That Time I Ate Baby Food and Liked It
Do you want to know a secret? I ate baby food and liked it! I think many parents do this, and I want you to know.. it was pretty pretty good. In fact, my mom has been known to buy jars of Gerber’s Vanilla Custard Pudding to eat all for herself – baby or no baby. Now I don’t currently have a baby here at home, but I have raised two babies into one toddler and one almost-first-grader, so far. Des was a very good sport about modeling this adorable shirt for me!
I Ate Baby Food and Liked It:
I babysat for ten years before I became a mother and the “baby” I helped feed, love and support is now in college. So I feel rightfully old. I also have a nephew, a niece, and probably more of those on the way so I can be a better Super-Aunt! I don’t personally feel that I’m too old for it either, because I have always tested my kids’ food first to make sure it’s good!
Scarlet and Des had very different transitions with chewing and eating table food. Scarlet did a full six months of completely pureed food, whereas Des ate little bits, chunks and larger pieces of table food a bit younger. Every child is different, and your comfort level may be different too.
As these older babies develop the side-to-side movement of their tongue, they learn to move small and soft pieces of food to their jaws for mashing – the early skills of chewing. Expose your children to “lumpy food” before they’re 10-months-old so they don’t experience difficulties with transitioning to more advanced foods. So much thought goes into this!
Frist! My kids all ate Gerber…I love how they’re into transitioning to older more complex foods.
Yay for frist!!
I love the science behind their food. It’s actually brilliant.
Ewwwwwwwwwww.. haha.. I can’t stand baby food… Tessa has never cared for mushy foods, with the exception of applesauce. She’s doing baby led weaning and at 2 is still primarily on donor breast milk… – http://www.domesticgeekgirl.com
That’s too funny. I’mw eird, though!
Des did a lot of baby-led weaning too, where Scarlet really needed these step by step foods.
Funny story: I actually feed this stuff to my chihuahua and he LOVES it! While I can’t stand the smell of the meat flavored ones (vegetarian;-), the fruit and veggie foods actually don’t seem so different from juicing! Good stuff, right there!
That’s funny! Lucky dog.
I can understand why you wouldn’t love the meat-flavored smells! The well made baby foods are exquisite. And great for travel!
Love Gerber! I always ate the baby food my kids were eating! We never liked anything green though… I take care of a 19 month old little boy and he still eats Gerber. Liese will still eat it with him when he does. Kids are funny!
I can understand that! Scarlet couldn’t ever eat canned green beans, and she’d eat anythign else.
Liese is great! I totally would do the same.
I love the term Gerber U Chew! It’s such a cute concept!!
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Yeah, it’s a good one! Total win with the hashtag.
I love this pictures of Des!! We were a very serious gerber family as well. It’s the only way to go!
Thank you! Des was very helpful for this post.
I love that you were a serious Gerber family!
My 7 year old still likes Gerber baby bananas. So, every week we buy him the Stage 2 jars that he loves. I’m pretty sure I’m pretty sure I didn’t introduce him to mixed textures early enough, because he never liked the Stage 3 foods. And he still is a really picky eater today. I was really scared when it came to feeding him. I was always afraid of chocking. If I could go back in time I would have given him more textures early on.
I totally hear you. I was more adventurous with my second, and that’s why he’s more adventurous too, I believe. I’m not sure. The stage 3 foods are formulated so well.
LOL! I have eaten baby food as an adult, too! I liked the fruits and desserts the best of all! Des looks quite adorable in that shirt! Hope you have an amazing week!
ha! I love that you’re admitting it. While we’re on the subject, my dog and cat food smells good. We get them the good stuff. I have never eaten it, but it smells good!
I think baby food is pretty good – especially the bananas! Such cute pictures of your little guy!
haha, yeah! The bananas are great! And I still love mashed avocados, hence, why guacamole is a perfect food.
Who knew so much thought and research went into making baby food! Amazing
I honestly had no idea and it’s really awesome to see!
It seems that in the last couple months Eve has really learned (and understand) to chew. She still only has 4 teeth but she does surprisingly well with what she’s got!
I got to see those cute teeth yesterday!
