Bought baby food for myself!

This thread brought back bad memories of 1972 when my then husband and I were returning from a year in Japan, very much on the cheap, doing irresponsible things like swimming in lakes frequented by herds of water buffalo and eating ice lollies in Java. I got sick and, in spite of seeing local doctors whose medications made me still sicker, was after a while living on bananas and air. We found ourselves at Christmas in a remote part of Malaysia staying with VSO workers and while they celebrated with a proper Christmas dinner, I had a jar of Heinz 'turkey dinner ' baby food from a local store. Miserable wasn't in it. I lost two stone by the time we had 'overlanded' back to England and spent three weeks in the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
The memory of that turkey dinner meant that I just couldn't bear to feed my children, when I had them, on shop baby food.

My mum has Alzheimer's and struggles to eat. Her carer recently started feeding her baby food, and it works well. I wonder if anyone has thought of producing puréed food for the elderly.

Ooh, I loved Farley's Rusks in hot milk too! ?

This is such a good idea! Something else for the shopping list.

My babies thrived on Heinz tins.

Does anyone remember Heinz Fruit Salad baby food? It was a lurid orange colour came in a tin and was still around when my daughter was a baby 30 years ago? Have not seen it since, but I still remember the taste

I have never thought about baby foods for myself.. They weren't around when mine were babies. However I will try some now that Iam in my second childhood!

I don't like porridge, or any warm cereal, so my winter breakfasts are Farley's rusks with hot milk. They're also delicious at any time as a snack with butter on!

Some of these sound rather good - I can't remember the make I gave my daughters, but was dehydrated and came in boxes rather than the jars and tins of puree. They liked them - I wasn't so keen! I did use the apple as apple sauce. I still love Farleys rusks with a cuppa, but they feel expensive nowadays!

I too remember the Heinz Chocolate pudding with affection. My daughter was a very hungry baby, started with Robertson's baby rice at 12 weeks. If the "only milk for the first 6 months" advice had been around for her we would have had 3 months of screaming. Today she is a healthy "normal" weight. She's also 6' 2". She needed early solid foods.
I later worked as a registered childminder and always respected parents' wishes re feeding, but gosh, it was hard.

have also used Apple Puree to go with roast pork.

I haven't bought them for a long time, but I used to love the Heinz Chocolate Pudding on its own, and the Heinz Peach and Apricot mixed into some mashed banana...yummy! Now I have been reminded of it I will see whether they still make it when I next go shopping!

Many people use to buy the tins of Heinz puree apple baby food to use for apple sauce with pork. Just the right size if there were only 2 of you.

I have never tasted any of the baby foods. But when I was so much younger with my first child I had no idea that one had to warm these main meals, so my poor baby son had cold main Cow & Gate meals. Thankfully he is a great eater, so gobbled them up even so.

I used to love Farley's rusks mushed into hot milk. #1 daughter is vegan and some of the food she purees for baby granddaughter is horrible, which is good as I'm watching my weight

When I was little I loved Heinz tinned 'Apple, prune and custard' and enjoyed it as an occasional treat it till I was probably about 7! I can still clearly remember the smell and taste, as if I'd just eaten one. Making me hungry just thinking about it... Wish they were still around.

And then they changed the recipe for the Heinz chocolate pudding, and now it's horrible .

sounds like our babies didn't get as much as they should have done, hahah.

my Grandma loved the baby apple [after she ate a spoonful once] and then used to buy it regularly for herself to have with cream or custard. I do remember the choc pudding ones were nice, and sneaking a spoonful!

I used to love baby egg custard. Can't remember the make but it was in a jar. It was one spoonful for you and one for me when feeding my daughter.

I eat baby apple puree because raw fruit is a bit harsh on my gut. I too love Heinz chocolate pudding.

I used to love the little tins of apples and the puréed carrot was yummy!

DH loved the Heinz chocolate pudding for babies

My BF has been very ill recently and struggled to eat anything much. She said how much she missed being able to eat fruit, so I suggested she bought some jars of puréed baby fruit. She thought it was a hilarious suggestion and I would have been affronted had it not been for the fact that I hadn't seen her laugh for such a long time! She refused to take me seriously but I think she missed a trick! I used to finish up what my GS left when he was a tiny. Some of it was horrible but a lot of it was pretty good!

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