Holy WIC Insanity…
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Okay. So, I went WIC shopping for the baby food vouchers for the FIRST TIME EVER, and it was freaking crazy.
Since Danny was breastfed the first six months, he gets 77.5 ounces of baby meats (YUCK!) and so that’s 31 jars… The first ones I got them all picked out, and realized they were stage one, and they had to be stage 2 or 3. URGH. So, had to take all of them back out of the cart and put them back on the very bottom shelf. Got the right ones next.
Then, we get 256 ounces of fruits or veggies. Now, I won’t make my kids eat the nasty baby food veggies. I make my own veggie baby food for them myself, and it tastes a heck of a lot better than that bland mushy nastyness they call veggies.
So, I get 256 ounces of fruit. I know it can’t be mixed with baby cereal and it can’t have added sugar. So I get 64 freaking jars of baby fruit, right?
We get to the check out line, and we ended up going through the express line because it was the only person I knew working register and I forgot my ID. She looks right at me and says she dosen’t know me. GRR. Thankfully Myrna was working and told her who I was.
Anyways, she starts ringing everything up. And apparently, over half of the baby food I got was on the “not allowed” list. Apparently you can’t get baby fruit that’s mixed with other fruit? Makes entirely no sense to me. But whatever. Oh, and you can’t get mango baby food either. And that’s like the BEST one! So, I have to go back and get 188 ounces to replace the ones I got the wrong kind of.
It was freaking crazy. It took me like an hour just to do all of that. It was insane! As crazy as it was though, I’m thankful for it. It really helps out a lot, especially with money being so tight right now…
Although, I do admit, I felt like a crazy lady checking out 100 jars of baby food….
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Wow! I didn’t realize that buying baby food with WIC was that complicated! Learn something new every day.
I’ve been getting creative with all the baby fruit and veggies. Sweet potatoes are good mixed in pancake or waffle batter, carrots are really good in smoothies or pasta/pizza sauce, applesauce can take the place of oil in baking (use same amount). I am really having a hard time with the meats. My 9mos old won’t eat them and I can’t figure out what to use them for. Any ideas?
-lpnmon