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What’s next? Baby kimchi?

Let’s take a little break from talking about the battle waging in my head and my sickly little pumpkins. I want to tell you what showed up at my house this week. My grocery delivery came (this is city living folks) and sometimes they include a little free goodie sampler with my order. Well that’s awfully nice. Thank you. But what I got this week made me stop in my tracks. They’ve apparently figured out there are little people living here and popped some free baby food into my basket. Organic baby food. Well that is super although Eva is totally off her food this week and we’re just struggling to get enough milk and Pedialyte in to her to see it come out the other end. But soon enough we’ll be back at it. Anyway this is not just free and organic baby food, but also designed, apparently, to give babies something with a “grown-up flavour!” Sometimes England is weird.

Let me share the ingredients with you, verbatim, from the back of the package of “mild vegetable masala sauce” (for age 7+ months!): Organic vegetables 52% (butternut squash 20%, sweet potato 10%, tomato 6%, carrot 5%, red pepper 4%, fennel 3%, onion 3%, tomato paste 1%), water, organic apple puree 7%, organic vegetarian cheddar cheese 4%, organic coriander 1%, organic olive oil 1%, organic quinoa flakes 1%, organic spices 0.2% (cumin, ginger, curry), organic garlic.
I just spotted on http://momtothescreamingmasses.typepad.com/ that food allergy week is May 9-16. So apropos. How am I going to know if it was the cumin powder or the fennel that made my kid break out after her curry? My 7 month-old is supposed to want chicken tikka? And what the heck is vegetarian cheddar cheese? From grass-fed cattle? I was still back at bananas and pears. Masala sauce wasn’t even on my radar. Am I supposed to buy special baby Indian food? Good gracious, I had no idea. The things they don’t teach in medical school! My poor deprived children!

Dr. Lara Zibners, Apr 28, 2010

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Masala sauce for a “new to solids” infant? That does sound pretty weird. I’ve got 5 kids of my own (ages 12 to 5 months, including 2 w/food allergies) and giving them Indian food while introducing them to solids would have never occurred to me.

Vegetarian cheddar cheese is probably cheese made with non-animal derived rennet.

    – Cheryl (05/06 12:51 AM)

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