Baby food brands - which one?!

[KaransMom]

My DS is weaning now and i want to move onto using jars/pouches. Many have recommended using Ellas kitchen but in your experiences what are the others like? Has anyone used HiPP or Cow n Gate?
I was told that Heinz has too much sugar/salt added?
TIA x

[Arseicle]

Almost none of them have sugar added, and none at all have salt added...its baby food!
You could read the labels and pick what you like the look of?

[Soubriquet]

Which ever you want

I used Ella's kitchen and Hipp organic with ds

Dd refused anything that wasn't Ella's kitchen

But beware....you will soon get told to make your own food or to do blw

[RachelLL92]

I may be no use here but found processing appropriate meals we were having and freezing the a lot easier I knew what was in them and saved a fortune

[dementedpixie]

Look out for added water and starchy fillers rather than the ingredients that they are supposed to contain. I used the fruit purees to flavour cereal

[owl89]

My DS loves Ella's Kitchen. He likes most pouches but HATES the jars. The jars taste awful. The Aldi Mamia range have some tasty organic purees in pouches.

[DuggeesPoncho]

We do BLW so I can only talk from a point of view of snacks he has inbetween meals. Generally, he tends to like mostly one brand. It happens to be the brand that his dad and I are most likely to pinch any leftovers from (i.e. The brand we think tastes good too!). For him, it's Organix with a few bits from ellas kitchen and tesco.

I'd say try tasting the foods yourself, and feed your child the better ones.

Good luck with the weaning. :)

[purplefizz26]

Before anyone pounces, there is nothing wrong with jars and pouches, they definitely have their place, but IMO they are expensive for what they are, and I found them all to taste the same - bland and orange coloured.

Once every couple of months I used to cook several pans of chilli/bolognase/curry/pasta sauces and a couple of different pies, lasagne etc and separated them all into children's portions and froze them. Then I didn't need to think about quick, last minute meals for a good couple of months!

Some nights we would eat a fresh cooked meal as family but sometimes I just needed a quick meal for the baby/toddler.

Time is definitely with a factor for this, you need probably 1 or 2 full days every couple of months to do it in one go and have it out of the way.

[BettyOBarley]

Ellas kitchen and Hipp are the ones I found best especially for the toddler meals.

Heinz looked / smelled awful imo.

My DD wouldn't touch my homemade offerings once they had been frozen and reheated so I definitely found these useful.