How healthy are Gerber Graduates meals?

Mrs_JR

This would be something easy for my nanny to prepare once in a while but don't want to give them much if they're crap.  Anyone know?  TIA!

musicgirl03

a homemade meal is better. I actually tasted one of those meals and it was really blan.  plus it has a lot of sodium in them

FloF9

The salt in one of those things would put my anyone suffering from high blood pressure into a coma.

They are LOADED with salt.  A simple ham and cheese, or jelly sandwich would be way healthier.

howleyshell

I won't soap box on how totally unhealthy I think they are.

Instead - a recommendation.

Get some of these:

https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2792390

When you're serving up dinner fix TWO plates for DD.  One for dinner, the other to put a lid on, toss in the fridge, and have for the nanny to toss in the microwave for 30 seconds to heat up for her.

I personally am too brain dead to ever figure out a good lunch option in the morning or at lunch time.  This way there's no thinking or preparing to do.

We Nanny share and I fix all the food for lunches for all the kids.  At night I make up FOUR extra plates from dinner (left overs).  My 2 kids, the Nanny's kid, and the next door neighbor that Nanny shares with us.

I know the kids eat healthy this way.

GL to you!  I think lunches are tough.  I think that's why there's such a market for this kind of stuff. 

I just don't want my kids growing up on this stuff.  I know real food is far more healthy for them.

brightning

Ditty Howleyshell. They're loaded with salt and that's about it.

I also do what she does - I make my own meals for DD and freeze them. It is really easy to do, takes no extra time, and makes it really easy to feed her when I have nothing else prepared (or we're eating something she can't, like salad). I use these for her lunch all the time. I also make a batch of her favorite oatmeal (it's got apricots and pears in it), put it into bowls, add another fruit and freeze. Breakfast is 30 secs in the microwave away.

For lunch today DD had a homemade frozen meal of spaghetti with star noodles and meat sauce, green beens and some non-frozen applesauce. A few weeks ago I froze this when we had spaghetti. Super easy, a rounded meal, no effort.

Good luck! I think the extra effort is worth it.

Emmasmom30

I got a great toddler meal book that has a lot of really fast easy recipes.  I just make a few recipes a week and freeze them and thaw them the night before she needs them.

annak23

I only used them in emergencies.  I would never eat them myself, so I would never give them to my child....unless it was an emergency!!!

Mrs_JR

Just the info I was looking for. Thanks ladies!