A very special baby food recipe for you – Food for thought

Mar 21, 2010 Baby Food Recipes Updated, Dangerous Food Items, Friendly Baby Food Advice, New Baby Food Recipes, Nutrition, Solids and Weaning

This weekend has been packed full of home DIY, including painting and carpet demolition and oh my aching back! Actually, I should say that my dear hubby, DIY king of all time – oh how I worship thee, did all of the back-aching work. With so much of a mess in the house, I had little energy for cooking and ordered Chinese take-away. Tonight I made a real meal however but didn’t take any pictures because the roast made a mess of the pan and potatoes erupted all over the stove… So I thought it might be fun to post this recipe from a neato cookbook! I’ll be curious to hear what y’all think about it

Food for a young infant –

Take of fresh cow’s milk one table-spoons full, and mix with 2 table-spoonsfull of hot water
sweeten with loaf-sugar as much as may be agreeable.

This quantity if sufficient for once feeding a new-born infant; and the same quantity may be given every 2 or 3 hours — not oftener — till the mother’s breast affords the natural nourishment.”

Thickened milk for young infants when 6 months old

Take 1 pint of milk,
1 pint of water; boil it and add 1 tablespoon of flour.
Dissolve the flour first in half a teacup of water; it must be strained in gradually and boiled hard for 20 minutes.

As the child grows older, one-third water. If properly made, it is the most nutritious, at the same time the most delicate food that can be given to young infants.

Please pick yourself up off the floor now and pop your eyes back into your head.  These 2 recipes come from the book Cookery for Children by Sarah Josepha Hale.  Ms. Hale wrote her book in 1852.

I think this is a wonderful representation of how far nutrition, particularly pediatric nutrition, has come along.  I also find this to be a wonderful item to show those family/friends who insist on telling you that feeding a baby at 8 weeks old is fine because “my grandmother fed my mom” or “my mom fed me” etc and so forth…  For sure babies survived on Ms. Hale’s recipes, and sure there probably was nothing wrong with some of those babies and they “grew-up just fine”.  Knowing what we know now, I cannot imagine anyone saying that these are great recipes to feed infants even if babies back in the 1850’s might just have “grown-up fine”; can you?

Recall on Baby Food – Happy Baby and Happy Tot

Jan 14, 2010 Baby Recalls, Dangerous Food Items, Food Recalls

FDA Issues Consumer Alert on HAPPYTOT Stage 4 and Some HAPPYBABY Stage 1 & Stage 2 Baby Foods

The FDA is recommending that the public not consume any varieties of HAPPYTOT Stage 4 and certain varieties of HAPPYBABY Stage 1 and Stage 2 baby foods in pouches distributed by Nurture Inc. The firm is recalling these products because some pouches are leaking or swollen. Swollen or leaking pouches may indicate problems with the product, including possible contamination by bacteria that can cause illness, or that the packaging has been compromised and is at risk of bacterial contamination.

The varieties of these products that should not be consumed are as follows:

• HAPPYTOT Green bean, pear & peas, NET WT. 4.22 OZ. (120g), UPC 8 52697 00127 9;
• HAPPYTOT Sweet potato, carrot, apple & cinnamon, NET WT. 4.22 OZ. (120g), UPC 8 52697 00128 6;
• HAPPYTOT Spinach, mango & pear, NET WT. 4.22 OZ. (120g), UPC 8 52697 00129 3;
• HAPPYTOT Butternut squash & apple, NET WT. 4.22 OZ. (120g), UPC 8 52697 00130 9;
• HAPPYTOT Banana, peach, coconut & prunes, NET WT. 4.22 OZ. (120g), UPC 8 52697 00131 6;
• HAPPYTOT Banana, peach & mango, NET WT. 4.22 OZ. (120g), UPC 8 52697 00132 3
• HAPPYBABY Mango, NET WT. 3.5 OZ. (99g), UPC 8 52697 00134 7
• HAPPYBABY Spinach Mango Pear, NET WT. 3.5 OZ. (99g), UPC 8 52697 00139 2
• HAPPYBABY Apricot Sweet Potato, NET WT. 3.5 OZ. (99g), UPC 8 52697 00136 1

The above meals are packaged in plastic pouches with plastic caps and are sold at retail stores nationwide. To determine if a specific product is part of this recall, consumers should examine product packaging for expiration date codes between October 2010 and January 2011. These expiration date codes are printed as the first seven characters of a 15-character string.

Read the FDA Alert

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Plum Organics recalls Apple & Carrot Portable Pouch Baby Food

Oct 20, 2009 Baby Recalls, Dangerous Food Items

EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(Business Wire)– Plum Organics announced today that it is taking the precautionary measure of voluntarily recalling one particular batch of its

• 4.22 oz. Apple & Carrot Portable Pouch baby food

• with the best by date May 21, 2010 and marked with the following universal product code

• (UPC) #890180001221 located on the bottom of the package.

These pouches are sold individually at Toys-R-Us and Babies-R-Us locations nationally. No illnesses have been reported in connection with this product and no other Plum Organics products are affected.

As a further precaution, samples from every Plum Organics product manufactured before and after this batch were tested and found to be within quality standards.

The recall was undertaken as a precaution due to the risk of potential contamination with Clostridium botulinum, which can cause botulism, a serious and sometimes life-threatening condition.

Consumers should not use these products, even if they appear to be normal, because of the possible health risk. Symptoms of botulism poisoning in humans include general weakness, dizziness, double-vision and trouble with speaking or swallowing. People experiencing these problems should seek immediate medical attention.

Read the Press Release from Plum Organics

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