To wonder how people feed babies this revolting stuff day in day out

[moogy1a]

Had to give a mindee a jar of food today ( mum particularly wanted her to have it).
it smelt rank and I couldn't bring myself to try it.
Little one wolfed it down though so obviously used to the taste and it wasn't "off".
AIBU to think that except in emergencies babies should be fed food you would be happy to eat yourself ( or is Heinz food particularly revolting?)

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I'd be mortified if my childminder did what you've done here. Have you no professional pride? It's not like this is some serious case of abuse or employment situation. You've just been asked to give child a jar of food that you didn't like the smell of. YABU.

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well thats what i thought

I used to love the chocolate pudding...and banana packet breakfast.

Mine were all weaned on a mixture of foods...jars were fine to use with homemade food.

It's not a big deal...all mine eat perfectly well now and has not set them up to eat processed food in the slightest, that was a bit of a strange conclusion to jump to really.

I learnt a long time ago, never admit you feed your child healthily one mumsnet. For some reason people go fucking mental. Even if you suggest that it's okay on occasion but not all the time, you will be flamed. So bizaare.

Nothing wrong with saying your child eats healthily. Lots wrong with sounding smug and judging and condemning other people and their choices.

Almostfifty-managing to get anything on the table is bloody hard work when you have crippling pnd. It's not hard when you are feeling well.

I haven't RTFT as its bloody long, but has anyone mentioned Heinz chocolate pudding yet?

And westie if your boy is happy and smiling then you are doing a fantastic job, well done!

Oops X posted with lots of people.

Bloody lovely stuff though.

Read the ingredients on the Heinz chocolate pudding!

Its basically skimmed milk, cornflour, sugar and vegetable oil. A tiny bit of cocoa is added. Imagine all that minus that little bit of cocoa. RANK! And nutritionally rubbish!

But DD loves them!

Heinz Treacle spronge is my fave, Wanda.

OP yanbu!! Jars are gross

Mrrected, how do you know they are gross?? Have you eaten them? Go on, admit it....have you??

Has the mindees mum turned up yet?

It really pisses me off when people say things like oh it's not hard is it.

You have no idea what other people have going on and why they might use something to make their lives a little easier.

I cook when I can, use jars and pouches when I'm under the cosh.

Westie - boots food in the little pouches is lovely, looks fresh snd wouldn't even offend the OPs delicate nose.

3 for 2 at the moment.

Despite all the time I spent lovingly preparing home cooked meals for dd I had to stop going near the baby food in the local supermarket because she'd bounce up and down and try to get them all, she loved them. She's thrown tantrums because I wouldn't let her have them.

How do the babies feel about it? Has anyone asked them? Power to the babies!

I really just think it does not matter whether you feed your child a jar or not! Yes they don't taste great but babies love bland textures and tastes and no doubt my homemade efforts taste equally as gross.

Feeding your baby a jar will not make them a bad eater when they are bigger! My dd2 (13 months) is still partial to the odd jar.. She also loves salmon with a side of quinoa... and a slice of pizza.. And a fistful of strawberries. My point ( obviously ) is that it's all about balance. Jars are not bad for kids in fact they are generally nutritionally balanced.

I'm off for a Heinz choc pud..... ( as according to my mum that's what I was weened on.. And trust me I am excellent and varied eater!!)

Ingredients from one of my pouches.

Carrot
Butternut squash
Water
Onion
Chicken
Basil
Thyme

Hardly crap.

I used a mixture of jars and a mixture of cooked from scratch meals.Mainly cooked from scratch meals, but some days I did give a jar.
They're both now older (ie not babies) and eat lots of home cooked dinners and a wide variety of foods.
Just because the mum gave you ajar doesn't mean she always does. Do you never eat chips or the odd convenience meal?

I remember trying ds1 with some jars and thinking they tasted like plastic. I gave ds4 some veg and chicken that id blended and frozen the other day, not sure what veg it was as I tend to do loads of different things to freeze for when im busy cant be arsed and that tasted like plastic too

And ds3 never had a jar of anything but at 2.7 turns his nose up at most things at the minute

I never fed my DS a jar of baby food, except for some of the fruit pouch things, for the same reason that the OP states - if I wouldn't eat it myself, I wouldn't feed it to him as he is just as entitled to eat nice things as us. And I wanted him to be used to the taste of home cooked stuff instead of getting a taste for processed stuff. Now aged 4, he eats most things but is also partial to some processed things like fish fingers!!

I don't care what other people feed their babies though, as long as they feed them! I fed my niece a jar of smushed risotto (given to me to feed her) quite recently and had a taste of it myself, it wasn't disgusting but I wouldn't say it tasted nice either.

I tried to feed my DS 7 months home made food from the beginning of weaning and he absolutely refused to ear it but he would happily eat jars with the occasional mashed sweet potato and carrot. Not your kid so you're not really entitled to judge the mum. Take your judgey pants from your arse before they climb so high they choke you to death.

I think it's fine to have jars of food as a standby as long as jars aren't the only food the baby eats! I found them very handy when feeding DS out and about!

They're probably not as healthy as freshly cooked homemade meals, but then my diet isn't wonderful every single day :)

Hang on.

Baby is on 10+ jars. You can buy 12+ jars so presumably is 11 months ish. Weaned at 6 months means 5 months tops on jars and as you are now shocked means that the baby has only just started being minded by you.

Do you feed the baby 3 meals a day? Were you there every day from weaning for this baby?