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"Sue" wrote in message ... hobbes wrote in message but I still refuse to buy jarred baby food. For various reasons: too expensive, too much trash/recycling, not enough control over ingredients, inferior taste. Nah, you don't throw them away, you make craft projects out of them. One project was to glue different colored tissue paper on them and put a tea candle in it. Makes a great gift for grandma. There are a ton of stuff to use the jars for. -- Sue mom to three girls Yeah, I know . . . I figured recycling could mean different things. But that's still a heck of a lot of little jars to have all over the place. I mean, to feed a 9 month old, that would be what? 4 to 7 jars in a day? Plus, there's the issue of the cost to the environment in just the making of all those tiny jars and lids. It's just so simple to make my own, I could never see the point of buying that stuff. I'm a believer in bulk-buying and to fill my cart with all those little couple-ounce jars just gets me. I know it's more convenient for some people, but it was really simpler for me to just make my own. And the taste really is inferior. I only bought 2 jars of baby food for DS and he hated them both. After tasting them, I understood why. -- Jodi SAHM to Oliver (2 years, 5 months) & Arwen (3 months) |
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Tracy wrote:
"Herself" wrote in message ... Tracy wrote: Which leads me to why I have been lurking.... My son was started on small bits of rice at 4 months (He self weaned from breast to formula at 7 months) and was eating pretty much anything. Now, at 9 months he hardly wants food. We had a bout of diarrhea at 8.5 months and did 24 hrs on clear fluids. Right after that, he decided he only wanted to eat one meal a day. I know nutritionally, this is fine, but I am concerned about the sudden change. His ped isn't. Thoughts? Sometimes kids go off food for a little bit...just like sometimes they will only eat one type of food. How long has he only wanted liquids? (if he only wants liquids, I'm just guessing). A week and a half...he'll eat one meal, but with a little more protest. He ate a great lunch today, who knows! I found that behavior extremely common (going off solids with teeth, colds, any minor physical illness). They always bounced back in due time. Hunter took at least 2 weeks to get back to normal, longer if he was really sick. Luke was a little quicker but he had a larger appetite, took him about a week is all. I wouldn't be concerned especially after an intestital bug. He might still feel a little 'off'. -- Nikki Mama to Hunter (4) and Luke (2) |
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Tracy wrote:
"Herself" wrote in message ... Tracy wrote: Which leads me to why I have been lurking.... My son was started on small bits of rice at 4 months (He self weaned from breast to formula at 7 months) and was eating pretty much anything. Now, at 9 months he hardly wants food. We had a bout of diarrhea at 8.5 months and did 24 hrs on clear fluids. Right after that, he decided he only wanted to eat one meal a day. I know nutritionally, this is fine, but I am concerned about the sudden change. His ped isn't. Thoughts? Sometimes kids go off food for a little bit...just like sometimes they will only eat one type of food. How long has he only wanted liquids? (if he only wants liquids, I'm just guessing). A week and a half...he'll eat one meal, but with a little more protest. He ate a great lunch today, who knows! I found that behavior extremely common (going off solids with teeth, colds, any minor physical illness). They always bounced back in due time. Hunter took at least 2 weeks to get back to normal, longer if he was really sick. Luke was a little quicker but he had a larger appetite, took him about a week is all. I wouldn't be concerned especially after an intestital bug. He might still feel a little 'off'. -- Nikki Mama to Hunter (4) and Luke (2) |
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Ali's Daddie wrote:
What I am wanting to know is how many of you make your own baby food? What kind of processor (blender etc) do you use? And lastly, where do you get the recipes? I did not introduce solids until 6 months so I just mashed food with a fork. I did not make it ahead of time but just planned our meals to include steamed veggies, or potatoes, rice, fruit, or pasta. This, IMO, is the ultimate time saving and cost saving approach! I did send jarred food to daycare for Luke until he was about 9 months since it was easier for me then packing a lunch. I'm not concerned about jarred foods though. If we were having something inappropriate I planned that meal when we had left overs that were suitable or I made oatmeal. Once they moved beyond single food I did not hesitate to just serve them our main course although I'll be the first to admit that the herbs and salt that was naturally in out food didn't concern me (I didn't add salt, did that at the table) and I know that is a big issues to other people. I also didn't worry if the food contained milk or wheat as an ingredient. I did hold off on eggs as an ingredient until 10 months IIRC. -- Nikki Mama to Hunter (4) and Luke (2) |
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Ali's Daddie wrote:
What I am wanting to know is how many of you make your own baby food? What kind of processor (blender etc) do you use? And lastly, where do you get the recipes? I did not introduce solids until 6 months so I just mashed food with a fork. I did not make it ahead of time but just planned our meals to include steamed veggies, or potatoes, rice, fruit, or pasta. This, IMO, is the ultimate time saving and cost saving approach! I did send jarred food to daycare for Luke until he was about 9 months since it was easier for me then packing a lunch. I'm not concerned about jarred foods though. If we were having something inappropriate I planned that meal when we had left overs that were suitable or I made oatmeal. Once they moved beyond single food I did not hesitate to just serve them our main course although I'll be the first to admit that the herbs and salt that was naturally in out food didn't concern me (I didn't add salt, did that at the table) and I know that is a big issues to other people. I also didn't worry if the food contained milk or wheat as an ingredient. I did hold off on eggs as an ingredient until 10 months IIRC. -- Nikki Mama to Hunter (4) and Luke (2) |
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Naomi Pardue wrote in message
But just how many teacandles can one person make? I mean, we didn't use a whole lot of babyfood (one kid, only on babyfood for a few months), but I ended up throwing out [we didn't have curbside recycling yet] zillions of babyfood jars, even though I reused as many as I could for other things. For a whole preschool class and kindergarten class, we used around 40 of them. Then they used them to make small candles in the brownie troups. They put real wax in those and the children put small candle wax shapes in the jars with a wick. I don't know, whatever, we made good use of them. They also make good containers for nails and screws. My husband has all kinds of little things from his trade that we were able to use quite a few of them from. Some of the bigger ones are screwed up on the ceiling of his work shop and contain other various things that he uses. -- Sue mom to three girls |
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"Ali's Daddie" wrote: Alegra is not ready for solids yet. In fact, the pediatrician said that she will discuss with us the introduction of solids at our next visit (september 30th). 4 month visit. THe current recommendation is SIX months. If your doc isn't up to date, find another one. What I am wanting to know is how many of you make your own baby food? I made all DS' food at that age, apart from the rice cereal (which I mixed with breast milk). What kind of processor (blender etc) do you use? I used a sieve the one time I tried pureeing and freezing. Guess who didn't want to eat the result! And lastly, where do you get the recipes? The recipe (which I got at the health service Mothers' Group) is: Steam a vegetable. Puree it. Feed it to baby (or freeze in ice cube trays for later). Or alternatively: mash banana (or other soft fruit) with fork. Feed to baby. It was such a pain trying to spoon-feed DS that we moved to finger foods after 7 weeks of rice cereal/purees. Thin slivers of fruit, cheese, pieces of pasta etc. DS is now that *other* kind of toddler -- some of them appear to live on air, but DS eats like a horse. However, he (at 29mo) is as tall as the 3yo we visited last night, so it's obviously going somewhere. I suppose it is hard if they don't appear to be growing. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "...children should continue to be breastfed... for up to two years of age or beyond." -- Innocenti Declaration, Florence, 1 August 1990 |
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