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Dear Sandra Lee, BABY FOOD Is Not An Ingredient (With Video)
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Dear Sandra Lee, BABY FOOD Is Not An Ingredient (With Video)
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Hello, jaw. Meet floor. You’re about to watch Sandra Lee cook with JARS OF BABY FOOD.
Sometimes, I have no words. This is one of those times.
“It’s gonna taste like you baked it from scratch!”
Um, not really. It’s gonna taste like my 8-month old cousin spit it up on my shoulder.
(Thanks for the tip, Mike!)
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She is so clever! (and from the look of excitement on her face it looks like she really belives that)
This woman is a complete moron. I think she’s totally passive aggressive. She hates her job, she hates her viewers, so she’s decided to create “non-recipes” as a way to mock everyone. She can’t be serious. Or maybe she’s just completely lazy and doesn’t give a shit!
After watching that, I hate her even more.
Nice tip, there, Sandra: “If you have baby food on hand, use it, and if you don’t, then buy it.”
Why does she always say “fnn-tastic?
A friend once gave me a recipe for pork that included baby food peaches in the marinade. It was pretty good. It’s just pureed fruit.
Oh my god. I beg to differ. In college a few years ago, my friend dared me (after one too many beers) to walk into walmart and eat a jar of baby food. I chose pureed carrots and it was f*cking so far beyond nasty. Baby food has a sickening smell and an even grosser after taste.
yeah, I have a spice cake recipe that uses plum baby food. It’s pretty good.
Doubtful if this Souper Sssimple Russipe would be on her $$ Saving Meals show … isn’t baby food higher priced than regular canned fruit.
I’m going to chime in on this bandwagon also. I once tried a “russsssipeeeee” for carrot cake that called for pureed carrots and they recommended baby food in its purest form. It was simply carrot puree and the cake turned out to be amazingly moist and carrot-y. :P
Neo honey, you were DRUNK. Pureed anything taste like shit when you’re drunk. Your senses are useless at that time.
I, too, have used a recipe that called for pureed fruit and it recommended baby food. I tried it that way and it was really good, but found making my own a LOT cheaper. So I haven’t bought it since.
Okay, guys, the “Sandra Lee Has Great Ideas” forum is over there
—->
:)
I still say baby food is not an ingredient. And pizza tastes the same when I’m drunk so I’m imagining baby food would too.
We universally despise Can’t Sandy and her house of horrors kitchen creations. We were simply pointing out that baby food is merely pureed “whatever” and it’s not some sickening ingredient. I think there is just some cognitive dissonance going on. Weird to show it on TV? Surely. Freak show extraordinare? Undoubtedly. SL doesn’t have the bona fides to get away from this maneuver. Most of us have eaten a lot of bad pizza when drunk so that ain’t the best comparison. ;)
In defense of Neo, I had a wisdom tooth infection and had to eat liquids and pureed foods for about a month (I thought that was the worst thing-until I saw this video) and I eventually started eating baby food so I could get some non-mashed potato vegetables. Baby food is NOT just pureed carrots. It tastes plasticky and somehow tastes like vomit. I’m not exaggerating. I was sober and it honest-to-God tasted like I had eaten carrots and thrown up. I threw lots of salt and pepper on it and forced myself to eat it so I could get some food in my stomach.
Neo, I hear you. I’m on your team. I’m not saying that all baby food is nasty (with salt and pepper some of the graduates food is tolerable) but carrots ARE nasty.
And Sandra Lee needs to be stopped. Antichrist?
I have to agree with Neo too. I’ve tasted a few baby foods before feeding them to my cousin – while totally sober – and wanted to freaking VOM. In my humble opinion, all baby food has the same putrid odor (it IS sort of plasticky and vomity, Kristen) and it doesn’t taste exactly like the ingredients it’s supposed to be made with.
I can’t see any excuse – ever – for using baby food in cooking! We’re grown-ups! Whip out a freakin’ grater, for Christ’s sake! :)
As the mother of an 11 month old, I’ll put my two cents in here, as a fucking expert on baby food.
