Jars/pouches and 7mo DS

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Hi,

DS was weaned at 4mo due to his reflux which is finally starting to clear up. However, he absolutely refuses to eat home made food. He'll try a couple of spoonfuls then just clamps his little mouth tight shut whilst giving me a judgy, beady eyed stare. He will wolf down jars/pouches etc.

To be honest, it never bothered me. He will eat some finger foods and is quite happy to greed little bits of food from me when I eat (think slightly mashed jacket potatos with tuna, soup etc) but if I prepare any of these things as a meal for him, he won't eat them. Like I say, I wasn't unduly worried until one friend in particular began commenting on it.

Should I go cold turkey on the jars? Or let him eat what he wants? My theory is that I've never seen a 16yo eating jars of baby food so presumably at some point he will naturally grow out of it...

He's only 7 months, there's plenty of time to turn him onto chips and pizza!
I always make more for myself than I will eat as bth of mine will pinch from my plate, can you not just keep his portion with you and feed him like that?
I also don't get the whole 'baby jars are the devils spew' line. Yes, I like to make meals from scratch. No, I don't always manage it. Yes, jars and pouches are damn conveniant when youa reout and about/stressed/fed up. If that's what he wants, as long as you don't feed him just the dessert ones, that's fine! Try mixing them into the mash or adding pasta to them.

You must have seen 16yo who refuses to eat mum's food? Or poor mums who have to cook separate meals for the children? I'd say get tough with him. A 7mo can still just live mostly on milk alone. Even a fussy toddler, you have to set some boundaries on food fussiness and not give in everytime.

By the way, they are supposed to go all fussy sometime in toddlerhood. Even with angel food babies. Mine eats everything home made and haven't hit the white, beige, whatever-color-of-the-week phase yet.

How are you mashing up the home made stuff? The issue with dd1 who was similar was hand blended stuff was a bit too thick for her until she got teeth . Have been using a juicer that pulps up the purée for dd2 with much more success .

And yes they will grow out of jar prefernce - at about 18 mo with dd. I will leave aside the whole world of mad food Choicea you then get into. But just keep offering and ignore the response.

CamperWidow it's not a problem as one offs. But they are darn expensive! I think the 10mo+ are 6 for £5 in my local asda. If you do 2 jars a meal and 1 jar a snack, that's 8 jars a day and 56 jars a week. A grand total of £46.67 just for baby food!

Thanks for the replies.

He does seem perfectly happy to eat the savoury options in the jars, in fact he prefers them to the sweet ones. He will eat porridge for breakfast and his snacks consist of toast/fruit/yoghurt rather than jars. Just when it comes to his savoury 'main meals' he will only eat jarred food.

I did think about adding a small amount of home made food to each jar offering and gradually increasing the amount of homemade food mixed in until he's just eating homemade food however I suspect he may be too clever for me.

Which brand are you using, I find some of the Ella's - spaghetti Bol and roast pork for example smell and taste pretty much just like real food, think that makes the transition easier? less said about fish pie day the better

Oh and I've also done the blending thing - making a batch of sweet pot mask and then adding in a pouch for some flavour variety, worked fine.