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Over heard conversation in Asda today re: jars

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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

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elastamum · 12/04/2006 21:43

When My DS1 was small we were without a kitchen for 3 months so it was jars of organic baby food for him and ready meals for us. He looks OK to me and DS2 who I was carrying at the time was absolutely enourmous when he was born. i blame the take away curries Grin

CountessDracula · 12/04/2006 21:43

did i say they were?

mogwai · 12/04/2006 21:44

this is an hilarious thread.

I have a cleaner and one boden jacket. I have never fed my baby jar food but I don't give a flying fuck what anyone else does.

And I have a regional accent.

I'm confused and not sure whether I ought to like myself or not. could someone please help me out?

PinkTulips · 12/04/2006 21:44

it's easier to defend before i'm attacked Countess!

excuse the spelling in my last post btw, just re-read it and i look illiterate!

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jmum6 · 12/04/2006 21:45

Had to let him send a post or he'd felt left out!

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hulababy · 12/04/2006 21:45

CD - \link{http://www.asda.com/asda_shop/sys/web_sys02_a_main_frameset.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0838016957.1144874600@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdladdhfdghhhkcfkfcfkjdgoodgmh.0&from=login\Boxes of baby food here}. Just add water.

For example:

"A satisfying turkey dinner with the goodness of carrots, potatoes, peas and a hint of sage. With added calcium and iron. Vegetables with rice & turkey. Savoury with added essential vitamins and minerals. Just add water. "

Nightynight · 12/04/2006 21:47

A health visitor once told me that most baby food has preservatives in, even though they don't appear on the labels. Not sure how this works, but I am guessing that preservatives can be hidden in other ingredients, and dont have to be listed individually.

PinkTulips · 12/04/2006 21:47

they're hideous, was going away with dd once and they had boxes of organic fruity cereal on offer so i brought one with us, she spat it at me in disgust and i don't blame her the smell was awful!

PinkTulips · 12/04/2006 21:48

nighty nightShock- now i feel hideous again Sad i thought i was being so f-ing responsible by checking!

welshboris · 12/04/2006 21:49

"I have a cleaner and one boden jacket"

LMAO mogwai

mogwai · 12/04/2006 21:49

How can you be sure there's no cat shit in jars? That's why I've always grown my own organic chicken and knitted my own weaning spoons

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jmum6 · 12/04/2006 21:49

Dp is absolutely for homecooked food - as long as I do the homecooking.

When left with ds he ALWAYS gives him a jar as he's not sure how to heat up frozen homecooked cubes Shock

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PinkTulips · 12/04/2006 21:50

jmum6, he sounds like my dp!

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jmum6 · 12/04/2006 21:51

Yeah, bloody useless! (he's gone out of the room!):o

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Issyfit · 12/04/2006 21:52

OMG Really Bad Mother alert. I simply can't remember what we fed the DDs at that stage. They are now only 3 and 5. Do you think this is early onset dementia?

Jars aren't a totally alien concept for me so I guess we must have given them some, but I'm confident that our recycling continued to consist almost entirely of wine bottles, so it can't have been that many. Probably less with DD2, as I do have a very clear memory of her first night with me, in a hotel in Phnom Penh, barfing up a jar of peach pudding.

Eulalia · 12/04/2006 22:03

Am on 3rd baby and at that boring pureeing stage. Never bought a jar though and as I've had each child its progressively become a matter of principle to not buy one. It is a faff but pretty easy to cook your own stuff. Today my ds had a piece of salmon cooked in water, apple juice, some green beans and apricot (canned I will admit Wink) and some polenta. sounds weird but tasted OK - I use a lot of fruit to sweeten savoury dishes. Anyway sorry didn't want to turn this into a recipe... just to say it took only a few mins to chuck all this into a pan... maybe a few more to whizz it up - only downside is washing the dishes after... I think it is satisfying seeing them eat your own food and as someone said earlier they will only eat your food if that is all you give them.

mogwai · 12/04/2006 22:11

(but as a non-jar mother, I think it's soul destroying when they go through phases of being fussy and not wanting to eat your home cooked stuff at all - I do wonder then why I bother, but I'm too scared of being accused of child abuse, so I soldier on)

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jmum6 · 12/04/2006 22:21

I know, and it's normally something which has taken hours and hours to cook as well. AND you have about 20 meals worth of it freezing.

I think the little buggers can tell.

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PinkTulips · 12/04/2006 22:27

when my dd did that to me i was just stubborn right back and served it for the next week until i'd run through all the frozen supplies. she'd usually sulkingly eat some by day 3!

hulababy · 12/04/2006 22:28

Now where did I see or read something that said you should try each new food or recipe 10 times before giving up (not one after another!). If after 10 attempts the baby/child refuses it, chances are it is a genuine dislike for that food.

PrincessPeaHead · 12/04/2006 22:32

you see you never get threads like this on a thursday night - oh no - everyone is too busy watching ER.

Wednesdays, however, are crap for telly and so you get this sort of thing going on....

Nemo1977 · 12/04/2006 22:32

I used jars and jars alone for DS. Yes it was expensive but I was naive and probably a bit lazy. However I dont think it was child abuse in any form and if anything at that time his weight gain and development was exceptional. With DD I intend to home cook mainly because we just dont have the money to buy jars but also because I do a lot more cooking rather than putting in the oven iykwim. I am more aware now and also realise that in some ways ds missed out but I would never judge someone else on their choices.

Angeliz · 12/04/2006 22:34

lol PPH.
Very trueGrin

(I wouldn't miss Kovac even for a barny on here)

mogwai · 12/04/2006 22:38

It did teach me a lesson though...check that they actually like everything you have put in it before making a huge batch of stuff and using loads of your available tupperware to freeze it.

Made my daughter eight dishes of pasta with home made pesto sauce and organic steamed salmon.

You guessed it...

Gutted

chapsmum · 12/04/2006 22:44

bloody hell what gone on here....child abuse...killing children with salt.

I'll tell you what sad. It's sad when you sit on a pedistool and judge people who sometimes dont know any better.

I live in an area where there has been a great drive to educate parents in how to combine cooking for themselves and their children. Accross the water from me not 1 mile from my door standards are very much different.
We live in an era overshadowed by our parents who were told that bottles were the natural choice for their babies and that bisto would build a healthy diet. ( there is nothing wrong with bottle feeding but to be told by the Health professinal that this is the BEST choice for your baby with no alternative is wrong!)
A friend of mine had been mixing oxo cubes with mashed potatoes for her 6 month old baby cause her mum tole her it was ok. She was horrified when I told her otherwise. Whose fault is that, hers.. her health visitor, her mother. Is that child abuse?

EDUCATION plays a huge part in this, and with all the best intentions in the world some children are just fussy, so what???
Is it worse to feed your children jars? Which by the way are not poisenous!!
Or is it worse to realise that someone is struggling with basic nutiritonal concepts and ignore it????