The green menace

Avocado makes great baby food. It's high in fat, bursting with vitaminy goodness and incredibly easy to mush up. We're big on avocados in our house, I live with a guacamole addict and I'm pretty keen on them myself. So I was looking forward to introducing our little toflet to this new eating experience.

Sure enough, as soon as I popped some in his mouth he gave me a big smile and opened his trap for a bigger spoonful. There's no feeling more rewarding and wonderful than that. I kept shovelling.

Until four spoonfuls in, he retched, lent forward and deposited a mucusy parcel of avocado on the tray in front of him. Poor little chap looked at me all bemused and opened his mouth for more avocado. I put some in, it came straight back out again.

I figured maybe I hadn't mashed it up enough, as I'd only used a fork. So next time we whizzed it up really finely and added a little water to thin it out a little. Again smiles, again open mouth - again sick.

So avocado has gone from being the weaning mother's best friend to public enemy number one - a green slimy agent of destruction. It's going to be a long time before this little guy gets to eat Mexican food.