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Original poster

Can I freeze small portions of pureed roast chicken?

55 replies

mummalish · 18/01/2009 08:58

And will it be safe to reheat?

I may add some formula to the chicken to make it creamy, just want to know whether this is safe to do.

Thanks

OP posts:

Lulumama · 18/01/2009 12:00

no, i didn;t nappy, you can email me direct on mail @ mothering instincts. com

or lulumama 21 @ hotmail. com

no gaps !

nappyaddict · 18/01/2009 12:02

no problem I can just tell you here. There's a thread on the weaning board called When to start upping meals. They seems to be some confusion as to "why" milk is nutritionally more important than solids in the first year. I thought you might know the reasons why and be able to explain.

Becky77 · 18/01/2009 12:07

Are you lot 12 or something? I'm glad you get a thrill out of it anyway. I would've thought you'd have better things to do with your time, seeing as you have babies, than trying to get a rise out of other Mums.

nappyaddict · 18/01/2009 12:09

who's trying to get a rise?

Becky77 · 18/01/2009 12:12

"you 2 are so naughty!"

IAmTheNewQueenOfMN · 18/01/2009 12:13

and what exactly is wrong with that post becky??

psychomum5 · 18/01/2009 12:14

what?????

Becky77 · 18/01/2009 12:17

"and what exactly is wrong with that post becky??"

Are you seriously expecting to have a conversation starting with that tone?

IAmTheNewQueenOfMN · 18/01/2009 12:18

you are the one that decided to come on this thread where noone has been upset and try to find a problem......

Lulumama · 18/01/2009 12:19

i believe my comment was helpful

nappy, i posted about similar on another thread, but don;t have the academic research / links etc to back it up and can;t be bothered trawling for them

simply in terms of volume milk is more calorific and nutritious than a small amount of food..

there is plenty of stuff about weaning in teh archives, i usually steer clear !

alittlebitshy · 18/01/2009 13:33

lol sorry not read all will do later - dashing out again - name is is the shy thing not bitchy

NancysGarden · 19/01/2009 22:38

Sorry to be dim-witted but how does one do BLW with a LO who refuses to eat? It may be hard to believe, but my LO refused to self feed until very recently (2;3) and has always been on the lean side.

I find it tiresome when people push one parenting method above all others. Babies are individuals and respond differently, innit?

nappyaddict · 20/01/2009 11:02

But your lo wasn't refusing to eat they were refusing to self-feed - there's a difference. And imo that's because they knew if they didn't self-feed you would feed them. BLW babies don't have that. They don't think if I don't eat this then someone else will come along and feed me anyway so I don't need to bother.

FWIW my DS didn't eat anything until he was 8 months. He wasn't exactly refusing I think he just couldn't do it. But he did it when he was ready. BLW is all about waiting til the child is ready. It doesn't matter if they won't eat anything. You just give them milk until they are ready. As I said before I know of 2 babies who were both 14 months before they ate anything. (They tried both BLW and spoon feeding though)

NancysGarden · 20/01/2009 17:34

BLW babies are in all likelihood very well adjusted eaters as you say, but my point is that I imagine it is not suited to every baby because people (and thus babies) are all different. And this goes for all parenting methods imo.

I don't believe for a moment that my DD would have been suited to BLW. As you pointed out she did refuse to self-feed (as I said) but you cannot honestly be telling me that it is nutritionally and socially healthy to only have milk til age 2;3, surely?

nappyaddict · 20/01/2009 23:56

But I don't believe a baby who was left to BLW and was never fed by its parent would wait until 2.3 years to eat. I think eventually they'd think actually I might just try some of this food that everyone keeps trying to tell me is so great.

However I can very much believe that a baby who was spoon fed would refuse to self feed well into 3 years of age as I have seen it quite a few times. They get into the habit of being fed and don't want to do it themselves. And why should they? Someone else has been doing it for them for this long, why should they bother self-feeding now. Of some of the children I know who were late to start self-feeding the majority (but not all) have a very laid back personality and are just happy with the way things are and would often refuse to try something new cos they didn't see the need. I think the way they saw it was that well the we we're doing it working perfectly fine thankyou so we'll leave it like that.

NancysGarden · 21/01/2009 18:34

But you seem to be ignoring the health and social issues nappy.

It cannot be healthy to have milk only for so long (or milk and toast). Nor can it be good for a 2yo's self-esteem.

I accept that some of DD's refusal to self-feed til very late on is partially laziness but she is a go-getter in every other respect, so I refuse to believe that this will bring about the lazy thinking you suggest.

I read lots about nutrition when we weaned LO and I'm sure the variety of tastes that she experiences is far greater than the endless slices of toast/ bowls of pasta pesto she always goes for. I consider this simple responsible parenting.

And to repeat myself, we are individuals, we have individual styles of learning and respond differently to stimuli and have different methods of reaching goals/ milestones (walking: some crawl, some bum-shuffle, talking: some babble early some not etc

I'm sorry I cannot get my head around this method of weaning for all children for these very reasons.

nappyaddict · 21/01/2009 19:06

Erm where did I say a 2 year old would live on milk?

A child who doesn't eat can still sit with the family while they eat. They don't have to miss out on the social side of things.

I did say most not all. And I didn't say they would refuse to try every new thing. Perhaps just one thing in particular. With my friend's DD it was swimming. With DS it was walking.

NancysGarden · 22/01/2009 00:11

perhaps I read a tone in your posts that wasn't there...hate january...feel grouchy.

Peace out

Sullwah · 22/01/2009 16:30

I thought this was a thread on freezing chicken?

Why oh why does every thread have to be hijacked?

If you dont have anything interesting to day on freezing chicken then don't post here.

nappyaddict · 22/01/2009 16:42

because threads are like conversations. a question gets asked, someone answers it, someone then says something slightly related and so on and then before you know it you can't quite work out what question could possibly have been asked to have everyone talking about what they are at the end.

Sullwah · 22/01/2009 21:11

Thanks for explaining that to me Nappyaddict.

And there I was thinking that it was because BLW has to be introduced into every weaning thread whether it is relevant to the OP or not.

Becky77 · 22/01/2009 22:32

snigger

alittlebitshy · 23/01/2009 10:35

lol.

I want to see just one weaning thread where BLW is not mentioned.

I'm not against BLW at all, I considered it this time, but decided it wasn't for my ds (may have worked for my dd if i'd know about it then) - but I don;t want to be made to feel like I've done something wrong

nappyaddict · 23/01/2009 10:59

If you look at most threads on MN they are "hijacked" as you put it in some way or another. Hardly any thread only has responses which only answer the op.

Amberc · 25/01/2009 20:04

Erm...back to the pureeing of chicken - can I just ask those who are spoon feeding how to puree cooked chicken without it having the texture of sand?

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