EWWW! What is that?
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All the experts agree that when you are feeding your baby their first foods, your reactions make a world of difference. So tell me this, how can you open a jar of peas or bananas and keep a smiley face toward your child. Let me tell you that every time I opened one of those 2 choices with my oldest, I had to look away and gag first, then turn around with my happy mom face and say “mmmm, peas, these smell wonderful and I bet they taste wonderful too”. I could handle any of the other ones but those two almost sent me over the edge every time.
I can admit now, that I NEVER tasted any baby food with my first. I am super picky and the thought of putting any of it in my mouth grossed me out! So mature of me, I know. But I have come leaps and bounds. Maybe because when you make you own, it really doesn’t smell as bad or I would like to think I am becoming a more well balanced person (ha ha). But this week, I took the plunge. I tried for the very first time carrots, bananas AND peas. I can say proudly that I did not gag and when I actually offer it to my son, I won’t have to turn away first, give myself a pep talk and fake a big flashy smile!! I am growing up I guess.
Do you have any baby foods that creap you out…give us a laugh and post your stories!!
jar food bananas always yucked me out, too. My older son loves bananas, but never touched the jarred kind – I avoided blended flavors that included bananas, too. However, when I made my own food from bananas, he loved it. Even when I froze chunks of bananas and they turned a bit brown, he still gobbled them up once they defrosted and were mashed.
Glad I’m not the only one who gagged at baby food — some of the mixed meals really smell bad!
And I never understood “meat sticks”. Why would I give my child processed meats formed into sticks and then jarred with water? The jars on the shelf always reminded me of a lab experiment gone wrong!
Pretty much all of the vegetables creep me out. I love carrots, green beans, peas, and broccoli, yet the smell of ALL of those as baby food just grossed me out! Once you start getting into the turkey-mixed-with-vegetable dinners, then it gets REALLY disgusting. Some of those I felt really guilty about feeding my kids cause there was no way I’d ever let that stuff pass thru my lips!
I actually like the banana baby foods and all the veggies. The sweet potatoe is my favorite. But any of the meat ones are nasty. After my first I didn’t offer any meat baby foods. I just gave them the real thing.
I try it and if it was nasty I would toss it. That is why my kids never ate baby cereal. It tasted like wet cardboard.
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