Of course baby food is gross to you, it has no salt or seasonings by the pound in it. YOUR mouth is used to being bombarded by flavor, as baby, whose first solid is rice cereal, is not.
If you look on the ingrediant, it says , water, and some time ascobic acid for some Vit C.
The fruits are pretty good actually, I would know since I’m too lazy to get a napkin, and so I end up licking it up.
So NEO, et others who agree with him, you are fools for thinking you would like it solo.
Finally in something that has flavor, baby food is fine. I have eaten carrot cake made with baby food carrots, and it was fucking awesome.
THANK YOU Stefanie! As a mother of a nine month old I try everything I feed my child. I prepare his food for him when I can but when I don’t have time to do it, I buy baby food and they taste exactly like the vegetable except, of course, with no seasoning.
I don’t like Sandra Lee and I mostly hate what she stands for but it is stupid to judge BABY food with your ADULT palate.
Please marry me. the only comment on here that makes any sense. I love how people on here are freaking out as if baby food is toxic. Look on the label. Food X, water, sometimes tapioca starch and sometimes ascorbic acid. Perhaps they’re used to food cooked by professional chefs, with buckets and buckets of salt and spice
I have a 10-month-old, and usually do a taste test on the baby food before feeding my son to make sure the temperature is right, and while the vegetables are kind of gross, I think it’s a texture thing rather than flavor…liquid green beans don’t seem right to me. ;o) On the other hand, the fruit is pretty good! And there are a lot of new brands out there with interesting flavor combinations. Bottom line though, it’s for BABIES, so I don’t really give a crap how it tastes to me as long as my son eats it. Also, I haven’t read it but I know there’s a cookbook based on “hiding” healthy ingredients in recipes and it utilizes baby food…a friend of mine puts baby food carrots in pasta sauce for added nutrition and swears you can’t even taste a difference.
We just witnessed a cook on television add a jar of baby food to a recipe. I mean, seriously?
Is there really anything else to say?
And not just television, THE Food Network!
Nuff said. Right on.
I was just waiting for her to put pedialyte in the mix instead of apple juice.
*chuckle*
OMG a Pediatini! Vodka and Grape PL!
That’ll keep the kiddos quiet!
Would the pedialyte and vodka cancel each other out? You drink the pedialyte to ease the diarhea, vodka might give someone diarhea.
How about a Crest Pro-Health cocktail? It’s alcohol free, but Sandrunk can remedy that with some vodka or gin, I’m sure. The oral rinse looks like Blue Curacao, so maybe she can incorporate that, too. This cocktail would fight plaque, gingivitis, bad breath – what’s not to love?
I love it!!! Talk about multi-tasking!!!
“what’s not to love?” You’re channeling Ina now, Cherry Rose! ;)
That reminds me of this one episode of ‘Intervention’ in which some lady is addicted to mouth wash.
That batter looked like a diaper deposit. Is it that hard to just grate carrots? There’s no way she eats any of the garbage she cooks.
She is so skinny, I agree I don’t think she eats at all. Liquid diet.
Considering that most of Sandra’s “ingredients” are pre-packaged with sodium-overload, I doubt that she eats most of what she prepares on her FN shows. She’d be bloated and swollen from head to toe!
SAAndra doesn’t eat her own shit, everyone knows that. We all also know that her liquid diet is of the ethyl alcohol kind. Drink up SAAndy, drink up – then hopefully your liver will hate you as much as we do.
“That batter looked like a diaper deposit”
I literally lol’d and said eww at same time
Ah, but was it Ty Flo’s baby food? C’mon Aunt Sandy! If you simply need pureed food as an ingredient, it should at least support your comrade in arms, eh?
*giggles*
http://www.sproutbabyfood.com
If you don’t have apple juice, can you use breast milk? Or maybe she’s going to use that in her white russian drink?
Ha!!
