Puree pouches

There is a BBC watchdog documentary on it, only like 30 mins but very insightful and helps understand why you shouldn't be giving loads, but at the end of the day it's still your choice xx

Theres lots of sugar in them, i think it said a childs whole daily allowance

High sugar and low iron are the main ones; also limits how much self feeding a baby tends to be doing which is a big skill. I wouldn’t feel too guilty, especially not lazy! It’s all about balance x

If you actually look at the ingredients in them they’re not great. Lots of sugar, not much iron, lots of the ones that claim to be meat dishes contain very little actual meat.

They also don’t teach baby to feed themselves or get used to real food which is a really important skill.

We personally never used them unless it was the yoghurt ones for convenience if we went out - they’re super expensive! We just fed baby bits of whatever we were having.

The occasional pouch isn’t going to hurt though.. just try to incorporate lots of real food and opportunities to learn to eat x

Anything that is called a ‘lamb dinner’ but is stored at room temperature for a year isn’t really fresh

Not fresh . Personally would only use in an emergency/travel. Altho I’ve never actually used the meal ones just the fruit / yoghurt ones

The pouches are fine when out and about. The problem with the pouches is the process used to help them have a good shelf life increase the easily available sugars already in the fruit even higher then it could be if you made it at home.

Blitzing fruit makes the sugars in fruit fast sugars. Heat treating it like they usually do raises the amount of fast sugars available. Youre basically giving them a spoon of very tasty sugar. Where blitzing at home does like it would for anyone give you a nice fast sugar but its a lower percentage.

Does that make sense? I felt like I was waffling 😂 the meal ones are better sugar content wise. I used the fruit ones here and there while out but alongside a carb that would slow down digestion to help them process the high sugars slower

Thanks for everyone's responses. LO has a milk allergy so a lot of the time can't eat what we're having. I'm so stuck on ideas for him even after researching. I'm in a bit of a depression at the moment so finding it hard to cook lengthy meals/batch cook.
Breakfast and lunch is fine, it's just dinner. He has finger food with every meal just to add also

Pasta/pasta stars. Blitz up what ever veg you have in and add to the pasta with some of the pasta water. Add a bit of dairy free cream/cream cheese. Can then batch cook it and freeze. Very quick and easy to make (add chicken for protein if will eat that too)

So all the pouches are like this? I have been cooking for him or blw but ive gone back to work and om exhausted. Bought him some of those blends in plastic tubby things as they are lumpy but now I'm worried. He seems to like them more than what I cook too+

Sugar

Even the organic pouches have high amounts of sugar (I’ve not started my twins on food yet but did have a look at all the options in the shops)

My son has an allergy to milk, soy, egg and nuts, so I understand the struggle. He also hated weaning, but liked the pouches, so I gave them to him more than I wanted to. Don't feel guilty!

If you need help with dinner ideas, let me know and I can try and help! I also followed Emmy and Remi on tiktok, she has quite a few CMPA friendly recipe videos on her page!

Too much sugar salt etc . Basically baby junk food

As the other have said very high sugar content is why, but also if eating directly from the pouch rather than spoon feeding it can lead to peach and language difficulties or dental issues when baby has teeth- same as a dummy or bottle.
We found that either refillable pouches or breastmilk storage bags were great for making some purées at home- we batch cooked and then froze- alternatively freezing in an ice cube tray was fantastic for having small portions to mix and match.