To give my babies ready made baby food sometimes?

[Fondantfancy66]

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......

Hands up to having 3 under 3 and not using pouches/jars. I think it's fine to use them but with 3 you do start to get into the arena where you can bulk cook and enough of it gets eaten to not be a total waste. Also even the savoury Ella's kitchen ones have tons of fruit in them - which was another reason I didn't like them. It may not be sugar from sugar cane but the affect on the body is pretty much the same and the same as eating eg raw chopped fruit.

My twins were slow to get going with weaning (partic DTD) but do keep trying with finger food. Once they take off it makes your life soooooo much easier. Loaded spoons also a good half way house. Even with purée no reason why you can't load it up, put it in the tray and let hem have a crack.

Also even the savoury Ella's kitchen ones have tons of fruit in them

they really don't. Not one of the savory 6month plus pouches have fruit in them. Again, inventing reasons to criticise. Not cool.

If you lined up 100 people from 0-100, would you be able to tell who was fed from a jar and who was fed hand made organic unicorn steak fried in children's tears and served with a glass of rainbow juice? Of course not. Don't let them get to you!

7 month old DD is having a mix - home made purées, mashed banana and avocado, and packets as an emergency when we are out and about. But she is an only child and my DP is a SAHD. If circumstances were different, we would have to adapt.

Dd is almost one. Since 6 months we have combined what she has. Breakfast is toast/porridge and fruit. Lunch is usually whatever I have, sandwich/pasta/salad etc, her evening meal is always half a pouch and some finger food.

Dh doesn't finish work until just before bedtime so it's not possible for her to have what we have.

I adore Ella's kitchen pouches and the cow and gate steam pots. DD is a pasta fiend so the variation is limited but why on earth would I waste my precious hours outside work making food she will undoubted hate (tried it a few times, not worth the hassle!).

As long as your child is fed a healthy balanced diet it really doesn't matter how you do it.

Well Smarter since you pulled me up In Particular, I went away to have another look. And the 4m plus stuff is definitely fruit heavy (brocolli,pea and pear and squash apple and prunes for eg) but the 7m stuff less so. So looks like a scoreless draw between us.

My dd is 3. I always have a couple of jars or pouches in the car for an emergency meal.

Usually we take a picnic for us all. Or buy something out if there is nothing at home.

But as she can't eat wheat, it's not always possible to buy her a butty if we are by the sea or in a little village.

She has survived this far!

They are eating balanced meals. They are eating.

Oh. Ds was on puree until about 3 1/2. He just wouldn't or couldn't chew anything.

Even the smallest lumps made him sick. (He also had reflux. Not sure if connected )

He loved to try and eat normal food. Would suck garlic bread for ages.

He couldn't do any "treats" biscuits, bananas, toast, crisps, chips... Yes, we did try a few times to check he wasn't just being lazy. On advice of gp.

I've just ordered Ellas apple pouches to make cheesecake with

Well no, you said the savoury stuff has tons of fruit in them. The ones with fruit in them aren't savoury, are they? And they say exactly what us in them.The actual savoury ones don't have any fruit in them.

Well, my MIL used to tell me I shouldn't home make anything, and should feed DD purely on Cow & Gate! "Baby food for babies", she used to say. There's just no pleasing everyone. (For the record, I did a mix of both)

DD is 10 and likes an Ella's fruit pouch as a snack! They are just puree like the smoothies you can buy in pouches, not rank tasting like some of the jars used to be when she was a baby.
And there's nothing wrong with feeding jars/pouches to a baby. DH was raised entirely on dried Heinz food as a baby, apparently you just added water. That does make me a bit . My mum made all my food, as she was really skint and apparently baby food was expensive.

I did about 70% pouches 30% homemade. Absolutely nothing wrong with anyway of feeding your child, as long as you're trying (note trying, not necessarily succeeding!) to get a range of healthy foods in them.

If it were me, I'd just stick the contents of an Ella's pouch in a tuppaware pot and claim it was homemade when around judgemental people! I may have done this at mother and baby groups where there was much clutching at pearls at the sight of a pouch!

Do what works for you! DS 10 months (8 months corrected) is on a mixture, he absolutely loves the Hipp pasta ones! I give a mixture of homemade and pouches/jars and it works.

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

HA HA HA HA HA

My daughter had jars baby food. I did feel guilty at times but as a now 4 year old I never been asked and properly never will be what I fed my daughter when she was a baby. It's just silly mother guilt tripping

I started with lovingly steaming and pureeing organic vegetables for PFB. Refused them all. Refused to even entertain a thought of finger foods. So he was pretty much brought up on purees, he's fine. Whatever works.

DC2 is a hoover and eats everything, so I don't think it was my cooking.

I used EK pouches and the only thing that I would say is that the first stage veg ones are too sweet tasting. Dd is 4 now but back when I used them it was definitely true that a packet would be called "carrots, carrots, carrots", be orange with a picture of a carrot on it, and still be mostly apple or pear. I don't understand why they couldn't be more up front about it. I just made sure that the limited amount of homemade stuff I did do was all savoury to give a better mix.

Next baby is getting pouches. Batch cooked annabel karmel for dd. Now turns her nose up at anything ready made. Am in agony waiting for back surgery and I have to make bloody lentil pasta sauce and chicken feckin apple balls this afternoon to send to creche with her tomorrow.

And she's underweight so it's not like she's thriving on it..

It looks like "carrots, carrots, carrots" is now just carrots.

But the orange packeted "carrots, apple and parsnip" here is still mostly apple. Ie sweet not savoury as it would appear from the packaging.

Like many things with twins, my attitude is 'no twins? No comment!'. I cut many corners with my twins. Saved my sanity! Di what you have to do

I made everything for DS1 from scratch - savoury meals, fruit, finger food snacks - everything. 90% of it ended up in the bin. DS2 will get a mix - I certainly won't be pureeing apples and pears when there is a perfectly fine premade option!

All of mine had mainly food from the baby aisle a mixture of ready made meals from the baby aisle and things made from scratch.

I can't be doing with people like your friends.