Yeah, see if you can squeeze some milk out of those low-hanging udders, Sandra…
Does Aunt Sandy have kids?
If she does, someone need to be dispatched right now. Get those kids out of there.
No, that is why she always borrows Brycer for the shows.
That is also the reason there is some question as to whether she will be allowed to marry into the Cumo political machine.
“If you have breast milk, you can just go ahead and use that” is definitely coming next. Maybe on Money Saving Meals, they will do a chart:
Milk at grocery store: $3.99
Breast milk: $0
Savings: $3.99
Did anyone notice how she said mmmmmmuffin pan?
I really didn’t understand why she didn’t take her own suggestion and used canned carrots and puree them. Much more appetizing.
Also, don’t forget to put your butter in a cocktail glass. Seriously, was that a cocktail for Paula Deen?
I did, and she said “suhhh-weeet coconut,” too. LOL!
Suuuuuper Siiiimple!
Or why not roast some carrots and puree them? Why is that so tuuurrrrrrrible? And talk about carbon footprint…four little bottles of baby food instead of 3 fresh carrots at the grocery store? Yeesh.
While the baby food thing doesn’t disgust me, her cocktails do. What’s stopping her from making a NyQuil-based cocktail? NyQuil, Sprite, buttermilk, juice from pickled pigs feet, and a cherry on top served in a plastic toy boat. She’d probably call it her “Sodalicious Dreamboat.”
Buttermilk and Pig’s Feet are in Paula Deen’s area of “chefs-pertise”, but I think everyhing else you mentioned are on her “top-shelf”.
Maybe Cherry Ny-Quil, Diet Sprite, $10 vodka and grenadine? or vanilla extract?
Drop the pickled pig feet juice, and I think Aunt Sandy would actually try it!
Ok, I totally drink Gin & NyQuil when i’m sick. But on the plus side I don’t cook with baby food and I don’t have my own show.
While I feel shameful defending her, I see nothing wrong with baby food as an ingredient. I’ve used it before and seen it used in plenty of other recipes, and does a great job with keeping food moist.
Have to say I agree, no problem with cooking with baby food (vegetables only) that I use in soups and sauces. No problem with this at all!
Robb, I’m with you. While I’m not on board with her carrots, I have used stewed prunes in chocolate cake before.
That’s it, check please!
I mean I can kind of see how adding the baby food (or puree) is nice because you aren’t adding any extra fat to the recipe. It’s really the same effect as adding applesauce. However if you don’t add fat you just need to add extra sugar to make up for the flavor loss, which is why she adds sweetened apple juice and sweetened coconut flakes. So is it really much healthier?
Anyway there is nothing semi-homemade about this recipe. All she did was dump stuff from a box or a jar into a bowl and mix it up. Like we need a TV show to tell us how to do that. She is too lazy to even make her own carrot puree!
Aunt Sandy sez: “It’s Semi-Homemade, because you make it at home!” and then “GET me another drink!”
I know this wasn’t “Money Saving Meals”, but Aunt Sandy just dumped the carrots into the bowl without using a spoon or spatula to scrape the jars. Seemed like she wasted much of the contents of the baby food jars, and it bothered me.
Agree with those who mentioned SL’s thinness. She must be trying to keep up (or down) with Giada. jmo
Cherry, Aunt Sandy’s so narrow, like Robin Quick Meals.
I don’t see why she just didn’t buy pureed carrots or puree a few herself. Baby food might be edible but it’s not a common ingredient and it’s a little off-putting watching her use it…
New show…”Semi-No Made”.
LOL!!
Never mind the idea of using baby food, which is fine as long as you us the “fruit or veg only” form of it, let’s talk about how SODALISHIS this RUSSSAPPEE is GUNNABE. SUPER-SIMPLE MMMMMUFFINNNS WITH honey BBBBBUTTER.
I feel better now.
Let it all out…
*Patting you on the shoulder*
SODALLICIOUS!!!
