To give a pouch of baby food

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a pouch every now and again when the rest of her diet is healthy, homemade food. Equally at such a young age, there's nothing wrong with a bit of yoghurt or fruit etc for tea, especially as she might not eat it with this heat. You might find she refuses the pouch if she's not used to them and then you've had a wasted trip to the shops.

You will think back to this post in a few years time and hopefully have a little smile about it.

Yes you can give a pouch very much guilt free.
Or yoghurt, some fruit, a mashed egg, or something equally easy.

Treat pouches like you would convenience foods yourself. There are times when they are an advantage but most of the time it's better to make your own food.

I was in hospital with my daughter with limited cooking facilities when she was 10 months. We used some pouches for convenience and practicality. I balanced things by mixing them with quick cook pasta and peas and sweetcorn for textures. She barely ate at the time and I didn't have the resources for homemade. Once I was doing better we switched to completely homemade. Even after watching panorama I have no guilt. A diet a solely pouches is not ideal and they should be avoided where possible but just like sometimes I get a takeaway when I don't have the energy to cook sometimes a pouch is helpful

Give it a year and she will be picking bird poo off a slide and eating it , a pouch occasionally truly is fine !

JFC. This is the problem with any food messaging nowadays - what matters is the diet overall, not an occasional pizza, chocolate or a pouch. But media, influencers and advertisers focus on one small thing to grab our attention because the main message they should be giving us is boring and cannot be monetized easily.

If you choose pouch just make sure it's good quality without additives. The reason why they are not recommended as the base of the diet is that they loose a lot of nutritional value while processed. But of course they are fine from time to time.

Now and again is fine. My daughter loves the Ella's kitchen ones

Just to give you ideas of quick things- if we are having something not suitable or short on time my husband makes our little one an omelette. Also I sometimes get the potato from a jacket and mix with cheese and serve with cucumber and tomato sticks. Also when organised different veg patties in the freezer make an easy meal.

My first had pouches for months from 8 months till about a year old. The same handful of big Aldi ones on rotation. We were renovating the house and living on a microwave and ready meals ourselves.
I added in fresh/frozen veg and bits of protein (cold chicken) or cheese on top where needed.

He eats everything now!

You could try her on the pasta again, she might go for it on a second viewing - you know what these babies are like.

I thought of pouches a bit like I’d think of a shop bought sandwich for me - not as good as what you’d make at home but perfectly adequate when necessary/convenient. My baby probably had about 1-2 a week, if we were on the move or out for lunch.

Beans on toast with grated cheese
Scrambled egg on toast
Omelette with ham/cheese/mushroom
Plain pasta with grated cheese

Hopefully you have some of the above in the house so you won't even need to go shopping!

Inner mother tiger 😂

My son has a pouch a day 🤣

You don't need to listen to other people's opinions about UPFs or pouches, and you don't need other people's permission to feed your baby on baby food.

Look for ways to connect with your inner mother tiger!

Of course a pouch here and there is fine.
But I'd give mine bits of the take away, a banana, an egg, whatever's left in the cupboard...

For example if we have Chinese they get rice, rinsed off soft veg from the stir fry, a bit of shredded meat. Or another breakfast. Whatever is easiest- but real food.

There’s nothing wrong with pouches, it’s just that they’re not as good as other things. FWIW mine lived on pouches when we was first starting weaning, they’re absolutely fine to give to them.

If it’s easier to use a pouch, then once in a while is fine.

I’d stay inside and just dig out whatever random stuff I had in the fridge, though. Cucumber, strawberry, bit of cheese, oatcake or rice cake, maybe a cold hard boiled egg. Anything cold, that needs using up, as long as it covers off the food groups (so fruit or veg, a carb and a protein). My DC loved that sort of tea, especially if I made it in the shape of a face on the plate.

I’ve got a cupboard full of baby food pouches, snacks and pots! She doesn’t have them often but they are so helpful for a quick meal! I do homemade purées and she normally eats what we do for dinner; I couldn’t get stressed about something baby likes and helps me!

My two healthy happy kids had pouches for probably 50 percent of all meals. Before there was thing about it
I doubt you will be able to tell pouch fed babies as adults. It's not like every one who ever had a pouch will get some sort of pouch disease.
We are quite relaxed about food though. Generally eat healthy meals but don't restrict anything apart from fast food.

I wouldn’t go out to buy a pouch when I didn’t have any in just because it’d be less effort to feed them toast. Or cereal. My go to for my babies when I couldn’t be bothered was always avocado toast. But they also had plenty of pouches when we were out all day, on a plane etc. and it wasn’t possible to prep anything or keep something fresh for the required length of time. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with using them occasionally.

Pop the pouch in the fridge first so it's nice and cool for her, a cool fruit pouch will be perfect in this weather. I used them a fair bit, also gave home prepared food too. The kids weren't big fans of the full meal in a pouch ones but the fruit or veg ones they liked. Or as pp have said just give more porridge and toast, whatever she will eat is fine in this weather. Lots of milk too.

No need to be snarky. Deciding what to feed your child is very much 'actual parenting' and it's not surprising parents sometimes feel overwhelmed and under pressure when there is so much information telling us everything we're doing is wrong all the time.

Could you not just give a banana and a yogurt or something similarly easy to make. Banana as finger food or mashed.

Completely fine. I've given an occasional one to my 10 month old. I did everything absolutely 'correct' with my 1st and now at nearly 3 he lives off bread!

My 10 month old usually had weetbix for breakfast, banana/ similar mid morning, lunch is a portion of what we had for dinner the night before, afternoon snack yoghurt and some fruit puree (I do make it myself because it's so much cheaper), dinner is either eggs or ready brek or both. Some cracker bread and peanut butter through the day.

No problem with a pouch.

You said you did BLW so no problem with a picky tea. Bit of protein, some carbs, some fruit.
Scrambled egg/grated cheese/blob of cream cheese
Toast fingers
Whatever fruit you have in - tinned, fresh, frozen

Really? I was fed on heinz glass jars of baby food, including chocolate pudding version for dessert, that I apparently loved.
It was a time when they weaned from 3 month old, (I'm guessing why a huge amount of people my age suffer from reflux). I'm pushing 40! Dm didn't prepare anything until I was past that stage, and formula was just a straight tap water shaking with the powder, microwave, wrist.
I honestly think there is actually much more pressure on Mums today!

I agree on toddler meals not being a thing.