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Some baby foods worse than junk food - snopes.com
Some baby foods contain as much sugar and saturated fats as chocolate biscuits or cheeseburgers, a British food pressure group said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090504/...tain_babyfoods
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Make your own. Thats what I did and it was simple and cheap.
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I'm not sure of this, but based on a quick skim of the Bounty Baby Childcare book (as given to new parents 17 1/2 years ago (and maybe more recently, but that's the last time I was a new parent and got all the freebies, and sorry I tossed it years ago, or gave it away, not sure) and written by a team at the Royal College of Midwives, to remain healthy, babies and infants do in fact need a much higher proportion of fat in their diet than older children or adults.
For Chrissake, that's why we feed them on milk for the first so many months, we are designed to in fact, milk being largely composed of fats.
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Quote: : Make your own.
Thats what I did and it was simple and cheap.
Buying fresh fruits and vegetables is rarely inexpensive for an adult, and while I understand that a baby consumes much less, I really doubt that it comes out cheaper than buying low end pre-made food (and a quick google of prices seems to back that up).
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Quote: : Make your own.
Thats what I did and it was simple and cheap.
So how do you do that?
I ask for future reference, you know.
Ain't no good to say 'well, just make your own" when you don't give instructions how.
- Pseudo_Croat
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Quote: : So how do you do that?
I ask for future reference, you know.
Ain't no good to say 'well, just make your own" when you don't give instructions how.
- Pseudo_Croat Missy_Pooh can answer that, but it's just putting together what you consider a balanced mix of foods, and pureeing (sp?) them in a blender to make them more digestible for your infant.
Something you want to share P_C?
How far along are you?
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Quote: : Missy_Pooh can answer that, but it's just putting together what you consider a balanced mix of foods, and pureeing (sp?) them in a blender to make them more digestible for your infant.
Something you want to share P_C?
How far along are you?
You mixed foods together?
Or are you talking about a balance of foods over the day?
I always just made single ingredient foods especially for the first year as that is what is recommended to be able to correctly track any possible food allergies.
I always used just the regular boxed instant baby cereal, but I would just mash up a banana with a fork.
I would nibble some and it was delicious.
Once in a while I'd have jarred bananas for some reason (traveling maybe) and tried them and I don't know how you screw up bananas, but they do.
Yeck. Tasteless.
I had a baby food grinder (just a little manual one) and it pureed the foods much finer than a blender - I would just steam the veggies or meat and puree them in the grinder, and freeze any leftovers in ice cube trays for future use.
I did not add any salt or fats or starches and yet my children seemed to find just plain foods quite delicious and both are now very good eaters;
My daughter didn't like a lot of veggies when she was younger but we sort of didn't make an issue about it and now she loves them.
I just bought regular applesauce.
(Now that organic applesauce is so easily available I'd use that whenever possible, as a tiny amount of something for me is going to be a lot more for a 12 pound person, especially one who's brain and nervous system is developing.
I know that not everyone believes organic is any different but as there is a possible risk and no possible benefit from eating non organic I would personally choose organic for babies if I were doing it again, especially for foods that are heavily sprayed, just to be on the safe side.
You don't get to do it over again with kids.
~ Bananas have such a thick skin that it's kind of silly to get organic, but berries or apples might make a difference.
JMO.)
When they got a little older, old enough for cow's milk, I got wee tiny little pastas or even couscous and melted cheese on it for homemade mac and cheese.
If I made roast or stew or whatever, and they were old enough for complex mixtures of food, I'd just blend that up a bit in the blender.
I did breast feed and my children got that only for 6 months, and it remained their primary nutrition even after introducing solids: formula of course would have been done the same way.
For the first year, breast milk/formula should indeed be their primary nutrition (as Eddylizard notes) filling up on *too* much other stuff is almost going to be substituting inferior foods for the perfect food, as breast milk/formula is perfect for babies and ideal until they get past the first six months and closer to a year old.
However, just any old fat in the diet is not going to be the same as the ideal (and actually very LOW) percentage of fat in breastmilk/formula.
The butterfat in cow's milk and various other types of fat are not ideal for human babies.
They won't die of malnutrition on cow's milk, but breast milk or formula (which they keep improving all the time), is drastically more suitable for human babies.