She really rushed through that ‘recipe.’ I realize her show’s premise is loosely based on saving time, but what exactly is she in a big hurry to get to next?
COCKTAIL TIME!!!!
definitely in a hurry to get to the bottom of a bottle of booze.
You are so right. Those little bony arms were working overtime. She was just slinging stuff to and fro. It made me nervous just to watch it.
I’m planning to make a carrot cake later today and WILL be running a pound of actual carrots through the food processor. It’s not cost-effective to use carrot baby food for carrot cake or muffins, no matter what it tastes like. Further, for this particular use, the texture is all wrong.
That’s what I was thinking too. They’re coconut, carrot muffins. I’d think grated carrots would compliment the coconut better. JMHO.
It was rare for me to feed my daughters baby food, much less put baby food in something I was going to eat. I could get 2 pounds of frozen veggies for 2 bucks, cook ‘em a while, put them in the magic bullet. Voila! Baby food. That magic bullet…say what you will about the goofy infomercials, but mine paid for itself just with using it for baby food! :)
Yep.
Carrots are cheap and HEALTHY. Use them instead! A little work never hurt anyone!
did she just say that a cake pedestal helps get vegetables into kids?????
lol..no, she was referring to zucchini bread.
the kids actually prefer to eat her craptastic shit off of the pretty plates. it actually helps them to believe that aunt sAAndy actually cares about what she feeds them.
I’m ambivilent about using the carrot baby food (exept that that stuff has GOT to be BLAND!) but the thing is, I like to see the carrot shreds. I also like carrot cake/muffins to be very textured and interesting. This whole over processed mmmmmuffin just seems lifeless to me. Putting walnuts would have helped a little.
Oh well.
Ambivalent. Sorry for the spelling error.
That was a hayness spelling error.
She even puts BUTTER in cocktail glasses? Reminds me of that Paula deen parody with the butter and diet coke cocktail.
It’s not the first time I’ve seen people recommending baby food for that though, but I agree it probably should not be something one does on television. It would’ve been just as easy had she pureed a can of carrots, and much less gross.
“If you don’t have baby food in your cupboard you can go buy some.” REALLY???!!! *eye roll*
I’d have been more impressed with this segment if she had slammed back a couple of shots out of a baby shoe. You know she wanted to…
You too can make millions by reading the instructions off the back of a box to a camera. This is the worst show on this Network…PERIOD
Sandra Lee = The Patsy Stone of Food Network.
Gah! Bite your tongue and perish the thought!! I’d actually enjoy having drinks with Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau Stone. If I were drinking with Aunt Sandy, I’d just be waiting for her head to spin around and green vomit to come shooting out of her mouth.
Or, orange vomit, as the case may be…
I have no words.
Honestly, this is not cooking. This is a drunk and LAZY pseudo Martha Stewart.
::sigh::
Another reason to be grateful: Semi-homemade doesn’t air on Food Network Canada.
Amen! I’m so glad we don’t get this crap! Seriously why is this allowed on tv?
The butter is in the cocktail glass! Now how in the heck is she supposed to get her recommended daily dose of vodka?? Guess she just better slug it straight out of the bottle.
lol..that made me laugh
Well, since baby food is just pureed “whatever”, it’s not bad that she used it. But it is stupid in the sense that you can puree fruits and veggies in a blender or food processor for a lot less money and you get more puree. Hell, a jar of applesauce is cheaper than buying a bunch of tiny baby food bottles. And puree literally takes seconds to make. Semi-homemade, in its most basic sense, is taking something that is already processed and adding more homemade ingredients. Many people have been able to do it on their own without Sandra Lee and three times better. Sandra Lee, most of the time, doesn’t do semi-homemade correctly. It’s “semi-homemade”, not “just assemble”.
What you said!
Tiny baby food jars are the HEIGHT of waste (unless, of course, you really do HAVE baby and are time-impaired).
Just puree some leftover vegetables – or use canned pumpkin, applesauce – cheaper and surely more nutritious.
