It's not the money - more the perception that whatever you did for the baby was fine, but you need to do something different for the growing child. When really, the growing child is doing just great with a balanced weaning diet.
I don't have a problem with however people feed their children. My problem is with multi nationals creating a need that doesn't exist for an extraneous product to please their stock holders.
Lets just think, products we don't need; nappy wipe warmers anyone? How about sack wrappers? Or, I don't know, Fruit Flakes? Any offers? And before everyone jumps on my back, I'm sure Fruit Flakes are life savers for some, but what happened before someone invented them, scurvy????
I don't understand why you (and your friends....) would find it strange that BF is randomly tied with 'buy this'.
I'm sure this is going on all the more concisely on the other thread, but please Becka, don't be so defensive or mention MaccaD's in my presence again......... It's not food, it's deep fried marketing.{grin}