On one of my recent grocery trips to Whole Foods, I bought these organic apple puffs for Holly. They are supposed to be a good first finger food for a baby because they are nutritious and they melt in the baby's mouth thus posing no choking hazard. (The latter is especially important to those of us who don't practice the baby-led weaning approach.)
As a baby that has had limited practice with finger foods, Holly is finding it quite challenging to use the puffs as intended. A lot of them end up getting mushed up in her fist or thrown to the ground. But, little by little, she is improving and we celebrate every small, painstaking victory. Today she managed to eat TWO! Yay! She also melted 2 in her little hand and dropped 3 on the ground and in her seat...
The packaging for the puffs recommends: "Use within one week of opening for optimal freshness." This package contains 675 (SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE) puffs. It took me one week just to get Holly to eat 2.
Could this product have been offered in a smaller package so as to support the learning curve of a baby and minimize waste? No, because then Happy Baby company would not have been able to write "Best value: 40% more puffs" on the package! And everyone knows that 600 stale puffs is so much better to have than 400.
Thank you, Happy Baby, for making me choose between offering my baby stale food and wasting food.
Hilarious. I laughed out loud reading this. :)
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