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The orange stuff is good because it is orange and a bit lumpy, which means i can squoosh it. You see me here modelling some of it. Mum made it from carrot and courgette. The spoon is ok but not very tasty. The stuff in the jar is nice but a bit runnier and i raspberry it out more, but i like it all the same. I do not like bananas much. I hate my bib. I hate it round my neck.
Mum replies:
He seems to like all food the same. Lumpy, non lumpy, BLW, weaning jars, you name it. Except banana, which he really isn't keen on. In terms of baby food, the Hipp Organic range seem to me to be ok and reasonably priced, although i have noticed gluten and cow's milk in some of them so you have to read the labels if, like me,you are avoiding those until 6 months plus. They are quite runny, and I am tending towards texture and baby-led weaning where possible, so I am only using jars when out if i think my veg might not stand up to the heat of the day. I'd like to say he prefers mine, but he doesn't care.
I am wary of the fact that everything seems to be organic now, as it's the latest buzz word and everyone wants to be green. I really would like to see where the food comes from on labels, and also a few dairy based things made from goats rather than cows milk, as it's more digestible (I drink it, as cows milk aggravates excema). I also think you need to be wary of thinking that just because it's organic, it's ethical. I don't know who Hipp are, but i am trying to find out, as i am pretty sure they probably are not a lovely ethical company working out of a shed , but probably an arm of unilever or something. I will edit the post when i find out, as i wouldn't want to eat anything to do with Nestle or anything. I try to stick to my own food making, but some days, I just want to slump and let me sit rather than be bloody supermum and mashing and steaming. Especially when the inconsiderate gits of Hackney have spent the whole weekend making noise above my flat which DP sleeps through, but i don't.
The orange stuff is good because it is orange and a bit lumpy, which means i can squoosh it. You see me here modelling some of it. Mum made it from carrot and courgette. The spoon is ok but not very tasty. The stuff in the jar is nice but a bit runnier and i raspberry it out more, but i like it all the same. I do not like bananas much. I hate my bib. I hate it round my neck.
Mum replies:
He seems to like all food the same. Lumpy, non lumpy, BLW, weaning jars, you name it. Except banana, which he really isn't keen on. In terms of baby food, the Hipp Organic range seem to me to be ok and reasonably priced, although i have noticed gluten and cow's milk in some of them so you have to read the labels if, like me,you are avoiding those until 6 months plus. They are quite runny, and I am tending towards texture and baby-led weaning where possible, so I am only using jars when out if i think my veg might not stand up to the heat of the day. I'd like to say he prefers mine, but he doesn't care.
I am wary of the fact that everything seems to be organic now, as it's the latest buzz word and everyone wants to be green. I really would like to see where the food comes from on labels, and also a few dairy based things made from goats rather than cows milk, as it's more digestible (I drink it, as cows milk aggravates excema). I also think you need to be wary of thinking that just because it's organic, it's ethical. I don't know who Hipp are, but i am trying to find out, as i am pretty sure they probably are not a lovely ethical company working out of a shed , but probably an arm of unilever or something. I will edit the post when i find out, as i wouldn't want to eat anything to do with Nestle or anything. I try to stick to my own food making, but some days, I just want to slump and let me sit rather than be bloody supermum and mashing and steaming. Especially when the inconsiderate gits of Hackney have spent the whole weekend making noise above my flat which DP sleeps through, but i don't.
Edited to add that: Hipp actually seem ok! Here's a link to their company info.
Either way they might send you some freebies and the website is interestng.
However, that may not be the full story obviously. Many German companies didn't come out of the war period exactly ethically (use of slave labour, helping develop gas etc ) so I would like to dig more. I also found that they produce food under the non-organic label Bebevita, so they are not 100%ethical, just that Hipp is an organic "arm" of a larger company, so to be truly ethical I suppose I should find a wholly organic company.
Here's a good link to a greenpeace page about how GM babyfood really is. http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/is-the-baby-food-you-buy-really-non-gm-greenpeace-offers-online-advice
Edited to add: Thanks to Dubs for the link added in her comment. I find it really disheartening that so many baby food companies discourage breastfeeding (anywhere, but especially so in new world and emerging) markets. I also found out that Hipp give money to the Republican party, so there goes another company........
It does seem sometimes that the only way to feed your baby ethically and organically is to grow everything yourself, unfortunately not possible in Hackney. Maybe next year, when we are moved and in sunny Hertfordshire with an allottment.....
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http://www.babymilkaction.org/CEM/hippviols.html
not very ethical.
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