I dry-heaved my way through this short video over on Chow. One thing even more disgusting than meat-laden baby foods is an adult snacking on them, which is what Chow columnist James Norton did.
Better him than me.
Norton taste-tested jars of butternut squash from three different baby food makers -- Roundy's, Gerber and Nature's Best. Not so bad. Then he popped the lids of turkey dinners of the same labels. I could smell the freshly opened jars from my laptop.
I'm sure I'm not alone in finding baby food disgusting. And, yes, I feed them to my babies (like they're gonna complain). So thanks to Norton, I know to avoid Roundy's grainy, meat-chunkless (there goes another dry heave!) turkey dinner and also to pass up the "sausage in a jar" flavor of Gerber's for the fruity and nicely textured Nature's Best. Nature's Best also had the best squash.
Had Norton really had some sack, he would have sampled other baby food nasties (which, yes, again!, have found their way into my kids' mouths): green beans, those orangy "dinners" involving beef and plain, pureed and jarred poultry -- pink as an undercooked chicken breast.
Which jarred edibles do your kids gobble up while you gag? Have you ever sampled baby food bananas? Doesn't taste a thing like bananas, but man is it good!
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