Getting baby food stains out of clothing & bibs

[mairimac]

Not sure if this is the correct forum to add this too, but Food seemed the most appropriate:)
Has anyone got any tips for removing baby food stains from clothing and bibs? My ds goes to nursery and comes home every day covered from top to toe in food - not sure how, nevertheless I'm finding it difficult to remove stains and end up distroying the fabric with bleach or something! Any tips?

I tend to put all ds's bibs on an intensive wash, have you tried Vanish spray for the really ground in stains. Banana and carrot are the worst stains to remove. HTH. Good luck!

Mix washing powder and water into a paste, spread over stain, leave for 1 hour and wash as normal.

dont feed them bananna or anything tomato based!

That Shout! spray is pretty good - though I've only discovered it recently so never tested it out on the orange stained hell that my kids' baby clothes turned into. I just accepted that their bibs would never be clean and didn't buy them anything white. Why don't they make more orange baby clothes?

I find Oxiclean pretty good - I have the powder and you can either dilute it and use it to soak clothes in before washing, or just shove a scoop full in with the wash. There is also a spray, I think (possibly made by Vanish - Oxy-action or something like that), but I havent' tried that.

DH has implemented a new system; mucky clothes go straight into soaking bucket with oxyclean type of stain remover. Once the bucket's full, it goes straight in the washing machine. Works a treat.

send him to nursery in mucky clothes?

Thanks for all advice. Used a vanish stick this weekend and worked a treat. Have used the bucket system with oxi clean in it but still left some stubborn stains. Will keep using it but put vanish stick onto the stains prior to soaking.
Thanks