My baby just turned one, and my relatives are worried that I'm still feeding her purees from jars. T…

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My baby just turned one, and my relatives are worried that I'm still feeding her purees from jars. They're scaring me, saying she'll lose weight (before that, they said she'd get fat from jar food), won't learn to eat (even though she eats fresh apples, pears, cucumbers, and cookies on her own, which isn't an argument for them), and will never transition to family meals. Tell me, how did your kids survive on jar food, did they learn to eat or do they only suck food through a straw, and at what age did they start emptying your plates?
Когда мы с мужем поженились, то заселились в однушку, которая досталась свекру по наследству от его…
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Natalya
I don't get it either, how can you feed a one-year-old pureed food?
We started family meals when they were 1.1 years old.
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Olchik
Why didn't you potty train? Laziness?
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Lyubanya
until a year and two months, and only in emergencies
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Barkova Lena
If it's convenient for you, feed with jars, and let relatives butt out less. We also sometimes use ready-made meals from FrutoNyanya when I don't have time to cook. She'll be 3 in December
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nika
You've survived beautifully, feed however is comfortable for you.
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Tanya
If they're already eating solids, do what's convenient for you. Yes, introducing solids is important. I find jarred food inconvenient for everyday use, so my kids have been eating from the family table since they were a year old. But I don't demonize jarred food either.
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Anastasiya Kiseleva
Surprisingly, I agree with your relatives. It's not hard to munch on cucumbers and cookies. You need to chew more complex foods now. By a year old, my son was already eating everything normally. So don't delay and give him real food in pieces already.
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Olga
I can't understand you either. My daughter is 10 months old, and if she eats purees, they're usually fruit-based (so I can take them as a snack). Everything else I steam, she eats pieces + practices eating by herself (with her hands, spoon, or fork). I do have jarred food in the fridge, meat+veggie pieces – but that's for emergencies, like if I get sick and can't cook a proper meal for her, or if we're traveling and I don't have any of her usual food at home.
At your baby's age, I'd already be thinking about transitioning to family meals.
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Kristina
My older one ate from jars until 2, then switched to family meals. He grew into a big guy, 195 cm tall!
The younger one started grabbing from our plates at one year old and refused jars.
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Anna
My older one had issues with textures, it took a long time to introduce solids and then transition to homemade food. Soups were okay, but he couldn't eat main courses normally, only pasta with sausages. He never liked mashed potatoes, even from babyhood, and only started eating them around 11 years old. He refused a lot of things and still doesn't eat much. With my middle child, it was much easier to introduce homemade food. By a year old, he was eating everything, started gobbling up chunks (like banana) from 6 months, has a huge appetite, and eats everything even now.
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Yulenka
By the time she was a year old, we still had jarred purees, but mostly as a supplement (when I needed a quick snack or didn't have time to cook). But her main meals were already from regular foods – little soups, omelets, chicken with veggies, fruits, and so on
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