To automatically bin the made-in-china sweets in the party bags...

[Sugarbeach]

...that dd gets?!

Does anyone else do this? Or is it just me?

No flip flops you prob don't have one more thing to worry about....I'm in South East Asia at the moment not UK, maybe you can only get the haribos, gummy bears, chuppa chups in the supermarkets in UK.

I wasn't aware that sweets made in China were common in UK or that you could tell them apart.

Having said that if I knew they were from China - I would.

I would because I remember about the sofa's made in China that made some people really ill turned out to be banned in this country insecticide inside the sofas to stop destruction on voyage over, the baby milk scandal within China which killed babies there, and a remember radio 4 food program doing a story about false eggs where in bulk amounts someone in China had made 'false' and extremely poisonous eggs and exported to nearby countries as it turned a profit.

I think it?s going through a period where food adulteration for profit happens ? not dissimilar to our own history.

To be fair though I'm not a huge fan of sweets in general - though they do as it hard to stop people giving sweets to them.

Hexen, I've just thought that maybe it isn't common in the UK and is maybe peculiar to where I am living ATM (SE Asia) and Middle East previously.

Sorry, didn't mean to raise any alarms over there...

Now you've mentioned you're in a different country I can see where you're coming from a little better, as wherever it is obv. won't conform to the same UK standards we get here (ie E numbers or whatever). It would depend on the ingredients of the sweet and what it contained, so I would check on an individual basis rather than a blanket ban on everything Chinese

It will be easy for you to control now but what about as your child get older and start buying things themselves?

Stunt girl....Ermmmm....the Made in China sweets do not generally have an ingredients lists......it just says the country of origin....in fact the UK are very fortunate in how they do their food labelling compared to many other countries, which I took for granted I have to say.

I'm glad this is all you have to worry about in life.
Sounds ridiculous to me to to this, how often does she go to these parties where the parents dare to give out something 'made in China' do you do this in front of your children ? "Oh dear children, we can't eat these awful made in China sweets"
YABU

I have to admit (also live in SE Asia) DD is given A LOT of sweets, and I eat most of them. The rest are divided up into a few for DD and DH, and the really nasty looking ones go in the bin. Sorry to say it, but mostly, yes, 'made in China'.

Oh, and the culture here seems to be to give kids big bags of sweets for pretty much any occasion. At least once a week DD (3) is given a bag or two of sweets.

I'm glad that you feel glad for me by assuming that's all I have to worry about in life HappyJoyful.

Where are you loopy? Yes yes lots of sweets for every occasion, birthday party, treat from ballet teacher etc. etc.

Sorry, I was making assumptions, just jaw droppingly amazed that it's something that has crossed your mind to ask, I guess it really, really wouldn't cross my mind to think about sweets and their origins and to ask about - but then that is AIBU.

Is it that they're just grim, high content sugar/e number sweets that you don't want dd to eat or do you actually believe they are harmful in some way? I think that's the bit that's lost me. Do you think other parents go out of their way to give out party bags with harmful contents ?

I think i know what you mean OP DS isn't old enough for sweets yet (22months) but when i already notice that some sweets actually 'glow'

I wouldn't give any sweets with unknown ingredients, Chinese, British or otherwise.

Why does she get so many sweets? My DCs get any sweets which I choose to give them (not many because I just don't think to) and the occasional thing if we go to friends or whatever. Party bags round here don't even have them in very much.

KL.

Happy, there are seem to be no regulations here for foodstuffs, and the produce from China in particular is poorly regulated. We're talking a sort of sweets that can't be bought in Europe. Really nasty coloured weird things.
One thing DD had was a push-pop type contraption with a lovely star-shaped projector torch on the end. But the light on it was a laser. She is 3 and incapable of not pointing it in people's eyes. Just one example. Mostly I object to my small children eating anything flourescent.

I guess it's not crossed your mind as it's not something you have to think about, because these sweets are not common in the UK, unlike here.

No, I don't think parents are going out of their way to give out party bags with harmful content. It's everything Hexenbiest said above. Plus everything in moderation...... a few sweets a week I don't think does much harm, a bagful every couple of weeks is too much IMO, wherever the country of origin might be.

Different culture. A party at nursery or where we live will usually mean a bag full of sweets, some kind of toy and likely some kind of (often fast food) savoury meal. Just the way they do it here. Even the expats seem to do it. I tend to take the bag away and give her a few every now and then. I'm sure when she's a bit older she'll complain, but not so far.

Incidentally (or is it?) I saw a little boy yesterday with a full set of totally rotten teeth (black nubs). It made me look carefully at the mouths of kids I teach today, and quite a few have poor dentistry, much worse than I would expect at home in the UK.

Ah, thought you might be. They really do love sweets here. :)

We were talking today at work about the Malaysian sweet tooth. If you were calorie counter (I don't really believe in them), I wonder how many te tariks, nasi lemaks and roti canai you could have before using up your daily allowance? You'd never get past breakfast!

Hmmmm.....is that why I've been putting on weight...?

wow, ok, so I'm understanding this bit more now- apologies for being so dense. Yuck, they do sound grim and not something I would be giving my dd.
I would generally think the everything in moderation but these do sound horrid and I'd bin.

OP I think you've fallen foul of a cultural difference on this thread. I think many on here automatically assume everyone is in the UK unless it's stated clearly that you don't!

Now that I understand where you're living, the quantity of sweets and no ingredients list I think YAN at all BU! It sounds like a difficult situation, you may have a lot of explaining to do when your children are older and want to consume them all though