MSE Parents Club Part 10

searching_me

looks like fun csh .. on the baby food .. reasons why people dont like jars range from cost to knowing whats in it .. jayden has both jars and our food .. i dont care really i just buy a months supply of food ranging from baby food to our food and make it last x

weezl74

csh wrote: »

I just wonder what people who don't use jars think when they see other parents buying them
Lazy bint? or More money than sense?

As you were

I don't think either of those things. I think I don't want to use jars from a financial point of view, but I am off the scale thrifty/frugal/stingy when I don't really need to be. It's just my way

If anything, I think 'go for it girl, it'll save you a faff!' when I'm tired. But sometimes I do find it fun making mushes and not mushes for Fergie.

Does that make sense?

xxx

csh_2

feelinggood wrote: »

CSH - I find baby jars too bland, and want LO to be happy eating a wide variety of tastes. If I was weaning with purees I'd probably use jars, but purees don't appeal to me at all.

we're medical advice early weaned so have to have purees! I think some of the stuff is quite tasty! Am I strange that I won't give K anything I haven't tried myself?! We are both not fans of Grandpas Sunday Lunch from Heinz, too many peas ewwww!

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

CSh - my main worry with jar food (other than cost) was that she has to get used to eating the food I make, as it isn't the same. I've been doing a mixture though - mostly home made, but jars if I'm being disorganised, or if she has turned her nose up at everything else then sometimes I try a jar. Sometimes she is just awkward

When hes older, he'll get what we are having, if its suitable obv, mashed or in his hand or whatever. We don't have a very small baby friendly diet tho, we're not a meat and 2 veg type family. We are all spicy and currys and pasta and stuff IYKWIM?
I know he'll eat this eventually but its not first taste stuff is it?!

searching_me wrote: »

looks like fun csh .. on the baby food .. reasons why people dont like jars range from cost to knowing whats in it .. jayden has both jars and our food .. i dont care really i just buy a months supply of food ranging from baby food to our food and make it last x

Thats where I'd like to be when hes a bit bigger, HM if he can have it and jars if he can't.

elle_gee

Morning all

Lazy day here.. Must pop out to Sainsburys later for food and nappies

On sleepsuits, we do the same as Glam and Jack

On jarred food, Rhys doesn't seem to like the jars much (too thin), but he does like the Plum range (have you seen the price of them?! I obviously wasn't paying much attention when I put those in the basket the first time! ), which he has with homemade creamy mash and veggie mush sometimes. Also has chicken and beef in those Heinz sauce pouches, and I've got some plaice defrosted to cook today which I'm going to mix with a Heinz mediterrean vegetable sauce then refreeze into portions

I was browsing baby food on Sainsburys website last night and kept thinking "how much?!" at some of the more simple things that I've made at home (apple and pear puree for example) so there's an element of stinginess in not buying a lot of it too

Out of curiousity, what do they do to the stuff in jars to make it last so long?

SusanC_2

SugarSpun wrote: »

He's conveniently complaining of double vision, now there's no way of getting it checked till Monday. He claims to have taken out the rubbish but actually took one bag from the kitchen and pretended we don't have several rubbish receptables in the flat. I'm already and it's barely 9:30am.

Hope your day improves.

weezl74 wrote: »

the expectation is like this,
Us: cup of tea
them: yeah, and cake?

they wouldn't think of bringing anything, but when fergus was 2 weeks old they came for a weekend. His mum said on the phone to DH do I need to bring anything? (we later discovered this meant 'or are all my towels and bedding provided) so he said, ' a packet of biscuits?' and she laughed at him and said, 'no I meant are you providing my laundry'

I said that at this point I'd have been saying, 'well no, if you can't even bring a packet of biscuits!' but he is like your OH is in a hospital situation always giving the other person the benefit of the doubt and pretty non-confrontational.

I just want to set fire to them!

edit, sorry super grump this morning, another 3 hrs sleep night. I will make a fruit cake and smile and be nice, I will I promise

How rude! My in laws brought various baby things without being asked (cotton wool balls, nappy liners, wipes and johnson's baby wash (which we actually still haven't used because we still only wash Alice with water but the thought was appreciated)). They also asked if we needed any shopping and brought bread, milk, fruit and yoghurt for us more than once. My mum never brought or offered to bring anything but she didn't expect anything more than a cup of tea and I'm fairly sure she made the tea herself and washed up afterwards. As an alternative to setting fire to them, how about when arrangements are made for visiting, you (or OH if he will agree and can manage it) say soemthing along the lines of, "We know you like cake but we haven't been able to make any since Kester was born so do bring some if you think you'll want it as we wouldn't want you to go without unecessarily."

weezl74 wrote: »

pigpen you are such a good mummy (to many!) that I feel a bit of a duffer admitting this to you, but fergie doesn't have any pyjamas:o. He wears his daytime vest and babygro with his sleeping bag over! shall I put an extra baby gro in in case the emergency person feels this is bad practice?

Alice's pyjamas are usually just the T-shirts and trousers which don't go with any day clothes or ones which are a little bit too big for daytime use.

csh wrote: »

Baby food in jars opinions please

I was reading last night but too busy to join in. Can I just ask re the jars of baby food: What is it that people are against? Is the the cost? Or do people think they are not healthy?
Is is not acceptable to feed baby on mainly jarred food? It is designed for them after all?

I worry about K not getting a balanced diet if hes only eating steamed purree veg and fruit

I'm not looking to start a debate or anything- I just wonder what people who don't use jars think when they see other parents buying them
Lazy bint? or More money than sense?

I wouldn't use jars for the same reason that I make all my own food (most of the time) - I think it is healthier. To me it is the same as using jarred sauces, packet mixes and ready meals for my own food which I wouldn't do for myself so I'm not going to do it for my baby. I don't really think any thing at all about what other people use - everyone has different circumstances and priorities and I don't expect other people to do the same as me. I think I do most things differently to most other people anyway so it mostly passes me by anyway.

feelinggood_2

Csh - Toby has always eaten what we eat, he is fine with curry, spicy things, exotic things. If I can eat it, he'll eat it! Yesterday was homemade spinach, ricotta and chicken pizza. He loves morrocan couscous too.

I bought a few jars, to see if LO liked them, and had a taste. I wasn't overly impressed, they seemed very watered down.

We weaned at 6 months, as I was breastfeeding so it was easier to wait, although he was a hungry baby!

Another thing - always stir the jar thoroughly, the amount of times I've heard about bits in them, yuck.

MadDogWoman_2

I did homemade due to cost, a love of cooking and not liking the look or smell of jarred food (main meals).

I did buy baby breakfast cereals and puddings though.

PJ's - I always put Katie in fresh for night times when she was a baby, now she has a fresh set of pj's every night

searching_me

just paying bills .. dont you hate it that the moment you get paid you have all your bills to pay and its like you never got paid in the first place *sigh* x

SugarSpun

csh Molly loves the Sunday lunch - I got 12 jars for £1 :mse: and was really pleased she liked them. She gets some of what we eat and is starting to get more, but the jars here seem much cheaper than in the UK so it's about as economical to get organic jars than organic veg and make it. Plus then we use the jars when we do make food, we can pressurise them and they're sealed

MadDogWoman_2

SM - it's an absolute nightmare in my house, DH is paid monthly and I'm paid weekly so we have to be constantly be aware of whats due out and when as we've had to spread it out throughout the month.

The one payment I was stressing about has gone through OK this month which is a relief after messing it up for the last 2 months.