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

ohhh noo...baby organix pea and sweetcorn smells delicious and no orange!

PMSL bitsamaloney.

I think tbh calling feeding your child jars child abuse is harsh. If that's the case, I have "abused" DS when we have been away for the weekend etc.

I personally find it much cheaper and easier to give DS a bit of whatever I have cooked for dinner for DP and myself and if I had to cook separate stuff, I'd do something simple like tomato pasta etc which takes 5 seconds to prepare and costs a few pennies

pea and f*cking sweetcorn

HOW easy is that to make yourself

would you be picking niblets by hand?

ahem

I know none of you will listen as you have the bit between your teeth but I did say feeding jars 24/7 was, IMO, child abuse

TBH, it was bloody infuriating because ds2 had loved my cooking and I was proud of the fact that I cooked it all.

And....I found it embarrasing to buy loads of jarred food because I hated people thinking I was too lazy to do it myself.

Even as a ex-Jar feeder I think it now when I see a trolley laddened and obviously I should know better.

oh no notanotter have actually bought that one and it looks like snot although anything green looks like snot once mushed up!

it's still not abuse though. feeding them gravy and powedered mashed potato is abuse, not specially made babyfood.

I used jars and i used to cook too, place for both imo.

oh, and in the true spirit of mumsnet

my dh once gave ds1 a jar of chocolate pudding for breakfast and anyone who hasn't done the exact same thing is abusive and neglectful. so there.

I am ashamed to buy them

Enid did say feeding them 24/7 as in every meal was evil - not using them as part of a decent diet mixed in with fresher prepared food.

ta piffle

noone cares though

used jars when doing very hot spicey stuff for dinner
and when out sometimes for convinience really

rest of the time it was homemade

Breakfast was weetabix or something similar too BTW, no jars at brekkie.

weetabix comes out of a packet though - you should have been growing your own wheat and hand-threshing it

Stripping the husks off with your teeth before nipping out in your home knitted shoes (?) to milk th goat.

Better still leaning over the pan with your dripping breast....

enid. are you suggesting that we listen, read, and mentally digest the actual post you made instead of coming after you with pitchforks?

where's the fun in that? do you know nothing? I just went out for popcorn, if everyone starts being nice, you owe me £1.92

yes its only child abuse on the days you use jars - a bit like only beating your child twice a week instead of daily

Enid, Do you know when I first read your child abuse post my heckles went up and I got all huffy thinking "Pah...child abuse....FFS...ggrrrrrr...what is she on about....ohh that's rather OTT!!" but I didn't say it because I like you and didn't want to argue and well we're allowed differnt opinions.

Then I sat and thought how much I bloody hated buying them, even though it was convient, how much I hated putting them in my shopping(I'd try and hide them!!), I even hated putting the jars out for the glass collection lorry so I suppose I do kind of see where you're coming from. It nots difficult to make up 10-20 little tubs of food in a few hours even when you've got children already.

I suppose I'm almost a hypocrite....but its' ds3's fault

I wouldnt slag anyone off for solely using jars - it is their perogative and their money but I couldnt afford to even if I wanted too and I enjoy knowing that my DS's have eaten something nutritious that I made - probably more for my own gratification than anything. We have had the odd jar on holiday and going out but I dont feel bad about it!

Jars are fab
I worked out how much it cost to puree the damn butternut squash myself and the jar was cheaper!

lol my2pworth

The blonde, pureeing them is Ok it bloody peeling the things that got me!

(especially as it went un-f*cking-eaten)

it wouldnt have been cheaper if you mixed the butternut squash with water and maltodextrin to make it go further

The worst thing for peeling has to be pears - so much peel for so little fruit