Make! Your! Own! Baby! Food!

The Cliff Notes version of any baby food recipe book:

Introduction - You should make your own baby food that is ORGANIC and NATURAL and GOOD instead of buying EVIL PROCESSED CORPORATE food. You spent at least $20 on this book so you could do that! Yay you! Fresh food is better for your baby. Feed your baby fresh food now, and s/he will grow up to be not obese and you will have no trouble with picky eating ever.

INSERT CUTE BABY SMILING NEXT TO PRETTY LOOKING FOOD HERE.

Recipes:

1) Get fruit that is naturally soft and squishy. Mash it up.

2) Steam fruit or veggies that are not naturally soft and squishy until they are soft and squishy.  Mash them up.  

3) Buy some organic whole milk yogurt.  Feed it to your baby.

4) Here is a ridiculously complicated recipe involving grinding your own grains to make cereal.  Ignore this one and go buy a box of rice cereal.  You have a baby.  You don't have time for that foolishness.  

5) Oh yeah, eventually your baby should eat meat too.  Cook it and then mash it up.  Use the blender.  

INSERT A PHOTO SPREAD OF BABIES LOOKING HAPPY NEXT TO BRIGHTLY COLORED MUSH HERE.

Ta Da!!!!!!!

Doing my part to end the great recession

I went to Whole Foods today and the impulse buying thing struck me.  Whole Foods is the best place for this, 'cuz you can wind up with wacko stuff like...

Yeah.  I'm like, coconut water is supposed to be all trendy right now.  I should see what it's all about... Oh look at that one, it has lime in it.  I bet it'll taste kind of like a pina colada, only juicier (??? - I swear that really was my thought process).  Fail for me.  It was like sugar with overpowering lime flavor and this vague wannabe coconut milk thing in the background.  Yucky.  At least the can was recyclable. 

Impulse buy of the day #2: 

 This looked very promising.  Especially the 70% cacao bit.  Love love love dark chocolate.  But then, as I unwrap it to indulge, I notice this: 

Vegan chocolate?  

Skeptical.  That is how I felt about vegan chocolate.  How do I feel now? After the bar is in my belly?  I like the combo of fig, fennel, almond, and super dark chocolate very very much.  But the texture was... not yummy melting in my mouth indulgent mouthgasm inducing creaminess.  It was just kind of crunchy.  And I prefer yummy melting in my mouth indulgent mouthgasm inducing creaminess when I eat chocolate.  

So I'd say the impulse buys this week were one fail and one ok-ish.  Gotta keep those impulse buys comin' though.  Otherwise, my money would stay in my pocket, and that won't help us out of this recession at all.