to worry about food being out of my sight?

[FionaSH]

The scene: In a hotel/restaurant etc with a baby, you need their food warming up in a microwave...do you ask the staff and freely hand over baby's food for them to do it, or tail them into the kitchen and use the microwave yourself. Am assuming the latter would make you look like a loon?
Therefore AIBU to be worried about handing over DSs dinner and letting it out my sight?

just another reason to BLW...

You will get lots of YABU and are you mad and is it your PFB? but I will say YANBU as I remember what it is like to be a mum of a small baby and how your mind worries about all sorts of things others wouldn't have thought of.

[off to look up PFB]...

I would ask for a jug of hot water.

In fact, I would never have thought about possibility of something going wrong with the food disappearing out of sight until you mentioned it!
But I would hope that I was not eating food imyself in a shithole so hopefully babies food would be safe.

I think YABU (and I think you suspect that, or would you have posted?). But, I can remember thinking all manner of things when my DD was small.

In fact, I am still capable of doing it now, but I am better at keeping it all inside my head!

BB - it is quite tiring coming up with all these extra worries that normal people don't seem to see!
I agree that I'd hope where i'd eating would be fine, but care less about whether I eat something dodgy.

Ignore Aitch. BLW is a choice. I used it alongside sifter foods. Worked perfectly for us....I digress.

YANBU, I would feel the same and want to do it myself. Just give them instructions on how to heat it and if it's too hot they shouldn't mind bringing a bowl of cold water to bring the heat down.

I think I would have been OK with letting them heat the food, but he's your baby - you do whatever you are happy and comfortable with, doesn't matter what other people think about it.

Thanks Seabright yes I probably do think it is unreasonable, but I prefer to talk about it otherwise I'm paralysed with fear, and wouldn't do it...

Can't imagine in the least what would happen to it! Though tbh many places will refuse to do this now - elf and safety...they don't want you suing them if they overheat it and your child gets a burnt mouth or something.

Well it's less about getting the heating right, and more about what if they spit in it or worse...

PFB = precious first born.

eeer, 'ignore Aitch'? what's that supposed to mean?

You'll be lucky if they will heat it up. When I worked in a pub we weren't allowed to as rules say we had to heat food to a certain temperature, which would be way too hot for baby food. We used to provide hot water in a jug and let the parents heat it up using that.

Does it really need to be heated? Prepackaged baby food is fine at room temperature and baby wont usually mind if her parsnips aren't heated.

DON't IGNORE AITCH -she knows what she is talking about!

Well I was thinking of taking a frozen one...mmm cheesy veg lolly

I'll give him a pouch one for one of the meals, but not comfortable doing it for both meals of the day.

Well a jug of hot water would serve as well, and keep my overactive imagination happy...

YABU.

As fuzzy says if you are going to spend any time at all worrying about this just give it to her at room temperature.

Better yet, give baby some of what you are having and skip the whole thing altogether?

I just never bothered to heat food when out and about. DD was always happy to take it cold.

Not against giving DS what we're having if I know how it's been cooked, but if it's pasta in a sauce or something, how do I know if there's too much salt in it for him?! See another can of worms opened for me to now worry about!!!
What do you do re:salt?!

I don't worry about salt, or fat or anything really.

I say "Here DS try this, it is yum" and have done since around 8mths.

This is no doubt a different thread entirely, and I'll be directed off to the weaning section, but if someone could just highlight for me how BLW gets round the fats/salt issue that would be in sauces and processed items?