What a ridiculous silly twat she is …
Perhaps she used baby food because, given the right amount of vodka and curiousity, whole carrots never would have made it to the food processor.
Oh dear. I really didn’t need that visual. Thanks, Scruffy.
*drips Clorox in eyes*
Those pureed carrots do look kind of gross. However, I’ve made quick breads and muffins before using jars of pureed bananas, apricots and peaches. The jars contain nothing but fruit that has been cooked down to intensify its flavor. I do this to supplement fresh fruits that are a little lacking in natural sweetness. It’s healthier than adding extra sugar and fat, and it really does add a lot of moistness and flavor to the finished product. Plus, the jars will keep in your pantry for ages, so you can bake something any time you get the urge, even if the fresh fruit isn’t in season.
This is way to funny… I’ve watched her hack her way through the years and I still can’t believe she has her own cooking shows! Well, the jokes on us!
I love at the beginning she says “I just pulled this baby food out of the pantry”. Why the hell does she have baby food in her pantry?
Also she said “If you don’t have any baby food in your pantry, you can go buy them”! No shit Sherlock!
FXTECH – Maybe she has baby food in her pantry because it goes down easier than more solid foods after a night of binge drinking?
I can’t vote for Andrew Cuomo now.
I’m surprised she didn’t try to add a little breast melk to lighten up the recipe a little. Oops, my bad… I’m sure that well dried up years ago!
With those saggy tits they hand to the floor. I seriously doubt you could get anything out of them!
Powdered milk? *shrug*
Did anyone notice that she used a cocktail glass for the honey butter? I bet she has so many cocktail glasses just sitting around waiting to be used!
I doubt if they have to wait long ;)
That. Was. Awesome!
Ok, so we have carrots, apple, cinnamon, ginger and coconut?! Barf city!!
I’m running right out to buy some zucchini baby food!!!!
Seriously folks, didn’t any of you live through the 60′s and 70′s? Making carrot cake with baby food was the rage. It really was a recipe.
And how about supstitutine pureed plums or applesauce for oil? It was all about going low-to-no fat. Regular applesauce has tons of sugar added to it, so using the baby food gave you pure fruit without anything added.
The biggest crime here is that Aunt Sandy thinks she invented it. Sorry. No cigar.
“supstitutine ” what the heck?
Make that substituting.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I did not live through the 60′s or 70′s. I barely was a part of the 80′s. That being said, I doubt being older would make the concept of eating baby food any less disgusting. Heck, there was a time that eating microwaved salsbury steak was really in fashion, but that doesn’t make it good.
I DID live through the 70′s, but I agree with Numb’s reasoning here, from one observation. From the reaction of my twins, they didn’t like baby food either.
Lest we forget aspic was also big in the 60′s.
People, it’s not like she had any credibility to begin with. She’s basically the Kim Jong Il of the Food Network.
Would it really surprise you if she told us to save fast food ketchup packets to save money on her baby turd meatloaf topping?
Meh. I don’t see how this makes her any worse than she already was.
Which way to the vomitorium?
Dam Jillian, with all the crap you gotta put up with, you gotta give baby food a break!
I’m with what appears to be the general consensus: This is not the weirdest thing Aunt Sandy has ever done. My mom used to make this carrot cake that called for two jars of baby food carrots. And it was good! Nobody knew it was baby food unless they asked.
Besides, some of the fruit ones are pretty good. When my daughter was still in her baby food stage I used to eat jars of baby food pears when she was napping.
No, I think the weirdest thing she has ever done is the cocktail glass Christmas tree. Oh, wait–I’m forgetting the Kwanzaa cake. Shoot–what about the vodka in the “driver friendly” drink? Dang, I can’t decide….
So many to choose from…
Have to disagree in general with the idea that jarred baby food shouldn’t be an ingredient. Although, OTOH, if you don’t have it around already, like because you don’t have a baby, I don’t see why you can’t just dice a carrot or two, cook until soft and then puree. Or grate a carrot. It isn’t that much work.
