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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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jmum6 · 12/04/2006 22:49

lol pph. Right off to bed now to watch rest of desparate housewives, only decent thing on all night!

Night all.

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sobernow · 12/04/2006 23:06

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Heathcliffscathy · 12/04/2006 23:07

how did i miss this?????????

food is sacred imhippyo.

instilling due reverence for food in your kids is important.

jars ain't gonna do it.

so sayeth the soph

no one will care

the thread will die

Jimjamskeepingoffvaxthreads · 12/04/2006 23:24

For ds1 I banged up shed loads of organic muck (which he loved until he turned autistic).

for ds2 I did a mix.

Ds3 has had a lot of jars. Why?

a) I have to hand feed a 7 year old, a very limited diet, which means I can't deal with a fussing over getting a baby to eat- I have to feed him things I know he will eat.

b) ds2 has a separate meal

c) ds3 (like ds1) is gluten free, but can't eat the processed shit that ds1 has, so unless ds2 is having something gluten free then I am cooking 3 meals.

We eat seperately (dh doesn't get home until 7).

Whilst cooking 3 meals I am also attempting to stop ds1 weeing on the carpet and stripping off and chucking his clothes into next doors garden.

Tomorrows teatime menu is buckwheat pancakes with cheese as its the one thing all 3 boys will eat. Will probably top ds3 up with something- either from a jar (shock) or maybe some mashed up mush. Buckwheat pancakes are on the menu twice a week, otherwise its 2, usually 3 meals all round, and will be until ds1 is eating a more varied diet.

Child abuse? Really? Some of you live very priviledged lives.

Heathcliffscathy · 12/04/2006 23:28

jimjams :( it's so hard

enid was saying that if you only give jars and the only reason is that you can't be arsed she figured it was abusive.

i think it is ignorant. if you only and exclusively give jars not for any other reason than that you can't be arsed and not realising how much crap is in most of them i do think is ignorant and sad.

chapsmum · 12/04/2006 23:31

Enid, you took this too far:
"Enid on Wednesday, 12 April, 2006 5:51:24 PM

yeah well at least you tried LTH

I bloody hate having to justify myself on here but you know, it kind of goes without saying that if you are ill (pnd) then things ARE different.

but typical mumsnet I guess.

can't wait for the terminal cancer sufferer to come on and tell me about their desperate and fruitless attempts to get their child to eat home cooked food"

yeah we all have opinions but you could do with keeping ones like that to yourself, fund that one spiteful and hurtful.
Glad you have strong opinions, thats what makes you, who you are. But that was unneccesary! Would rather feed my children jars than have them develop such unsympathetic and intellerant attitudes to other people.

Jimjamskeepingoffvaxthreads · 12/04/2006 23:41

Is there really that much crap in there though? I've dug out a Hipp organic cottage pie, and the biggest ingredient is organic vegetables, there's nothing in there that I wouldn't want a baby to eat, and not much salt. Probably less salt than I put in the gluten free bread I make each day. OK its sterilised or whatever they do to jars so some vitamins have gone, but a bit of fresh fruit each day is going to make up for that. Yes I'd rather play big happy families and dish up my home made cottage pie to 3 shiny happy smiley neurotypicals but at the moment life's not like that.

Marthamoo - I think my children are like yours- the least fussy eater has been fed the most jars.

mimi1uk · 13/04/2006 00:05

i spend an hour a week making home cooked food for my son, alongside my own dinner, i puree it all and freeze it and then defrost it as ness, it is dead cheap he eats about 7 diff veg and fruiits a day i know exactly what he is getting, and i am glad of that, on a odd day i will use a jar if i am out and have no way of heating/defrosting his freshly prepaired food.
he eats jars well but i find he is always sick after them and gets wind, this never happens with the home cooked food, i think its important for children to get good nutrition, but also understand why jars are used,,personally i use them as a backup,,, xx

tjacksonpfc · 13/04/2006 09:56

oh well ive read all the post now my dd who is 20 months started out eating the jars as she wouldnt eat homemade puree as soon as she went on more solid lumpy stuff she ate the same as us and we havent found anything that she wont eat. my ds who is 6 months has just started solids and we are doing the same with him it worked with my dd and she is healthy so i dont see hwy we should do things different with ds and yes i am a sahm but i think spending quality time with the kids is more important than faffing about in the kitchen

marthamoo · 13/04/2006 10:03

Ah yes, but jimjams, the real question is - do you have a Boden jacket?

alibubbles · 13/04/2006 10:12

I make all my own weaning foods for my minded babies and then they have proper home cooked food all the time with me.

