is the blog post in which I mention your giveaway: http://fightingwindmills.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/f-f-friday-45/
Thanks again, Ann Marie!
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I want to win this book as it would be great to pass it along to a woman who comes to the milkstand just about to give birth to her first child.
There’s enough to go around!
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I already subscribe to RSS feed.
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Have e-mailed 5 others.
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Ooh, ooh! I would LOVE to read this book. I’m passionate about real food and I find that mother’s and baby’s diets seem to be among the most “sacred” to people. I had a very hard time starting foods with my now-four-year-old. I wish I had this book when he was a baby!
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I already follow you on Blogger.
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I blogged this givaway!
http://paintsplashes.blogspot.com/2009/05/real-food-for-mother-and-baby.html
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Yeah!! I’m already signed up for your email and Real Food Updates!! This sounds great!! Thank you so much for doing this, Ann Marie!
I just ‘friended’ you on Facebook and updated my status with the URL to this page!
I just emailed 5 friends (actually it was 8 but I figured it couldn’t hurt to send to more people!).
I just subscribed to the Real Food Media Feed
As a strict vegetarian and someone who enjoys cooking, I am really interested in what the book says.
I recently had a conversation with my husband that if he wants to have kids I’d really like him to stop drinking soda before we start trying. (His response: does this mean you’ll have more sex with me? ok!) But seriously, I’d like this book because we will be trying soon.
1. I am already subscribed to your RSS
2. I already follow you on Twitter and I tweeted this contest
3. We’re already buds on Facebook
4. I just stumbled this page!
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I’d love to give this to my daughter who, in October, gave me my first grandchild. She is trying to rethink her eating habits and instill healthy habits in her son.
I want to win this book and I subscribe to Cheeseslave.
Kathy (O:
I would like to win this book because I am pregnant!
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I absolutely love this book. I bought a few copies and gave them away to people I care about. If I could afford it, I would buy one for each of my friends who either had kids or wants to have kids. I friended you on Facebook and mentioned this giveaway.
Thanks,
Stephanie
Just hoping for a chance to get the book. Looks like a real gem. Thanks for sharing.
I just sent out a message to the yahoo chat group for the Janesville Chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation about this give-away. I also sent the message to four friends who would like the book.
Stephanie Rivers
i would love this book! it’s on my list of “to read” for the year. my youngest is 10 months old, and i’ve only recently joined the traditional eating bandwagon, but it’s all totally right up my alley and i’d love some instruction on feeding the little guy a better diet.
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also, i subscribe to your posts–they’re vital in my search for “real food” info!
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I’m very interested in reading this book… makes sense to read it prior to pregnancy, eh?
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Oh, and I already subscribe to the Cheeseslave RSS feed!
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I would like the book because I am going to adopt. My other children I was able to breast feed as long as they wanted, so this will be a whole new way to feed my kids. Also, I know know that rice cereal is not the best first food, so I need to re-learn how to feed little ones. I have 2 friends who are trying to get pregnant that I could share the book with after I read it.
I get your email updates.
I get read food updates.
I emailed 5 friends.
I stumbled.
We would love this book! Not only because our 2 month old is nursing but also because we are very interested in what her first foods should be, and when she should begin eating them.
We’re very big on offering our new being high-quality first impressions in every form…. food included!
Maurice, that is so cool!!!! Ann Marie, can you use my comment toward another point for Maurice?!
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Ooh, I would love to win. I have been trying to get pregnant for 4 years. Recently I have started changing the way I eat and am trying to eat more real foods. This books looks great and I would love to see how it could help me.
Thanks!
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I already subscribe to your blog through bloglines.
Thanks!
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I just subscribed to Real Food Media through bloglines.
Thanks!
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I’d love a copy! I am pregnant with our 4th, who will be born about 2 months after our OLDEST turns 4. I just discovered NT/WAPF about 9 months ago, so am just devouring information and feeling overwhelmed. Would love to have this resource on how to nourish my growing baby and my little ones!
I already subscribe to your RSS feed in Google Reader!
Just subscribed to Real Food Media’s email updates!
This books sounds like exactly what I need, especially the parts about feeding small children, as I have four of them under the age of seven. I already subscribe to the Cheeseslave feed and just subscribed to the Real Food feed so what is that? Three entries total? Something like that…
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I’d LOVE to have this book! It looks like a GREAT addition to my fertility/pregnancy/breastfeeding library. Having struggled with secondary infertility and thyroid issues, I’m trying to get really healthy before having any more babies.
I also subscribe to your RSS.
I want to give my sister this book.
I want this book! And I subscribe to your emails.
I looked up her tour last night and got really excited that she was speaking in Austin– then realized that that happened a week ago.
Wow!!! How I’d love to get my hands on this book.
I just subscribed to your blog as well.
Hi there! I have a two year old and a hubby with health problems; we’re very into dietary changes by way of Weston Price (and Nina Planck). Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
1) I blogged (http://ingridknits.blogspot.com/)
2) I twittered (ingridhastings)
3) I already subscribe to Cheeseslave RSS feed, Cheeseslave email updates, Real Food Media RSS feed, Real Food Media email updates
4) I friended on facebook (with URL link to this blog)
5) I emailed five friends
Happy Mother’s Day!
Ingrid
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Oh wow, that book sounds awesome. I didn’t know she had another book out. If I win a copy, it will be gifted to my sister who is pregnant and due this October.