I made a banana cake once that called for a jar of banana baby food (when I was about 10). It was okay but I haven’t made it since. I don’t really cook like that anymore — come on, banana extract? Who the hell has that?
http://www.mail-archive.com/nancys_kitchen@yahoogroups.com/msg00208.html
Think I’ll go make some banana bread…
You can criticize her for her lame ass cooking and recipes, but I would still bang her in a second. I am sure she is a tigress.
Thanks for sharing ;^/
So THAT’S why we should watch cooking shows–to evaluate possible sex partners! Glad to know my focus was all wrong.
Why, yes it is and still waiting to find one! Ha!
If they’re going to be dumb, annoying, and talentless, they might as well be decent to look at.
Which is why Rachel Ray is completely worthless.
She is hot!
But since’s she’s such a huge fan of alcohol, not too sure if she would just lay there or not.
What I’m wondering is… what the hell are you going to feed the baby if you take the baby’s food?
Maybe she’s gonna liquor up the baby to keep it quiet?
Don’t cry… shhhh… have some Chocolate Martini!
Just thinkng about eating one of those muffins makes me want to spit up
gross
Well if Guy Ferry and/or Booby Flay added some chipoltes to the Russipe, it would rock!
I get the whole “make food easy” gimmick.
You would have to buy the stage 1 baby foods (purest form) and those jars are tiny. I am on the fence about it being cost effective or easier than running it through the food processor. Now if I did not have a food processor, I think that baby food would be a clever substitute.
I am on the fence with this one.
you pompous slut, it’s one of the oldest recipies around! Focus on something important, like the idots running food network!
Uh, “Getting Tired,” just who, exactly, are you calling a “pompous slut”?
Jillian, and now you…Beootch! Like I’m gonna be intimidated by “Betty Crocker” and Winnie the Pooh!
If you are using that kind of language towards Jillian, we’re gonna have some problems.
What are you gonna do tough guy!?? She’s a big mouthed bimbo, who thinks she is more important and influential than she is. I found her much more amusing before, now she’s begining to take herself much too seriously.
So go get your shine box jr. and STFU
P.S. Acting all chivalrous is not going to get Jillian to date you, sleep with you, talk to you or look at you picture and wonder how she could ever live without you.
In all reality she will probably never even read your post.
Now, please remove the processed meat product from your anal canal!
Well, aren’t you just a small jar of VILE!
OOO! Are we just a bitch! A small jar of vile, really! I have not begun to spew anything, but I could make an example of you, you liberace stand in!
Getting tired, just how much FUN do you think you are to be around?
Maybe Getting Tire is Sandy’s bf Andy Cuomo, and he’s the one acting all chivalrous.
Oops, before I get attacked by the dweeb: Getting Tired. Sorry for the typo.
Run along, troll. Attacking the site founder is not humorous, it’s tiresome.
Attacking the founder!? Like she is some great all knowing being! If your so tired, go to bed!
If your (what?) is so tired? Or did you mean “you’re”?
Attacking our dear Jillian? Oh no, I don’t think so. You best move along before someone drops a house on you! Be gone.
Welcome newbie Getting Tired, we DO take on FN ‘idots’ regularly, as well as tiresome chefs like your alcoholic girlfriend Aunt Sandy, and her ‘recipies’. Perhaps YOU should focus on something important, like learning to spell.
Hey, at least she didn’t ice the ‘cupcakes’ with that butter. I was seriously afraid that was next on her to-do list.
The night after I saw this video (with the sound off), I had a weird dream involving that Sandra recipe, and I even saw some part of the videos (where she is emptying the baby food jars in the bowl). I wonder if that means I was traumatized.
Oh no! You are suffering from PTSHS: Post-Traumatic Semi-Ho Syndrome!
Fucking gross. She’s a waste of air time.
