Which brand of baby food

Shann50952

do you recommend?  I am very overwhelmed about the entire food thing and there are so many brands....is organic best???

Melissa&Scott

We used mostly Earth's Best or Beach Nut. The first choice you have to make is organic or not. Start there. It will help reduce your choices.

Inlove05

Is organic the best??? Who knows... some will say yes.   You can never be sure whats really in the food you eat. We used Beech- Nut w/ Brianna.  BJ's has boxes of dinners/fruits/veggies... and Market Basket now carries the Beech Nut brand.

ChefSarah22

We are using Gerber, but not necessarily organic. ?It's completely your call.

mrs.magoo

We went with beech-nut. I just stood in the aisle and compared nutrition/ingredient label as well as price and thought beech-nut was the best buy in both areas for my baby. Some swear by organic or gerber....I think the AAP says organic is better - but who really knows!

PenguinGirl06

We prefer organic, as I have read that their little bodies can't process the pesticides very well. ?So I mostly give Ben Earth's Best or Gerber Organic. ?But I will give him the occasional Beech Nut or Gerber if they have a different flavor not available in organic. ?I taste everything I give him and honestly, I find the flavors of the EB and BN to be much better than Gerber...

MrsNich

We just started on rice cereal and we used Earth's Best...I think I will try to stay with the organic as much as I can right now.  I bought some oatmeal next and then some sweet potatoes.  We'll see!

WideSmileMama

I made my own for the most part (and seriously, you would be surprised how easy that is to do) but I won't preach about that.  If you'd like to know more about it, email me and/or check out wholesomebabyfood.com.

For when we were on-the-go we did buy mostly organic brands (Earth's Best, Organic Baby, little lettice), but there are some things that were not always available locally so I have bought non-organic stuff too.  Somehow, my kids survived the baby food stage

Is your own diet entirely organic?  I know mine isn't but I do the best I can balancing what I can find locally with what I can afford and figure that's gotta be good enough.......... same approach works with babies

nwlywedsfooreva

We started off exclusively organic with either Gerber or Earth's Best. However, a month or 2 ago we switched pretty much completely to BeechNut (except for his cereal, which I get from Earth's Best). I guess like others have said I compared the labels---BN seems to be all natural for the most part, with the exception of a few things, and they are much more affordable (.49 at walmart per stage 2 jar, as compared to about .79 per stage 2 jar of EB). We don't eat organic in our house as a rule, not because we don't want to but because we can't afford it...so, I guess in a way, we're just feeding him what he'll be eating as he grows up. When organic is on sale, I'll buy it, but as a rule my staple brand has become BN. SO far, I have no real complaints, except I noticed in their foods with the DHA in it, there are some ingredients I don't know much about and I can't promounce, so I simply just do not buy those varieties!! HTH!