Baby Food

Unfortunately these days people are eating more and more heavily processed food - sales of microwave ready meals are on average twenty percent higher than sales of fresh produce and meals seem to revolve around spending as little time in the kitchen/eating as possible. 

This has also led to a rise in the use of processed jars of baby food that you see in the shops nowadays, and which most mothers use for their babies. Many of these baby food companies, including the big names such as Hipp Organics and Heinz replace real food products with water and thickening agents in their baby food - of course this food is then going to be nutritionally inferior to products made with fresh food. So according to testing by the CSPI the baby foods are nutritionally defunct, and not only that but they cost a lot more than similar regular foods that aren't marketed at parents.

For me this is a really important thing to understand - I don't like putting junk food into my body and i'm certainly not planning on putting junk food into our baby either! So when it comes to weaning Scott and I are planning to make all of our baby's food ourselves - this way we know exactly what the baby is eating and that the food doesn't have added fillers and sugar. 

It isn't actually particularly time consuming to make your own babyfood - particularly today when most people have a blender (or hand blender) and you can easily produce a big batch of food and freeze it ready to be used throughout the month. 

Because of the importance of this to me i'll be adding a new regular post - each week i'll be putting up a little bit of nutritional information or advice on baby feeding and a quick, easy and nutritional recipe for baby food. 

Hope you like it 

xxx

ps: have a look at the link for more information about the different findings concerning baby foods and their nutritional (and purse friendly) values: 

http://www.cspinet.org/reports/cheat1.html