Home-made baby food in the news.

[JJsandcat]

women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article6868342.ece#

I do agree with the logic behind it. Good job I never really bothered and went straight for Plum and Ella's kitchen, only cooking stuff myself very sporadically.

What are your thoughts?

PS: This is NOT a slight to all the great Mums out there who cook so well for their LOs, I just couldn't do it and I'm tired of being berated for it.

I feel as if the country has gone mad. We are photographed and spied on, lectured about what we can do in our own homes, but if our teenaged sons get stabbed, robbed, mugged on their way home from school, the police are too busy to look into it.

I don't get the absolutism that exists in childrearing

I have always found a mix usually works best-washables usually, disposables when out or on holds, home made food most times, pre made others (I even do nowas ds4 is a toddler but once a week at this time of year I have to feed him on the road (literally), he is allergic to so much its either chips or mush- I prefer the mush if it has veg in).

It's supposed to be enoyable as well as hard work, child rearing, so straying off the path occasionally is fiiiine.

As would be chips indeed if it wasnt the case that the ones at carnivals tend to be cold and leak grease

Hello again, good to hear all opinions. Agree on the nanny state and 'my choice is better than yours' finger pointing.

I do not get the absolutism that makes mothers damn other mums choices. It's not about what is the best food, it's about what is best for one's child and life.

I'm just sick of people lecturing me on the virtues of home cooked food when quite frankly they should be minding their own bloody business. It's the well meant pat and noses up in the air that I cannot stand.

FWIW, one friend brings me small batches of her home cooked food for her baby and it's always appreciated. And she never wags her finger at me

Agree with riven - if there are high/dangerous/worrying levels of pesticides etc in crops then that is of concern for everyone who eats them, not just babies.

The bulk of that piece was just an advert.

My top weaning tip BTW is ambrosia rice pudding . Same sugar content as breast milk and other contents just cream cows milk etc. It comes in very handy tins that all the family can share and is yummy . Oh and you can get it organic. And it's cheap....

I don't know anyone who spends evenings peeling veg, pureeing and freezing baby food - or preparing baby puree for the next day. This article makes it seem that there are people who do this or there are people who use ready made baby food - its a bit black and white isn't it.

I am weaning DS at the moment which involves cooking a bit of veg/fruit and chucking it in the blender - its not that difficult (as the article suggests). If we go out and about/short on time I will probably buy a jar. I imagine there are lots of people who do similar.

ds never ate a jar of baby food in his life. Neither did my sister's eldest. But her youngest had some jars once and after that wouldn't eat anything else so he ate jars.

I don't suppose any of them will care in twenty years time.

I also don't imagine you could pick the kids out of a line-up that ate jars and those that didn't.

Personally I do think that jars are vile, but I really have far more important things to concern myself with than whether other people feed their kids on them.

like everyone is saying- who spends late night hours cooking meals specially for the baby? surely it's just a question of intercepting half a spud on its way to your plate and mashing it up with a fork? not exactly rocket science, is it?

A more constructive article might have focused on the need to tackle the root of the problem by addressing the complex issue of modern farming, feeding the world and the environmental and health costs.

How about the processing and packaging that goes into a jar (or whatever) vs a home made meal and the impact of the pollution that results? I can't say whether one is worse for our children than the other, but it sounds like the author of the article can't either.

The title is rather misleading anyway as it does mention that the best option is to make home cooked food using organic vegetables - as someone else said, hardly news!

Baby food in jars makes me want to throw up, so dd never had any.

My mum admitted to me once that she had given her a jar of food as though I would be cross. I just laughed and said as long as I didn't have to see it I didn't care in the slightest.

Maybe if you get odd looks when feeding a child from a jar it's just some weirdo like me with issues about gloopy food.

Hearing about blw was like being delivered from penal servitude for me. No purée? I'm in