| A simple trip to your local grocery store and you'll | | | | You know for a fact when you have prepared the |
| notice that they stock a lot of manufactured baby | | | | foods that it is 100% fresh and it's been said that if |
| foods. My friends and I are always discussing whether | | | | food is fresh your child's will get much more minerals |
| this is nutritious enough for her babies or is it really just | | | | and vitamins value from it. One of the great things |
| a convenience foods. They can also be quite | | | | about fresh food and homemade food is that you |
| expensive and considering the current economic | | | | know exactly the ingredients and what has been put |
| climate and many people trying to reduce budgets I | | | | into it, this cannot be said for prepackaged because |
| always wonder why these products are priced so high | | | | usually you will have no idea what you're feeding your |
| and had a really just aimed at their convenience | | | | child. One of the disadvantages of prepackaged food |
| market. | | | | is that they come with preservatives this is so they |
| In our busy lifestyles it will come to a stage where | | | | can be stored for a period of time in your local |
| most of us will use these. These types of | | | | grocery store. I'm not a scientist but I would prefer if |
| prepackaged foods I said already are made for | | | | possible not to feed my child too much preservatives. |
| convenience and especially if you are caught in a | | | | When you prepare the food yourself you also know |
| situation where your baby is hungry and you need to | | | | that the costs are going to be much lower than buying |
| have a backup plan to feed them. If there's one thing I | | | | the same volume of food in a local store. Homemade |
| have learned over the years is to make sure that I | | | | cooked food is much cheaper to prepare and one of |
| always half some prepackaged food just in case of | | | | the other advantages that many people never |
| any emergencies. I have found that some of the | | | | consider is the funding to conduct occurred between |
| iron-fortified cereals and purees can be really handy in | | | | you and your child as you feed them. The time that |
| these situations. But, as a general rule I would not use | | | | you have spent preparing and the time that you spend |
| these as a main types preferring to use homemade | | | | feeding your child should be a happy time and should |
| food instead because to the traditional value is much | | | | be something that both of you enjoy. |
| higher when you make it yourself. | | | | |