Bottles vs Food

[Alwaysgreener]

I was always taught to spoon out a small portion onto a separate plate/bowl and feed baby from that.
You can always get out more food if needed but spooning out only what is needed eliminates contamination of the remaining contents like you mentioned.

Plus, I recycle and reuse the jars and plastic containers for a million and one other things.

I was taught to take out a portion at a time too, but there is always waste that way, because then you have two things that you did not clean out plus more to wash.

DCM did bring a few jars (which I kept) and plastic during the 4 months of baby food but the plastic containers never had any lids just the foil, so if I did not finish one of those off I find a way cover them.

If it had been my dime, I would of gotten jarred food over pouches. When dd was little, I washed and sold all the jars on CL for .25 each or obo, I made $100.

I totally talked to the dcf of my infant at "pouch age" today at pickup. I'm like, "Did you think I was just giving dcg a pouch a not feeding her???" Dcm said, "I thought that was the point of them, but dcg always comes home so clean, it didn't make any sense. I figured you had to be feeding her."

I feel like a bit of a tool. I seriously had no idea I guess I'm switching to jars for a lower price. Thanks for the tip CalCare!

My friend used the pouches with her son, this when I first heard of pouches. She used a device for the end of the pouch to go over the hard tip to make it softer for the baby to **** or a spoon head for feeding. (both ways would contaminate at the remaining food)

https://www.amazon.com/ChooMee-Toppers-Prevent-Promoting-independence/dp/B00VHHEQLO/ref=pd_sim_75_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00VHHEQLO&pd_rd_r=408S1N8J0PB7ZNBG670Y&pd_rd_w=xhfAg&pd_rd_wg=jrskR&refRID=408S1N8J0PB7ZNBG670Y&th=1

You can also purchase reusable pouches to make your own food

https://www.amazon.com/ChooMee-Snackn-Reusable-Material-Pouches/dp/B01GJ5PIEW/ref=sr_1_8_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1481728172&sr=8-8&keywords=baby%2Bfood%2Bpouches%2Breusable&th=1

Caution: They are putting anything in the pouches now days, including canned cat food and some kind of poison (not sure which poison, just remember seeing it) in the same shape pouch. My dd sees the pouches in the store and she thinks that they all are baby food.

As for what they put in the pouches is not always what they represent on the photo, some of the pouches (including the one organic brand) was flavored apple (so DCK was eating apple daily, but flavored different). Some contained chia seed but it was not represented on the front.