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I’ve made baby food for both of my children, but commercial finger foods still come in very handy when kids are learning to self feed. Easy to pick up and melt in their mouths quickly, letting them get used to picking things up and “chewing.”
Happy Baby Food wasn’t available when my daughter was little (at least, not in my area!). I ended up redeeming points through the Stonyfield Farms rewards program for coupons.
The stores where I shop price the puffs between $3.19 and $3.29 and the yogurt melts between $3.49 and $3.69. Toys R Us also sells this brand in my area. It looked like the prices for the puffs were maybe 50 cents higher than Gerber (but contain 40% more product).
The puffs remind me of Gerber’s puffs, except that Happy Baby doesn’t add sugar (they’re sweetened with 100% fruit juice & have half the sugar content of Gerber). They have apple, banana and greens flavors, and they come in green packaging.
The puffs are made with organic whole grains, fruits and vegetables and are fortified with vitamins and minerals. The whole ingredient list for the banana flavor is: organic rice, organic whole oats, organic wheat, organic apple juice concentrate, organic whole grain brown rice, organic wheat starch, organic banana; vitamins and minerals: ascorbic acid, citric acid, di- and tri-calcium phosphate (calcium), mixed tocopherols (vitamin e), ferric orthophosphate (iron), vitamin d3, niacin (vitamin b3), zinc oxide, d-calcium pantothenate (vitamin b5), riboflavin (vitamin b2), thiamin mononitrate (vitamin b1), pyridoxine hcl (vitamin b6), vitamin b12, folic acid
I chose the banana mango flavor yogurt melts, but they also have Strawberry and Mixed Berry flavors. We’ll try those later once my son has been introduced to all of the ingredients. Gerber also has yogurt melts, but since they weren’t around when my daughter was a baby, I haven’t tried them. I compared the nutrition content to Happy Baby’s and it was pretty similar, except that Happy Baby was a bit higher in protein and some vitamins, as I can recall. They are also organic.
Oh. Em. Gee. These things are so good. I could eat a whole bag myself (if they weren’t so darned expensive). Especially since there’s only 120 calories in the whole bag! They’re organic and contain live, active cultures, but no preservatives, chemical fertilizers, or genetically modified ingredients. There’s also no soy, gluten or wheat, and they’re sweetened with organic cane juice. They’re freeze dried and melt quickly in baby’s (or Mommy’s) mouth.
The whole ingredient list for the banana mango flavor is: Vitamin D fortified culture pasteurized organic nonfat milk, organic banana, organic evaporated cane juice, organic mango, organic tapioca, pectin, organic locust bean gum, inulin, natural flavor, live and active cultures streptococcus thermophilus, bulgaricus, lactobacillus acidophilus, B. lactis, lactobacillus paracasei, lactobacillus rhamnosus.
I’ve also seen the baby food pouches at Toys R Us and the cereals at a few stores. They also make Happy Tot Pouches, Happy Bites Meals and Happy Baby frozen food cubes. I missed the boat on that one, I had that idea as I was making my daughter’s food 4 1/2 years ago!
If you sign up for the newsletter, you can receive coupons for Happy Baby products when they send the newsletter about every three months.
In conclusion, I would like a truck load of Happy Baby yogurt melts to be delivered to my door. :-p
Last minute addition: After I wrote this (but before I published it) I spent a bunch more time on their site. I’m still a big, fat chicken when it comes to contacting companies, but I thought some of you (me included) might be interested in more of their products.
Happy Family is sponsoring a very generous review and giveaway (unfortunately not a truck load of yogurt melts!), so you will definitely want to stay tuned for that in a few weeks! I think I may turn the review into a play date/taste test!
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Maria wants to live in a world where cloth diapers are the norm and moms can make parenting choices without judgement. When she’s not chasing her 18, 14 and 11-year old kids around, you might find her checking out the latest gadgets, organizing something (again) or exercising in the fresh air. 
>My son is atually 10.5 months, but he's a little behind as far as food goes. He has F.P.I.E.S. (food allergy) and that caused us to have to slow way down on solids and also caused a lot of averions to texture and gagging issues! We break them into small pieces for now!
>How old is your son? I've been eyeing these down at the store and my mama friends have been experimenting with them but their babies area bit older the mine. She's 6 months and their babies are 7-9mo. Knowing that they melt fast is great, DD's Dr warned me about choking, but I want her to learn about finger foods since she's trying to feed herself purees anyways lol =P I think the gerber package says crawling or 9 months, which she's pretty much already crawling (should be by the end of the month!)And when I was working for a baby company I was surprised at how many of our vendors were very generous when it came to "customer appreciation". I loved it!