which baby food brand and why?

[scifisam]

They only eat tiny quantities of it at first anyway, a couple of tablespoons or so. It's another reason why freezing in ice cube size portion makes sense, especially if you have big hang-ups about wasting/throwing away food, they don't eat a full jar for ages.

Yup. That's the reason I made all my daughter's babyfood - she just didn't eat enough to justify the cost of a jar, and, by the time she was eating enough, she was better with grown-up food than baby food anyway. It really was the easiest thing in the world to just not add salt when cooking and then stick some food in the blender. Obviously, some days I'd eat stuff she couldn't eat, but then I'd just give her an ice-cube of one of the other recent meals anyway.

Some of the jars did look good, though, especially the desserts - Hipp Organic had a blackcurrant puree one that smelled good enough to use as a sandwich spread. I remember it getting some baby food award in one of the baby magazines too.

 

[Blagsta]

Ah, but just be careful, babies don't like (and shouldn't really be introduced to) strong tastes at such and early age. That's why baby food in jars tastes so bland to us. Babies shouldn't be eating anything with salt, sugar, spices or flavoring of any sort.
It's also not good to give babies real milk, egg or soft cheese before they are at least one. Very very well cooked egg might be ok after six months or so, but no, salt or pepper.

Have to disagree with this. Rosa likes olives, mackerel and curry. All strong flavours. She feeds herself what she wants and leaves what she doesn't.

 

[Blagsta]

Maybe they gave them those foods at a later date. You don't ever really want to be giving your kids salty stuff though do you?

Salty foods, no. Proper flavours are fine though. If baby doesn't like it, give them something else.

People make far too much fuss about this. The human race survived perfectly well before "baby food" was invented!

 

[Blagsta]

Do you really need a link for that? It's in all the leaflets you get given and in any baby nutrition book. If you don't have them the quickest of googles will tell you.

Basicly babies bodies are not yet built to deal with sugar and salt like ours and any spices will just be waaaaaayyy too much for developing taste buds.
Bactira in soft cheeses and other soft dairy can be dangerous.

http://www.abc.net.au/parenting/articles/babies_nutrition.htm
http://www.hon.ch/Dossier/MotherChild/postnatal/feeding.html
etc etc.

Neither of those links say anything about strong flavours that I can see.

 

[Chairman Meow]

Nowt wrong with giving strong flavours IMO if baby likes them.

My sprog loved all that stuff as a baby. He won't eat most of it now though.

 

[ice-is-forming]

wether it was right or wrong my kids loved milupa, the sunshine orange breakfast and the cheese and apple tea were delicious.... also the cinnamon and apple oats ..yum

but they were all off baby food by the age of about 6 months...

 

[fubert]

Our daughter Chloé loves the Hipp Organic stuff. Jars of fruits mostly.

 

[scifisam]

Nowt wrong with giving strong flavours IMO if baby likes them.

My sprog loved all that stuff as a baby. He won't eat most of it now though.

My daughter also liked some stronger tasting foods as a baby that she won't touch now - she loved sardines and brussel sprouts, for example. Though I think her hatred of brussel sprouts is more because she's learnt that children are supposed to hate them. Her Grandmother is the kind of person who will only feed her 'kids' food' - aka crap processed stuff and overboiled peas and carrots.

 

[mentalchik]

My sprog loved all that stuff as a baby. He won't eat most of it now though.

My youngest was like this too.....................

Would est all kinds of things when he was around 1 year (curry,chilli etc) but then as he got a bit older gradually wouldn't eat any of those things !

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

You can't judge me because I refuse to be judged

I'll be the judge of that!!


Now I have turned the tables and won.

 

[Red Cat]

and there's enough nutrients in steamed veg and mashed banana? Where does the protein come from?

The protein will come from either breastmilk or formula, although you can give a piece of meat at six months and baby will suck on it, or you can chew some and then hand to baby. Either way, ideally baby should be getting most of its nutrition from milk until 1 year. Up until then food should really be about experimentation with the amount of solids increasing over time according to your baby's development. If you let the baby feed him/herself you will see that as they become more able they will gradually eat more solids. At 10 months Rosa eats considerably more than at 7, when most of it ended up on the floor.

You don't need to do the whole puree thing if you wait until 6 months to inroduce solids. Puree recommendations go back to when it was advised to introduce solids at 4 months, which I think most people still do, so that explains why they're still the norm. But, as Trashpony said, at 6 months babies are capable of eating finger foods.

Look up babyled solids (BLS) and the recommendations by Gill Rapley at Unicef. Its the way to go - paying attention to no sugar, salt etc and not introducing potential allergens until appropriate - less time consuming for the parents and really good for baby to have control over their own intake. I imagine that BLS is also a little more difficult if bottle feeding, but I don't know about that.

 

[fractionMan]

Have to disagree with this. Rosa likes olives, mackerel and curry. All strong flavours. She feeds herself what she wants and leaves what she doesn't.

lil fraction was the same.

Although fish went straight through him and still does.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Have to disagree with this. Rosa likes olives, mackerel and curry. All strong flavours. She feeds herself what she wants and leaves what she doesn't.

I didn't say they wouldn't like them or eat them, it could hurt a babies kidneys. Be careful if you are feeding her cooked smoked mackerel in those vacuum packs, they have an incredible amount of salt in them that could be on the dangerous side for little babies.

http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?ArticleId=824

 

[Red Cat]

I didn't say they wouldn't like them or eat them, it could hurt a babies kidneys. Be careful if you are feeding her cooked smoked mackerel in those vacuum packs, they have an incredible amount of salt in them that could be on the dangerous side for little babies.

http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?ArticleId=824

We don't feed her anything with salt in. I think Blagsta said that already.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Neither of those links say anything about strong flavours that I can see.

Salt

 

[Red Cat]

Blagsta posting

Salt

Yes, where's the mention of strong flavours?

 

[Blagsta]

I didn't say they wouldn't like them or eat them, it could hurt a babies kidneys. Be careful if you are feeding her cooked smoked mackerel in those vacuum packs, they have an incredible amount of salt in them that could be on the dangerous side for little babies.

http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?ArticleId=824

Strong flavours can hurt baby's kidneys? What?

We've already established that lots of salt is bad, but strong flavours? What are you on about?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Strong flavours can hurt baby's kidneys? What?

We've already established that lots of salt is bad, but strong flavours? What are you on about?

Look at the quote you have quoted me on. I was talking about the salt content of Smoked Mackerel which can be unusually high.
If you are using curry sauces and flavourings that you don't make from scratch yourself (I have no idea what you are feeding miniblag of course) you should check the salt and sugar content.

Christ I sound like a preachy cunt. I am sure you are using your common sense, it's not like I am a doctor or anything.

 

[Red Cat]

Look at the quote you have quoted me on. I was talking about the salt content of Smoked Mackerel which can be unusually high.
If you are using curry sauces and flavourings that you don't make from scratch yourself (I have no idea what you are feeding miniblag of course) you should check the salt and sugar content.

Christ I sound like a preachy cunt. I am sure you are using your common sense, it's not like I am a doctor or anything.

We make everything from scratch, but thanks for your concern Dr Suplex

 

[Blagsta]

miaow!