Comments on Mean Girl to the Rescue!: Set your blenders to stun. I mean, puree.

I skipped the whole mushed baby food craze with go...

2008-11-06T14:45:00.000-05:00

I skipped the whole mushed baby food craze with good results. We started with sliced avacado and broken up egg yolk (the whites are too complex of a protien to digest.) She gummed them up no problem. We also learned that picking up and aiming her food herself was good for her brain. Because I was (and still am) breastfeeding I could be very relaxed about how much she was willing to eat 'cause all necessary nutrients come from me!

Michelle

I tried making my own food, but since Myles eschew...

2008-02-21T08:13:00.000-05:00

I tried making my own food, but since Myles eschews anything that is not pureed to death, I've had to go to manufactured baby food, and I do feel strange about the health and environmental impacts of using packaged food, even the glass Earth's Best jars. Sigh.

Steve,I will be brutally honest: Beech-Nut seems t...

2008-01-25T15:27:00.000-05:00

Steve,

I will be brutally honest: Beech-Nut seems to me to be the low end baby food. There is no organic option, everything seems to be fruit-related or dessert-y, and I don't get a sense of, say, wholesomeness (to use some focus group-speak, if I may). For example, "beef and beef broth" is a stage 1 food for you guys. Beef? For a baby, with no teeth? Do children that age *need* beef (or chicken, turkey and VEAL, also available)? I'm thinking no. Also, "beef broth" as an ingredient doesn't tell me what's in the jar. Salt, one assumes. But there's no way for me to know, BECAUSE YOU DON'T TELL ME.

I will say, in your favor is your use of glass jars. That's getting to be a rarity.

If you want more feedback, I'm happy to give it. Just shoot me an email. teminy at yahoo dot com.

Just out of curiosity, why don't you trust Beech-N...

2008-01-23T09:29:00.000-05:00

Just out of curiosity, why don't you trust Beech-Nut? In the interests of full disclosure, I work for the company. I am partially responsible for developing new products. I have a four year old son and there is nothing we make here that I wouldn't feed to him now or when he was an infant. (Whether or not he'd want to try it is another story.) I'm not trying to change your mind or anything; I'm just interested in others' perspectives.

Best regards,
Steve

This is awesome. I've been wanting to make food f...

2008-01-22T16:32:00.000-05:00

This is awesome. I've been wanting to make food for my babies, but I one or both of them has always screamed for me before I've successfully completed my search for the secondhand baby food cookbook I bought when I was tearfully trying to conceive and is now buried under a pile of crap somewhere. But your twenty-minute easyfest is right up my alley. I doubt I'll give up Earth's Best entirely, but it'll be nice to have some cash to feed myself, too, for a change.

I bought Super Baby Food when Mimi was a baby, but...

2008-01-03T12:26:00.000-05:00

I bought Super Baby Food when Mimi was a baby, but I ended up being too lazy/busy/incompetent to actually make food for the girls. Heck, at this point they've been eating solids for years and they're lucky if they get a hot meal at supper. (I'm not exaggerating too much. OK, maybe a tad).

p.s., I'm weeding my baby books so if you're interested in Super Baby Food and want to send me your mailing address, it's all yours. Just drop me a line.