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Baby Food Rant!
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I am getting thoroughly fed up of the amount of places that refuse to heat baby food, some all baby food, some just homemade.
I am going to a wedding today, so will be out on my own with the boys all day. They normally have sandwiches for lunch and a 'meal' (pork/chix with veg) for tea. However, I have just phoned them and they refuse to heat baby food for health and safety reasons! Now, I know about food as my husband is a chef, and this is a load of codswallop! If theyre that worried then make me sign a form that says I take full responsibility for my own children's food, or make bloody homemade baby food on the premises that I can feed the boys. I pride myself on the fact that I make all their food (no offence meant but its hard with twins and working 4 days a week) so I am not going to give the boys a jar because they wont heat it!
They could have a meal there, but all they offer are chix nuggets/pizza with chips. No bolognaise or pasta with sauce, so why should I give them something I dont want to.
AAARRRGGGHHH
Rant over!
I am going to a wedding today, so will be out on my own with the boys all day. They normally have sandwiches for lunch and a 'meal' (pork/chix with veg) for tea. However, I have just phoned them and they refuse to heat baby food for health and safety reasons! Now, I know about food as my husband is a chef, and this is a load of codswallop! If theyre that worried then make me sign a form that says I take full responsibility for my own children's food, or make bloody homemade baby food on the premises that I can feed the boys. I pride myself on the fact that I make all their food (no offence meant but its hard with twins and working 4 days a week) so I am not going to give the boys a jar because they wont heat it!
They could have a meal there, but all they offer are chix nuggets/pizza with chips. No bolognaise or pasta with sauce, so why should I give them something I dont want to.
AAARRRGGGHHH
Rant over!
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Em x
How ridiculous that they refuse on H&S grounds - if they're perfectly happy to heat the grown ups food why not the children's??? They're hardly going to serve boiling hot food to the grownups either, for fear of being sued like that guy in the states who sued for the hot coffee, lol!
Good luck!!
C
Pasta sounds good...they love pasta with tuna mayo (well, Alfie does!) They love sweetcorn too. Might get some ready cooked chicken from tesco and add that. I could then give them some of that to eat themselves, which will keep them happy.
Oh, I dont know! Why can't people just trust mummy instincts?! One particular chain of pub wont heat the food for you but is happy to give you some boiling water to heat it in! Now, im not stupid, you cannot heat food to boiling by setting it in some hot water!! So, surely, this is worse!?
Surely every mummy checks food isnt too hot before giving it to a baby!?
I don't think it will hurt the once. Though I agree they are being very awkward!
xxx
Oh dear, you've really set me off now!!! Lol
charlotte b i feel for your rant, my ds1 was 4 when he had his first 'chippy' lol when he was a tot it was awful when out and about i always just used to order him a side portion of champ or mashed potato and a then give him some of our veggies from our dinner even now he'd much prefer a plate of mummies homemade shepherds pie to chips!!! (which of course I love!!!!) only exception to this is McDOnalds!!! he loves a wee treat there!
I suppose it isnt the food they eat, more the fact that it just seems complete madness that you cant take your own food for baby (we didnt say it was homemade so they obviously dont heat any food, homemade or jars) and had it have been a few weeks ago, I wouldnt have been able to feed them there easily as they have only just started on food they can feed themselves.
Charlotte - Hubby says the same thing about children's menus. His consists of smaller portions of adults food - homemade fish and chips/mash with veg, lasagna, tomato pasta etc. He has been more passionate about it since the boys were born too.
moonbean - While it would work to do it that way, frozen meat dishes should be heated to boiling and cooled.
When I'm going out, I tend to heat the food to boiling, then put in an insulated bag and hope that it's still warm when I need it - normally only lasts 4 hours maximum though. Might be an option for you if those timings work. If it's for later in the day, I'd pack a cold savoury purree, finger foods or a sandwich followed by his normal fruit purree or fruit rice/custard desert. HTH xx
at our wedding we asked what children meals they done and they said we could have anything we wanted- we said no chips! the conculsion on the childrens meals were home made sausages (4 star hotel so i trusted they were good and honest and they tatsed fab!) and mash with peas. we also had fruit cocktail for the childrens starters and ice cream for pudding but you would not beilive how many of my friends said- "cant he/she just have chicken nuggests and chips?" NO they fricking well cant!! i am not paying over ??15 a meal for a child to have fricking chicken nuggets!!
my god it makes me angry!
Personally i would make up some mash and veg and add some cooked chicken after warming the mash and veg in hot water??
My ds (2) is happier eating a roast dinner or pasta bake than anything else really. But im really laid back with his food. He does have nuggets and fish fingers and chips too xx
The day was a disaster, as I predicted! I took some sanwiches for their evening meal, but they wanted their usual food! They wouldnt even touch the sandwiches, and another child stole half their banana (dont ask!) so they didnt even get that. Alfie ended up eating the mash off my plate, and Ryan the broccoli of my best friends! There wasnt anything else suitable for them to eat, and they refused to put some mash on for them as we hadnt ordered it!
I really didnt know what to do. We were over an hour from home and I had 2 hungry 10 month olds. I did give them the fruit I had bought, and some from our plates but I was disgusted to be honest.
THEN, although I had taken a flask of hot water for the bottles, it was in the car so I thought id ask if they would heat the bottles and they did! In the microwave! So they probably wouldve heated the food had I taken it!
I will definitely make sure I phone well in advance next time as I didnt have time to make up food this morning, with a 1.5hr drive just to get there, and I only have meat dishes ready made.
Glad you're all at home safe at least