5yo Eating baby food

[JenniferL90]

OK, not that dramatic but it means you opened the thread.

Even as a baby DD didn't have actual baby food.

But I do still by the pouches that are just fruit, find them great to keep in the car as a quick snack. Don't worry she still has 5 fresh fruit/veg a day.

Is it weird though?

So it is just pureed fruit? In my mind it’s no different to a smoothie or milkshake. Although could just give her an actual piece of fruit instead

I thought you were going to say you only feed your 5 year old jars of baby food or something

A bit odd but I don't suppose it's doing them any harm. My two are 2.5 and 4 and they just have normal fruit and have for a really long time. I only ever used to use the fruit pouches to make weetabix taste of something!

I buy them to put in prosecco. And gin. For cocktails. I am 37. YANBU.

Really?!

What's weird? That it's marketed to babies?

My teens love a good smoothie, they put them in pouches (reusable) for school.

Really not something to think about.

Oh she eats tons of fruit most days. But I realised unpacking the shopping last night (had thrown in 2 pouches out of habit and tend to keep one in my bag) that maybe I need to stop getting them.

I'd rather one of those sat in my bag for a month than a banana though......

In Prosecco you say.......

It is a bit odd for a 5 year old tbh. Does a 5 year old really need a snack that much that they need a pouch of puréed fruit?

I still get them for my 6 year old to have occasionally. It’s got to be better than a packet of crisps or a bar of chocolate!

My 6 year old has a fruit pots that come in yoghurt pots. I can’t see us stopping buying them for many many years. Nothing odd at all.

I would think a pouch of pureed fruit is better than lots of snacks.. Far worse to worry about.

No, I eat them myself. Not particularly healthy though so I try not to do it too often. But the Piccolo Cherry ones are to die for!

They taste great on cheesecake.

I never gave them to dd as a baby but when she turned about 3 she started asking for them if she saw them! She gets one every few weeks when we shop as a "treat"!
She's nearly 5

Del Monte do purée fruit pouches clearly aimed at the bigger than baby stage. Can’t see how it’s different.

It's not really baby food. It's just fruit, its no different from giving them a smoothie.

A relative of mine used to send their dc to school with a jar of baby food in a thermos tub for lunch

Personally I find it a bit odd...why not just give them an apple?

I don't think that is any different than those frube yoghurts I guess if she likes them and you are not setting the highchair up so she can eat it then crack on

It's fine, I love munch bunch y oghurts and buy them for myself

I don't eat them in an adult sized highchair

Ha

In France you can buy puréed fruit and this is aimed at any age group either in individual yoghurt pots or big glass jars. Nothing wrong with this at all.

My friend does that OP and I do think it odd and indulgent. It's not particularly good for teeth either.

I used to buy them for my daughter too at 5 years old, she is now 7 years old and she eats her 8 month old brothers.
I am of the same opinion it is no different to a smoothie.

My 13 year old still eats the little pots of Petit Filou. Won't contemplate eating the bigger pots.

Children are weird.