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?

I'd be v surprised if hotel / restaurant would allow this due to health and safety.

what? kum bay yah? even if we hum Very Softly?

I don't eat my baby's food at all to avoid all the aggro of having to find heating facilities whilst out and about. I also BLW too and this does make the options easier with a younger baby ime.

What i used to do was feed home made food at home and if we were goin gout for a meal i would take a plum pot of ready made food so it didnt need heating. Now she's feeding herself she just makes a mess and throws everything on the floor!!

Perhaps another idea would be to chill the fuck out?

If you are eating in a restaurant where you believe they are likely to spit in or tamper with food they know to be for a baby, may I humbly suggest you are in the wrong restaurant?

heat not eat, sorry

I do sometimes eat her food

Yet again I am delirious with joy that I am passed that stage.

runnybottom, perhaps you could take over the harmonica? KurriKurri will give you your starting note...

Can I bring a tambourine? Or a triangle? The restaurant would definitely not allow me to sing along with you, I'd put the kitchen staff off spitting in cooking the food

Sorry Professor, somewhat spoiling the love in there!

I used to work in an awful chain coffee shop and not only were we not allowed to microwave the food but we were not allowed to let customers have containers of water to take to the table (because somehow this was more dangerous than giving them teas or coffees!?). We had a bottle warmer type thing which took forever to heat up and didn't work unless the food was in a container the same shape as commercial baby food jars.

It used to reduce people with beautifully home-cooked food in the wrong shape container to tears of rage and frustration.

Would be worth asking what the cafe policy is before getting comfortable and placing your own order!

I took dd (7m) to pizza express a classy italian on saturday, she shared pizza with ds, and loved it. She had plenty of milk that day and fruit too and was fine, so didn't worry about salt in the dough - she has bread at home afterall.

The only thing that had spit in it was my seviette as yet again ds discovered he doesn't like olives - but I'll give him points for trying them repeatedly.

seviette - napkin

Thanks runnybottom, hadn't thought of that, I'll try my hardest! [sticks tongue out]

I do think this sounds a bit mad...i would take something that doesn't need heating up so cheesy veg sounds fine heating it up in the bowl of hot water as you plan.

To be honest I would probably have skipped the hassle of taking food with me and either given two pouches/ jars in the day or given something I was eating (pasta or something) and not got too het up about the salt (but I do remember with DD1 being a lot more worried about this).

As for spitting in food sounds a bit paranoid....if you worry about this how are you ok giving pouches as you haven't been there when they were prepared (probably opened up a whole new can of worms now....).

Try not to worry and enjoy your trip!!!!!

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

I've worked in a lot of food places and whatever they might do to an adult's food if they were being shitty and horrible would never, ever, ever in a million years be done to a baby's food.

I just about understand your fear that it might get cross-contaminated in a microwave, but to worry that someone woudl spit in a baby's food, where on earth do you go to eat ? I do think you are being a bit excessive in your worrying

It's never occurred to me to take food for a baby to a restaraunt. God, there's enough stuff to pack.

I doubt they'd let you in teh kitchen - health and safety and all that.

A lot of restaurants aren't allowed to microwvae baby food. It is a PITA to explain this to customers.

If they will microwave for you just be very pleased - and remember to stir well and check the temperature before you feed it to your baby.

I like the idea of not strictly BLW but a bit of 'here kid, have some of this, it is yum, I promise'.

Seriously? You seriously take little pots of mush to a cafe (those places that serve, um, food?), and ask the staff to heat it up for the baby while you tuck into something tasty from the menu???

YABU OP.

Oops, sorry, did I mess up the lurrve-in?

If you've read any of my previous threads you'll be aware that at no point have I ever said I'm not bonkers....

Surely being aware you're bonkers is better than unaware?!

Agreed, OP, agreed.