Chocolate needed that is 100% dairy free

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Anything I can give 1 year ds who is severely allergic to cows milk(can have soya)

I've written that down too, Hippocampus, thanks, though it's for me not my dc's!

Lots of food is unecessary

We don't just eat because of NECESSITY

We eat because it is pleasurable and sociable too

There is nothing more pleasurable and sociable than a chocolate button with Mummy

LOL at the more recent university memories and the pretty good idea I've got of what students are 'imbibing' these days Xenia!

I am perfectly happy for my 2.5 yr old to have a little bit of chocolate everyday frankly and not sneak into sweet-shops with her pocket money buying crap behind my back when she's old enough.

but I don't see what's wrong with cake for a first birthday, though I wouldn't give sweets.

A friend of my mum's bought ds1 a packet of wotsits and a milky bar when we went for coffee once.

He was nine months.

Glad it's not just me!

It's just such a nice treat to all snuggle up on the sofa watching a film with some chocolate.

Revels anyone?

I don't like the unexpectedness of Revels

Sometimes you get a Nasty Surprise

hmm, and why is it that a malteser is so disappointing in revels even when you like maltesers?

Maltesters are no good on their own

You need a good mouthful

Oh, how common of you!

They are better with beer, obviously

Some common sort of beer of course, like Carlsberg

Except really they are just lovely with TEA

ooh it's make me dribble

or a common old box where they roll around in a soothing fashion

Revels are faultless now that they've taken the nut one out.

hmm and a Malteser Celebration is a positive victory

ooh stop it, I'm dairy free at the moment and can't have them!

< Trots back to the kitchen for more maya gold but really wants revels >

Chocolate Geek alert: aren't the Mars people also the Malteser people (so the planet is an actual genuine Maletser) but the Revels people aren't so theirs is simply a poor substitute.

i really could do with getting a life at this point couldn't I?

You've solved it, Mumo7

Chocolate in moderate amount OK, sweets are entirely rubbish. You can control the amount of anything the lo's have. My ds will go for weeks without a sniff of chocolate but I wouldn't deprive the g'parents of giving him a little for the pleasure all round. And in the context of a varied diet.

Life is very, very short.

small boast: I have actually been round the Mars factory, and seen mars bars being made.

It was the best evening of my life. Ever. Combined my fascination with production engineering and chocolate.

(motherinferior, do I know you in rl? are you Welsh by any chance?)

All this chocolate talk is making me drool. Seriously though, I kept DD1 wheat, dairy and sugar free under 1 year. The wheat and dairy bit was in the hope she wouldn't have allergies - which she doesn't, the sugar bit was in the hope she wouldn't have such a terrible weakness for it as I do - which she does. With DD2 and DS1 I gave up being so strict on the sugar front as I found it harder to stick to it on social occasions at least. The irony is that DD1 has a diabolical sweet tooth, just as bad as me, whereas her siblings like sweet things but not compulsively, and will leave sweets and sweet things when they have had "enough".

Oh and just to answer the thread properly, I used to find small packets of smarties-type sweets at Holland and Barrett - dairy free and wheat free if I remember rightly.

Most people I know don't give toddlers sweets and chocolate but may be I live in an obscure bit of London.

I agree that given how and where we live we can hardly keep them easily in some cocoon of healthfulness and these children born today and the most obese this nation has ever produced and will be the first generation ever to die before their parents. it's a losing battle we're all fighting and we start losing it when we give toddlers sweets. Some have a genetic propensity to have problems with sugar too.

www.littlesugaraddicts.com/

Most people I know don't regularly give any of their children sweets, but occasionly allow them a cake or piece of chocolate. I can't see the harm in that.

When dd (5) goes to her nan's though, she always gets them, something disgusting like bursting bugs and I've given up making a fuss. She only visits about once every six weeks.

MOtherinferior...what I meant was, it's better not to tie emotions to foodthings, full stop....that is when problems start....I am a chocoholic, but I know that a lot of the reasons why I eat chocolate has not really that much to do with me liking it's taste, but all with teh emotions that are tied in with it....and I know many people like me! And I used to get chocolate when I was good, or when I was sad, or when I was in Hospital (once I was allowed to eat again) for being oh so brave and and and...not surprisingly really then, that I have a bit of a problem with the stuff....!
It's weird really , and just shows how well the advertising has brainwashed us, that one would be almost described as a cruel mother if one believes that chocolate isn't actually that great a treat....I mean, in the end chocolate is a hihgly addictive substance, surely if someone would liek to give a treat then it should be something less harmfull.
My Kids do have chocolate, but I have stopped saying things like, when you good you can have some, etc....