Their parents often say to me, oh she wouldn't eat her tea last night, I ask what it was and it is invariably a jar that the child has spat out ( in disgust, methinks!)

Parents also say they have never seen their child eat so well, when they have arrived during a meal time.

If I can cook home made food and look after 4 under 3 all day, anyone can do it. It's not rocket science to put a piece of lamb neck into a casserole with sweet potato, carrots, beans etc first thing in the morning and it's ready for all of themto have, 6 months upwards, mashed and as it comes.

Youghurts and fruit are the order of the day for puds, fruit, cheese, etc for snacks. Ofsted are very hot on making sure you give the 5 a day, and it commented on in some colleagues reports 'opportunities to offer fruit and veg as a snack are missed' is what one childminder got, so only got a good, despite outstanding on all other aspects.

I'm with Enid Smile

expatinscotland · 13/04/2006 10:16

'If I can cook home made food and look after 4 under 3 all day, anyone can do it.'

No, ali, some people really can't. Others honestly don't know how.

Either way, it's not child abuse, jars aren't poisonous, it's their choice and if I were going to judge a person, it certainly wouldn't be on that.

Gimme a break, peeps!

oliveoil · 13/04/2006 10:16

I made food for dd1 and she is a rubbish eater now so where is my thanks eh? EH?

Dd2 gets a half arsed effort on homecooking and jars as I know she will be turning her nose up soon too.

I think it would be easier all round if everyone just went to McDees and mashed up their 'potato' fries and nuggets.

marthamoo · 13/04/2006 10:20

Can you buy MaccyDees in a jar? Blimey, there's a gap in the market...

Big Mac and Fries or Chicken Nuggets and Fries mushed up in a jar, suitable from 3 months, with a free weaning spoon...

Could have chocolate doughnut and hot apple pie desserts...all slimeified like Heinz chocolate pud in a jar...

(I think I'm on to a winner. No-one nick my idea, I'm going to email McDonald's)

expatinscotland · 13/04/2006 10:21

Exactly, OO! And hte great thing about Micky Dee's is that many of them are glass-sided so you can keep watch on the little ones whilst outside smoking a fag. Now, if only the ones here would start selling alcohol we'd be all set . . .:o

desperateSCOUSEstrife · 13/04/2006 10:22

marmathoo as long as I can be the guinea pig and taste test itGrin

oliveoil · 13/04/2006 10:23

my kids like to get 'next on' on my fags or I save them the dimp, so we all just eat outside sat on the pavement by the bins

madmarchhare · 13/04/2006 10:23

[wrench] @ the though of a pureed fillet o fish.

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PinkTulips · 13/04/2006 10:25

alibubbles, your 4 go home at the end of the day. parents with babies are on duty all night too. sometimes after a week straight of 2 hours sleep a night you really just can't be bothered faffing around for hours cooking something your LO may or may not eat when theres a jar in the cupboard of lovely tasty organic cottage pie you know they will! and yes i said tasty, Hipp cottage pie always tasted far better than mineBlush

marthamoo · 13/04/2006 10:25

Will do, lockets, I prefer BK fries anyway...why has no-one else thought of this? I'm gonna be rich, rich I tell you. Beyond my wildest dreams

expatinscotland · 13/04/2006 10:27

Yeah, pureeing a cottage pie would suck.

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Northerner · 13/04/2006 10:27

lol AT macydees in a jar. It will happen - just you wait and see.

Lol at Alibubbles thinking if she can do it anyone can. Does she not realise somee people won't event know what the f**k lamb neck is?

oliveoil · 13/04/2006 10:29

Can I just remind Marthmoo that it was my original idea?

Ahem. I'll be having that yacth thank you.