Fisher Price insulated warming flask

Savvy_Sue

Nah, even 'proper' food was served cold, really wasn't worth the effort of warming it up!

Even now, the boys and I will eat cold baked beans, which DH finds VERY strange!

zoe260373

i wouldnt advise you keep food warm as it will breed bacteria,maybe one of those hand warmer things that you snap and it gets really hot would heat food enough?? as for the flask..yep its just a thermos with a pretty vase!! lol,finger/cold food is easiest/safest bet i reckon.

Carmina_Piranha_3

i had one of those things you snap and it heats up. it was a special one for bottles, it wrapped around the bottle then went into a bag to keep it wrapped around the bottle. it was excellent, but can only be used once unless you have somewhere you can boil it to get it back into it's original state.

MRS_TO_BE_2

I used to use the fisher price flask for warming bottles but found it never really kept water very hot therefore took ages to heat things up. Soon moved onto bottles at room temp and now he has food that way too.....so much easier and no complaints from my little boy (9mths)

mrcow

Is this for real?

I don't understand where a situation would arise where you would need to heat up a baby's food whilst out of the house? At 7 months, if you are out and about, let them have sandwiches, breadsticks, rusks, mashed banana, cut up or pureed fruit etc. Or if you are out for dinner, let them have some of your food chopped up or mashed. If they are eating jars, then give them something that can be eaten cold (like a pudding).

Save the main meals for when you are at home.

I've have three children and never needed a food warmer (tbh....I still don't really understand what it is?).

Carmina_Piranha_3

at 7 months my baby was having pureed food and wasn't ready for mashed, he had only just started eating pureed food. if you start to give them their first tastes of food at 6 months they're not usually ready for sandwiches at 7 months. well, mine wasn't anyway but he still needed something more substantial than fruit if we were out for more than 12 hours, or camping for the whole weekend etc.

but this thread is more about the kind of situation where you didn't expect to have to feed your child and just want something you can keep in your bag for months just on the off-chance that you'll be stranded on a motorway overnight for example.

mrcow

Carmina_Piranha wrote: »

but this thread is more about the kind of situation where you didn't expect to have to feed your child and just want something you can keep in your bag for months just on the off-chance that you'll be stranded on a motorway overnight for example.

If you are unexpectedly standed on a motorway overnight, you are not very likely to have a kettle to hand to boil water to warm up food (if you have a food warmer sitting somewhere at the bottom of your bag that's been there for months).

If you are in a place where a kettle is to hand, they will probably also have microwave facilities that will do the same job for free.

On such journies, you'd be better off taking some premixed baby rice with stirred in fruit puree in a tub that can be eaten hot or cold and on the go. Or a banana that can be mashed with a fork as required. By eight months, many babies are happy to suck on rusks, or you can take rusks in a packet and mix in some milk in a bowl whilst you are out.

I've been on hundreds of car journeys since my first was born and have never been stranded or stuck for ideas for something appropriate for them to eat or drink.

The original post was asking whether this item is a waste of money. My answer is "undoubtedly"!

RustyFlange

If you have one of the flasks, then fill it with hot water and take along a jar of home made baby food, either storing it in a jar (old baby foor jar) or in a weaning pot which will fit in the flask cup so to speak, that way just warm through with water. My daughter was weaned at 8 weeks, when she was 4 months old she was starting the more lumpy food and would wolf down finger food so this time round I have had no feeding issues.

Carmina_Piranha_3

mrcow i think it's a waste of money too, but i thought the larger one with bottle warming flask was great.

i didn't warm whatever emergency food had been floating around in my bag so i didn't need a kettle.

i have just realised i've got my threads mixed up, i am a dozy mare! there's another thread where the OP mentioned organic pouches and got a lot of people advising her to make her own baby food. she was only asking about getting the pouches cheap, and wasn't planning to feed them for every meal, just for convenience in certain circumstances. i replied as if i was on that thread, not this one i was remembering being stuck on the motorway during the floods last july.

Mips

I'm a wicked Mum

After the first weeks their milk was served at room temperature and their food was never heated from the Jars... only time they got hot food was when it came straight from the oven!

I never heated anything up :rotfl: