Baby food
food, as vegetables, fruits, or meat, puréed or minced for easy ingestion by infants.
Contemporary Examples
She has three kids and wrote a cookbook—with her husband, who owns Chef Geoff and other D.C. restaurants–on baby food.
Norah O’Donnell: Romney Must Respond Howard Kurtz July 15, 2012
She opens them to show diapers, baby food, hygiene products, and clothing.
An Iraqi Group Helping Women and Gays Is Receiving Death Threats Jacob Siegel July 21, 2014
It requires substituting traditional meals or snacks with jars of 80-calorie baby food.
The Crazy Baby Food Diet Gina Piccalo September 21, 2010
After that first baby food gig, he had a series of small parts in TV shows including Entourage, My Name Is Earl, and Shameless.
Meet Tony Revolori, the Scene-Stealing Kid in ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Nico Hines March 6, 2014
With the baby food Diet you are not sacrificing nutrition.
The Crazy Baby Food Diet Gina Piccalo September 21, 2010
Historical Examples
She put whisky in my baby food until I would not drink or eat anything that was not flavoured with it.
A Daughter of the Vine Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The notion that this is a ‘baby food’ to be scorned by real woodsmen is nothing but a foolish conceit.
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts
The stomach would tolerate no form of baby food with or without milk.
New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers Various
Never give a baby food merely to pacify him or to stop his crying; it will damage him in the end.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
I got a wet nurse for her and fed her with baby food, but she got thinner and more elfish-looking.
Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak Harriette McDougall
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