Reusable Food Pouch | 4 Count , 5 oz | Refillable Food Pouch by Nourish with Style | Secure Double Zipper | Dishwasher Safe | Polka Dot

After using--and throwing away--so many disposable Infantino pouches, I really wanted to find a reusable pouch for the Infantino Squeeze Station. I saw these on Amazon and thought they'd be perfect and cute. The reviews were great, so I excitedly purchased 10. Unfortunately, I'm disappointed and won't be able to use them as I'd wanted to. Here are my findings:- You can't write what the contents of the squeeze pouch are. So, if you're like me and you make a few weeks worth of food in one day to freeze, there's no way to easily label these pouches with what's in them. You can use permanent marker on the disposable pouches. There's no clean white space to write with an erasable marker on these either--the white space they have is covered with their website. I suppose you could use some masking tape, but that's extra work that's kind of a pain...and I'd have to buy some tape in order to do that, as I don't have any.- You cannot see the food. Because of that, I can't tell if it's spoiled. I made a great little treat for my daughter two days ago and refrigerated it in the pouch. When I went to give it to her this morning, I tried to push it out of the pouch onto a spoon and it had all liquified. I would have been able to tell that it was a gross liquid if the packaging was transparent.- The zippers at the bottom don't work after a use. Actually, one zipper didn't even close at all. We purchased 10 of these, so if 10% don't work, that's a huge amount to us. I was making a YouTube video of the Squeeze Station and trying to show how great this product was when it failed and all of the food poured out of the bottom of the pouch when I pushed food into with the Squeeze Station. Kind of a bummer.- They are insanely hard to clean and sterilize. You cannot turn them inside out, as you could if they were silicone. And there are places around the bit and corners that can hold onto food. I washed them with hot water in the sink, then put them through the dishwasher, then soaked them for two days to try to dissolve food, then used a bottle brush, and still, there are food particles stuck in there. So disappointing that I worked so hard and spent so much time on these and they are just not reusable.- When I stored these upright in my refrigerator, my babyfood leaked out of the bottom. Now I have lines of babyfood on my refrigerator shelf that are crusted and hard to clean. No mama's got time to clean up crusty gunk everyday, making these pouches just an annoyance that I'd avoid.- Because they have a slow and steady leak out of the bottom, these pouches are messy to use. I have to use a washcloth at the bottom to hold it.I'm really, really sad to write this review because I wanted these pouches to work so badly. We are very environmentally friendly in my house and are happy spending effort making environmentally friendly products work, as they can often require more effort than disposable pouches. However, these pouches just don't work for us, as they are too hard to clean, leak, and don't close after several uses.

Love the savings! I got a large quantity of pouches at a reasonable price.My user comments:1. Many people questioned how well I could clean these. I washed them with my mild, chemical free dish soap and a standard bottle brush. Using hot dish water and my bottle wand I was more than satisfied. No area was unreachable to clean. I used the nipple brush portion of my brush to "dig deep" through the mouthpiece for good measure. They smell nice and do not hold food stains. I even made "smoothies" as my son calls these, a week in advance. Then promptly stored in the fridge. By the end of the week, the ones that had been eaten last cleaned just as well as the ones that were used immediately. On a spectacular side note: My husband washed some with his, less-than-thorough, fast mad man methods (aka no bottle brush). I thought for sure I was going to have to redo that but was shocked that I was satisfied!2. Some other users had said these leaked. Perhaps their bags were not properly sealed or simply too full. I found when I put an appropriate amount of smoothie in and pressed the seal very firmly we have had zero accidents.3. I love that this is really all you need. Some other styles require things like an Infantino Squeeze Station. I don't know about you, but this frugal at home mom was doing this to SAVE money! not buy more stuff! I could spend $25 every two weeks easily on disposable. I got 10 of these for $15 and have filled them with food items I was already buying for the rest of the family. I simply mix what I want in my Magic Bullet and pour. I dab the seal with a paper towel and then press firmly. Works great!4. Helpful tip to keep in mind: I also purchased a small refrigerated bag to throw these pouches into before putting them in the diaper bag. You will probably want a way to keep them chilled. I put things like yogurt mixes in our so be prepared, unlike store disposables you will want to chill these well.

These pouches are so amazing I can't even stand it! They have, no joke or exaggeration, saved us probably close to $1000. My daughter was born 5 weeks early and had a few complications because of that. Because of her G.E.R.D and swallowing related issues she's been on pureed food solely since she turned a year old. At one year old she was eating 3 pouches of store bought purees for every meal. As she got older she sometimes would eat 4-5 each meal. From the time I bought these, months and months ago, until the present I have used these pouches and washed these pouches in the dishwasher every single day. As soon as she is done with the pouch I will immediately rinse it out with my sink sprayer and that is all I have to do in terms of me manually cleaning them. I've had no leaks. I've had no stuck on food (I also don't let food just sit and sit in them which is what I suspect some people do. I got sick with the flu for about a week and a half and I did miss a few days of dishes and even then I let them soak for a day or so and then sprayed them like I usually do and everything came right out.) I've had no problems with the seals. I've had no problems with the lids. I've just had zero problems with them and I would recommend these to any and every busy mother out there that wants to save money by buying jarred purees and putting them into these pouches. I'm so thankful I found these.