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FallinLove2011 · May 2012

We are trying to plan ahead as much as we can. My sister's dd would not eat jarred baby food, and she gave me about 200 jars that will not expire for a little over a year (She is a coupon queen). Im trying to figure out how many I will need for our first baby. I have tried looking online for a round about number of jars that a baby eats from about 4-12 months old. Anyone have a guess?

corlee · May 2012

Although this probably doesn't help you much.....I'd think that it really depends on the baby. My DD started on purees around 6 months. She didn't really care for them and once she got her first taste of table food around 7-8 months she refused purees. So in all we only did maybe 2 months of jarred baby food. At pedi's suggestion we started out with only once a day, then moved to twice and never really got to three times by the time she started refusing them.

Sorry that I can't be more help.

ericalg · May 2012

You also won't really know if your baby will like what food you have. My DD refuses to eat pureed veggies, but loves the fruit. Other will love veggies but not like fruit. It just depends.

FallinLove2011 · May 2012

Thanks for the help ladies!

fancefpp · May 2012

corlee:
Although this probably doesn't help you much.....I'd think that it really depends on the baby. My DD started on purees around 6 months. She didn't really care for them and once she got her first taste of table food around 7-8 months she refused purees. So in all we only did maybe 2 months of jarred baby food. At pedi's suggestion we started out with only once a day, then moved to twice and never really got to three times by the time she started refusing them.

Sorry that I can't be more help.

This is exactly what happened with us too.

nbbride06 · May 2012

My DD would never eat baby food. So, I have tons left over (and I didn't buy much to begin with.) And all the food I so lovingly made her and froze...still in the freezer. IMO, I wouldn't buy that far ahead. I think 200 jars is plenty.

google123 · May 2012

When starting purees, you might use 1/2 jar a day (so 1 every 2 days). That's around 4-5m. By 6m I was using about 1 jar a day. 7-8m 1-2 jars a day. By 9m it was 1 jar per meal, so 2-3 jars a day.

Based on a very rough calculation...390 jars from 5m-10m. You will start decreasing after then and move on to finger foods earlier.

Now at 11m I'm starting to decrease purees and give more finger foods. 200 seems plenty enough. I now give maybe 1 jar each, but try to cut up small foods instead. At daycare they don't even give purees to my babies anymore.

Karen1998 · May 2012

I wouldn't buy any until you're clear that you need it. I don't think we've been through 200 jars of food here and he's been on solids for 6 months. He's just about done with purees, and really anything he can't feed himself. He has been this way since about 9m. Granted, I started introducing finger foods several months ago and started giving him pieces of our dinners about a month or so ago. Now he'll only eat purees when he wants to, which is not terribly often.

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