Guest guest Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 Has anyone checked out Gerber baby food (just certain fruits) to whether or not they are legal? Now I know you're probably wondering why anyone would want to eat baby food Sometimes for breakfast I like fruit over my bread and I don't always have time to cook up apples. Here is what the ones I'm interested in say............. APPLE/STRAWBERRY Ingredients: organic apples, organic strawberries, ascorbic acid. APPLE/BLUEBERRY Ingredients: apples, blueberries, water, ascorbic acid. APPLE/CHERRIES Ingredients: apples, cherries, water, ascorbic acid. Any thoughts Has anyone eaten these before? ~Tonya~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 I never checked them out, but I did try to eat them pre SCD. I was pretty sick at the time and everything I ate ran through me. I had already made the connection between what I ate and symptoms, and was almost following SCD on my own, but had not found the diet. I tried bananas, applesauce, and squash. They seemed to make me worse. There is the 2% rule, and I suspect there is added sugar. Maybe someone can confirm. Only when I found SCD and began making my own applesauce and legal bananas was I able to eat these things. You can cook applesauce in a crock pot, saves a bit of time. I cook a lot and freeze it PJ > > Has anyone checked out Gerber baby food (just certain fruits) to whether or not they are legal? Now I know you're probably wondering why anyone would want to eat baby food Sometimes for breakfast I like fruit over my bread and I don't always have time to cook up apples. Here is what the ones I'm interested in say............. > > APPLE/STRAWBERRY > Ingredients: organic apples, organic strawberries, ascorbic acid. > > APPLE/BLUEBERRY > Ingredients: apples, blueberries, water, ascorbic acid. > > APPLE/CHERRIES > Ingredients: apples, cherries, water, ascorbic acid. > > Any thoughts Has anyone eaten these before? > > > ~Tonya~ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 At 03:54 PM 1/15/2010, you wrote: Any thoughts Has anyone eaten these before? I've used Gerber vegetables for my dachshunds when we travel, but that's it. The rule, as always, is, " make your own. " Cook several apples or whatever, put them into small freezer containers, and freeze them. Make apple sauce or pear sauce or berry sauce and freeze it. Take a container out to defrost the night before. The problem is that there's this thing called the 2% rule: if " whatever " constitutes less than 2% of the product, it doesn't have to be listed in the ingredients list. There's another sneaky item. If something isn't an " ingredient, " but is a " processing aid, " (like corn starch used between slices of lunch meats) it doesn't have to be listed on the ingredients, either. And then, of course there's the " WE didn't add any fill-in-the-blank.... " No, the final packager didn't -- but they may have bought the processed fruit or other ingredient from someone else, if THAT processor added sugar, starch, gums, blah blah, blah to the mixture before they sold it, the final bottler or canner or packager isn't required to list that item in the ingredients. Because after all, THEY didn't add it.... As for whether or not the Gerber could be legal -- Elaine's rule was to get the no starch, no sugar, no high fructose corn syrup, no natural or artificial flavors, no maltodextrin, etc. etc. etc in writing, on a physical letter. You can send me a scan of the letter, and we'll post it in our folder for same. — Marilyn New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001 Darn Good SCD Cook No Human Children Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 You can cook applesauce in a crock pot, saves a bit of time. I cook a lot and freeze itYou could freeze in in an ice cube tray if you want small portions for on bread. Peace =)Alyssa 15 yoUC April 2008, dx Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)Chinese Herbs (not legal but helping!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 At 09:36 PM 1/15/2010, you wrote: You could freeze in in an ice cube tray if you want small portions for on bread. Good thought. — Marilyn New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001 Darn Good SCD Cook No Human Children Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 not legal - I was so sad to hear in the beginning ,but just not safe eileen 2 years > >You could freeze in in an ice cube tray if you > >want small portions for on bread. > > Good thought. > > > — Marilyn > New Orleans, Louisiana, USA > Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001 > Darn Good SCD Cook > No Human Children > Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 I cook up several apples/pears/peaches/etc. at a time, and then freeze them in silicon muffin cups (which are about 1/3 cup). The frozen fruit peels out of the silicon cups easily, and then I wrap them in saran wrap and put them in a freezer bag. I have several varieties of fruit to choose from, depending on the mood, and it only takes about a minute in the microwave to defrost it. Holly Crohn's SCD 12/01/08 > > Has anyone checked out Gerber baby food (just certain fruits) to whether or not they are legal? Now I know you're probably wondering why anyone would want to eat baby food Sometimes for breakfast I like fruit over my bread and I don't always have time to cook up apples. Here is what the ones I'm interested in say............. > > APPLE/STRAWBERRY > Ingredients: organic apples, organic strawberries, ascorbic acid. > > APPLE/BLUEBERRY > Ingredients: apples, blueberries, water, ascorbic acid. > > APPLE/CHERRIES > Ingredients: apples, cherries, water, ascorbic acid. > > Any thoughts Has anyone eaten these before? > > > ~Tonya~ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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