Babies and toddlers are pretty amazing with their gums and jaws.
This seems like a safe place to admit that I always liked the Gerber desserts when my kids were eating baby food…
This is totally a safe place, Rabia. Welcome, welcome…to our meeting of Adult Baby Food Eaters. (ABFE?)
Aw, Des looks so cute in the shirt. I have never eaten baby food as an adult but good to know that I can LOL. Hope you are enjoying your trip!!
I can’t believe I got the shirt on him! It’s 18 months size. He looks like a hipster!
I’m totally enjoying my series of trips!
Sounds like a great way for little ones to explore the art of chewing! Bonus points for it being good enough that grownups will eat it, too 🙂
Oh yes. I have totally eaten this entire product line, as well as the pouches.
I still swear their sweet potatoes are better than my own. 🙂
Well I do have trouble believing that, because you ROCK, but what a compliment to Gerber!
The only baby food I would even dare to try, back in the day, was the fruit ones. I just couldn’t bring myself to try the others.
Be careful – fruit is the gateway to the others!
Just kidding!
My kids ate Gerber food as babies! They seemed to enjoy it.
Nice! I know I grew up eating it.
And then they added bananas to vanilla custard pudding! What gives??
ha! I remember how upset you were. Well don’t knock it unless you try it.
Back in the day, I only fed my kids Gerber food. It’s the best.
Me too! And of course, I still do sometimes. If I had a third baby, I’d be happy to see all these new options.
My kiddos were funny with baby food. They were fine with stage 1 but once they could bite on real food they did not want anything to do with the baby stuff! I saw these in the store, people seemed to really like them!
My second was like that! He wanted to pretty much eat burgers because we were eating burgers!
our baby days are long behind us.. I remember tasting everything just to make sure it was warm enough and wouldn’t scald their little tounges. They LOVED their baby food.
Oh yes. I still do that! I’ve tasted pretty much everything at least once now!
Your photos are adorable. I have to confess I have tried baby food, and some of it wasn’t too bad.
ha! Well I have too. Some are definitely better than others to an adult palate!
I used to try all the food I fed the kids – some were much better tasting. I liked the peaches – they were tasty.
Yes! I still crave those peaches actually.
I love that they have different types for babies. We use these when great grandson is visiting.
My mom would always keep them at home for when we visited. I loved that!
I’ve never tried baby food that I can remember. My babies always ate what we did we did BLW!
BLW is very awesome! I had one who did it so naturally and another who lived for baby food.
I have ate baby food before and it was surprisingly good.The blend of apples, raspberries, and avocados makes a great baby food.
Oh yes – that’s a great one. I don’t mine applesauce so I always figure that well-made baby food isn’t much different.
Love Gerber! My son ate it a lot! I’ve never tried, though! But he used to love it!
haha, I was wondering if other parents ate their kids’ baby food. I’m glad he loved it, though!
I can’t say that, as an adult, I have ever tried to eat baby food. If I were to, though, it would be Gerber’s. I think their baby food is the best.
I’m glad you think so! I do too.. I remember eating it when I was young too.
I think Gerber’s is awesome – and I even fed it to my last dog later in her life when she had IBD.
Aw, IBD sounds so rough.
We gave my dog pureed green beans and pumpkin, per the vet’s instruction, so there’s something to be said about it for sure.
What cute photo’s. I have used Gerber products for all 5 of my kids, my little one still likes them.
Aw! Five kids! I’m one of five and I think we all had Gerber too.
So much thought going into what a little one eats! I was one of those crazy ladies making homemade baby food for T, but then L was pretty much Gerber all the way. Then my mom gave L a crusty roll when she was 10 or 11 months old, and she loved it. I suppose textures really do help. I’ll be looking into these when time comes for the new little one!
ha, here too! Scarlet got local, organic and homemade. Des got store-bought. They were both totally happy! As was I!
Adorable. I do enjoy the taste of some of the baby foods too. All of my girls had Gerber too..
Some of them are so delicious! I like to think that’s how I’m getting my vegetables in.
I figure if it tastes good to me, it’s good enough to feed my baby!
Very good philosophy!