QUICK SURVEY, home made or jars?

[lucykate]

don't want to start a big debate but am just interested to know how other mums go about this.

am about to start weaning ds, he's 24 weeks tomorrow. have obligingly waited until now following the new guidelines (dd was weaned at 16 weeks, as she was born when guidelines said 4 months, not 6 - funny how the guidelines change at about the same time as they increase maternity leave ever so slightly , but thats another debate!)

I only ever used jars if they were free... if we were in a restaurant, although I did use those "just fruit/veg" ones on occasion if we were travelling or I was feeling lazy.
when I left work to go on ML we had a party where we did a taste test of the jars. they tasted filthy to me.
oculd never see the point of the packets.
I just used to puree up fruit and vegetables. then asap just gave her what we were having and lots and lots of finger food.

oh and I was WAY to tight to pay the money for jars most of the time...

Homemade

Homemade with the odd jar

homemade

Homemade with not jars for either of them at all. Stuck in a traffic jam - give them a banana.... Did actually try DD with pure fruit puree when we were on holiday in France when she was 13 months and I was concerned about her fruit intake. She turned her nose up - far too busy ensuring she got her share of the delicious fruit tarts that we were having for dessert.

my dd3 is 23 weeks and has packets . i am reading this and have decided to go tmw and get a load of fruit and veg ( bit of everything) and try to make a few different recipes . she only has 2 meals a day and doesnt as yet depend on food to fill her up but i am feeling extremely lazy now

i do homemade partly because dd won't eat anything out of a jar. Even an organic one. She'll eat her own weight in bananas though and they are just as convenient.

homemade
but emergency jars in cupboard

BTW, i didnt' do any pureeing this time round starting at 6months. Just a bit of mashing with a fork.
I did use some baby rice pudding when starting out, which dd loved, but swiftly graduated onto other stuff. Like apple crumble!

homemade. he has the odd jar if we go out and get sidetracked and he needs feeding though!

Same as starlover. Homemade. only jars when we are out and I'm not prepared (I always carry one just in case).

with DD she had jars all the time and wouldn't eat normal food in the end. it was a nightmare. a good mix of the two is what i will do with the next one.

hi me again since reading this thread i went out today and spent about £3o on fruit and veg from local market also brought alot of icecube trays and pot to freeze it all in .
had a whale of a time cooking knackered now because i spent all day in the kitchen and time flew by . just sat down lol. cant wait to feed her her next meal and am getting worried that i am too keen and will over feed her for that fact that i want her to try everything . thanks for shoving me the right direction mums lol

Mainly home-made, unless we were having an evening meal that dd1 really couldn't have a mushy version of, in which case I'd get a jar of something.

Home made mains courses always. Nightmare on holiday though, as had to resort to mashing/mini blender as they wouldn't touch the jars. I have to say that when I tried the jars, I tended to agree they were disgusting. Why do they all smell the same?
BUT always got the organic fruit purees in jars as they are lovely. Would finish up the peaches/apple myself. The banana was no go though. The good thing about buying those jars was I used to wash and refill them with my veg/meat purees and shove them in the freezer.

home-made

the jars smell awful

if you need something for convenience, "all good stuff" frozen organic vegetable purees are much nicer and totally additive free. cost a small fortune though.

Ok
I've never bought a jar - except for some fruit ones once when away at MIL's.
Home cooked lots then froze easy peasy
But I really enjoy cooking and had the time

fruit + toast for breakfast, jar, yoghurt for lunch, homemade baby nosh for dinner.
He has refused to eat his homemade dinner for the last 3 nights !
Hasn't refused a jar yet !!!!!

Wouldn't mind but the jar's are revolting, the homemade stuff is very tasty (to me anyway)

Homemade except for the odd "Chill baby" meals, which are organic chilled meals made here in Ireland, so not available in UK though you must have some similar stuff.
I use Annabel Karmel's book, am now thoroughly "Karmelised"
Just got a Beaba babycook, too, steams the food and then purees it, the puree comes out REALLY smooth, much better than any other blender I have used.
With ds1 I used mainly jars and really regretted it, it was very hard to get him to eat real food after that
Ds2 ate all homemade and to this day (he's 7) is a much better eater.

i never used jars, everything was home made. it pees me off because dd is a really fussy eater now, has been for a long time. she wont eat home made stuff anymore, she wont really even eat junk either. im not entirely sure how she survives tbh.

i used to cook a load and freeze it in little pots, worked out well for us at the time.

the only other thing she did like was some kind of powder..what was that now...chicken and pumpkin. i just bought that one to take on holiday for emergency meals.

A bit of both for Dd1 and same again now with Ds2. I think that if you puree everything supersmooth they never get used to 'real' food. If you've treid to puree apple and pear and compare it to jar, the texture is very different,
If they have the taste for both, they tend to accept texture more quickly and you can move on to more interesting combos.

Homemade most of the time. Fruit jars are very convenient but prefer to mush the veg myself. Graduating onto lentils today with ds - no complaints so far with the homemade stuff although dh sometimes sympathises with ds when it's avocado or cauliflower!

Both. Mainly homecook the savory and give jars of fruit purees. I'm sick of buying fruit and finding it unripe or hard. Veg is much easier to find good ones.

Buy the odd jar of savory incase I run out and for travelling. I find the jars of savory are not as nice as my homecooking but find the fruit jars are nicer.

I also buy a lot of advocados which are getting harder and harder as winter marches on.

Jars if I'm busy or out and about.
Homemade if I've had time to make anything!