Can I ask how much it costs to feed your 8 month old?

[IslaValargeone]

That's it really. Oh with milk too if you bottle feed.

[Phineyj]

£5 a day maybe? That's bottles and pouches. Anything else is made from food we already have so I don't count it if you see what I mean.

[littlestressy]

I don't remember it costing much extra, I did blw and only bought extra fruit/veg and some of those mini rice cakes. He just ate the same stuff as me. I breastfed which helped keep costs down I suppose.

[jimijack]

Fromage frais yoghurt 69p for 8 from Aldi. One a day.
Bag of sweet potatoes 89p Aldi, these will provide food for weeks when cooked & frozen. In fact carrots, spuds, broccoli are all cheap from Aldi and so is fruit. All lasts weeks.
Not allot really.

[wannabedomesticgoddess]

Milk is £7.99 per week. Cow & Gate first.

We buy baby cereal, I think its £1.75. And some of the fruit puree tubs (Asda have them for £1 per pack of 4.

Other than that she eats what we eat, including chilli (with nat yog) and spag bol.

So probably an "extra" £15 per week in total. Shes just turned 9 months today but thats pretty much been the same for the last month.

[jimijack]

Not sure how much formula is as I'm bf which is free

[IslaValargeone]

So I wouldn't be alone in thinking £80 a week is a lot then?
My friend spend this and I couldn't for the life of me work out how. Granted my dc is 11 so I just thought I might be out of touch, but it seems a lot.

[IslaValargeone]

Everything is pouched though which I presume is quite pricey, I don't think we had those in my day :o

[wannabedomesticgoddess]

Even the ellas kitchen pouches are somethimg like 3 for a fiver. Does the baby only eat "baby food"?

Thats a bit mad.

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

£80 a week? What is she weaning her Lo onto? Fois gras and caviar?

Our dd roughly ate this at 8 months:

Ready brek made with full fat cows milk and raisins. Milk is the same as we all use so nothing special bought

Lunch a round of eggy bread and a few haved grapes. Not sure what one round of bread and one egg cost but we rarely buy a loaf over £1.

Tea, a little of what we were having. So if it was spag Bol shed just get a dollop of that. Bargain it would be pence.

She was bf so no formula. We don't spend £80 a week on feeding the four of us. £80 a fortnight more like...

[IslaValargeone]

Well that would explain it, the baby has 2 of those at each meal, so that would certainly take the cost up.

[BikeRunSki]

I reckon it took DS 2 years to.have an impact on our food bill, and DD 2 weeks. Both dc were blw. I bought the odd bag of baby specific rice cakes, biscuits etc when we were out because I was paranoid about salt, but didn' t really spend a lot on anything special.

[wannabedomesticgoddess]

As Jilted says, we spend less than that on our shop for us all.

Is she an unconfident cook? Very busy?

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

Is she an unconfident cook? Very busy? or just a silly cow with more money than sense?

[IslaValargeone]

She's currently on maternity leave, only busy in terms of baby yoga, baby signing, baby (insert group of choice)
I think she's just a lazy cow ready made type of person obviously.

[IslaValargeone]

Yes sorry, I should have said more money than sense.
Nowt wrong with ready made though not all the time surely?

[MissAntithetic]

Dd is 11 months and I buy her the following

Bananas
Yoghurt (Aldi 69p)
Rice cakes (a pack a week) 1 pound
Raisins (2 pound one off!)

Everything else she eats what we eat.

Oh and I buy formula cartons 16 a month to cover the 2 feeds a night 2 times a week when I'm on nights.

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

Just done a but if maths. If she is giving 2 pouches per meal and they are 3 for £5 that's £45 a week. The current recommendation is that babies of this age shouldn't be on more than 2 meals a day.

So, what is she spending the other £35 a week on exactly?

[jimijack]

I'm a shite cook but can steam a few bits of veg & fruit & spoon it into pots.

Wow, spag bol& half grapes at 8 months! My wee one gips& vommits with lumps. Keep trying him, when will that stop do you think?

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

Must admit DS had quite a few jars but I was almost insane with tiredness. He had undiagnosed tt

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

jimi how is he with finger food?

[neversleepagain]

My twins eat nearly 40 quid worth of yoghurt a month! I buy the big tubs of Yeo valley.

[IslaValargeone]

jilted I don't know, her dc is bottle fed, but it's the ready made up bottles so I presume they too add to the cost.

[jimijack]

Ok, BUT I'm convinced he chews because it soothes his gums. Doesn't swallow just chomps. (Sliced apple, trumpets, toast, soft bread that kinda thing)

[jimijack]

CRUMPETS, not trumpets...obv!

[wannabedomesticgoddess]

jimi

DD2 was a nightmare with any food until maybe 3 weeks ago. We were trying up until then but she hated everything.

Then suddenly she just seemed more hungry. Now she eats pretty much everything we give her. I thought there was no hope. Stick at it.

That said, tonights dinner for her was an ellas kitchen that was left from the start and she HATES it. Going to have to give her something different in a minute.

Two pouches per meal is a LOT of food too. DD2 would do well to get through the equivalent of half a pouch.