some thick questions re travelling

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sorry for being a dunce, but how long can i keep defrosted purees in the fridge before chucking them out? same as before they were frozen?

am off for a long weekend in a reasonably posh hotel (where they can do pureed food for me [ok, for babe] but i'd be happier using my own stuff) so am trying to figure out how much home made stuff i can take vs jars.

also - i have been warming food so far, but am increasingly likely to be out and about when i need to feed ds. should i stop warming his food in case he refuses the occasional cold meal?

and another one - high chairs. do babes really have to ba able to sit unsupported before using them. if so, what did you do when out and about? sit them on your knee to feed? or in the pushchair??

how old is your baby?

6 months today

Arrrhh
At six months I used to feed them in whatever I had - car seat/pushchair/knee/supportive high chair (they weren't sitting up unsupported until around 6.5 months but you'll find that some high chaits you can get away with if you're careful - the wooden ones are useless when they're little as they are too skiddy and slippery for them.
Perhaps if the hotel is upmarkwet there will be a mini bar i.e. fridge that you can use? I used to wrap my frozen ice blocks in an insulated food bag and travel and then fridge when I got there. Of course heating it is another thing as so many places won't heat your food anyway. You may have to accept the fact that you'll use jars for a couple of days - wou'd that be so bad if they were premium/organic? At 6 months you can start to add yoghurts and other finger foods too perhaps? I would opt for a normal breakfast where you're staying, a jar or fruit and a yoghurt for lunch and then take advantage of the service that the hotel offers and either let them reheat your meals or have theirs if it's simple? You may well be able to reheat yourself in your room if there is a kettle anyway with one of those fancy heater plates.
Most of all.......have fun . A night or two away in a hotel is not to be sniffed at! Hope that this has helped?

thanks poppy, you're a star.

"fancy heater plates"?

also - "normal breakfast" - do you mean baby cereal?

yes, i should get over my sniffery of jars - i'm sure they'll be invaluable. i'm only 3 weeks into weaning, so it's still a novelty and am loving the pureeing thing. sure it'll wear off soon

Maybe ready brek or weetabix (I''m sure they were OK by 6m)

For lunches things like a mashed banana or a yogurt, and they would do you some mashed veg at teatime, I'm sure?

yes, weetabix I'm sure is OK at 6 months.....guidelines have changed tho' so check (my 'babies' are 6.5 and 2.5 lol!)Mine loved it - DS especially with banana in it. I ditto your 'sniffery' of jars...unfortunately they are a necessary evil sometimes.....but at the 3 week stage of weaning we're not talking about a huge volume anyway I wouldn't have thought. If you'd rather stay away from them I think that you could do it quite easily really this weekend.

They will scramble you an egg, or maybe some mashed carrot - if you ask nicely

Why not ring them and ask what plain food they have on the menu? then you can plan round that

They may let you put your food in their freezer

I would generally keep defrosted food in the fridge for 3 days cause that's what it says on all the frozen food labels. If he refuses the odd cold meal, you can ask most places to heat it up and you can try again. I wouldn't heat it yourself first as warm food kept for a long time breeds bacteria.

If the high chair has a good strap, then it's not a problem. Otherwise I asked them to move a chair so I could wheel the buggy up to the table and I would feed them in that. Ideally though, you would feed them first, then wheel them about a bit until they were asleep, then you would have yours!