The Baby Food Diet
Today I learned from Jezebel and Elastic Waist that Reese Witherspoon diets by eating baby food. My reaction, of course, was along the lines of what the hell!?!?!?
I looked into this a little further and found the text of an article in Marie Claire about this “phenomenon.”
Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Marcia Cross are among the celebrities who are spoon-feeding themselves with toddler tucker. The idea of substituting one, and sometimes two, regular meals a day for the tiny fruit and vegetable meals originated from New York fashion guru Hedi Slimane… [he] is said to have first coined the phrase ‘baby eating’ by sticking to baby food for days on end to maintain his slimline figure.
A-listers are snapping up the vitamin and mineral-rich snacks from organic ‘designer’ labels such as Earth’s Best, which are now being sold in the healthfood sections of high-brow supermarkets. Jennifer Aniston believes the ‘purer, nutrient-packed, gluten-free’ pots help to maintain her trim figure; Reese Witherspoon told a US TV show she’s careful not to crash diet on infant food and makes sure to have one adult meal a day; while Marcia Cross ditched junk food snacks for baby food to keep hunger pangs at bay.
According to one nutritionist (from, where else, L.A.), it’s perfectly okay:
There’s nothing wrong with anyone eating baby food,’ LA-based nutritionist Dr Marty Edwards tells the newspaper. ‘It’s nutritious and delicious as a snack. But adults require a minimum daily calorific intake, so it would be absolute folly to dine only on these little jars. Substituting them for chips, crisps or burgers as a healthy snack alternative does, however, make a lot of sense.’
Here is a page of baby food nutrition information, if you are curious. The peaches have 51 calories. The macaroni and cheese has 83. The prunes have 15.
Is anyone else tempted to go to the Gelson’s in Hollywood and check out the organic baby food line? Maybe run into Jen Aniston while you’re there? I should totally do a taste test. Maybe baby food is not actually as disgusting as I remember.
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Filed under: Celebrities, Food, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Weight Loss
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i have crohns disease and cant eat fresh fruits/veggies. And can only have low fiber foods. baby food sounds like a good alternative to getting what I am lacking. Once you cook the food so you can puree it, most of the vitamins/nutrients are gone…babys can tolerate the baby food so I would think crohns/colitis/IBS patients would also be able to handle it. Worth a try anyway, I’m sure it can’t hurt.
I have ulcerative colitis and when im in a flare, baby food is the only thing i can eat. For a while, i tried the brat diet (bananas rice applesauce toast) but i was still really sick and nauseous. But i picked up the baby food and i could actually keep it down. I highly recommend eating baby food with colitis.
(just not the chunky kind, cant stand the texture) :)
Actually, for those on the baby food diet they do contain MSG. Even some organic gerber contains MSG. So, far the only baby food I have found is Earths best that has no MSG
I knew it was only a matter of time. Have you tried baby food these days? When my little girl (now 3) started eating baby food, I wouldn’t give anything to her unless I tried it first. I have to say, in my opinion, anything except the meats tasted really good. I especially loved the pumpkin ones, or even the apples and chicken was pretty tasty. I always wondered why it hadn’t become a big thing for the health concious to have a big craze over it, but it seems the celebrities beat them to it. lol
AND… If you want to take it up a notch and have something to chew on, they DO make toddler diced veggies these days, too. I haven’t checked to see if they are AS healthy as baby food, but I’m sure they are still healthier than the adults.
I pretty much eat what I want but make healthy choices and work out 30-45 minutes 5 times a week. I’m heathy and I model. I’m 30. I just don’t understand torturing yourself with starvation.
I started the baby food diet today. I read that you can eat 14 servings a day then a regualr dinner. I managed to eat 7 servings throughout the day.
So far the pros are:
Everytime I felt hungry I ate a container of baby food. The 7 servings contained less than 700 calories and then I was blissfully happy eating a turkey sandwich and a salad for dinner. The ingredients are the fruit or veggie and water. As a person with terrible eating habbits being forced to eat fruit and veggies is awesome! Most were pretty good, although I have decided that I can not eat the green veggies in baby food variety. I wasn’t hungry I actually couldn’t eat the suggested 14.
The cons thus far: I am not a big puree person. I am trying not to think about it. I was never so glad to chomp on a sandwich in my life.
I’ll keep you posted.
Hi Veronica,
Would love to talk with you more about the baby food diet. Please email me if you have a moment.
Thanks!
Lauren
my mom suffered colitis last year and it was quite an expensive disease.-*~