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AIBU?

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To feed my baby food from a jar?

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DarlingDuck · 07/07/2011 17:29

I fed dd1 some from a jar but mainly home cooked, ds1 all home cooked but now ds2 is 6 months I've tried him on hipp organic jars and he loves them! I was always a bit of a snob when it came to jars as I assumed they were full of additives and crap but they seem to be fine

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HeidiKat · 07/07/2011 18:05

YANBU, DD loves the pudding jars, cow and gate banana cookie crumble went down a storm tonight. Jars can be handy if you don't have time to spend ages peeling and boiling and pureeing vegetables, DD also loves the ellas kitchen fruit pouches.

HipHopOpotomus · 07/07/2011 18:45

DD1 flat out rejected anything I pureed myself . She loved the jars though!!

HalfTermHero · 07/07/2011 18:49

YABVU. I can't believe how lazy you are. Plus you are not even ashamed to come onto mumsnet and admit to using jars. Your poor baby .

HalfTermHero · 07/07/2011 18:49

Joke! jars will be fine

BlueFergie · 07/07/2011 19:18

I smiled at grovel's post too. Thought it was quite good.

Fed both mine jars.....organic veg pureed with water can't see how thats not good for them.

LoopyLiz88 · 07/07/2011 19:20

Mine all had organic jars and are just fine.

OpinionatedPlusSprogs · 07/07/2011 19:30

Grovel amused me too.

Jars are fine but give some family food as well as they need to get used to eating what you do. (as long as it is suitable for a baby)

cat64 · 07/07/2011 19:45

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jellybeans · 07/07/2011 19:46

I used a mix of jars and home made. They are all fine.

BornInAfrica · 07/07/2011 19:49

I thought Grovel's post was pretty funny! If someone reading that honestly thought it was serious then they're really really not ready for having a baby!

DoMeDon · 07/07/2011 19:59

Up to you - I never used them and never would. Each to their own.

I am traumatised from trying the baby food diet when I was an idiot young though

Tortu · 07/07/2011 20:04

Another one here to say that my baby won't eat anything else. I have a freezer full of his rejected, carefully prepared, homemade stuff (I'm hoping he'll come back to it/ I can trick him into eating it).

Ella's Kitchen mango baby brekkie is the food of the gods.

GodricGryffindorsPointySword · 07/07/2011 20:48

DD1 happily ate everything I made/pureed - wasn't on purees long and by the time she was interested in lumps and self feeding, (about 7 months) she just ate what we had (we never add salt during cooking but just season afterwards so she did not get any).

DD2 rejected 90% of everything I tried except fruit, but loved jars. Nursery insisted parents provided own food until 1yo - presumably to avoid salt contamination and faff) and with a f/t job and a toddler it was jars on weekdays. By about 9 months she too was eating everything at home though, feeding herself bits of what we had (broccoli in ears and the lot). It was great.

If I'd known about BLW then, I'd have done it, but fortunately mine didn't put up with being spoon fed stuff for very long anyway - I just put a tarp under the high chair and let them have at it. Nursery commented on how early they were eating independently using spoons and forks.

Gemjar · 07/07/2011 20:59

Jars are great for out and about, and they don't contain anything bad at all these days. My concerns with them though are that because they are pasteurised the heat levels involved there kind of blast any of the nutritional value out of them.

Also, I remember giving DS1 a jar of 'lasagne' and apart from being really bland, it just seemed a bit too pureed for me, even though it said that it was for 8 months plus, it just seemed like there wasn't enough texture to it.

A mix of both jars and homemade is fine though, the main thing is that babies get a good variety of tastes and textures. Also, it's just easier to give them the same as everyone else.

wigglesrock · 07/07/2011 21:03

My 2 loved Hipp Organic jars and after a quick smell and taste, I think they were definitely the "nicest" . I think they used to do a pasta one that smelled yum!

dribbleface · 07/07/2011 21:08

i agonised over this till someone pointed out that DS was not the only child in the world eating baby jars or else the companies would not be still operating! For what its worth he was anout 60% jays 40% homemade. Jay food was less stressful when the litttle bugger angel refused to eat, at least it hadn't taken me ages to prepare!

HappyAsIAm · 07/07/2011 21:34

I wish my DS had been willing to eat jars. He just wouldn't touch them. Everything had to be home made, and I was a slave to Annabel Karmel until he was nearly 18 months. He just knew the difference. It would have made life sooooo much eaier if he'd accepted a jar or twenty now and again.

D0G · 07/07/2011 21:37

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Tryharder · 07/07/2011 21:40

If it makes you feel better, I came home from work and DH told me that he had given DD (aged 1) mashed potato mixed with Pot Noodle for lunch [boak]. The nastiest, cheapest jar in the world has got to be better than that....

MissMarjoribanks · 07/07/2011 21:42

I used jars when we were out and about, home made stuff at home. Then DS hit 8mo and was finally able to sit up reasonably well and we started BLW. Life became much easier. He eats anything I put in front of him (except ice cream, bizarrely).

thisisyesterday · 07/07/2011 21:44

i wouldn't use them all the time, but now and again is absolutely fine!

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