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We fed mostly homemade baby food.
All we did was take whatever vegetables we were eating before adding seasoning or butter, mashed them up, and used those.
I also had a mini chopper.
Carrots were my stand-by - quick, cheap, and mashed up with next to no effort when cooked.
I even had the time they needed in the microwave memorized.
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Quote: : You mixed foods together?
Or are you talking about a balance of foods over the day?
I'm talking about maybe say a little veg and some meat in a balanced way mixed together.
Not that we did it that often.
When you're whacked out from the whole bringing up an infant thing a jar of something looks way more attractive than pulling out a blender at 3am.
ETA Yeah A Farleys rusk is a pretty satisfying demi-meal for an adult at that stage.
ETA 2.
When I said milk, I was restricting that to breastmilk or formula.
Unprocessed cows milk I'm led to believe is not good for a baby.
Except a baby cow.
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The article seems mainly to be dealing with "snacky" type foods aimed at toddlers, like rusks and biscuits.
I am ashamed to say that the three main offenders listed (rusks, cheesy biscuits, and animal biscuits) have all passed the Embling's lips at some point.
Not as meal substitutes, but as snacks: maybe a biscuit alongside some apple or raisins during the day, for example.
When he was weaning, he got a lot of pureed carrot!
(and other veg) It's now that he is essentially eating small portions of "normal" food that I find making him meals is a bit more of a hassle: he eats his evening meal a lot earlier than us and he often ends up with something like fish fingers, or a boiled egg and toast.
At least he gets proper meals at nursery...
And you try preventing adoring grannies from giving choc-chip cookies to your kids.
Mean mummy!
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Quote: : Buying fresh fruits and vegetables is rarely inexpensive for an adult, and while I understand that a baby consumes much less, I really doubt that it comes out cheaper than buying low end pre-made food (and a quick google of prices seems to back that up).
Really? It's been a while since I went through an aisle with babyfood (my grocery store's been rearranged), but I seem to remember it being rather expensive.
And IME, fresh vegetables really aren't that expensive.
They are if you buy them pre-washed, pre-peeled, etc., but a huge bundle of carrots is usually about a dollar around here.
The biggest factor for a parent is probably time.
Peeling, washing, and cutting up carrots takes a long time for most home chefs and they probably feel like they don't have that time to spare, while they do have money to spare.
Or maybe they don't feel they have either, but would rather give up the money.
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We only used pre packaged baby food for about three months.
It really was a time issue.
I seemed barely have enough time to feed myself.
Then we found out about DD's allergies.
Most of the toddler baby stuff has milk so we skipped those things entirely.
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I agree with snapdragonfly on the freezing of home made baby food.
My daughter is 9.5 months and has only ever been fed home made baby food.
When we first started her on solids we spent a whole weekend peeling, steaming and pureeing every vegetable we could find.
We would them put them in these and freeze them.
Once they were frozen you put them in separate snaplock bags and keep them in the freezer until needed.
We have a big box of food filled snaplock bags in the freezer with a wide variety of pureed fruit, vege and meat and it makes daughters mealtimes a breeze.
When she was starting on the solids we would simply use 1 cube to feed her, making sure she didn’t have a reaction to any food as we went.
As she gets older we started mixing the foods we knew were fine (e.g.
1 cube of pumpkin plus 1 cube of potato).
Now she has 3 cubes of vege and 1 cube of meat plus a cube of fruit for dessert.
It makes life so much easier having everything frozen, sure you have to spend 1 weekend in 4 replenishing the supplies in the freezer, but everyday mealtimes are a breeze I just have to get out her box of food and mix and match different combinations (30 seconds in the microwave and it’s done).
Regarding the fats in baby food, babies do need plenty of good fats in their food.
Our little girl gets lots of avocado, olive oil (good to make pureed meat not so dry), cheese and butter.
I never add salt of sugar to any of her food but herbs and spices can help teach kids to like lot of different flavours, mild curries are good and she loves her pureed apple with butter and cinnamon.
I’ve had the unfortunate pleasure of tasting commercial baby food (it was high end organic spaghetti bolognaise) and it was foul as well as bland (if that possible).
I taste everything she eats and if I wouldn’t eat it why would I give it to her?
