To Be Titled

Striving to be a good dad, a good husband, a good son/brother, a good political scientist, a good photographer, a good cook and a good homo universalis.

Oversalted Organic Cereal

I bought a box of Cascadian Farm’s “Purely O’s” yesterday at Sunflower Farmers Market to start giving to Xander. (Cacadian Farm is General Mills’ organic brand.) When I tasted one that Xander dropped on the floor, I immediately tasted the bitter saltiness. It turns out, this organic version of Cheerios contains almost 25% more sodium than the regular bee-branded Cheerios—250mg per 30g as opposed to 204mg. This is accounting for the difference in the two brands’ serving sizes.

Right now the comment submission on Cascadian Farm’s website is not working (maybe it’s never working?). I’m not about to stay on the phone for hours to complain, so there will be a snail mail letter headed to Cascadian Farm.

Primal Hunger

Xander is a very, very good baby. He eats well and sleeps well—we have to wake him up to feed him. But he does scream and wail when he gets hungry. An interesting aspect of this is that he’s not extremely hungry when he screams, because he would eat about 10ml and then fall asleep. This leads me to believe that there is something very primal about being hungry. (I guess it is one of the holy trinity—food, clothing and shelter.)

I’m looking forward to him being able to communicate better with us, as we will start teaching him some baby sign language in the future.