We are, thank heaven, fairly recently out of the baby food stage here –
my one year old now eats whatever we eat with gusto, although I do swap
out, say, snow peas for regular peas for his dinner and keep vigilant
watch for “chokeables.”
But “what to feed the baby” is high on
my list of things I didn’t stress about with my second child near as
much as I did with my first. Thank goodness, too, because I suspect
it’s going to become the next big competitive parenting thing (if it
isn’t already). Exhibit A –this story from the Washington Post last
week about homemade baby food.
While it’s a good read and full of interesting information, there’s
that ever-so-slight air of “You feed your baby store-bought food in
jars? How déclassé and bourgeois of you!”
And yes, I did feed mine store-bought food in jars.
The article quotes Eric Ripert and Tony Bourdain, who cite things like...
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