I want to know what she’s eating and although it s a bit of an effort it is cheaper to cook it yourself plus you have the peace of mind know exactly what’s in it.
I’m may be a bit unusual in my attitude to food, I would rather go hungry than eat at a fast food place.
I have never eaten a McDonalds/Burger King/KFC burger and will not physically enter those establishments except to use the toilet.
I will not eat ready meals and if I feeling lazy and don’t want to cook I will make a sandwich and eat that with a whole tomato/carrot/apple whatever is in the house.
Radon "fast food is teh ebil" Girl
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Quote: : Bananas have such a thick skin that it's kind of silly to get organic Some agricultural chemicals (and some pollutants) are systemic: they get taken up by the plant, and permeate the whole thing, including the insides.
If systemics are being used, the thickness of the skin has nothing to do with whether the chemical is in the edible portion (and removing or washing the skin won't help).
I have no idea what is commonly used on conventionally grown bananas, so I don't know whether this is actually a problem with bananas specifically.
But there is a common misconception that any contamination would only be on the skins of produce.
While there are chemicals for which this is correct, there are others for which it isn't.
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Quote: : Girl Im may be a bit unusual in my attitude to food, I would rather go hungry than eat at a fast food place.
I have never eaten a McDonalds/Burger King/KFC burger and will not physically enter those establishments except to use the toilet.
I will not eat ready meals and if I feeling lazy and dont want to cook I will make a sandwich and eat that with a whole tomato/carrot/apple whatever is in the house.
Radon "fast food is teh ebil" Girl Why would you rather go hungry than eat fast food?
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Quote: : Why would you rather go hungry than eat fast food?
I suspect a little hyperbole here - I'm sure if RG was stranded on a barren island with a fistfull of dollars in her pocket, nothing but a KFC or a McDonalds and no other natural resources she would force herself.
It's a bit selfish to wander in and use their toilets though, if you have no intention of ever eating there or putting money in their till.
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Quote: : I suspect a little hyperbole here - I'm sure if RG was stranded on a barren island with nothing but a KFC or a McDonalds and no other natural resources she would force herself.
I hope so, but I have heard similar sentiments from others who have never eaten fast food, and I find it fascinating, the complete eschewing of a phenomenon for reasons of "evilness."
Quote: : It's a bit selfish to wander in and use their toilets though, if you have no intention of ever eating there or putting money in their till.
Yeah, that's rude!
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Quote: : Girl Im may be a bit unusual in my attitude to food, I would rather go hungry than eat at a fast food place.
I have never eaten a McDonalds/Burger King/KFC burger and will not physically enter those establishments except to use the toilet.
I will not eat ready meals and if I feeling lazy and dont want to cook I will make a sandwich and eat that with a whole tomato/carrot/apple whatever is in the house.
Radon "fast food is teh ebil" Girl All those places have choices though that are found in many other non "fast food" restaurants.
You could always have a salad or fruit cup or muffin or something along those lines.
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Quote: : I suspect a little hyperbole here - I'm sure if RG was stranded on a barren island with a fistfull of dollars in her pocket, nothing but a KFC or a McDonalds and no other natural resources she would force herself.
True, I would not starve myself to death.
However if the choice was eat fast food now or wait an hour with a growling tummy and have real food when I get home I will always opt for the real food.
Quote: : It's a bit selfish to wander in and use their toilets though, if you have no intention of ever eating there or putting money in their till.
Perhaps, but when you gotta got you gotta go and in London public toilets can be few and far between so I've often had to use the toilet in a place that I have no intention of buying anything from.
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Quote: : All those places have choices though that are found in many other non "fast food" restaurants.
You could always have a salad or fruit cup or muffin or something along those lines.
True, but I also have a bit of an ideology thing going with food outlets, I will go out of my way to support the little guy and buy local.
I prefer small non chain restaurants, I buy UK grown meat from a local butcher and try to go to farmers markets and buy local fruit and vege.
I obviously can't do it all the time because most things today tend to owned by big companies but when I can I will (and large chain fast food companies are my pet peeve that I will avoid at all costs).
When my daughter get a big older and wants McDonalds I will try to convince her otherwise but I'm not going to forbid it.
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