Jars of baby food - which ones to use??

Juicy_Tube

janb5 wrote: »

Just had a dentist come to chat to the postnatal group and show us the content of some of these jars and the AMOUNT of sugar in them! Yuk!

We had a nutrionist who came to talk to us at a group which I found really useful as I had no idea about salt and sugar content! It has certainly been an eye-opener for us as parents too and I have also ditched jars of ready made sauces which we were partial to! I now make everything 'fresh' for us too which can only be a good thing and I have actually found this very easy to do.

JT x

Carmina_Piranha_3

rusks are shockingly high in sugar too :eek:

juicy tube i'm not weaning at the moment (he's 19 months old), i meant that i did use jars when he was little because i didn't feel happy about reheating the frozen home-made food.

short trips are okay but for whole days i did use a jar for the final meal. i also had an emergency jar in my bag for if he was hungry and we weren't near a shop. he has reflux so i could never predict the amount of food we needed, it depended on how many times he was sick.

i still eat mashed banana and avocado sandwiches now, i got a taste for them when roo first had them

andycarmi

Carmina_Piranha wrote: »

rusks are shockingly high in sugar too :eek:

I bought some for my DD for breakfast. When I got home and read thepacket she never had them. My
Mum surggested them. You would think the makers would know better.

janb5

But also the manufacturers advocate starting weaning at 4 months despite the change to recommendations!

Cost is also a factor when you can feed a baby far cheaper than the cost of a jar and they are unlikely to request a meal from the jars as a `favourite` when they are older!

Carmina_Piranha_3

i think if you did a poll here or asked a hundred mums on the street you'd find that waiting until 6 months is extremely rare. i had my health visitor nagging me because mine wasn't weaning at 4 months, and he's only 19 months old now so it's not as if the health visitor didn't know about the recommendations.

janb5

Carmina_Piranha wrote: »

i think if you did a poll here or asked a hundred mums on the street you'd find that waiting until 6 months is extremely rare. i had my health visitor nagging me because mine wasn't weaning at 4 months, and he's only 19 months old now so it's not as if the health visitor didn't know about the recommendations.

I agree with you and having seen lots of different schedules, I personally think that 4 months was about right. But I still see people trying to put baby rice in bottles etc!

ooobedoo

I waited till 6 months with my son, but my daughter I want to last that long but at nearly 4 months she is draining 7/8 oz 5 times a day. She is more like me and I think I might have problems with her weight in the future so I really want to wait till she is 6 months but she watches everybody when they are eating and is very interested!!!!

Cruiksl

Evening,

Going back to the op - I can recommend Ella's Kitchen sachets http://www.ellaskitchen.co.uk/ . They're pricey at 75p a go but are foil wrapped and can be put in the freezer if not used in one go. Ideal for weaning babies !

The joy of these is that they're organic and purely fruit and veg with no added extras and my ds loves them ! :j

You can keep them in your bag and heat them up or serve them cold.

The downside is at the moment - the only supermarkets I've found stocking them is Tesco or Waitrose.

Carmina_Piranha_3

oobedoo i had it the other way around - my first baby didn't want to wean until he was older than 6 months, wasn't interested in food at all (so i waited until he was ready). my second baby was exactly 6 months but i don't know anyone else who waited until then. i didn't actually 'wait' though, if he had been ready earlier then i probably would have fed him - my health visitor supports mums who wean early.

i've been speaking to other mums this week and the pruple lidded 'mums own' from heinz are the favourite with everyone. i can't remember if they're organic though.