Frozen food & weaning

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OK, tomorrow we start on the puree and ice cube route as ds has another 30 minute scream & tries to swallow his hand following a feed...
but my question is this; Last time round with dd I never got the hang of taking out home-cooked and once-frozen food if we were out for the day (or at least over a meal time). If I took it still frozen it was still too cold at meal time; if I defrosted it in a pan etc it always seemed to me that it would have been hanging around at a warm temperature for hours thereby growing bacteria at a rate of knots; if I put in with an icepack it also seemed to get too cold. Maybe ds will love jars, in which case no problem, but dd would generally not touch them and got appalling constipation on the few occasions she did. Any hot tips?

we got a travel baby food warmer for longer journeys otherwise just gave yoghurt anf ruit pots and biscuits/rice cakes and saved homecooked for at home... we did put frozen fod in a flask to get in to in laws without it goign off, that worked ok and was easy to use with the travel warmer, plus most shops or places will warm it for you now...
HTH!
My dd hates savoury jars, while that secretly pleases me, it cna be a little inconvenient on the 5 or so days a year I would find it useful!!

have you tried the organic pot that just contain fruit and nothing else?
Hipp blueberry/apple/rice was a success with both of mine. Peaches also liked by both.

neither of them would touch the majority of savoury pots (although loved savoury home-cooked meals!!)

How about dried baby food? There are quite a few organic ones about and they are very easy to prepare - just need some boiled and cooled water. They're very handy to keep around for when you're in a hurry too and cheaper than jars.

I have exactly this issue - neither of my girls will touch jars, even the organic just pure veg ones - somehow they just know. If I am going somewhere that it is unpractical to heat up stuff, I take fresh stuff that I can quickly whip up at meal time such as a ripe banana and some fromage frais in a cool bag, one of those mini avocados you can now buy in packs from Tescos, a really ripe pear (when a bit older) etc. etc. Most of these type of things only take seconds to mash up in a bowl and IMO is better than having to resort to jars that mine spit out anyway. (When starting weaning I used to take out the baby Danone from "4 months" pots and baby rice with milk, moved onto the banana etc. a few weeks later on)

How about taking the food out last thing at night and letting it defrost slowly in the fridge? You can take an ice pack in your bag but also take a thermos of hot water, and buy those little jars with lids from Boots which fit into a thermos lid to get them warmed up.

I did that a few times but then I used jars - which she grew out of a couple of months later, but they were useful for convenience.

these are all great ideas, thankyou, obviously my brain has been completely addled by motherhood.

Agree with the others. Couldn't be bothered with the warming whilst we were out and ds was happy to eat 2 (!!) jars of organix fruit puree. Still does at 11mo! Just made sure his evening meal was super healthy.