This morning Noah is crusted over with cereal, slobber and snot. And yet still cute. Where did we get this kid from? He can't possibly be related to me. I don't even clean up well.
So Noah had his first green beans this morning. I had been putting them off since they look so nasty. I like actual green beans - but something about green bean puree seems so very wrong. And it is. I tasted it and it was gross. Noah ate it all but he made a wrinkled up face with each spoonful. I'm not sure he realizes he can actually refuse to eat something. I think he gets that from his father. Mark eats almost everything but cheese. While it is freakish to not eat cheese (he will eat mozzarella thankfully) I don't consider him a picky eater at all. Maybe that is because there is so much stuff that I won't eat. I'm pretty adventurous about trying different ethnic foods but they have to be approved for ingredients. Various meat products are at the top of won't eat list - no sausage, no chicken on the bone, no veal, no lamb, no hot dogs, no meatballs, etc. I also don't like super processed food. Most frozen dinners gross me out and I can even get the willies about canned soup. So hopefully Noah's palette is more like Mark's - but with a love of cheese.
Every time I go to the grocery store I get in a tizzy about baby food. My inner self wants to be the kind of mom that buys organic produce from a local farm and makes my own baby food. But that just isn't reality since I can't even efficiently get the damn laundry done. So I buy packaged baby food. And I've been buying those Gerber two packs because they seem price friendly and handy. But I'm sure I SHOULD be buying organic baby food. I feel guilty because I don't. Both Beech Nut and Gerber have organic lines but the prices are significantly higher and we're on a budget here. So am I poisoning Noah with chemicals to spare a few cents? Do you think the organic is that much better for the tots? And if so - why do they keep selling the other stuff? Help me. I'm in a brightly colored pureed goo shame spiral.
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I am hardly the one to advise, since I am childless thus far, but I think that there are worse things than feeding your baby regular Gerber. I also dream of being the mom who makes her own baby food from organic ingredients someday...but I can't even afford to buy myself all organic foods, so that might be a stretch. And since my nearest Whole Foods is in, well, Philly, I just have to go with what's available at your run-of-the-mill grocery store, which tends to be not much.
I'd love to know just how organic those organic foods are. I was thinking alot about this since you asked over the weekend, and I had this thought: does having an organic line of food automatically make the original line of food bad? like, how can they have an organic line and justify a non-organic line, unless it's just to please people who won't wear leather and such? are they going to change the branding of the non-organic line to "Poison-Infused" or "Cancer-Inducing"? or more realistically "Second Best"?
my opinion: their so-called organic food is genius marketing. it's just as processed, preservatized, and additivized as their regular food so anything that the original fruit/veg had that made it organic is loooong gone.
Patrice makes an excellent point.
Also, ask your mom what she fed you when you were little. Think whatever non-rganicness that it was actually hurt you into adulthood?
Well, currently Sophie is working her way through a chicken nugget happy meal. I did go for the apple slices instead of the fries, but they come with a very unhealthy, but delicious, caramel dip. Nutrition is one of my major guilt things with Sophie. Based on every word I've ever read that you've written, I can tell that you are a great mom who loves her baby enormously and wouldn't harm him in any way. So, by the power invested me by the mommy police, I offically absolve you of your sin of feeding Noah regular baby food.
Thanks everyone for the input. I guess part of the stock and trade of motherhood is constantly worrying that you could be doing better for your child.
Noah can be the poison infused Gerber baby. I think my mom fed me cigarettes and beer.
And Patrice you should know better than to refer to anything I can consume as preservatized and additivized. Bleck!
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