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BLW and baby "convenience" foods
For those that are/did BLW, how do baby "convenience" foods (puffs, yogurt melts, etc.) factor in to your LO's day? Are they part of your regular BLW meals? Only offered in between meals? Do you avoid them altogether? Just wondering what other BLW moms do.
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Re: BLW and baby "convenience" foods
With my girls I used them mostly in the diaperbag as on the go snacks when in a long line at store, etc.
I occasionally used them as part of a meal at home but only if I really needed to go shopping.
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We never used them. It was easy enough to put baby-friendly normal foods in fabric snack bag or small container for one-the-go rather than buying special fakey-food baby food. Easy snacks that we or friends tote: whole wheat pita chips, dried fruit, freeze-dried fruit, string cheese, baked chick peas, carrot sticks, apple slices or a small apple, "o" cereal, seaweed crisps, baked kale, wheat tortilla, halved grapes, seeds and non-whole nuts (pumkpin, pinet nuts, etc. this one will depend on allergies of other kids around you), the ocassional granola bar, etc.
At home, baby can snack on whatever is around--we'll go messier at home: frozen fruit, yogurt, nut butter on a tortilla, leftover lunch or breakfast, hummus, baked beans, etc.
I will confess that I am not big on mindless snacking at home or while out. I think it is good to have snacks when we are out for a very long time or for an emergency, but we don't let DS run around while snacking or eat in the car. As for when he gets them: DS gets snacks when he initiates. He picked up a sign for food almost as soon as he started solids at 6 months ("more" back then, he uses "eat" now). That said, if it close to meal time we ask him to wait (sometimes he's game, sometimes he just cannot wait).
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Us too. Although she did get them as snacks at home sometimes too.
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This. We keep some in the diaper bag. And sometimes I'll give her a mum mum when I'm snacking on something she can't have. She gets mad if someone is eatting and she isn't!
Pretty much this! Around 10 months I starting buying her peanut butter crackers and kept a pack in my purse but that's about it.
I've bought 1 container of puffs for a plane trip but mostly I try to use other foods as PP said, because I'm not crazy about the ingredients in puffs.
I have discovered that she LOVES those applesauce or other puree packets that she can suck out of the tube. I am conflicted on giving those to her--I mean, she's never eaten purees--but she seems to LOVE them. I have given them to her on occasion when DH and I are eating out somewhere that there really isn't anything for her to eat (Taco Bell, don't judge me). But if I were more prepared I could bring her real food from home.
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I find that anything marketed to babies is expensive compared to the equivalent "real" food. Like puffed wheat and cheerios vs. puffs.
I bought 1 pack of puffs and was unimpressed. I bought one pack of yogurt melts and rarely remember to offer them (and they are kind of trash, I got them as an emergency back-up when we were going on a 8 hour road trip). For the diaper bag, I've mixed up a bunch of cereals to just leave in there. Cheerios, shreddies, goldfish crackers, puffed wheat. And now a few yogurt melts. My LO has only really started eating solids well in the past couple weeks, so now I find myself having to learn to feed him every 2-3 hours.
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Ehhhh... DD still eats these applesauce packets and she's FOUR. She'll eat applesauce or yogurt out of a bowl directly with a spoon, too, but since we're out and about a lot, these are really easy to just always have in my purse. Sometimes I pick her up at school thinking we're coming straight home and it turns out that she wants to go to the park, or we go somewhere else, and it's nice to have the kinds of snacks that don't go bad at the bottom of my purse for moments like these. Yes, I could just buy her a piece of fruit somewhere, but really, what's wrong with applesauce? What's there to be conflicted about?
To answer OP, I relied on convenience foods a lot with DD when we were out and about, especially when we were on vacation. Entire plane rides to other countries went much more smoothly thanks to Happy Baby yogurt melts and puffs than they would have without these kinds of snacks. I also carried tupperware containers of blueberries and the like in my diaper bag, but these don't end up looking so great by the end of a long flight or a long, hot day in Manhattan.