AIBU to ask what you feed you baby? Homemade, ready made or a mix of the two.

[Bumpandkind]

Weaning at 6 months and so far have made -obliterated- a few vegetables and fruits but also making use of the wealth of freebies that come with various baby clubs, boots, hipp etc. and what is baby rice? I am feeding Ds some freebies of this which he loves mixed with breast milk but my sister turned her nose up at it saying there is no point giving a 6 month old such things. I am on mat leave with just one child so I guess no excuses for not home cooking

would only that should be.

All 3 of mine have been fed home made food and no jars. Apart from the fact I'm not convinced that thay have much nutritional value, they're stupidly expensive. Far cheaper to cook a few carrot sticks than pay for a jar of pureed mush.

I did BLW too, mainly because I'm too lazy to cook something separately then mash it.

I make pear, apple, mango, sweet potato, potato and carrot.
Cook most of it in the microwave, blend and freeze in big batches!

Don't see the need in buying ready made myself, takes an hour a week to make lots of food

Food. I fed my baby with food.

I still do now that he's 4. Still with food.

It's radical, I realize that, but someone had to be first.

Whatever we eat. We've done blw from 5.5m and I couldn't be assed with faffing around doing separate meals anyway!

Whatever we eat, plunked on tray and a bit mashed up for spoon feeding too if shr is too hungry to feed herself happily. Occasional pouch if out and not sure how long we will be or if there will be a microwave handy. I usually mush up and freeze our leftovers so there is something in the freezer if we are in a rush/having a takeaway and also put the extra veg/pasta/meat in the fridge to be finger food for the next day's lunch.

I always did a roast every Sunday when DD1 was little. I never cook with salt anyway, so wizzed up all the leftovers (just veg to begin with, then adding meat) with a hand blender.

I didn't really do a roast every Sunday with DD2 and DS (different partner, less controlling) but I still made the majority of their food myself. Not really difficult to do. On the one occasion I gave DS a jar, my jar feeding for their own kids friend was really shocked.

DD hated purées of any kind -and used to gag on them (she is tongue tied and found purées very tricky to manipulate round her mouth). So we did BLW with a few toddler snacks and the very occasional toddler ready meal thrown in in emergencies (the 10 month up kind that you don't have to cook/heat, you can serve straight out of the tub).

Her first proper meal that she ate was tuna pasta bake, at 6 months exactly.

Home made all the way jars are pricey and often don't seem to have much in the way of. "Food " in them I have a 1 year Los she eats what we eat

It's your baby do as you wish but it strikes me as odd to buy a child a jar of apples or pear when you can buy one

Homemade for dd1. But about to start dd2 weaning and reckon ready made mohjy end up creeping in at some point....

BLW so mostly just what we eat, which is homemade. She had the occasional sachet which she didn't really eat, but we bought rice cakes and breadsticks, which she rather likes.

What we ate right from 6 months.

We don't eat processed food so I wouldn't serve it to my children. It's very easy to learn simple recipes.

I held them/ would breastfeed whilst eating my dinner, and they would help themselves to things from my plate. Then as they got older they had their own plates. I thought I was lazy at the time, but it turned out I was doing baby led weaning.

BLW with whatever we were eating from the start, cooking from scratch every day.

Mainly pouches, the Ella's kitchen ones. The names are vomit inducingly twee but its all organic, no additives fillers or crap, and it actually tastes like what it says on the pack.
Now she's nearly 11 months and has her own food and anything she can pilfer off my plate aswell. She just recently cut her first teeth so I'm weaning her off the pouches and onto proper food

All homemade food except for the boxes of breakfast cereals/porridge. Once tried to feed DD a pouch when we were out and she turned her nose up and refused to eat any of it.

We did a mixture of everything. Mostly what we ate, at first mushed with a stick blender. He had dried, jars and fruit pots when we were out. He hated yogurt, eggs and bananas but would eat curry and chili. It all worked out.

Not even sure what baby led weaning is (shrugs).

Homemade.

I did baby led weaning and only ever cook from scratch I was too lazy to do that puree crap.

A mixture of pouches and homemade. Porridge occasionally comes from a pouch in the morning if I'm not up to making it from the box (which means making up formula specifically for that etc).

We did BLW so all homemade. DD did have one baby meal the night we got home from Venice as we couldn't face cooking. She was not impressed

I had no confidence with DS1 and he rejected (as I saw it) my early efforts so he was weaned almost without exception on jars (pouches didn't exist then but I believe they are more socially-apporpriate).

DS2 was much less picky and I used to shove him a bit of whatever was around (I believe it is called BLW now