to think I should lie?

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NC for this.

My auntie bought some snacks and smoothies for DS (3 months) from one of those warehouses that sell bulk stock for very reduced prices.
Obviously we haven't started weaning yet so were going to store the items. However, they're already 2 months out of date. By the time we start weaning, they'll be 5 months out of date.

If the snacks were for me I'd obviously try them and decide for myself whether they're still ok to eat. However as they are for a baby I refuse to take any risks, particularly with fruit smoothies.

Inevitably eventually she will ask if DS enjoyed them. WIBU to lie and say 'yes thanks' and run the risk of her continuing to buy them, or should I tell her the truth?

I would tell her the truth, there’s no point wasting money and food

Yep - tell her the truth. She’ll waist money and time if she gets more.

I would just lie and be like yeah thanks he loved them. Obviously if it becomes a habit say something but why risk offending her. Or getting into a well back in my day we put baby rice in your bottle from two weeks old and it never did you any harm etc etc.

Only you know your aunty though so you know how she'd react.

If your going to lie at least say he didn't like them so she doesn't keep bringing more!

Better yet just tell the truth.

"Or getting into a well back in my day we put baby rice in your bottle from two weeks old and it never did you any harm etc etc."

I sometimes wonder if people realise what baby rice is. I'm sure they think it's like normal rice that you or I would eat. It's not. It like the thinnest tiny flakes you've ever seen, thinner than tracing paper, and it melts like gelatine as soon as you put it anywhere near liquid. It just makes the bottle a tiny bit thicker, it's still very much like liquid. And I'm pretty sure noone gives it their baby at 2 weeks, its usually 3 to 4 months or older.

I cannot see why you would NEED to lie?
Just tell aunt what you have told us. Those are the facts. No need for lying. Aunt did a kind thing, but unfortunately the sell-buy dates mean you cannot use the smoothies etc.

Why would you have a problem with that? Why would you need to disguise the facts from your aunt? Why did you even need to NC to post the question?

Why not just tell her that he's not ready for weaning yet and that you will let her know when he's tried them? If you tell her he has eaten them she's going to wonder why he's not having baby food next time you see her

Chances are that she will forget to ask again, but if she remembers just say "oh yes he loved them" (or whatever). If she buys him anymore then, then they will be in date

I wouldn’t lie either. If you tell her the truth it will hopefully make her look at the sell by dates in future!

@messolini9 I asked the question because I wouldn't want to offend or seem ungrateful.

I name changed so old posts aren't identifiable as this is pretty specific

Thanks to everyone else for helpful responses

Do you know anyone closer to weaning than you are? I would pass them on and say to her that you did that because of the dates and the person you passed them on to was delighted.

Donate them to a food bank & be honest with her.

But how bonkers - who buys weaning food for someone else’s baby?!

A food bank won't take food past it's sell by date.
I'd spare her feelings and just say "oh yes he yried them but he's really fussy he's favourite thing at the moment is actually cucumbers and bananas not purée" so at least if she wants to get him anything it will be real food that you can use.
Irrelevant what baby rice is, it's not recommended anymore till after 6 months due to research showing a link between early weaning and stomach issues and allergies unless there's a medical condition so I'm not sure what point you're making TabbyMumz.

Tell her now - Oh no, Auntie, the warehouse people have sold you out of date products! So sorry as such a kind gesture.

Just say that they're out of date, and would be out of date by 5 months by the time you child got to them.

SURELY shes not so unreasonable as to think you should feed your child food thats 5 months out of date?!

@TabbyMumz I'm certainly not recommending it BUT my mother was advised by the midwife and did put baby rice in my sister's bottle from day one in the 1950s.

She was nearly 12lb born (suspect mum had gestational diabetes as we were all fairly hefty and back then mixed feeding was advised from 12 lb or 3 months whichever came first.
My sister in law did too in the 1970s (against the then current advice) for a week old baby - so he would sleep through. But 3 to 4 months was recommended then.

Why did you even accept them? Oh these are out of date or, I won't be feeding my newborn baby processed smoothies, let alone out of date ones, would've sufficed. Don't worry about offending her, she's clearly not worried about offending you by giving you out of date junk to feed your baby.

I probably wouldn't use out of date food from a bulk warehouse- I do t see anything wrong with that. Juts tell her thanks. But they are too far out of date do you to want to start him on