Do you judge parents who feed their child jars/pouches

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Just that really.

And if so, why?

What those who are saying they do judge still haven't answered is what they expect you to do if your child will only eat jars and pouches? If your doctor has told you your child is underweight and you must feed them jars and pouches because trying to give them nice homemade food is which they refuse is making them ill? "Oh it's not hard to mash a banana and jars are more expensive" - I don't care what it cost either way and would happily have spent all day cooking if only she'd have eaten it, but some supercilious twat would turn her nose up at me for loading my trolley with jars and pouches!

Do not assume that just because your child will happily eat whatever you give them that I'm lazy or shit at cooking because mine won't. Some children just don't like food much - I certainly didn't until I became an adult. Even now at four years old my daughter will eat smoked salmon and olives but isn't interested in ice cream. What sort of four year old won't eat ice cream?! The sort who forced her mother to feed her on jars, that's who.

I don't care what people load their trolleys with, I judged DF and DSM because DSis wasn't refusing to eat anything, they just couldn't be bothered to spend 25 minutes batch cooking and freezing at the weekend. Or just giving her some of their own food before salt was added.

I do judge people who use them and buy them. My dd's nursery banned them many years ago because the babies who were fed them were overweight and undernourished.

You can get better quality food jars theee days - i did use them for my second child more than my first as they're easy and good on the go .... a mix of both fresh and packet food is a blessing for all!

I'll tell what I'll be forever grateful for - kids ready meals. God, with DS, those were a LIFESAVER. He was generally a good eater, but I was working full time and didn't have time to do massive variety. So I'd cook big batches of stews or mince or whatever and freeze portions and then he'd get variety int he form of a Little Dish or similar. I've never made a fish pie in my life and I doubt I'd ever have thought to make him a korma, but I happily handed those over in the form of Little Dish.

But my hot tip for those (courtesy of a friend) is add frozen veg to up the veg to potatoes/rice/sauce ratio.

My dd's nursery banned them many years ago because the babies who were fed them were overweight and undernourished.

Was that all of them? Every single one? I find that hard to believe. My underweight child has pouches because he will eat them and it gets calories in him. With cold and flu season looming it's not nice having an underweight child who loses weight every time they're unwell so if all they'll eat is pouches it's better than not eating.

Sorry but I do judge people that exclusively use jars and pouches. Think it’s lazy. Don’t get me wrong have used Ella’s kitchen pouches sometimes when out and about but I did try my best to either blend up whatever DH and I had for dinner or I used to cook up batches of meals, blend them, and store in the freezer in tubs. Took a couple hours per week which is nothing when you’re on mat leave in my opinion. By the time I went back to work DS was eating chunkier food and finger food so would just have what we ate at meal times. Probably will get flamed but IMO it’s no different to feeding a child processed microwave meals for dinner every day which I doubt any parent would do...

My dd's nursery banned them many years ago because the babies who were fed them were overweight and undernourished.

Was this in packed lunches? What age group?

"My dd's nursery banned them many years ago because the babies who were fed them were overweight and undernourished."

Was this in packed lunches? What age group?

Probably will get flamed but IMO it’s no different to feeding a child processed microwave meals for dinner every day which I doubt any parent would do...

Lol. I and my brother lived off nothing but fish fingers, chicken nuggets, chips and birds eye chicken pies for a good 15 years of our lives, interlaced with take out and restaurant meals occasionally.

Lol. I and my brother lived off nothing but fish fingers, chicken nuggets, chips and birds eye chicken pies for a good 15 years of our lives, interlaced with take out and restaurant meals occasionally.

Personally I think that’s a real shame! Nothing wrong with a freezer dinner couple times a week but if that’s what you were expected to LIVE ON that’s not great, sorry.

Maybe a shame, but to doubt any parent would do it is the height of naïveté I’m afraid. My mum was faaaaaaar from the only one.

Would privately judge if they were all a baby was having, and stupidly I judge myself but not others for falling back on pouches when I can’t be arsed to sort homemade food.

Weaning is a slow process, try and just take it as it comes and stay relaxed.

www.thealphaparent.com/the-truth-about-baby-food-jars/
Just came across this

Oh come on OP, I have just skimmed that article. It's not balanced is it? It's full of a lot of emotive language.

@NerrSnerr of course! Like most articles. Still interesting though

My dd's nursery banned them many years ago because the babies who were fed them were overweight and undernourished.

I would LOVE to know what nursery this is... are you seriously telling us that a nursery is dictating what a parent sends for their child to daycare? I call BULLSHIT.

And if it isn't bullshit, my kid would be straight out of that daycare and into one that didn't assume that all parents that use pouches are lazy.

I genuinely don't get the angst about this. Fucking hell, women really are their own worst enemy aren't they? Who really honestly judges how a parent feeds their baby, do people not have a life to live???