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Posted: 25 November 2006 at 5:23pm | IP Logged

Hey

Sophie has been on solids for about 3 months now, to start with it was just rice or rusks, i spent half a day making up batches of fruit and veg, but she wont eat them.. she did eat the jars but not the cans, and now she wont eat the jars but only the powdered stuff you mix up with water or milk...

My question is, are the packet foods ok to use all the time?? Atm, she is on breakfast, dinner and pudding and they are all the packet ones.

I hardly used the packet food with Taylor, it was mostly jars.. so im not 100% with the packets food yet.

Posted: 25 November 2006 at 6:05pm | IP Logged

I wouldn't have thought there was much difference between packet and jared foods.
Its just jars and tins are more convient to take with you when going out.
If she wont eat one, but eats the other, then its better than refusing them both isnt it!!

Have you tryed mixing a liitle fresh fruit or veg in with the packet foods you make up???
If your lucky, she might not tell the differece.
x-x-x

Posted: 25 November 2006 at 6:38pm | IP Logged

Tbh, I'm not sure as Louis never had packet food, apart from rice and the odd breakfast.

I'd try what mum of 4 suggested and mix a little home made with the packet.

Or try mixing a little bit of her milk with your home made stuff so she gets used to different tastes and then gradually decrease the amount of packets and increase the homemade stuff.

good luck

Posted: 26 November 2006 at 2:09pm | IP Logged

Thanks for the replies.. it puts my mind at rest now.

I have noticed she is constipated a little bit since going on the packet food... will have to shove loads of juice down her.