I got talking to a few other expat Mum's from various countries and we were talking about weaning and baby food. I make my own from scratch, always have, most likely always will. I'm a self confessed purist and I like to know exactly what I am feeding my charges. I will use jars if travelling abroad and kitchen facilities/food isn't easily available, and don't think there's anything wrong with them as such, I just like to cook meals from scratch. Most of the other Mums were shocked and said that they use jars as then they know "precisely the nutritional content". This led to a 3 coffee debate on how you can tell the nutritional value of home cooked versus jarred baby food! A couple of the Mums said I was wrong to home cook food ...
What are all of your attitides on this? Is society getting too label driven, in that if you home cook something you don't know its fat/calorie/protein etc content? Do you use jarred or home cooked? And for a 6 month old (or any child come to think of it), as long as they get a varied and age appropriate diet does it matter there is no label telling me what's in it???!!!