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Need advice - 'baby' fromage frais?

18 replies

SAHMof1 · 31/10/2006 12:50

Can babies eat normal fromage frais/yogurt, or does it have to be 'baby' fromage frais/yogurt?

DS is 6 months old.

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MrsBadger · 31/10/2006 12:54

At 6mo he can eat just about anything you do (except, um, honey, seafood, added salt, choky things like grapes, and anything he's likely to be especially allergic to).

Read the ingredients though - lots of baby yoghurts (and adult ones too) contain an awful lot of added sugar and you may feel better using plain natural yoghurt with fruit or jam in.

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SAHMof1 · 31/10/2006 13:02

When I?ve been making our stew, cottage pie etc. I?ve been cooking extra for DS without the gravy granules, because of the salt. Can I give him our food blended then? Even with the salt in the gravy?

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MrsBadger · 31/10/2006 14:05

Hmm - it probably doesn't add up to that much salt in a baby-sized portion, and if he's not having salt at any other time (processed foods are terrible for hidden salt), and it's not every day you might be ok.
But I'd carry on doing no-salt for ds.
If you can get hold of Marigold salt-free boullion you could use that instead for all of you.

Iklboo · 31/10/2006 14:07

Baby cookery book I've got says you can give DC your food after 12 months, but try to keep salt content at a minimum before then (and obviously low afterwards)

puffling · 31/10/2006 22:22

Can you get baby sized pots of natural yoghurt? If not, someone should make them.

naturemum · 31/10/2006 22:36

Hi - I have found the Rachel's Organic Baby Yoghurts fab. There is no sugar in them - all natural ingredients. My son loves them!

naturemum · 31/10/2006 22:36

And so do I!

hotmama · 31/10/2006 22:45

Another vote for the Rachel Organic yogurts. The Little Rachel ones are yogurt and fruit puree - no sugar and crap. They are adult size so equivalent to 7oz of milk - worth knowing when your lo refuses to drink milk!

laundrylover · 31/10/2006 23:00

Those yoghurts with no added sugar are great but pricey. You can just buy a small tub of natural yog (Yeo valley is creamy) and add a couple of spoonfuls to mashed banana etc. it lasts for days in the fridge even when open.
BTW have a look at babyledweaning.com for lots of advice about feeding babies the same as you....it's great!

NappiesGalore · 31/10/2006 23:04

i second the tip to look at Babyledweaning website.

Aitchisforhalloween · 31/10/2006 23:12

i third it, but then i write it so i would.

moondog · 01/11/2006 00:02

sahm,baby yoghurts are marketing bollocks.
You payfor the 'idea' and the packaging.
Buy a big pot of plain yoghurt.
Have some yourself-it will do you good.

If you don't give them sugar,they don't miss it.Mine eat tonnes of youghurt.
Approx a pound a pot or about 50p if you go to Netto.

laundrylover · 01/11/2006 09:35

...and the whole point of yoghurt is that it's already 'gone off' so to speak so it lasts for ages! When pots are unopened they easily go a week after their sell by dates too - the top blows when they go off BTW.

Aitchisforhalloween · 01/11/2006 11:45

laundrylover, is that true? i am forever throwing out bloody Rachels's Organic yoghurts for the baby but would happily eat past-it yog myself. (in fact did last night, sloshed into a curry).
more science, please, laundrylover. and scientific credentials. i'll save a fortune.

laundrylover · 01/11/2006 13:20

No credentials but making yoghurt is in itself a way of preserving milk. In India they make it in a dish and then it keeps without a fridge. I guess it's all to do with the bacteria in it so long as it's live.
When we were kids we lived on out of date yoghurts that my Mum's friend brought us from a restaurant she worked in. We only chucked 'em if the tops were blown altho in fact my Dad probably ate them. He's a dairy farmer so lots of resistance!!
My point was to back up Moondog's idea of getting a big tub and keeping it open in the fridge for a week.

thehairybabysmum · 01/11/2006 13:33

i make small ice cubes of fruit puree, keep them in the freezer then just put one in the bottom of a tub add some plain greek yoghurt from big tub. Have started having these myself now at work as well as giving to DS...they're lovely. You can buy fromage frais in big tubs too so could do the same.

If im out and about it's easy to take along too.

Agree that baby yoghurts etc are expensive chuff!

AitchTwoOh · 01/11/2006 15:49

absolutely, laundrylover, we lived on manky ski yogs when i was a child. i used to play fast and loose with the big tubs when it was just me and dh but have been more cautious since having dd. (mind you, she has a colossal tummy bug at the moment so these things are at the top of my mind). and i'd count daughter of a dairy farmer as a credential, for the record.

ilovedolly · 02/11/2006 10:13

dd loves the greek yoghurt (big pots again) but if anyone does want a small pot style yog - after extensive label squinting have found sainsburies kids fromage frais has no added sugar. What I don't get is why companies are allowed to continue to market very sugary childrens yoghurt and say its 'like being helped by nature'. Is so misleading.

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