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?)

" the Alpha parent hmm

the site that thinks adoptive parents are lacking if they don't breast feed...."

You're kidding us, right?

I always imagine The Alpha Parent to be written by three large hairy men all having a good chuckle at being taken seriously.

The alpha parent isn't exactly well known for its well balanced and thoughtful assessment of the situation.

Most parents view they children's health as paramount.

It's a good thing jars don't make children unhealthy, isn't it?

Boo.

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It's a good thing jars don't make children unhealthy, isn't it?
well, apart from the fact they're often full of sugar, fillers, salt and have been linked with poor nutrition and directly implicated in the current obesity crisis.....

I'd be worried about a child solely fed on mashed banana

I'd be worried about children left in the care of nasty bullies all day....

Dont do yourself out a job

If baby jars are full of sugar and salt I recommend you go to the press as that is a scandal

Well I get around that moogs by reading the labels before I buy anything. I would be mightily surprised if any commercial baby food at the age range your referring to contains salt I have to say, I've never seen it.

What was the exact jar that kicked off this little shit storm? Shall we take a look what's in it.

I seriously doubt they're full of sugar and salt. A quick look around the manufacturers' websites suggests that your statement is a lie misinformed.

god you really like a good old goad op

The jar my DS just had contains:

applejuice 38%
apple puree 25%
raspberry puree 8%
strawberry puree 8%
water 7%
blueberry puree 6%
cornflour 4%
raspberry juice 2%
vitamin C

It's a good thing jars don't make children unhealthy, isn't it?
well, apart from the fact they're often full of sugar, fillers, salt and have been linked with poor nutrition and directly implicated in the current obesity crisis

Thats interesting. I can see how babies who are spoon fed mashed food are more likely to put on weight compared to children who blw. But thats any mashed / pureed food, home made or jars.

Have you got research links to back up your direct correlation between obesity and baby jars?

Surely, the posters saying to those suffering with PND or any other debilitating MH issue, are way over simplifying to say ''it's easy to mash a banana'' or (up-thread) ''it's easy to boil a carrot''.

Yes it's easy to do those things - but we are not talking about a couple of days feeling shitty (with a cold perhaps) and always with a very young baby.

A person who is struggling might well reach for a selection of commercial foods for their baby thinking that might just be better than a couple of peas and a banana every day. And i can understand that.

www.nhs.uk/news/2013/09September/Pages/baby-weaning-solid-foods-less-nutrititious-than-home-cooked-baby-food.aspx

not that anyone read the links I posted a few pages back

Or it could be that the bananas have gone brown and nasty and I haven't been well enough to leave the house to buy more for 6 weeks.

Tisk, you may as well be giving him a plate of chips and a tin of redbull Westie.

Actually, they're probably fine if you blend them up yourself. I think it's the actual glass jars that cause obesity.

That link doesnt say jars are full of salt, sugar. Are they as full of shit as you are!

Ok.

Less nutrititious does not equal unhealthy.

group.bmj.com/group/media/latest-news/commercial-baby-foods-don2019t-meet-infants2019-weaning-needs
someone wanted a link to show baby foods are not very healthy.
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The link to obesity is that as the nutritional content is roughly half that of "proper" food, babies eat twice as much of it. It's quite simple really.

Why are babies who are spoon fed more likely to put on weight than babies who have finger foods? sorry I refuse to call it BLW