Holiday help

[summermum]

I am going on holiday to France at the end of August,we have rented a self catering cottage in France for a week and now that it is getting closer I am worried about the cooking for DS2. DS2 will be only just one, and even though at home he eats everything we eat ( I tried to avoid the jarred baby food)what I do is oncea week cook him some meals and freeze them in little containers, or keep some of our food from the night before and freeze that. So he always has at least a weeks worth of food in the freezer. However I am not sure wether it would be best to take 2 - 3 days supply of these jars with us as they can be kept in the fridge for 2-3 days after deforsting and then when we are in France I could cook him some stuff there to freeze. Does anyone know if French restaraunts/cafes are good with babies ie will they do them something imple like scrambled eggs, beans or even soup and bread. If anyone has expereience or knowledge on this please help. I ahve not been on mums net for a whilas I had that horrid SASSER virus and only got the PC sorted about a week ago now. Then DS2 has had tonsillitus so the last week has been hell. Thanks in advance to anyone with advice.

Summermum,

France is very well geared towards small children. We had two wonderful Gite holidays with DS - last one when he was a year old. DS was never fed jars in the UK but they have a great selection of baby food in France - they have these meals which are compartmentalised (HIPP Organic do them in the UK). The food is tasty and easy to get on the table if you are in a rush.

Otherwise feed him what you have (we took our hand held blender with us and blended foods when we had the time).

Restaurants and motorway services are great (very baby friendly) - I would take some anti-bacterial wipes though because on the very odd occasion they weren't as clean as I would have liked (same in the UK though).

HTH, have a lovely holiday
Dejags

thanks dejags, I think I have seen the Hipp meals you mention, are they in the triangle shaped packaging? I had also thought of taking the blender as well and doing him a few days food on arrival so we have some stuff we can take with us when we go out. Funny how most European countries are very baby friendly, maybe it is about time or restaurants and motorway services started to take note.

I couldn't believe how good the motorway services were the last time we went to France. They had bottle warmers and really lovely outdoor and indoor play areas. Everyone also went to lengths to make sure that both my two got fed properly (they were 5 months and 20 months when we went). They have lovely baby food there although I did notice last time we went that they season a lot of it (there was one jar of beans seasoned with salt for 5 month olds!). But we were in a very small town so I'm sure if you find a major supermarket, you'll have loads of choice.

By the way, weirdly the one thing we forgot was a toddler beaker and we couldn't find one anywhere (may just have been where we were staying) as loads of older children seemed to still be drinking out of bottles so don't forget your toddler cup if ds2 has one.

Thanks to dejags and foxinsocks for the help on baby food in France, I have seen the Hipp meals and think I may take some as back ups as they do not need to be kept in the fridge which is handy for travelling