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?)

When I was a teenager I used to eat the pudding flavoured baby food all the time as snacks. I'm looking forward to trying some new ones when my sprog is born!

I dont give a shit

I FULLY judge people I see in supermarkets with a trolley full of jarred baby food

Its fucking rank, and I cant see any nutritional benefit in them

of course I fed them the odd jar and pouch , but I dont get how pureeing a few apples is that hard?

but hey, its just an opinion!

I fed dd jars of food when she was being weaned due to having no idea what I was doing. She loved them and is now 3 and will eat anything you put in front of her, not in the least bit fussy like me!!!

Still we can't all be perfect can we?!

I agree with OP, they are rank.

It's so easy, much healthier and more natural to give your baby what you would eat. Occasional baby food fine. But I personally only liked the Ella's Kitchen pouches.

Just like breast feeding is better surely home cooked nutritionally balanced meals are too?

And before anybody jumps on me I did not breast feed my two, because I couldn't.

I FULLY judge people I see in supermarkets with a trolley full of jarred baby food

What a sad little life you must lead. I never even notice what's in other people's trolleys, let alone form an opinion on it.

It's food. It's isn't poison.

Some of the comments on this thread are truly shocking, no wonder so many people lack confidence in their parenting abilities and decisions when so many people (like a lot of those on this thread) are so eager to judge them and scorn them for the smallest of decisions.

I am about to feed my poor poor bugger a Heinz meal - weep for him people.

Ingredients

Vegetables & fruit
Apple
Parsnip
Carrot
Water
Pork
Cornflour
Iron sulphate

It smells fine. I've been out all day and this suits us fine.

So what's your problem with Heinz specifically?

Paris - that made me laugh.

You really are wasting your energy judging people on a snapshot of what they buy that day.

My mum bought baby food for the dog (on the advice of a vet) after the dog had a big operation.

I love the idea of people judging her basket of her baby food.

That poor dog, she could have lovingly hand puréed something made of love and stuff instead.

That poor poor poor poor hound.

I bet he will only eat donner kebabs now.

Oh it's ruined him, completely ruined him. He won't touch salad and turns his nose up at anything the doesn't come out of a tin. He can't even use a knife and fork properly.

Damned baby food has a lot to answer for.

meh

everyone judges, anyone who says they dont judge others is a liar, or in massive denial

Happily I work FT and visit supermarkets very rarely, so happy days for the jar shoppers (and her trolley was fucking FILLED to the brim)

I buy them in bulk as I do that with everything. Dosent mean that DS gets one each meal.

Save your energy!

The chocolate pudding doesn't taste the same anymore, I was rather disappointed when I gave DD2 some!
I can't honestly believe that people will actually judge others on what is in their trolleys in general, let alone if it has jars of baby food in it, strikes me as being a bit pathetic in all honesty, maybe those that do should look to see what's missing in their own lives before sneering at others...
I mixed fed, some jars, some homemade, whatever was around at mealtimes really. All 3 eat whatever you put in front of them and I still mix between ready made stuff and home made from scratch, and I can honestly say that I genuinely do not give a flying fuck what some nosy bint in the supermarket thinks of that.

Oh won't someone think of the children???!

I rarely bought it (only really got thepouches for convenience and just in case emergencies) but when I did I got a lot in the trolly!

its expensive and when the best offers were on it obviously makes sense to get the 10 for £5 or 20 for £8 than buying them as and when.

so judge my trolly. my wallet doesnt give a shit lol

I didn't give my PFB any jars, I was perfect and oh so smug, I fully admit it, number two's two and three came along and I relaxed a bit. To compare jars with pot noodles etc is pathetic and to those worrying about other people's perfectly happy babies and trolley contents get a fucking life

The jar we had for dinner today was heinz. It was really nice. 4 veg, chicken and rice casserole (or something like that). What's not to like? Smelt fine, tasted lovely, ds and I enjoyed it very much.

fromparis ready prepped baby food is nutritionally exact. There is actually more risk of giving nutritionally bolloxed home made food if, for example, veg are over boiled (as far too many people do). In your position I would take my head out of my arse and open my mind up a bit.

DS wouldn't eat Heinz - fair enough (I can't stand anchovies, so there you go).
But he loved Ellas Kitchen pouches, Organix desserts, Hipps desserts, Organix porridge but hated Ella's oaty bars - which do taste like cardboard. He had some homemade food too (as is, not pureed or mashed) but Ella's pouches were great when going out. His favourites were spaghetti bol and beef stew.
Can't get the little horror to stop eating ALL food now. He loves his mash and gravy, home-made beef stew, spag bol, lasagne, pasta, sweetcorn, broccoli and is a devil for CHOCOLATE - still has Hipps Chocolate Dessert at 21 months.

My son had loads of jar food when he moved to lumpy wouldn't touch homecooked food but would eat a jar...

He is now 6 and not a fussy eater in the slightest..Eats mostly unprocessed food.

I don't know why once you have a child everyone in the world see's that they have a right to comment on the way you bring up your child...

Harold if you've got time to type out those ingredients, you've got time to boil some carrots, broccoli and potato. Lazy.

I love the idea of making baby food with a cold, black heart!

You know the opening scenes of programs like Doctors and holby city where you get some set up like harassed but loving mother is juggling pots and pans in a BBC untidy house while teething child clings to her legs and dog runs with gay abandon through the house? Well, I feel like that every sodding time I try to make something lovingly.

So now she gets shit cooked and flung at her

YANBU, those jars absolutely stink don't they.

I have tried them and they also taste vile. Babies seem to enjoy them though :)

I FULLY judge people I see in supermarkets with a trolley full of jarred baby food

Judge away. Who cares. I wouldn't give a shiny shit about what some random person thinks about what I put in my shopping trolley.

You couldn't bring yourself to try it?

WTF would you? It wasn't YOUR food!