Over heard conversation in Asda today re: jars

[jmum6]

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

Hi. I was going to stay away but thought i would post this link to something i wrote for those of you who have never had or dont understand pnd.

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I dont expect replies to it, but i hope you take the time to read it.

Sorry to hijack the thread with it, but i feel this is a good place to link it from.

quite ironic really, here I am reading about jarred food and DS has just arrived pushing my veg trolley from the kitchen. He must be trying to tell me something!

thats quite weird wharfrat

lol @ oo

he wants to jam a sweet potato in all our mouths to finally end this thread!

I read most of this, but missed a lot of the insults Perhaps the jar buyer in Asda felt guilty for buying it, so felt she had to justify it with a nonchalant comment? Just a thought...

Here goes... Not everyone can manage breastfeeding, cotton nappies, pureeing etc as it is a huge commitment - personally I gave up on the nappies to concentrate on the rest. I buy jars occasionally and do feel very embarrassed like I should be saying 'They're not for me...' but I don't think I should feel like that. How dare people make judgements on you from what you buy.

Hee hee, might have just bumped the worlds longest thread

Just to show what goes around, comes around.

We're going on holiday in a few weeks, so today, dp and I went to stock up for baby things to take with us. In my trolly (trying desparately to hide beneath the kitchen roll) was:

Jars of baby food
Ready mixed formula
Steri-bottles

:o

Dont geddit myself. Have 3 kids and all 3 of them had jars - quite a few in fact. I never even thought to hide them or feel the slightest bit guilty forgawdsake. Dont' wanna kick this whole thing off again but it would just never ever occur to me that it was in anyway a bad thing. Being a mother is guilt ridden enough without such pure crap to be honest. Some days I "really can't be doing with cooking" either. So what?

We're going to see pals in Argyll this summer and taking a whole STASH of jars.

BTW now Ive got my sis on to reading this, so I feel I have to point out that I only VERY occasionally buy them (honest...) Infact DD has only ever had 3, and that was cus we were out. Having said that, I have bought loads of Organic fruit purees which are literally just that, cus they had no gunk in them, were on special offer, and had nice little pots I could re-use!
(Dont tell mum...)

Why Why Why!!! Let it R.I.P....

(I'm not helping am I??)

My son has a mixture of jars and our food. Now he is a bit older it is much easier as he can just have what we're having.
i get jars now and again but not often as they are expensive- plus he only likes hipp or cow and gate organic.

it seems to me that whatever mums do is wrong anyway so who cares!

he eats nearly eveything i offer him.

agree with niceglasses 100%

Jimjams, brilliant news about DS1!

MM, I'm afraid you're too late with your money-making idea, it's already happening in the Land of the Deep-Fried-Mars-Bar. The HV's hereabouts have been telling parents to give their babies 'a bit of what you're having'. Thus, some poor mites have now been weaned with pureed MacD's and KFC.

I can't say that I really have strong opinions about jars. I've used them at times for my lot, same as dh and I have just consumed a ready-meal because we're too lazy to cook tonight! If I'm honest, I didn't even cook that often specifically for my babies; I'd just set aside some of what we were having. And I never pureed anything, only ever mashed their food with some liquid. Unlike a friend of mine who, with her first baby, laboriously pureed bananas by pushing them through a tea strainer!

so is the general feeling that

they are good,

bad,

or bloody ugly.

oh FGS - forget the jars, the child abuse, the PND and all the other idiocies on this thread - look at your child and ask yourself-
are they, happy, healthy and loved?? end of story and has got Feck all to do with jars, knitted, grown or anything else!