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I’d love to read this book as I am currently trying to conceive. After major surgery last summer for endometriosis and countless books with confusing/conflicting dietary advice as well as a miscarriage in February, this book could help me make sure I’m boosting my fertility even more than I currently am. I am working on a PhD and don’t have much time for extra reading or money for book shopping, but would really appreciate this book and read it thoroughly.
i don’t need a copy as i have one already and have read it cover to cover, soaking it all in. I just wanted to put my plug in for this great book, Nina’s writing is accessable, frank and funny and I enjoyed both her books very much. Also i appreciate that even those unfimilar to Traditional Foods or Weston A. Price’s research might take some of her suggestions to heart and change their diet’s for the better.
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I would like to win this book for a friend of mine who is expecting her first baby.
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I would love a copy of this book. I’ve got an 8m old and a friend who’s trying to get pregnant so it would be very useful!
I subscribed to your RSS feed and the Real Food Media feed.
Thank you!
I would be interested in learning about good fats from this book.
I already subscribe to RSS feed in my google reader.
I’d love to win….I have long since subbed to your RSS, email, Facebook, don’t Twitter, don’t blog yet, but if I email 5 friends and post on Facebook, would that
meet some of the requirements? LOL!!
I know, I will post this to my daughter’s doula service page on Facebook….sorta like blogging!!
Thanks!! Your generosity in investing and paying forward will bless you in other
countless ways!
I was just “discussing” our views with some parents the other day. : ) We have 5 children 12 and under still living at home and our newest little bundle due the first week of July. She is having health problems and is going to need surgery soon after birth. I want to feed my family better and am still a work in progress. We just bought a farm and we’re trying to be more self sustaining with our orchard, dairy goats and little organic farm. It’s definitely a learning experience. We are sharing what we learn with our oldest daughter as well. I’m very thankful my friend, Catherine Rott, posted this. Looks like a great book to have!
I added you as a friend on FB.
I blogged about the giveaway.
http://www.xanga.com/private/yourhome.aspx?user=granolamomma
I signed up for the email updates.
Hi. I signed up for cheeseslave email updates. (Couldn’t figure out the RSS feed.)
I signed up for the Real Food media updates.
I emailed to many more than 5 people. Great info and looking forward to reading more, with or without a book win. Thanks so much for the give aways. Very generous!
I would love to win a copy of the book.
I already subscribe to your feed and to real food media, hartke online and nourishing gourmet.
I also sent this to 5 people and to some of my yahoo groups.
I also posted it on my facebook.
Lisa
This is a great giveaway. If I don’t win, I’ll have to buy the book.
I friended you and updated my status.
I did the email update.
I’m following you on Twitter and I Tweeted the giveaway.
I did the Real Food email update.
Hi,
I would love to win this book so I can read it and loan it out to my doula clients. I am also in training as a midwife’s assistant with a local midwifery clinic and I know they would enjoy this book. They do very extensive nutritional counseling with their clients and emphasize the importance of high quality protein and real salt to them.
~Nicole
I am following you on Twitter and re-tweeted your give-away post!
And posted it on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/pages/Oklahoma-City-OK/Kindred-Spirit-Doula-Service/97902636578?ref=ts
I am pregnant and just beginning to learn about the benefits of being wise and conscientious in food choices. I need all the resources I can get. I started reading labels several years ago, but just the past few months I’ve come to realize that is not enough!
I subscribed to your email updates.
I subscribed to email updates from Real Food Media.
I want to win because I (don’t think I’m) done having kids, so I’d love to hear Nina’s insights!
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And I’ve been subscribed to your feed through Google Reader for quite some time.
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I bumped into Cheeseslave by searching for methods to soak corn and I have absolutely FALLEN in love with the eating principles. It’s fabulous to have everything organized in one spot. While I am not new to organic eating, I am a newbie to raw milk, fermented foods, as well as to raw, whole foods. I would really love to win a copy of the book because I am always concerned with what I am feeding my two-year-old son . . . and my husband as well.
I have done everything outlined above EXCEPT for blogging about it as I do not currently have an active blog.
Happy Mother’s Day!
First of all, I’d like to thank you for doing this.
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I always thought of myself as somebody healthy – meaning healthy organic food according to most people’s beliefs.
I’ve self diagnosed a gluten intolerance 2 years ago and have switch to a gluten free diet. I’ve been on a journey to true health and on a quest for truth for the past 2 years. Nourishing and healing food traditions are the way to go!
I haven’t experienced the joys of motherhood yet but it is something that I plan to experience soon. “Real food for mother & baby” is already on my list of books to ready prior to, during and after my future pregnancy
I’m already a subscriber to your blog and real food media and I also already follow you on facebook.
Thank you for the great infos you publish under your blog.
Happy Mother’s Day to you!
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Wow. This books look wonderful. I would love to win one
I’ve subscribed to your RSS and am really enjoying reading here. I will be visiting frequently!
Stacy
I am a new mom… of a four month old… starting to think about the near future of solid foods. I would love to hear her recommendations!
I would LOVE a copy of this book. My son is 8 months and just starting to explore solids. It seems like the most traditional thing to do is to continue with bf’ing but I personally don’t have a problem introducing solids at this point, I’m just not sure what or how. Most of the commercially available finger foods (gerber puffs, etc) are full of hydrogenated oils, soy, and all sorts of other bad stuff.
Oh, and I’m already a subscriber. Plus, I would pay it forward and pass the book on to another mom when I was finished
We are about to start fostering infants and toddlers. I would love to try implementing some of her ideas with these kids who need so much from us!
count me in I would love to read this book!
Happy Mother’s Day!
Carla
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Love to win this book to have for the future. Hubby and I plan on having a child soon.
I’d love to win this book, I still feel like a beginner!
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I would love to win this book. I did not know she had another book come out!
Jessica O.
I want it because I just tested this morning and found out I’m PREGNANT!!!!
Good thing I’ve been eating lots of liver the past few months! LOL.
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