U/O Day!!!

[laurack]

please be boring please be boring please be boring

(so I can get work done)

[dixeedeluxe]

I think improper chest buckle positioning is way more dangerous than wearing a coat in a car seat.

[The Foozzler]

I think there is no difference between organic jar/pouch food than pureeing your own.

[christidee]

Jan 10, 2013 10:16:53 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

I think there is no difference between organic jar/pouch food than pureeing your own.

Just the price . We make our own more for the money saving aspect than anything else.

[rjamz]

Jan 10, 2013 10:19:01 GMT -5 christidee said:

Jan 10, 2013 10:16:53 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

I think there is no difference between organic jar/pouch food than pureeing your own.

Just the price . We make our own more for the money saving aspect than anything else.

Same. I don't think there's a difference beyond the price though

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[musiclover]

Jan 10, 2013 9:07:45 GMT -5 laurack said:

please be boring please be boring please be boring

(so I can get work done)

This, I should not even be on now. Damn you ladies, stop being so fun :@

[TrudyCampbell]

I think far too many women don't ask enough of their husbands. If you are doing EVERYTHING while they play video games and watch football, something is wrong with that scenario.

[The Foozzler]

Jan 10, 2013 10:19:33 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Jan 10, 2013 10:19:01 GMT -5 christidee said:

Just the price . We make our own more for the money saving aspect than anything else.

Same. I don't think there's a difference beyond the price though

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My mom and my grandma keep buying it for us, so I have no problem continuing to use it. Free works for me!

[dixeedeluxe]

Jan 10, 2013 10:27:40 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I think far too many women don't ask enough of their husbands. If you are doing EVERYTHING while they play video games and watch football, something is wrong with that scenario.

Yeah, I agree. My husband does just as much parenting related stuff as I do. Possibly more as he does pickup/drop off at daycare so I can go to the gym. Neither of us have hobbies anymore. He will go pick up our BWW carry out so he can have a beer at the bar. That's "going out" for him.

[thedahliharpa]

Jan 10, 2013 10:16:53 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

I think there is no difference between organic jar/pouch food than pureeing your own.

Sometimes I think jarred fruit is better tasting because they ensure ripeness. Or maybe i suck at picking good fruit. But, try jarred organic peas vs. puréed from frozen organic peas. There is a difference IMO.

Muppet- maybe this should be the next food challenge for you and your friends. :-)

[laurack]

Jan 10, 2013 10:29:10 GMT -5 jamaicam said:

Jan 10, 2013 10:27:40 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I think far too many women don't ask enough of their husbands. If you are doing EVERYTHING while they play video games and watch football, something is wrong with that scenario.

I agree 100%

I also agree. I feel like men (or anyone!) will do nothing if they can, I mean it's easier and I feel like men are often more oblivious to stuff than women.

So I just tell him to do this, do that. I just hand him the baby and then disappear for a while.

If she wakes at night and he's still awake he'll pretend he doesn't hear it so I will say, hey will you go deal with her. Etc.

It's hard enough being a mother, without being two parents at once. I know single parents have no choice and I think that is very hard, to be a single parent. But I think one parent being a single parent, when there are two parents in the house is not right IMO.

[The Foozzler]

Jan 10, 2013 10:34:08 GMT -5 thedahliharpa said:

Jan 10, 2013 10:16:53 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

I think there is no difference between organic jar/pouch food than pureeing your own.

Sometimes I think jarred fruit is better tasting because they ensure ripeness. Or maybe i suck at picking good fruit. But, try jarred organic peas vs. puréed from frozen organic peas. There is a difference IMO.

Muppet- maybe this should be the next food challenge for you and your friends. :-)

Yeah, I still purée most of my own veggies but the fruit is so much easier to use jarred and it tastes better than when I make it.

[erniebufflo]

Jan 10, 2013 10:16:53 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

I think there is no difference between organic jar/pouch food than pureeing your own.

My kid sure thinks there's a difference. I can't get the texture right, apparently. She barfs the minute my homemade food hits her mouth.

[erniebufflo]

Jan 10, 2013 10:27:40 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I think far too many women don't ask enough of their husbands. If you are doing EVERYTHING while they play video games and watch football, something is wrong with that scenario.

Totally. And I admit there have been times on TB and maybe even here (only recalling vaguely) that I wanted to tell ladies to DTMFA.

[Deleted]

Camden is obsessed with the show Super Why, and I think its awesome and adorable. Although, I DON'T like that now the only thing that will keep his attention long enough to drink his bottle is watching the theme song on my phone over and over.

[dixeedeluxe]

Jan 10, 2013 10:40:59 GMT -5 @sprinkles said:

Camden is obsessed with the show Super Why, and I think its awesome and adorable. Although, I DON'T like that now the only thing that will keep his attention long enough to drink his bottle is watching the theme song on my phone over and over.

Edie watches Super WHY everyday. She also knew all her letters out of order (as in...not the alphabet song) by 25 months. I thank Super WHY for that.

