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Over heard conversation in Asda today re: jars

466 replies

jmum6 · 12/04/2006 16:40

Was in Asda buying follow on milk when 2 women came looking at the baby food.

'Really can't be doing with cooking for him' says one woman.

'No' says the other 'what a waste of time.'

Didn't know whether to laugh or cry. :o

OP posts:
intergalacticwalrus · 12/04/2006 16:45

I regularly see eople in Asda buying 100s of baby food jars. I want to scream at them. They must spend an effing fortune. Why can't people just save a bit of whatever they are having and freeze it. I have never cooked anything separate for DS.

lazycow · 12/04/2006 16:51

Maybe they don't cook much that is appropriate for the baby for themselves. Far better to give the baby jars than sausages and chips or frozen waffles etc.

lucykate · 12/04/2006 16:51

i've seen the same in our asda. people stood in front of the jars piling them into the trolley, saying, breakfast, lunch, dinner, breakfast, lunch, dinner....i've never understood with jars how sunday roast and cheesy pasta can both look the same and taste the same.

lazycow · 12/04/2006 16:55

lol lucykate

That is so true they do all taste the same

DaddyCool · 12/04/2006 16:57

we used jars a little bit. just to fill a gap really but no, i sure wouldn't want to stuff him full of them 24/7

tobysmumkent · 12/04/2006 16:58

I used to feel like this - until I had a son who has sensory problems, can't do lumps etc etc. Won't eat anything I puree at home, no matter how smooth I think it is...and will only eat a few types of the jars (so they can't all taste the same to him!!).

So, if you see someone bulk-buying banana cookie crumble or apple and pear puddings, it's me!!

intergalacticwalrus · 12/04/2006 17:00

I used them too, but only for convenience when we were out etc, but how hard can it be to make a simple meal, like pasta and tomato sauce, which costs about 20p for 4 baby sized portions. I don't get how people can afford to buy so much jarred baby food.

intergalacticwalrus · 12/04/2006 17:01

That's fair enough, tobysmum. Smile

JonesTheSteam · 12/04/2006 17:02

Agree intergalacticwalrus - much easier when out and about but they are so expensive!!!!

flutterbee · 12/04/2006 17:03

Well I have just started weaning and I'm buying the powdered stuff just add water of milk and its ready. I could not give a stuff what anyone thinks about me doing this and certainly wouldn't judge anyone who decided to feed there baby with food pots. We can't all be perfect now can we. Angry

flutterbee · 12/04/2006 17:04

and just for good measure

PARP

MrsBadger · 12/04/2006 17:04

hang on, you were buying follow-on milk and you're dissing people buying jars...

[runs for cover...]
Grin

intergalacticwalrus · 12/04/2006 17:06

Not debating their nutritional value, fluterbee, I am just saying that they are expensive.

Pixiefish · 12/04/2006 17:08

LOL- exactly what I was thinking Mrs B. Each to their own and live and let live I say. Let's support rather than judge- it's easier

LadyTophamHatt · 12/04/2006 17:08

hmmmm, I cooked everything from scratch for ds2. He simply wouldn't eat jars or the dried packets stuff(which ds1 would only eat, we tried home cooked and jars and he's almost vomit at both)

When ds3 came along, I spent ages preparing homecooked meals and he jst wouldn't eat them. I tried putting homecooked food in jars and he wouldn't eat it, mixed homecooked with jars and he would eat it, cooked food with the same ingrediants as the jars but he just wouldn't eat it. At one stage I had about 28 little pots of loving prepared homecooked food in my freezer and no matter what I did, however I tried he simply would not eat it.

He just loved the jars. And cauliflower cheese was his all time favourite...have you ever smelled jar of cauliflower cheese?
No?
The next time your child vomits after drinking milk just take a good long sniff and you'll know what jarred cauliflower cheese smells like.

It truely was a waste of my time cooking for him.

JonesTheSteam · 12/04/2006 17:08

Didn't say there was anything wrong with using them flutterbee, but just think they cost so much!!!

Kelly1978 · 12/04/2006 17:10

lol, I was one of those, loadign the trolley with 100s of jars! With dts, it was piling to the ceiling and they had their own cupboard for it all in the kitchen. Grin

My problem was that the dts liked jars! Thought they were far tastier than Mum's lovingly prepared gloop. Turned their noses up and anything that wasn't out of a glass pot. I was so relived once they started on lumps and would eat what we ate. Once it wasn't pureed they decided my food was acceptable.

iota · 12/04/2006 17:12

I use djars quite a lot ( strictly organic though, none of that 'filler' rubbish)

Have to say that the packet stuff is nasty IMHO, too many menories of vesta curry Smile

Enid · 12/04/2006 17:12

jars are one of the slackest, laziest things available and to feed your baby on them 24/7 is tantamount to child abuse IMO

JonesTheSteam · 12/04/2006 17:14

Enid - can you get off that fence and just say what you think, please!!! Grin

NotAnOtter · 12/04/2006 17:14

badger - is that cos she should be breastfeeding?????

Enid · 12/04/2006 17:15

oh ok Grin

LIZS · 12/04/2006 17:15

iota, I'm with you on the packets. Mine would only eat cereals from packets. Jars are fine for convenience but expensive and have a synthetic taste and texture once you move on from the one or two ingredient level.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 12/04/2006 17:15

Yep, with you all the way there LTH....had that with DS.

Its nice, if you have the time and energy to do homecooked.

And agree Mrs B, its a strange observation to make in the circumstances lol!

NotAnOtter · 12/04/2006 17:21

are some of you ( ie enidSmile) jesting?

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