A Whole New World
And I don’t mean a song from Aladdin.
Looks like the world of “real food” is going to be completely different from the commercial baby food world. We’ve established that Sadie loves real sweet potato as well as the commercial version. However, she hates hates hates real banana, even though she likes the not as good IMHO commercial stuff, and the banana flavored gas drops (speaking of which, we strongly suspect that she has figured out that Tylenol makes her teeth feel better, as her enthusiasm for it goes way beyond merely liking the grape flavor).
I’ve tried giving her a little mashed with a fork, and today we used the food processor to make it finer and more watery. Very tasty. She made the most revolted food face yet, was more mildly revolted on the second and third bites, and refused more after that. I’m impressed that she gamely tried that much. She even shuddered in disgust when I wiped the little bit off her face before moving on to her favorite thing, which is blueberries. Which are (parental tip alert) even more effective than prunes at inducing regularity.
No more real bananas for Sadie until she’s older.
Heh… my mother tells me I used to LOVE beef-liver baby food. Can’t stand beef liver. Baby food evidently is not much like mashed-up real food.
Try adding some fake banana flavoring to mashed banana if you want to experiment… it may be that the baby food stuff is what she’s used to and the real stuff tastes ‘wrong’...
Posted by Kathy K on 03/20 at 09:29 PMFor me it was peas. Evidently mashed peas and I were the best of friends. I won’t eat real peas. I have no idea if I would eat baby food peas or not, having never tasted them as an adult. Bleccch.
Posted by caltechgirl on 03/20 at 11:06 PMWow, proof that Sadie is an intelligent kid. Banana’s aren’t fit for man or animal.
Posted by on 03/21 at 01:23 PM