Not only is it gross, it’s confusing. She says 2 cups of baby food, dumps in three jars (though there are four on the counter) and the recipe on foodnetwork.com calls for four jars of baby food. Once again, the reviews of the recipe we’re accurate – gross and gooey.
The thing that just really gets me about Aunt DrunkfaceMcGee’s show is that this could be really helpful and creative. I think a large part of FN viewers (at least at this point since all the good shows are pretty much gone) aren’t trying to do things by the book most of the time and would appreciate some tips on how to improvise using pre-made ingredients. I WANT REAL COOKS BACK FOOD NETWORK, I KNOW YOU CAN FIND A CHEF WHO CAN MAKE SOMETHING NOT ENTIRELY FROM SCRATCH TASTE NOT DISGUSTING!!!
Good point.
I think she uses the baby food jars for shot glasses and the lids as perfect little coasters for her tablecrap. I’m also seeing a baby food jar pyramid holding a cake plate for her centerpiece. The food in the jar is meaningless to her and she’ll throw that in anything. Does it matter? Her food isn’t edible anyway.I think she must own part of FN. How else does she even have a show?I snapped when I saw her re-using marinade.I left my own review and I have been banned from leaving reviews for her garbage. And the “Sandyheads” came out of the woodwork defending their Alien Queen Bee. She has no culinary skills at all and most of the time she’s half lit on her show. One of her past assistants said she’d burn babies to be famous. I think that says it all.
I actually have to side with Auntie Sandy on this one – at least in terms of baby food as an ingredient. Cooks Illustrated (Americas Test Kitchen people) actually had a recipe for Carrot cake that had carrot baby food in it. They’re just mashed up carrots in a jar. It’s not poison people!
That said, Sandy’s muffins were probably gross.
Battra – I totally agree with you on baby food being used as an ingredient. It’s fine and I’m sure there are many recipes to prove that.
However, I am 100% positive that Sandra Lee does not have the knowledge or the ambition to make one of those recipes.She doesn’t have the skill or the brain cells when it comes to blending flavors together.
I just hope her mothership calls her home soon.Surely, she’s consumed most of the vodka on the planet.
I cannot stand Sandra Lee and have never watched a full episode. I made all of my babyfood from scratch, I wouldn’t even feed jarred babyfood to my kids, I’m sure not going to cook with it. By the time she finished adding a bit of this and a bit of that, she could have made the whole thing from scratch anyway. Cooking homemade isn’t that difficult!
And her saying, “It’s going to taste like you made it from scratch” just goes to show how off her tastebuds be, since prepared food and homemade are NOT the same. Not if you’ve had the real deal. Just sayin’!
My former neighbor, an old Polish lady who was an AMAZING cook, used to put carrot baby food in her carrot cake, which was magically delicious. I’m not saying I support most of the crap Aunt Sandy tries to pass off as food, but I think this particular hint may actually be legit.
D… di.. did Aunt Sandy just put that butter in a
COCKTAIL GLASS?
Not that I’m surprised but..
Damn
EWWWWWWWWW!!!! -_-”
That doesn’t have a name.. If I say “Gross”, I would be pandering that… …thing.
You know what? I’ve never seen Sandra Lee eating one of her Semi-Homemade DISASTERS… If you have an episode, please, tell me
Wow… A show devoted to pre-made cake mix and the use of baby food. Sort of like giving instructions on how to make a sandwich.
LOL! I wish Lady Gaga would make HER a sandwich.
holy shit. what the fuck?
I watch Sandra Lee and I don’t want to eat again. I watch Lydia’s Italy and I want to MOVE to ITALY. Fuck off, Sandra and stop taking space on my TV.
I first saw this a really long time ago, maybe even about a year ago, and I had a hard time eating for the rest of the day. Whenever somebody says “Sandra Lee isn’t that bad!” I mention this, and that shuts them up.
It’s not the worst thing she’s done, and for her, that is saying a lot.
You mean if I don’t have baby food I can buy it? No shit bitch. I thought I would have to grow my own god damned carrots, cook them, puree them, and hermetically seal them in a bedazzled recycled 1 oz vodka bottle.