[pinkpeony6210]

Jan 10, 2013 10:27:40 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I think far too many women don't ask enough of their husbands. If you are doing EVERYTHING while they play video games and watch football, something is wrong with that scenario.

ITA!

[pinkpeony6210]

Jan 10, 2013 10:40:59 GMT -5 @sprinkles said:

Camden is obsessed with the show Super Why, and I think its awesome and adorable. Although, I DON'T like that now the only thing that will keep his attention long enough to drink his bottle is watching the theme song on my phone over and over.

Ella is obsessed with Super Why. It's definitely a cute show!

[laurack]

The cost is a big difference. It's $1.79 I think for the pouches I buy. But I can make an entire ice cube tray of organic food for about 1 dollar.

I made zucchini avocado puree the other day, that was expensive because I think it was over $2 for a single organic avocado. I wonder if this is why organic babyfood doesn't seem to come in avocado, because it's expensive?

I can't say whether or not jars/pouches are less nutritious than homemade because a)I don't study food from a microscopic level to analyze its nutritional breakdown and make comparisons. I'm sure people do this and there are studies? But I haven't done any research. And b) I assume that the nutritional content of fruit or vegetable varies from piece to piece and likewise from jar to jar, pouch to pouch, brand to brand.

I do think that whatever you choose (be it jars, pouches, homemade, organic or not) probably will not have a huge or measurable impact on your childs development. I think we all do the best we can given our circumstances and short of starving your child or making obvious poor choices (like throwing a maccy ds burger fries and milkshake in the food processor and filling their ice cube trays with that), all our kiddos will probably be just fine.

[nannerl]

Jan 10, 2013 10:39:34 GMT -5 erniebufflo said:

Jan 10, 2013 10:16:53 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

I think there is no difference between organic jar/pouch food than pureeing your own.

My kid sure thinks there's a difference. I can't get the texture right, apparently. She barfs the minute my homemade food hits her mouth.

This is us too. Not the barfing part, per se, but I have a much harder time getting A to eat my purees over the jarred stuff. He is super sensitive to textures apparently... he also won't eat yogurt melts, puffs, mum-mums, anything in the mesh bag, and on, and on... BLW was a total fail for us ;D

[Deleted]

Jan 10, 2013 10:44:07 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

Jan 10, 2013 10:40:59 GMT -5 @sprinkles said:

Camden is obsessed with the show Super Why, and I think its awesome and adorable. Although, I DON'T like that now the only thing that will keep his attention long enough to drink his bottle is watching the theme song on my phone over and over.

Edie watches Super WHY everyday. She also knew all her letters out of order (as in...not the alphabet song) by 25 months. I thank Super WHY for that.

Really? Thats awesome! I definitely like this show a lot more than others!!! He can watch Super Why all he wants :-)

[joyhart02]

Jan 10, 2013 10:27:40 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I think far too many women don't ask enough of their husbands. If you are doing EVERYTHING while they play video games and watch football, something is wrong with that scenario.

I very much agree with this. My husband does just as much as I do at home.

[erniebufflo]

My theory on why there's no jarred avocado is that the color issue keeps them from doing it. Avocados turn grody colors when processed. I'd love to know what they do to say, Wholly Guacamole to keep it from being brown in the packages.

[dixeedeluxe]

I've never seen organic food that contained banana that was yellow. The only ones I've seen were pouches and they were mixed with stuff, so they weren't yellow.

[dixeedeluxe]

Jan 10, 2013 10:56:56 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Earth's Best has jarred banana. It's kind of peachy, though. But not brown like my pureed and frozen bananas. lol

Ingredients: Organic bananas, water, citric acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin C).

[The Foozzler]

Jan 10, 2013 10:49:43 GMT -5 erniebufflo said:

My theory on why there's no jarred avocado is that the color issue keeps them from doing it. Avocados turn grody colors when processed. I'd love to know what they do to say, Wholly Guacamole to keep it from being brown in the packages.

I assume that it is because they put the guac in a package that is vacuum sealed and air tight. No air leads to no oxidation. I love Avocado's Number from Trader Joes.

[claralou]

Jan 10, 2013 10:47:21 GMT -5 laurack said:

I think we all do the best we can given our circumstances and short of starving your child or making obvious poor choices (like throwing a maccy ds burger fries and milkshake in the food processor and filling their ice cube trays with that), all our kiddos will probably be just fine.

+o(

CH

[claralou]

Jan 10, 2013 10:27:40 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I think far too many women don't ask enough of their husbands. If you are doing EVERYTHING while they play video games and watch football, something is wrong with that scenario.

A million times this. There have been many, many times where I've wondered "where the f*** did you find this guy?!" It does, however, make me appreciate H more and not take for granted the fact that we are managing to actually co-parent this child. (well, as much as you can truly co-parent when you're BFing)

[dixeedeluxe]

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[laurack]

I put some lime juice in my avocado puree and it doesn't seem bad after being defrosted. The avocado zucchini was just green, but I've made avocado banana and frozen that and only a little discoloration on the very top (where the air gets it). After defrosting it is fine and doesn't look gross.