We have been told time and time again that the current NHS guidelines state babies shouldn't be weaned onto solid foods until they are at least six months old and until that time breast milk is the best thing for them. Unfortunately my son is classed as a 'hungry baby' even though he is small for his age and because of this and despite our best efforts with hungry baby formula, we have had to start weaning early.

We purchased a number of the Hipp powdered foods to try (purely because they were on special offer at the time) and this was one of them. For a first taste it is brilliant. Because you add water to your own preference we were able to make this as liquid as possible for our son to try and as he has gotten older we have started to make it thicker. At first we had a few funny faces due to the new flavour but it has banana in it, and I have been told by many people that most babies like banana due to its natural sweetness. My son will eat anything, as long as it has banana in so most new textures we try to get in banana flavour.

When we first started weaning we were warned that babies under six months can't digest gluten and other nasties, and from the list I was given by the health visitor these Hipp 4+ months products don't contain any of them. We have gone from having a little taste of these once a day, to breakfast, lunch and tea. So far we still use these cereals for breakfast for two reasons, the first is that he likes it and the second is that we can gauge how much he is eating as we can measure it into the formula pots that were going to waste, so even if we are out and about, we don't need to take the whole box, we just take the three way pot we have, and add it to water in a bowl when it comes to dinner time.

When we first purchased these I got them 3 for £5 in Tesco, and in the 6 weeks since, they still seem to have the same offer on.