I dont think I ever used more
than 2-3 jars of babyfood a day.(Cereal always made up part of her solid's
intake, and by the time she was eating much more than a jar at a meal, she
was
eating at least some table foods.)

I don't count cereal in the jars of baby food count. I don't know
whether anyone else does or not.

Right. I don't think anyone does. And my point was that by the time Shaina
was eating much more than the equivilent of a jar of babyfood at a meal, she
was already eating table foods, so we would have never used more than 2-3 jars
a day. (So she might have had, say, cereal and half a jar of babyfruit at
breakfast [with the rest of the jar the next day with more cereal], a jar of
veggies and some finger foods at lunch, and maybe a meat-veggie 'dinner' [not
the kind with all the fillers], and more finger foods at supper.)

Actually I don't know why baby food cereals are such a good thing to
use and why not just regular cereal.

Well, if you are talking about hot cereals, in our house we don't really eat
oatmeal or cream of wheat. The only hot cereal we eat, Wheatena, is pretty
coarse for little babies. She did eat cheerios and things, of course.
(Baby cereal was a big deal when it was introduced, not only because it
contained iron, but because it could be prepared in just a few moments -- more
traditional cereals available at the time had to be cooked for hours for
babies.)

The meat dishes were sort of disgusting,

Shaina actually was on baby meat for a long time after she was on table food
for almost everything else. She didn't seem to like the texture of real meat
until she was a toddler.


Naomi
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