Filed under: Diet — Alan @ 9:50 am
More natural choice for mums with Little Nibbles
HiPP Organic have once again proved why they are such experts in the field of baby nutrition by bringing out new products in their ever popular ‘Little Nibbles’ range of children’s snacks. As well as the new products that mums have to choose from, the packaging on the entire Little Nibbles range has been revamped and now has eye catching and colourful cartoon characters which will appeal to the little ones and encourage them to eat the choose the healthy and tasty snacks inside, thus mastering the art of self-feeding.
So what can you now find in the range?
The new squiggly corn puffs are the latest melt in the mouth first finger food in HiPP’s range, and are for babies from 7 months upwards. They are specially created to teach your baby to feed themselves and chew properly. As well as being totally delicious these squiggles are completely free from any additives or other nasties and, keeping in line with HiPP’s policies, they are made from the very best organic ingredients.
Another new addition to the HiPP Little Nibbles range are the totally natural Fruit Bars, which come in two different and tasty varieties; Peach and Apple and Plum and Apple. These two flavours will certainly tickle your little ones taste buds. There is absolutely no added sugar and each bar contains at least 50% organic fruit and four organic cereals, and are suitable from 12 months old.
These bars are in handy individual packs so apart from being a great healthy snack in the home, they are perfect for taking out and about for when your little one gets peckish.
For those Elephant Biscuit lovers out there, you’ll be pleased to know that HiPP have tweaked their existing recipe to make them even tastier! Not only are they now free from added sugar, but they have also introduced organic apple juice for a sweeter flavour. These distinctive elephant shaped biscuits are perfectly sized for little hands to hold onto, providing important top up nourishment for tiny tummies, as a convenient snack. Suitable from 12 months onwards.
Other scrumptious products which sit within the new HiPP Organic Little Nibbles range include the yummy range of Little Nibbles Rice Cakes which are available in 3 delicious flavours; ‘Organic Apple’, ‘Organic Carrot and Pumpkin’ and ‘Organic Tomato and Sweet Red Pepper’. All are made with just organic rice and fruit or vegetable juices so are naturally free from added salt or sugar.
One Stop Shop for Information
The entire Little Nibbles range is available from the HiPP web shop with free delivery http://www.hipp.co.uk/acatalog/rusks.html
Filed under: Diet — Alan @ 12:08 pm
Dr. Ellie Lee, of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (CPCS) at the University of Kent, said in a briefing released February 28 this year, that the government policies on feeding infants should be revamped in order to make it effective for today’s generation of parents.
Dr. Lee’s inspiration to request the current policies for infant feeding be re-examined comes from many distressed, angry, and confused parents who had written her, her own research, along with that of her colleagues both within Britain and abroad.
As preparation for the briefing she surveyed current scholarship from the past 10 years relating to the topic, from the fields of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Her conclusions are as follows:
1. Infant feeding needs to be depoliticised.
The briefing argues, ‘Policy in this area should aim to support individual mothers to feed their babies in the way that makes most sense for them and their families. It should cease to connect mothers’ infant feeding practices with solving wider social and health problems. Doing so, evidence suggests, has failed to do much to increase breastfeeding rates; has generated a distorted picture of the causes of health and social problems; and has encouraged a situation where many mothersexperience being placed under pressure to feed their baby according to priorities laid down by others’.
2. Policy makers should treat infant feeding as an issue in its own terms.
The briefing argues, ‘Active efforts need to be made to separate infant feeding from morally-charged ideas and rhetoric about motherhood. The moralisation of infant feeding is detrimental for mothers – however they feed their babies – and damaging for wider society. Policy needs to be disentangled from the promotion of a particular orientation towards motherhood and family life’.
3. Policy makers should aim to promote an ethos and practice whereby choice really means choice.
The briefing argues, ‘Mothers feed their babies in a range of ways, yet as things stand, lip-service is paid to choice in infant feeding: alternatives to breastfeeding are routinely portrayed as inferior. As a result, tensions exist between mothers and health service staff. Policy makers need to work to change this situation. Mothers should be provided with properly balanced information about all feeding methods as a matter of course. Policy should seek to encourage maternal confidence and a sense of mutual trust between mothers and those who are there to offer advice and support. They should seek to engage fully with the real experience mothers have of feeding their babies, and develop the approach of the health service accordingly’.
Of the briefing, Dr Lee said: ‘The public health strategy published recently by the coalition government argues for essentially the same approach to this issue that has been taking place for the past 15 years. But there are very good reasons for arguing that this approach has not worked well, and that problems need to be addressed that are currently just not being considered by policymakers. We hope that this briefing will encourage serious discussion that takes into account the findings of intelligent, well-designed research and commentary.’
The briefing document, titled ‘Feeding babies and the problems of policy’, can be downloaded at https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/resources/cpcs-briefings/
CPCS, which is based at the University’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR), is also organising a one-day symposium on 21 March 2011 at the British Library conference centre on ‘Feeding children in the new parenting culture’. This will feature a lecture by Joan Wolf from Texas A&M University and author of Is breast best? Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood (New York and London: NYU Press).
Filed under: Diet — admin @ 5:10 pm
For those who are meat eaters, throwing a dinner party with vegetarians in attendance can seem like a challenging feat. However, with Quorn you can easily accomplish this task with everyone, both meat eaters and non-eaters alike, satisfied and amazed by your cooking talents.
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