What have you given up?

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Registered: 07-17-2007
What have you given up?
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Mon, 06-30-2008 - 10:48am
What have you "given up" in order to have and parent children?

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Registered: 02-08-2008
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 8:45pm
Wow-you seem to have TOO much time on your hands-lol!!!!!!
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Registered: 01-05-2000
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 9:06pm

Stater Brother's brand of unsweetened applesauce is made from apples, water and ascorbic acid (vitamin C). The 23 oz jar has 5 1/2 cup servings for $1.79. Gerber applesauce has 2 2.5 oz (looked to be about 1/4 cup servings per container) servings for $1.39; ingredients: apples and ascorbic acid. The nutritional values are the same. The store brand 1/4 cup serving would cost 17.5 cents; the Gerber 70 cents.

Sunbelt Fruit & Grain cereal bars: 8 bars for $1.99 (25 cents per bar/serving). Baby food isle fruit and cereal bars were 6 for $3.99 (67 cents per bar/serving). Same nutritional values. Both listed corn syrup as an ingredient. Neither one had hfcs.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Registered: 12-07-2003
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 9:10pm
Hey, thanks for looking Chris.
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Registered: 01-05-2000
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 9:13pm

I found out that with Dylan but price difference still got to me. And pureeing food just wasn't a big deal to me.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Registered: 01-05-2000
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 9:16pm

I would put my homemade pureed baby food in the baby food jars that I got from my sister's daycare. Now I get the square plastic containers from her. They're great for lunch containers.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Registered: 01-05-2000
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 9:30pm

You're welcome. Joy and family are still here and she helped me look. Her research is a lot newer than mine was before today. To be honest, I didn't read all the ingredients on either box of fruit and cereal bars. Both had a list that covered the entire side panel of each box. But I did specifically look for surgars in general and hfcs in particular. Both were made from fruit puree. And I couldn't remember the brand of the baby food bars but all the brands offered were the same number of bars for the same price.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 9:30pm
Great, I've had that Electric Company song in my head ever since watching it, LOL. I was walking around the block with the baby singing under my breath "Punctuation! Pun, pun, pun, punctuation!"





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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2000
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 9:33pm

Not any more. They had salt, sugar, and a few other chemical sounding things back when the girls were eating pureed foods. Sometimes between Angela and Dylan, that changed.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-08-2008
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 9:53pm

Gerber also makes Organic baby food now. I bought it a few times but it was more expensive.

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Registered: 10-05-2007
Sat, 07-05-2008 - 9:58pm

less *things*?

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Ducky

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