For wanting to stop this biscuit incident?

[Cbh1978]

Shopping centre. Tuesday afternoon. Warrington. Millies Cookies. Mother and (I think) her parents are with a child in a pushchair. Child aged six months approx.

They buy cookies, then give a whole one the size of the baby's head to the baby. Baby not overly impressed I have to say. Granny even remarked 'oh, don't you like it'?

Agggghhhhh!!!! I managed to resist stomping over but then wondered if I was then complicit in this.

10mins later I saw baby with just a stump of biscuit in her tiny hand. I just hope she had thrown the rest somewhere.

Perhaps it is just that I am a tad sensitive to sugar and salt etc issues. Our 11mth old has only had sugar and salt in bread. Have to confess I can't be bothered to make sugar-free bread but not so much as a Petit Filous has passed his lips. His first sugar rush will be his first birthday cake.

Really, they don't need it. Not even in stewed fruit.

Live and let live... Maybe. :-/

I would love to see you stomping over and trying to remove a treat from my DD in her buggy, you would be lucky to have fingers left at the end of it .

Not that I was giving her huge cookies at 6 months old, but now at almost 2 I sometimes resort to chocolate buttons to bribe her to sit in the buggy for shopping trips, everything in moderation eh, I don't think a bit of sugar sometimes is harmful to an active child.

Oh God how times change. When my dd was 6 months she loved pink wafer biscuits - sugar and artificial colours - yum! And she had Petit Filous.

On the other hand this is the child who aged 3 announced in a loud voice in the supermarket as I browsed the veg "oh, cabbage, yum, yum".

Mind you I would have scoffed the cookie far too good for a baby.

I weaned my precious one on Mars Bars.

Judgemental, much?!?

Are Millie's cookies worse than Gregg's sausage rolls?

I used to eat farleys rusks, aren't they about 98% sugar or something? Don't have a sweet tooth now at all.

I have a stash of home-baked millie-style cookies in my kitchen right now. Scuse me a minute...

Hate to tell you, but fruit sugars are still sugars, as is honey. They're all every bit as good bad as each other.

I'd say there is a difference with fruit sugars - yes, the sugars themselves are bad for you, but fruit also has vitamins and minerals, not just empty calories as in a biscuit.

Not that I give a shite, like. Just sayin.

Fruit is good for you, but fructose isn't packed full of vitamins.

True, I'd rather give a yoghurt than a biscuit.

"I have a stash of home-baked millie-style cookies in my kitchen right now"

Can I come over?

Ds was 7 months old when i caught him licking a slug! Was organic I suppose! Would have preferred a giant head size biscuit, and he does have a rather large head!

I would have judged purely for wasting a perfectly good giant cookie on a 6 months old who was more likely to end up sitting on it or dropping it when I could have eaten it instead.

As long as the child didn't wash it down with a Red Bull I'm sure it's just fine ... (Am actually a bit shocked at 6 month old having head sized Millie's cookie though)

yuk, yuk, yuk,,,,

I am a little sensitive about sugar and fat to children at the moment though... had a bit of a scare about arterial plaques and fat in the brain after dad had a stroke.

Why don't you ask Father Christmas for a life this year? Because you obviously don't have one.

Stomping over my arse.

My dsis was completely ott about my niece eating sugar. Guess which kid is always the first to dive into the cakes at parties? I know dh gives ds stuff I wouldn't but I pick my battles.

I have never heard of Millies.

Cookies the size if a baby's head, you say?

::goes searching::

Dammit. Not in NI.

Oh ffs. It was a cookie, not cyanide.

Love it how people seem to feel even more passionate about my thread than I felt about the incident itself. Mind you, hooked a tiny piece of broken glass from son's bottom lip this morning. Obviously didn't hand it to him per biscuit incident, but as said above, am hardly infallible. Guess partner missed a bit from kitchen floor when a glass smashed last week. Like the slug story. I used to eat dead flies from windowsills. And Farleys rusks (not at the same time and not off windowsills). Don't have a sweet tooth either. :-)

Cbh1978.

Fakebook - any call for that? Really? I mean, I don't agree with the OP, but I'd show that in the form of gentle piss-taking rather than downright nastiness.

Thanks Jesus.

Licking wounds... :-)

Quite new to all this. This is my first thread. There are some scary tigers on here!

Will nobody think of the goats biscuits?