Weaning food storage

[rachel200811]

Im weaning my 4 month old early on advice from HV. Early stages yet but I'm making my own purees. My question is regarding storage on the go. How long can I leave a fruit or veg puree out of the fridge? I intend to freeze but wonder if once I pop the cubed frozen puree out of the freezer I can pop it in a pot and let it defrost in my change bag to warm/feed cold (depending what it is) for lunch if I'm out and about. Or, take it out of the fridge and have it in the bag ready? So essentially, I'm after times from refrigerated and times from frozen that the purees are good at room temperature for please?

Sorry I don’t know the answer. You can buy ready made pouches although that will be expensive. At 4 months they won’t be having food 3 times a day so maybe only have it at home.

I’m pretty sure only paediatricians and paediatric dietitian are the only people who are supposed to recommend early weaning.

My question is in preparation for the coming weeks. I understand a suitable weaning plan will be 'tastes' only for quite a few weeks yet. We're quite active and out and about alot in the day.

I'd have thought a couple of hours for just fruit or veg. I'd be more cautious with meat, dairy or fish though with a young baby.

Do you need to give lunch out at this stage? When I started weaning DS he only had 1 or 2 "meals" a day so if I was out over lunch I used to give him his meal at tea time instead to save the hassle!

Ok cool, thank you! No, I'm doing exactly that, he'll have first tastes at tea time (hubby can be involved too then). My question is in preparation for when we're more established as I'm batch cooking!

Ah ok - it might be worth getting an insulated lunch box or bag if you haven't already - you could heat the food at home and then it would stay warm for a few hours.

Also very surprised a health visitor (who could be a nursery nurse) could recommend early weaning. Have you seen a GP OP? Or, even better, a consultant at the hospital?
I’m not sure I’d follow the opinion of a HV with regard to weaning even though I do value the role of a HV and have found them very useful.

I really wouldn't wean early based purely on a HV's recommendation. What's the reason it's been recommended?

If you've been advised to early wean then you do it. Ignore others on here. You shouldn't have to disclose why.
Get yourself an insulated lunch box and a small ice pack for out and about. I also had a small tommee tippee flask to warm stuff slightly.
I've weaned at the following stages
DD1 6 months
DS 4 months (health visitor advice like yourself) they are trained nurses after all.
DD2 6 months

Just test it and see if it’s still cold at lunchtime. I pull my lunch out of the freezer at 6am and it’s still frozen solid at lunchtime!

As long as it isn’t warm for more than say 2 hours, it will be fine. I think you’d struggle for that to happen except in summer.

That said, weaning is a massive pain in the ass. If you really want to start early, just do breakfast and dinner for a couple months and save yourself the hassle. Then you can move on to finger foods, which are much less of a faff. Neither of mine had 3 meals a day before 7 months.

Thank you!! 😘 Good advice! X