Never before have i ever associated the word INTENSE with baby food. It truly was a sensory overload. Between hearing the diahrrhea colored batter slapping against the side of the bowl, being constantly annoyed by the painted “window” in the backround, and rrrrrrrrrrrrrrandomly elonggggggating letters. This entire video made me cry tears of vodka(don’t tell aunt sandy!)
OK, so its not traditional but it works. I make everything from scratch but, using leftover baby food to simplify my cooking is great. I make carrot cake with the southern living recipe only less oil and water and baby food instead of grated carrots. Its yummy and faster. With 5 kids its a huge help! I also throw leftover squash baby food in spaghetti sauce and they have yet to notice it! It’s a great way to thicken up soups and stews. I don’t take take Lee’s shortcuts and buy boxed goods but i don’t see any reason it wouldn’t turn out good. I’ll do whatever i have to to sneak in those 8 serving of fruits and veggies to my family as long as it tastes good. Hmmm think ill go make some sourdough cinnamon raisin muffins and replace the oil with apple baby food i have left over. I bet they never figure it out and that they enthusiastically eat all 18 muffins during teatime.
Alas, alack…we’re going to have to wait until Jill & Company return to hear about her take on the “Weekend Update” sketch from Saturday Night Live–it featured “Paula Deen”.
Sigh.
Did you see her eyes when she said, “Cocktail glass.” ? That woman needs AA.
I know! Seriously, Sandra should be going to a counselor, instead of shoving her scrawny little buzzard head in front of a camera, and making food even a homeless man wouldn’t go near with a ten foot pole.
OMFG
OMFG….is this chick for real? WOW I tried baby food once. I was really hungry – and was babysitting a 1 year old and it was the only thing in sight. I think it was peas…well – it tasted nothing like regular peas. AND the idea this chick actually bakes with it. This is quite funny…
Ugh, Sandra and her “shortcuts.” Why cook, if you’re just going to deprive yourself of good flavor, nutrients, and money while packing your diet with preservatives and chemicals? How hard it is to buy fresh carrots, steam or boil them, and puree them? This will NOT “taste like you baked it from scratch…” It’ll taste like cardboard box, expired spices, and regurgitated vegetables.
I’m sorry if anyone mentioned this before, but I know I heard her say Carrot Coconut muffins. HOw does apple-cinnamon+ carrott baby food + ginger = coconut?
Someone might have already mentioned this, but goddamn, and I mean GODDAMN did she rush through this. This was the fastest segment I have ever seen from her.
I can name 15 recipes that use pureed fruit, aka baby food. The best cookies I have ever had were made with baby food – pureed apricots. suck it jill
I’m glad I’ll never eat your cookies.
This looks like some crap paula deen would whip for her husband just add 2 pounds of butter Y’all. You know those hicks do not have any teeth!
Bulk carrots are cheap, keep well, and are easy to cook and puree. Why in the world would you pay more for a product that’s not going taste as good? Honestly, if you have enough time to make the muffins, you have enough time to process the carrots!
that has to be the dumbest comment of all time.
This reminds me of the adage: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
I wonder if she’s going to serve this swill to Congress when the old hag hawks her “Share Our Strength” schtick?
I quit eating baby food about 40 years ago. And I’m not going back.
I had to eat soft foods when I got my wisdom teeth removed. Puréed fruit, especially the peaches, isn’t bad. Puréed vegetables are gross. But I think in recipes, it’s the sum of the ingredients. Straight up vanilla extract, or salt, or flour, or raw egg, or yeast is gross alone, but they make cookies and bread.
Still, that orange stuff plopping in the bowl was a nasty sight.
4 things:
1. if she says intensify or amplify one more time i’m gonna kill her
2. if you have baby food in your pantry save it for the kid
3. i’m not surprised she has a cocktail glass handy
4. why the hell does she need her hair so poofy?