Ok, I am actually going to take some time and post a few things...
First, here is a link about all the extra stuff they add to jar foods that they are not required to add to the ingredients list.
http://www.cspinet.or
g/reports/cheat1.html
Thi
s
is a link to the site that I have given everyone who has asked me about homemade food
www.wholesomebabyfood.com
Now I don't need to send it all out to seperate people... I give Kaden things like musrooms, chicken, olives avacado, cantelope, apples, cheese and macaroni... I think it opens them up to try new things when you offer them more variety than what is in those jars. With the rising childhood obesity figures I decided to make sure that Kaden got used to healthy foods that many kids would turn their noses up to. ↓
|
|
| Name: Double_K | Date: Jun 29th, 2007 11:25 PM |
| Have you been bombarded with requests---- ↑ |
| Name: Randi | Date: Jun 29th, 2007 11:28 PM |
I have had a few people ask me. You were the only one who bombarded me LMAO
Totally kidding. I love ya ;) ↑ |
| Name: jillw | Date: Jun 29th, 2007 11:47 PM |
| thanks randi. You knew that some of ous are gotting close to the baby food stage,,,,we have been talking about you too.....well at least I have. I knwo that I am going to make kendra's food so I needed some guidlines and ideas. Way to be on top of things lady :) ↑ |
| Name: Double_K | Date: Jun 29th, 2007 11:57 PM |
Yeah I bombard and you don't answer back---hmmmpphhh! :D
I just read the site about the stuff they add to the baby foods---Its good to know that Beech-Nut does not add sugar and fillers. I understand homemade is still more healthy---but for convience reasons jarred baby food will be used in my house some (working momma). I like adding more variety with the recipes etc from the wholesome food website though!!
BUT even though Gerber and other baby foods are not ideally the BEST for baby---for the "average" mom I wish they were used more. I mean I read that the number one vegetable that most kids eat before the age of one is the FRENCH FRY!! WTF?! Now those kids would be doing a heck of a lot better if they were still eating the Gerber baby foods! :) ↑ |
| Name: jillw | Date: Jun 30th, 2007 12:49 AM |
| beach nut make an oraganic baby food. I plan to keep some of tht on hand for when making it isn't possiable. I think that gerber has an organic also. My concern is what they have to put in it to make it last so long. Lord knows the veggies in my fridge do not have a 6mo shelf life no matter how tightly I seal them :) ↑ |
| Name: zoey9810 | Date: Jun 30th, 2007 4:24 AM |
my mom made all our baby food growing u, and the only veggie that i wont eat is Peas,a and my Favorite is Broccoli !!
im gonna make all tylers food! ↑ |
| Name: NIKKIS | Date: Jul 1st, 2007 1:53 AM |
| i also read a great book called Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron. it has sooo much info! i have learned soo much and i still have months to go before i'm to that stage! ↑ |
| Name: zoey9810 | Date: Jul 1st, 2007 1:54 AM |
| nikki your a lier, you cant read!!! lol ↑ |
| Name: spankyx0711 | Date: Jul 1st, 2007 1:43 PM |
wow randi, i didn't know about that first website. what REALLY prompted me to make my own baby food was when i pureed a banana and it turned brown within 2 minutes. when you buy bananas at the store, they're a creamy, beige kinda color. so i knew then that they had added some preservative/coloring crap.
what i think is great about it is that, for example, one peach (when cut into chunks and boiled then pureed) can make enough baby food for evelyn for over a week. if you take the amount you'll spend on the dual package of babyfood from gerber (in the plastic tubs) it's equal to the amount you'll spend on a month's worth of fruit for your baby. the little jars last maybe what, 3 or 4 days? it's very cost effective and makes me feel productive lol ↑ |
| Name: zoey9810 | Date: Jul 1st, 2007 2:24 PM |
| hey there is this stuff called fruit fresh, and you sprinkle it on the cut fruit and it wont change the color or taste of the fruit, it works really great on apples, they sell it at your grocery store ↑ |
|
|
