Comments on: Catching Highchair Food Spills

By: leeleea

leeleea — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:21:49 +0000

My daughter is a “looks straight forward while dropping all food to the side with a un-phased look on her face” kind of eater. One year old and when she gets bored, the best thing to do is drop puffs on the floor one by one.

My answer? Just clean it up. Geez. :)

By: Jim Dunn

Jim Dunn — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:04:41 +0000

Three Pekingese dogs who clean up every last molecule of dropped food make this something I’ll never use or buy. They even follow my nine-month-old around when he’s crawling, so they can slurp up any spit up.

By: lisa

lisa — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:08:22 +0000

Our family used a highchair for our two children. Since we had berber carpets we used a clear computer chair floor protector. It was wonderful: Clear, easy to clean and the plastic was thick enough for our highchair to be moved around easily on it’s wheels…………For our messy baby faces….the plastic Baby Bjorn bibs with the wide food catcher was an essential…….Easy to wash with soap and water or put into the dishwasher and not so easy to whip off by baby…..It caught EVERYTHING……..

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:28:54 +0000

Using a cat to clean underneath your chair is a bad idea!

By: Mellissa

Mellissa — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:28:23 +0000

Yep, I use a similar high chair and a plastic (yet machine washable) bib. My son rarely gets food on the floor, but the tray and seat generally need a good wipe down at the end of each meal. I have to run hot, soapy water for washing up anyway, so I just throw a cloth in the sink and clean the tray with that.

Also – if you make sure you give the high chair a quick wipe down as soon as each meal time is over, you will NEVER have to try and scrub off dried-on cereal, mashed potato, etc etc, which we all know ends up being the consistency of cement after a while.

I will add that cats are great at disposing of food under high chairs, and I assume dogs are also.