To give my babies ready made baby food sometimes?

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I'm surrounded by friends and family giving me cats bum faces over giving my 7 month old twins pouches and jars of baby food. I'm avoiding ones with sugar. Im making my own purées too, but sometimes life is just too busy. I'm not unreasonable am I? One baby has a dairy allergy, the other refuses pretty much everything and particularly homemade puree, I have a three year old as well, and a husband who works away during the week.

You'd think I was giving them gin by the looks on some peoples faces......

Pouches and jars will give them an extra eye and reptile skin. Those things are worse than nuclear waste.

With 3 under 3 you do what it takes to stay sane.

I have twins and a 3 year old too, jars all the way here and some of our dinner if it's baby friendly. I did one round of batch cooking, took hours, used every pot in the house and then they wouldn't eat it! Haven't bothered since!

My 2 boys were both weaned solely on pouches and jars. I've no time for guilt about it! Now 4 1/2 and 2, they appear to have survived.

I wouldn't hesitate to use them with any subsequent kids too, they were a time saver and probably far healthier than anything I could have prepared for them!

Tell your mum to do one.

Tell your mum to rock on and make the food for them she can do it in batches for or she can shush and let you get on with it there is nothing wrong with ready made baby food

Just do what works for you and your family.

Whatever keeps you sane. Ignore everyone else.

Ive never got the fascination from other people about how a baby is fed, I mean does it make them feel good or something, because their little darlings are on finger food?

I breastfeed, I'm lucky because it worked our for me with minimal hassle and I have the time to put in to feeding her, I don't have to go back to work soon either, but if circumstances were different I would have no problem using formula, she needs to be fed at the end of the day.

Sometimes, life happens and everyone has different circumstances, that's what the jars are there for, and they are not 'crap' they are nutritionally balanced, organic with no added salt or sugar.

Mums shouldn't be so judgy about other mums imo.

Yanbu op

I made all my own food for DS1. When DS2 came along two years later I just gave him pouches because I was so knackered. Both boys are very healthy. DS1 is a very picky eater. DS2 ears a wide range of food and will try anything. One of my biggest regrets is all the time I spent pureeing food because I thought that's what good mothers did. Total waste of time and I was so worn out that was the last thing I needed to spend time on.

You plate must be pretty full.

Embrace tinned food for what it is: a convenience to make your life easier.

Ignore the comments

If your mum is that concerned get her or make food portions for yo! Any ways any baby food is pretty well regulated as to the ingredients and Ellas Kitchen is probably the best of the lot. Don't worry. Your doing what you can and that's all that matters.

YANBU. Especially for the dairy allergy. My son had massive food allergies and went through phases of only eating jarred purée and nothing I made him. Dietician said go with it

Ignore and do what works for your family.

Why are you giving purées to a 7 month old? They should be on finger food by then.

There is no should wean it cones to weaning babies, they are indvduals. I have two children who where weaned differently, one had finger foods at 6 months, the other 10 months, the one who had it at 6 months is the picky eater now.

I did, my friend does.

It doesn't matter what's being fed so long as there being fed. Give yourself a break and do what's best for you and your family

Erm, mine are 5, nearly 3 and just 2 and they still all enjoy Ella's Kitchen sometimes so yanbu.

I think if you look at the ingredients you'll see there's nothing in there any worse or different than if you were to make it at home, just the absence of all the sweat and tears from hours making it only to have it rejected!

The pre made stuff isn't bad just because you didn't make it and jar it yourself. It's not like adult processed food with loads of salt and additives. It's just good food that someone else has assembled for you.

Just add in a few mashed banana/avocado etc for breakfast or whatever to give yourself the feeling that not everything comes out of a jar or pouch and you'll be fine!

My ds grew up on ready made baby food. He wasnt breast fed either (another thread). I have been made to feel like the ultimate failure on both accounts.

My ds is fine, a great eater and we are incredibly close (only pointing this out as my failure to bf him should have meant we gad issues bonding).

My father once told me that parenting is a marathon and not a sprint and as such no one stage of the marathon is worth running yourself to the ground over (ie bf, potty training or organic home cooked meals). Those words have stayed with me

You can make good cocktails with EK pouches

My 9 month old eats what I eat, but mashed up. I get put off pouches because of the amount of sugar in them.

My DS(2) pretty much lived on pouches/jars for half a year. I have no idea at all how mums have the time,energy, organisation/patience to puree, just never had a moment to plan it and carry it out?! Has definitely done him no harm though.

also the guidelines for ingredients/procedures in jars and pouches are INSANE, they have such stringent control procedures. If there is sugar its from fruit, so would be no more or less sugar than fruit you'd serve anyway fire.

my2bundles you only start to introduce small amounts of finger foods at this stage while still mainly relying on purees- please dont question the OP like this. The (very casual) guidelines are "weaning finger foods Somewhere between 7 and 9 months".

My 9 month old eats what I eat, but mashed up. I get put off pouches because of the amount of sugar in them

There is no sugar in any of the pouches I buy, or almost any of them on the market. Why do people make up reasons to reject things for no reason?