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Nettacow: Frugal Friday - Sell Baby Food Jars!
Before I even had a blog, I thought this would make a good Frugal Fridays post.
Although I made a lot of baby food for the Goose - will have to post on that sometime - I also bought a lot for her, especially early on in her "solids" career when I was so terribly sleep deprived from insomnia. (Who thinks that glop is solid, anyway?) And I dutifully removed labels and tossed the jars and lids into the dishwasher, thinking there must be *something* I could do with them later. (Make sure you anchor the lids, offsetting them under the edge of something else, or you'll be picking them up off the floor of your dishwasher.)
As they stacked up, I somehow figured out that people actually sell baby food jars on eBay! Here are some things that I learned in this little venture.
* Shipping is a killer - glass is heavy. I set it up so that it would calculate the exact amount of postage, no extra handling fees. You'll price yourself right out if you're not careful! I bought baby food for around 45 cents a jar (4 oz size) and you don't want it to cost more shipped than someone could buy!
* 4 oz jars seem to be the ones that sell.
I think I only tried once, but I didn't have luck selling 2.5 oz (stage 1) jars. I managed to sell every lot of the 4 oz (stage 2) jars that I listed. Because my little one was 13 months by the time she started to get teeth, I never bothered with stage 3, so no idea if those sell or not.
* Try to keep your lot size reasonable. Even if you're selling a hundred jars, a $25 shipping fee will give a buyer great pause.
* I noted in the description that the jars were clean, with no labels/glue. To remove the glue, I soaked the jars in a sinkful of hot soapy water for a bit and the glue scraped off. I gave them another quick wash to remove the last traces of residue and set them out to dry. Out of all the jars, I think I had a handful that didn't want to scrape clean. I used Goo Gone on those and then washed them well to remove any traces of that.
* Don't bother taking a picture of your box of jars - just take one picture of one jar, and then use it for each lot that you sell.
* Consider adding a Buy It Now option. A few times, I had people contact me about Buy It Now because they needed jars soon for a baby shower. If I'd have put the option on there, they might have clicked through and made the sale. Keep in mind the total cost per jar with shipping as indicated above!
* Make sure you package them well. Broken jars will equal unhappy customers and you'll likely have to refund some of their money. Thankfully I have never had any come up broken. Here's what I did:
I used a half newspaper sheet to wrap each jar individually. I then tucked them in the box, and added extra crumpled newspaper in the empty spaces to make sure the jars wouldn't shift during shipping.
If there was room at the top, I filled that with crumpled newspaper as well. In addition to considering box size to keep down shipping costs, I also considered box size as to how the jars fit. If the box had very many empty pockets and needed a lot of extra newspaper, I tried to find a more appropriate size.
* Finally, I checked the other listings for baby food jars before I posted mine. If there were a ton with no bids, I waited a week or two to post mine. Also, I had one customer buy from me a few times, so when I posted more, I'd send them a message and give them a heads up if they were interested.
Good luck - go out there and make some money! For more frugal ideas, visit Life As Mom here, and feel free to leave me a comment as to what to do with all my 2.5 oz jars. I have some ideas that I will post soon, but I'd love to hear yours!
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Harm of baby food in jars
Jars with ready-made puree surprise not only with high demand, but also with an assortment.
Fruit, berry, vegetable, with meat, cereals, cream - under each brand there are dozens of items. In a previous publication, we talked in detail about 5 reasons for the popularity of baby puree in jars, and today we will consider the likely harm that such food can cause to a child's body.
Nutritionists, pediatricians and parents disagree on this issue. There are three strong arguments against portioned canned food.
Taste different from homemade food.
The difficulty of weaning a child from a homogeneous consistency.
Unpredictable quality.
How does baby food taste in jars?
Even if a characteristic pop is heard when opening the container, parents are still obliged to taste the food that they offer their child. Many are surprised at how strange the content is. It is clear that most purees do not contain salt, sugar, flavoring additives. But they often turn out to be not just bland, but unnatural, too different from those that mothers cook on their own.
The reason for this is the merciless grinding and intense heat treatment that precedes vacuum packaging. However, it is very difficult to transfer a child from such refined food to a common family table. What will be the taste specificity of food in the first months of complementary foods will determine future preferences and the ability to organize healthy baby food at school age.
The child is too lazy to chew
Baby purees under different brands also differ in consistency. For example, it is convenient to scoop up meat and fish with a spoon, but some even at room temperature remain monolithic, as if fastened with starch. It is not easy to mix such a substance with potatoes or green vegetables. You just have to cut it into pieces with a spoon. But in any case, the food in jars is crushed as much as possible and is a homogeneous mass.
It is good when feeding a baby up to a year old. But later, when enough teeth have erupted, the food should become coarser.
Reasonable exercise is very important for the health of the gums and teeth. Ready-made vegetable puree in jars is easier for everyone: parents save time on cooking, and children save energy on chewing. As a result, it turns out that upon reaching the age of two, some kids refuse salads, normal soups, vegetable stews. They still demand to puree dishes, recognizing only the usual consistency.
Adults have many problems. There is not enough time and energy for endless persuasion, you won’t leave your beloved child hungry either, no tricks (decorating dishes, disguise) help. Whims at the table are dangerous. Even if the baby gives in under parental pressure, he has a great chance of choking, swallowing tears along with food.
Another difficulty is that a "homogeneous" diet will be limited. If you pass buckwheat with meat or baked potatoes with chicken through a blender, at the output we get a very viscous, thick mass - completely unappetizing. The habit of normal food sometimes comes only with admission to kindergarten.
You can switch from canned puree to homemade puree from 8-9 months. At first, mix, say, a “canned” zucchini with boiled, grated on a fine grater. Then increase your portion by decreasing the canned portion. This will take about a week. Then, according to the same principle, we grind part of the product on a medium-sized grater, closer to a year - on a large one, or simply knead it with a fork.
Are baby canned foods subject to high quality control?
They say that buckwheat is the only crop that has not yet been disfigured by genetic modification. Vegetables abound in various additives for rapid growth and disease resistance, and livestock that will become meat are laced with antibiotics and hormones.
It can be assumed that huge fields or modern farms have been set aside especially for our babies, where they grow ingredients for safe baby food. Those who have their own vegetable gardens know how high the price of a natural product really is, because time and effort are taken into account.
