Baby desserts

[kbjb]

I've seen a few Heinz baby desserts like chocolate pudding, egg custard and rice and strawberry cheescake. DS is 7mths and at the moment I give him the occasional fruit pot. Has anyone ever given these baby desserts? Can't help but think they are junk but my Mum said my sisters and I all ate them and were fine.

Also, are the cow and gate fruit pots bad for my DS's teeth?

My question would be why give them. If there's a good reason, great. If not, I would save my money.

Never seen the point. Both dds have been and are deliriously happy with a yogurt or a banana during the weaning stage.

Good point Lady

Gwenlock, what yogurts do you give and do you give them as a snack or after a meal?

DD has plain yoghurt with fruit mixed in, fruit purree, or a proper pudding if we are having one (rarely - crumble, ice cream). Maybe rice pud if she is very hungry. Ambrosia or home made. Usually yoghurt though, and she does love to suck an Ella's Kitchen type pouch of fruit by herself.

I have bought the egg custard and chocolate puddings previously and they were utterly vile, none of us could eat them. I threw them away.

BikeRunSki has good suggestions there.

By "none of us could eat them" I mean I bought them for the baby, obviously, but when she didn't eat them I tried them so they wouldn't be wasted, but nooo, not worth eating. Truly horrible. She never much liked baby food or yogurts but preferred (and ate) what we were eating.

I use normal full fat yoghurts (those big pots) or sometimes Ambrosia rice pud. One of those plastic tubs does my 8 month old for 2 servings.

TBH, DD (10 months) doesn't really have commercial baby food. She is BLW and just has whatever we are. Probably eats more than her nearly 4 yo brother though!

My DS also eats whatever we eat but can't really have the desserts we have. When we do occasionally have dessert it will be something like cheesecake or ice cream so I don't give DS any.

I'll get some rice pudding or will make some and yogurts are a good idea. Thanks all

They are a waste of money. For puddings i've always given a full fat yogurt or fromage frais, fruit and some homemade custard (made with full fat milk) or a ellas kitchen biscuit type thing or a fruit pot.
Fruit pots are no worse for their teeth than a piece of fruit.

Petit filious fromage frais is fine after six months.

Bananas and custard

Rice pudding

Fruit-bananas strawberries , soft fruits

Plain biscuit like shortbread ( though I'm aware it's not the healthiest)

kbjb, they can have cheesecake and icecream. Just give him a tiny amount if you are worried. Otherwise, fruit and yoghurt are good healthy choices. Tbh, we don't do desserts as neither me or my husband have them. But when we occasionally have them, DD will always get a little bit. You don't need to worry about giving them a taste of sweet food. They'll automatically go crazy for them. DD hasn't rejected a single dessert offered yet.

Why do you need desserts? Do you have one after every meal? I don't. I'd be like a whale

DD likes frozen Frubes too because she can hold onto them. Nice for teething too.

OneOfMyTurns haha, that's what I tell people when they ask how I lost all my baby fat so fast . I have desserts maybe once or twice a month.

Well I probably have them a bit more than that, but I am 33 weeks pregnant

To be honest I find desserts too expensive. We do need to eat more fruit though. Dd2 loves fruit too.

at this time of year it's the stone fruits that DD2 loves. Peel half a juicy peach/nectarine, stand well back and leave them to it.

We don't really do desserts either (on a regular basis)

Dd is 8mo. She gets a pear or peach or.similar to munch on or.a yoghurt, however she tends to get it alongside her 'savoury' food so she just picks at it all.

Agree with HipHop there are so many juicy yummy fruits at this time of the year. DD loves strawberries, cherries, peach, plum, nectarine, all the melons. The only one I found she doesn't like is raspberries. She's however ok if I stir them into yoghurts. We don't buy baby/children yoghurt either. We all share the yeo full fat yoghurt pots. (The 1L ones). After switching back to full fat, I didn't know what we were missing having the reduced fat yoghurt for all these years. They are soooooo creamy and lovely.

Onken also does lovely full fat pots. They aren't sugar free, but I'm not worried about fruit sugar vs sugar sugar.

I don't have a dessert after every meal but I do have a very sweet tooth!

I bought some Petit Filous today and will give those at times and will stick with fruit pots and mashed banana etc. It sounds like the general consensus is that the baby desserts are just junk.

Thanks all very much for the tips and advice

DC have always had (and loved) greek yogurt, with or without fruit.

Check out the sugar content of the little yogurt / fromage frais pots aimed at children

Petit Filous are not that great either if you're worried about it.

I tend to look at the list of ingredients and if sugar or salt is in the top few ingredients, I put it back unless it's a treat.

Second ingredient is sugar in a Petit Filous.

My 11 month old eats full fat natural yoghurt. Took him a while to get used to the taste but he gobbles it up now and loves it.

However, feel free to ignore, you might not want your baby to eat that! :)

Cross post with lake