Moving on from fruits and veggies?

First let me say that our baby is 100% a Gerber baby. Everything he eats either comes from the boobie or from the folks at Gerber. When he first started eating solids, I was drawn to the cereals and such from "natural" food companies, those that go out of their way to use organic grains and no pesticides or hormones, yada yada. Well, that all ended when I noticed that those hippies don't fortify their cereals with anything but iron. Gerber cereal is like most big-people cereal -- souped up with small amounts of most of the vitamins and minerals, and, because even breastfed babies need vitamin supplements from time to time, we figure this is easily the smartest way to go.

Today at Target I was intrigued by the preponderance of non-fruit, non-veggie 2nd Foods, like "Assorted Dinners" -- a four-pack of pureed meaty dishes like beef and vegetables and chicken noodles. We'll tell you how those "Baby Alpo" dishes go over. Tonight we tried out Gerber's version of Mac & Cheese, and it was not as well-received as the accompanying prunes.

But then again, it tastes verrrrrry different from what he's used to, so we will keep at it.