The golden age of baby food (babies, parents, child, husband)
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Funny, was just watching the movie Baby Boom on TV.
Can Babies Learn to Love Vegetables?
No diet has been more obsessively studied, more fiercely controlled, or more anxiously stage-managed than baby food. Yet we still get it wrong.
Baby food is in the midst of a golden age. With the rise of two-income families, home delivery, and ever pickier eaters, the global market has grown to nine billion dollars a year, sixteen per cent of it in the United States.
Gerber has dominated the baby-food industry almost from the day, in 1927, when Dorothy Gerber, tired of mashing peas in her kitchen, asked her husband if he couldn’t do a better job of it at his canning factory. Between 1936 and 1946 alone, Gerber’s business grew by three thousand per cent. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...ove-vegetables
A lot of young moms I know have stopped buying commercial baby food. They just put some fruit or cooked veggies in a food processor. Makes me wonder why I never thought of that 30 years ago when my own kids were babies.
A lot of young moms I know have stopped buying commercial baby food. They just put some fruit or cooked veggies in a food processor. Makes me wonder why I never thought of that 30 years ago when my own kids were babies.
Thirty years ago home Food Processors were giant devices that made quantities of 1 to 2 quarts, not 4 ounces.
maybe not the "golden age", but certainly the gold standard.
Our family..kids..grandkids, have never had to eat gross store bought baby sheeet.
It's so easy to just boil and mash a little for the baby just starting to eat solids.
Parents should try eating a jar of the gross baby food they buy for their little ones..see just how disgusting it is..and so unnecessary...probably why so many lil ones have problems with their eating.
A lot of young moms I know have stopped buying commercial baby food. They just put some fruit or cooked veggies in a food processor. Makes me wonder why I never thought of that 30 years ago when my own kids were babies.
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Originally Posted by MI-Roger
Thirty years ago home Food Processors were giant devices that made quantities of 1 to 2 quarts, not 4 ounces.
I agree. Thirty-some years ago I used a little hand grinder for baby food. It worked well.
I only used jar (organic) baby foods to test for food allergy (one fruit or one vegetable for a few days). Once I saw that my kid was not allergic to any particular food, I whipped out my hand grinder and make my own. My kid definitely preferred home-made baby foods, and wouldn't go back to jar foods after eating those fresh, yummy home-made foods.
Thirty years ago home Food Processors were giant devices that made quantities of 1 to 2 quarts, not 4 ounces.
My own mother used a tiny food mill meant for making baby food for me and my siblings who were born in 1969, 1972, and 1976 respectively. She'd just separate out an unseasoned portion of whatever the family was eating and crank it on through before the family meals. Later, she'd just feed us from her own plate.
Commercial baby food was something that she gave us when were away from home or for when she was pinched for time (or if something that the rest of the family was eating was not good for those new to solid foods).
Thirty years ago home Food Processors were giant devices that made quantities of 1 to 2 quarts, not 4 ounces.
We used blenders and forks, not food processors.
My child ate pretty much whatever the family was eating. Jars of baby food were only for traveling.
And yes, little baby humans like vegetables that are properly prepared. Which does not include those little jars of baby food vegetables that were downright nasty.
And sometimes, meat was simply pre-chewed for the baby, not whirled in a blender.
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