Reheating meals whilst out!!!!

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Hello!

I have a 9 month old Son and have home cooked everything so far. Tomorrow we are taking a four hour car journey to visit family and obviously I need to feed baby en route. I'm done with giving him Luke warm food or cold food on a journey, should I just buy a pouch of pre made baby food and re heat it in a flask? Hate the thought of it but I what do others do?
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What about little sandwiches, snack type things and a yogurt.

If he's had everything home-cooked so far then you might find he turns his nose up at a babyfood pouch (both DD and DS did). Cold food/ snacks will be fine.

I froze home made stew in breastmilk storage bags. Them you can heat them in hit water like a ready made pouch because they're thin and watertight.

Freeze them lying flat so you get a thin block of frozen stew, then they defrost fairly quickly during a morning out. If you freeze them standing up, the resulting lump takes much longer to defrost.

Hope you have a smooth journey :)

Lots of services on the motorway have microwaves now so should be easy enough. That's what I did

Baby pouches will taste horrid after a life time of home cooked grub. My LO won't go near them ;-)

Why would he need warm food? Give him a rice cake, some cheese, cucumber, tomatoes, a banana etc. Much easier surely. Most warm meals are cold by the time they've had a few mouthfuls anyway

I'd be worried about thawing stew and not heating it. Aren't frozen things meant to be made 'piping hot'

Smells - no, not necessarily. It's perfectly ok to eat defrosted casserole that you've made and frozen yourself. Supermarket frozen meals say 'piping hot' so that they're more or less covered if someone gets food poisoning (that isn't part of a wider outbreak). There are about 36,000 cases of food poisoning in the UK every year from people not heating up ready meals properly, so you can see why they want to cover themselves. .

However, if you're a sensible and safe home cook then it's perfectly fine to eat things that are just-defrosted without heating them up.