Bought baby food for myself!

Farley's tusks and hot milk were about all I ate when I was small - fussy child! Reading this makes me want to try them again ?

Farley's tusks!!!! Hahaha ? Brilliant mistype!

Maybe baby elephants eat Farleys tusks.....

My 4 children used to love Milupa 7 Cereals Breakfast, so much so that they used to want it long after they started school! (Have to say it was very yummy ) They were so sad when the company stopped production....

My father always added a tin or two of pureed carrot baby food to his lentil soup, and pureed apple to apple sauce.

I loved the smell of the Heinz egg custard and chocolate pudding, but the taste was a wee bit " soapy".

Annifrance- Oh yes, puréed apple as an instance sauce with roast park. In the 70s there was a Heinz baby chocolate pudding which I found a teenage boy feeding to the baby on a 'one for you, one for me; one for me, one for you' basis!

pork not 'park'. GNHQ, pleeese can we have an Edit button?!

instant sauce ...

Milupa used to do a dried cereal with berries, JudeC, which I got a bit addicted to. In fact I used to chomp it dry by the spoonful. I was also partial to gripe water....

My cousin was the Farley's baby and appeared on their jars and packs and hoardings in the late 1940s. She was a very bonny baby with massive chubby cheeks (a family trait, one that I and my own DC were all blessed with) and would probably be classed as obese these days

I love the baby puddings especially Farley rusks I often treat myself to some.

Does anyone remember the wonderful orange juice they used to give young children after the war ?

Oh yes, l didn't get it, (too old at 5?) but when we visited my younger cousin my aunt gave me some of his. I thought it was delicious. Some people say they didn't like it.

The mere thought of pureed spinach still makes me heave.

I've just remembered Delrosa rosehip syrup.......lovely!

The natural source of Vitamin C !!!!

Love reading all these posts... I thought I was alone in buying baby food for me!

I don't think it's made anymore, but I used to buy Heinz pureed apples (for babies obviously) and eat it as apple sauce with pork. Took me ages to like the usual lumpy stuff I have to eat now!

Juggernaut - Mmm, rose hip syrup. Sooo sweet. I think you've just given me an explanation of why I had poor teeth in spite of regular cleaning and the low sugar 1940s diet! I just loved that stuff! I quite liked Virol too.

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Blimey, this is an old thread! I was just about to post about my cousin the Farley’s baby, and see I already have.

I’ve been known to buy the little pots of Cow and Gate fruit purées and scoff them all myself. They’re delish.
I’m also partial to a Farley’s Rusk, but do try to resist those - I’d eat a whole packet in a day.

I never wanted the baby foods, but LOVED Fennings powders, straight from the packet! Oh, and Dinnefords Magnesia, before they changed the recipe.

I tried puréed baby food when I had my jaw broke. Blooming awful! Lived on milky coffee instead!

Interesting post Nelliemaggs

Badenkate

Does anyone remember the wonderful orange juice they used to give young children after the war ?

I do.....I loved this. Very thick, sweet, sickly syruppy. When I was a young teenager I used to babysit a couple of young cousins, and my Aunt always left out a bottle of that syrup for me to have.

Along with the malt that I was also given as a small child, sure this is one of my reasons that I have such weight problems. Back in the 1940's, tubby babies were considered healthy.