Why do some people seem so against feeding their LO's food from jars?

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Is their something wrong with them? Will I be harming DS by giving him food that is 80% jar?

I started off BLW but most of the time I don't have enough variety in my own diet or enough money to afford a wide range of foods to offer DS a healthy balanced diet so the healthier option would be to give him jars, no?

I guess what I really want to know is will DS suffer if he has jars some of the time or at times I don't have the right stuff in for him?

Thanks for all your advice, I've been on your website a few times Aitch its really good but I'm afraid I'm on strike at the moment. DS will have to put up with jars until normal kitchen activity resumes! To be fair I did make a lovely cheesy omelette with some fried pepper, pasta bows and tinned tomatoes for lunch today. Does that count? Have I made some progress edging back from the slippery slope of jardom?

That sounds like a lovely lunch. What's for dinner?

(and can I come?)

IKWYM about cooking - the endless treadmill of "what the hell am I going to make for lunch/dinner...?!" Sometimes makes me want to run for the hills screaming...

Oh well, only another 18 years or so to go

My main gripe with jars is that they don't resemble real food at all and I'm hoping always giving my dd "real" food in real shapes and sizes means she won't turn into a picky toddler. So far so not bad at all. Here's hoping!

that sounds like two meals, you're workign too hard. have a day off.

Fish Pie Helen31. You're very welcome to join in. I've also made a banana cake after seeing the recipe on here.

Yes I suppose it was 2 meals wasn't it? Well he had it for lunch and dinner so I managed to stretch it out!

He had tuna and mayo sandwich for lunch and loved it.

A question regarding honey- is it ok to give to the under 12mths if it's in cooking? (added a couple of tbsp to the banana cake)

i think so, if it's cooked. you are sounding more and more like a domestic goddess.

I gave one of mine some Organix jars of fruit once when we went on holiday but only because they didn't smell of vomit. Anyone who says they can open a jar of Heinz without retching is lying.

Disclaimer - I am talking about over a decade ago so they may have improved

I don't give DD anything that I wouldn't eat. And I wouldn't eat a jar of mushed up sunday roast (for example). That's it really.

DS had jars sometimes. Plenty of babies seem to eat nothing else and turn out OK.

I'm blwing dd though and I've found being much much more relaxed about everything helps loads. There seems to be a lot of pressure to introduce babies to a large range of tastes which is easy to interpret as feeding them fabulous cooked meals 3 times a day that you would never have otherwise cooked. Well with dd she gets what we are having and if thats cheese, bread and an apple well that's that, she's not going to be undernourished because she's never tried harissa at 1.