It’s amazing to me how great baby food seems to be. Not necessarily in taste (though, errr, some of it is actually pretty great), but that it’s actually made from what it says it is. For example… if you want strawberry jelly that actually has strawberries in it, you have to go to a hippie grocery store or to a farm and make it yourself. Not with baby food – the ingredients for regular ole gerber’s strawberry banana baby food is, get this, strawberries and bananas (and water). No partially hydrogenated heart attack juice. No artificial flavorings or colorings. No something-or-another funky preservatives to keep it on the shelf through the next millennium. Why is this? Do we care more about what goes into our kids bodies than our own? Do we just not care about shelf life for baby food? I’ve not done any research on this, but I’d be willing to be government regulations are more strict on baby food (in regards to shelf life, and maybe even amounts of garbage allowed in it). Whatever the reason, it’s crazy to me. And kind of sad, and stupid, and upsetting.
And, errr, if you ever see gerber’s strawberry guava baby food…. that’s some good stuff!
haha..made me look on the cat food cans. sheesh. no wonder they catch chipmunks. interesting point though. Maybe it has something to do with ease of digestion? Cause at the home we fed the old folks baby food too…mainly cause their digestion slowed way down and they could process it better. Which in a ways is very ironic cause in every other aspect of this life in the USofA children and oldsters have so few considerations..hmmm…makes you think ,eh?