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?)

Glad the OP is not my childminder ...

its not your food as has been pointed out several timed but hey you know that....

Well for what it's worth my mums 84 year old cousin gives her Son who has severe MS and eats herself Waitrose microwave meals because she does not have te energy to cook after looking after her son. I occasionally eat myself microwave meals, it's all good I say

but how do you even know that the parent doesnt provide decent frest food 90% of the time?

you seem to have jumped from being asked to feed one pouch to day in/ day out/ child will
mever eat normally

its a bit sad really, and judgey, and made up

That's bollocks,moustache.

You get flamed for slagging off other people's choices.

Not at all moustachio but thank you for your concern.

No, DD is now a massive fan of basically any food and 99% of what she eats now is fresh and made by me. CM now refers to her as 'the best fed baby in town'.

I am still fairly hyper about DD's diet and I wouldn't want her eating jar food all the time. The difference now is that I feel I have a choice. Annoyingly, DD pretty much turns her nose up now unless I have slaved over it

I think my point was that OP could possibly be of real assistance to her minee's parents if there is an issue.

I agree with you OP.

Here's part of the reason why...

My DDinL cooks yuk from the Annabelle Karmel book and it looks awful but the baby loves it. Wonder how we managed without all these books on every aspect of babycare!

hope your judgy pants dont cut you in half

Personally I won't feed my son food from jars, however when I nannied other peoples children in my early twenties I fed them whatever I was instructed to feed them without judgement.

You are not the parent here, you are being paid to follow the mothers wishes and care for her child. So I think YABU I'm afraid.

if you where my child minder, and I read this, I certainly would no longer be a major part of your business - and neither would my 3 kids

You have a right to an opinion but not to judge your mindees parents on a public internet forum like a gossipy twat

It's not about you providing good food, it's your sneery attitude which is getting people's backs up.

And no you can't be 'sacked' as your are self employed but the parents can give you notice and the result is the same so let's not split hairs.

I'm currently weaning my son. I am exhausted, in constant pain, disabled, have no family or friends around to support me (other than my husband), am suffering terribly from post-natal depression and am not getting the home help from social services which the Court of Appeal have ordered them to provide. I have be using jars of baby food. Ideally I would like to provide lovely home-cooked food for him but despite my best efforts, I can't. This thread makes me want to cry. :(

Op Yanbu to think that baby food is gross and that you should only serve food you would be willing to eat to a child but yabu to be so openly critical of one of your customers. You could have written a similar thread without mentioning them.

I bloody love some of the recipes from the Annabel Karmel book. We eat the fish pie and aubergine bolognese recipes ourselves. Aubergine blitzed up gives the most amazing creamy texture.

i bloomin love heinz baby food! especially the creamed porridge and egg custard, yum!

westie please don't let it get you down.

I can't at all speak for the OP but I am sure that the intention has been misunderstood.

My mantra has become "everyone fed, nobody dead"

Mintyy of course you could have cooked all those dishes for your kids and just added the salt/chilli after serving the baby. There's really no problem with adding herbs and seasoning to babies food.

I don't think jars have to lead to a rubbish restricted diet. I expect that some of the jar feeding parents do go on to feed their kids lots of other quick and easy processed foods (fish fingers, sausages, pizza, hoops, chips, sausage rolls, crisps etc). The kids then have a limited pallet and struggle with proper foods and flavours.

Do Heinz still make the chocolate pudding?

That was bloody lovely.

Mrs cog-so you'd happily have formula and breast milk then?

My two eldest were weaned on jars and they are the healthiest, happiest babies. My eldest girl is three now and has NEVER been sick...not a cold, not even a sniffle, nothing, and people comment on her fantastic skin. My son is a sturdy, strong little thing.

Honestly, people FUSS so much, especially over other people's children.

Oh oh! And the plum sweet beef curry is genuinely, genuinely delicious. Our sainsbury's have done a shelf overhaul so were selling it for 33p a pot. It is really tasty!

And yes, they do still sell the powdered stuff which has to be reconstituted.

mmmm heinz chocolate pudding now there's a blast from the pasta :)

Ds used to love rusks...one spoon for you, one for mummy...

past :)