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

Ah, ignorant and abusive. It gets better.

"b)not letting them develop a taste for proper food" is a load of nonsense too as my children had a large variety of mostly homecooked food but now will eat only a limited range and not try new things.

I find it weird that some babies refuse to eat pureed home cooked food but will eat jars - makes me wonder even more what is in those jars!

oh fgs

dont bother reading if you don't like people's opinions then

this thread was not entitled

'i have pnd is it terrible to feed my child only on jars'

I make all my babyfood by the way - i just dont believe it means i love my babies more than the next man.
Just different priorities

In an ideal world, i would hate it too.

Hey, maybe the fact that i have fed DS on jar food 24/7 at one point must be why im depressed, ffs.

(as if it had been I would have stayed away)

I do equate food with love

not proud of it, its shite really but there you go

Babies who don't eat homecooked food but will eat jars, will eat jars because they're given the contents of jars. If they weren't, they wouldn't eat them, would they? They'd eat real food.

yes exactly

It wasnt titled

"is it child abuse to feed my child jar food either"

get a grip.

LOL! Don't be so hard on people who use jars. I have certainly used a few on my two. I also cooked a lot out of the Annabel Karmel cookbook too!
There was a programme on daytime tv about the problems with pesticides on our foods.
It compared food made of pureed veggies and jars of the same.
The jars actually contained less toxins than the homemade stuff because they have to abide to strict laws concerning babyfood.

Breastfed, homemade meal fed kids like my two may indeed have been exposed to more toxins than bottlefed jar eating kids!!!

annabel karmel crap too IMO

if it had been though VVV i woul dhave said 'yes'

but is she better or worse than jars and is i child abuse to feed your child "sleeping canneloni"?

why dont you write your own book enid

its mother abuse to have to fiddle-arse around with her totally OTT recipes

There was a Which report last month I think on the content of babyfood jars. Companies like Babylicious who produce fresh stuff came out unscathed, but the rest who call their recipes "chicken and.." but only have 3% chicken, got a bit of a rough ride.
Jars are not fresh food and can only sit on the shelves for X number of months because thay've been heat treated to death, hence the lack of taste and no doubt lack of nutrients.

BUT if necessary, like others have said they're useful for travelling or when an 2 hour AK recipe somehow doesn't fit into the timetable. They're definitely ready meals for babies. They'll fill them up, but they're not nutritious.

Someone got me an Anthony Worrell Thompson cooking for children cookbook for christmas. I was incensed.

I dont doubt it. Its easy to sit in your chair and judge though im sure.

I cooked all manner of differnt stuff for ds3 in an attempt to not use jars.
I can hosently say, withh my hand on my heart he just wouldn't eat them.

I remeber the first time I tried one, after trying for weeks to get him weaned on my cooking. It was like some kind of miricle because with home cooking he'd eat maybe 2 spoonfulas and strta coughing and sputtering or clambing his mouth shut.
I tried a jar and he ate the whole thing....I opened another one (these were the free ones from bounty) and he ate 3/4 of that too all the while doing the little baby bird thing with his mouth wide open for the next spoonful. He then had some fruit puree after that!

I stopped feeding him because I was scared I'd make him ill but I'm sure he would have eaten more.

I almost cried with relief that I'd got him to eat something beyond the 2 spoonfuls.

The lovingly prepared homecooked stuff in the freezer gradually got eating over a months when I kept trying to convert him.

(BTW, it was all organic jars)

i can't see the nspcc picking this up as part of their new ad campaign "Amy has to eat Cow & Gate chicken and rice for dinner..."

Agree with you there Enid - would spend bloody hours trying to 'fiddle-arse' around and make some of the recipes from the AK book - DD would just turn her nose up at it.

Good old plain cooking was fine though - roast dinners, tomato pasta, etc. - she would wolf the lot.

And I am probably the world's most worst cook!!!

I'm with Enid but far too polite to say
I freeze bits of what we eatt in case I have days when I'm incapable of cooking due to gripping MN threads that require full on concentration.

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.

I don't get the baby will only eat jars if you don't give them jars they won't eat them. They aren't the work of the devil and the fruit puree and pudding ones are fine but the meals are horrid, most a strange orange shade, smell vile and taste of corn flour IMO. I wouldn't give my children something that I wouldn't be prepared to eat myself. I sometimes still give DD1 the Organic Fruit Purees to mix into her natural yoghurt as I think thats better than Petit Filous type things full of sugar and gums.

As it would happen DD1 hated purees jars or lovingly homemade and only wanted finger food from an early age. Won't be bothering with jars for DD2 either.