Pregnancy
Is Lady Gaga To Blame For Bare Baby Food Shelves?
So what the heck is this diet? A nutrition web site reports:
The baby food diet centers on the idea of incorporating small jars of baby food into the daily diet as a way to control calorie intake. Some baby food dieters eat a few jars of baby food each day as low-calorie snacks, and others use baby food to replace one or two meals per day.
Judging from the baby food diet advocates out there, some mistakenly believe that baby food is always free from artificial food additives and pesticides (so not true). They are generally low in fat and they’re super convenient to tote around — but it seems like an expensive and particularly wasteful way to diet, no?
So I doubt that Cheryl Cole — please not Cheryl Cole! — is using this diet but I think it is a trend. And you know why I think it’s a trend? Because whenever I go to get baby food, the shelves are cleared out. It’s ridiculous. I make my own children’s food but I like to use prepared stuff for the on-the-go trips. We’re pretty basic — a jar of sweet potatoes here, some banana puree there — but these things are in much less supply than when I first started doing this. The horribly sourced Daily Mail site says that baby food sales for one company are dramatically up this year over last.