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Monday, June 1, 2009
When is it too soon to give a child a Happy Meal?
I got a call at work the other day from the husband. He works nights two days a week so he can be home with our daughter during the day.
He called to tell me proudly that he just gave our daughter a Happy Meal. Our 10-month-old daughter who doesn’t have teeth and has never had red meat in her life.
We have different opinions on what is appropriate to give our daughter to eat. When she first starting eating solids, I insisted on making all of my own baby food, steaming and pureeing anything I could get my hands on. Peas, green beans, blueberries, pears, apples, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, zucchini. You name it, I did it. Organic and homemade.
Then one weekend while we were out of town visiting family I realized we left her food behind and had to run to the store to get jars of food. I still insisted that we do organic. It turned out that she liked the jarred stuff better so we continued giving that to her and I abandoned making baby food.
Since then, we’ve moved on to table food in little bits. She loves cheese, black beans and bread, will eat small pieces of turkey and chicken and tolerates yogurt. Occasionally we can sneak in a fruit or veggie jar of baby food.
So when the husband said he gave her a Happy Meal, I was less than happy.
He said he got a side of apples and not fries. OK, that’s slightly better. And he took off most of the meat and just gave her the bun and cheese. But still, a Happy Meal isn’t really the height of nutrition.
So what do you think? Am I being too sensitive or is my daughter a little too young for a Happy Meal?
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