To wonder who is drinking sugary drinks with their dinner

[Seventy6]

Govt advice is that families should have a jug of water on the table at dinner time. Do people really have sugary or even fizzy drinks with their meal?

[fatlazymummy]

We don't have a jug of anything on the table at meal times. I never drink with my meals, neither does my daughter. My son has aspartame laden squash, or water if we've run out.

[Glittertwins]

I drink diet Coke because I don't like the taste of full fat!

[SquigglySquid]

Growing up and it'll probably be the same way for DD we had a choice of milk or water at the table. Sugar drinks were for lunch.

[Seventy6]

I don't have a drink with my dinner, sometimes wine. So it seems it wasn't a crazy bit of advice as nearly everyone seems to have sugary drinks with meals.
That's ok then.

I would have thought less people would sit at a table to eat than drink sugary drinks with dinner, but that's a whole other thread I expect..

[GoldenGytha]

I never drink water, at any time, always drink juice, usually coke at mealtimes.

We don't have a dining table, we eat our heals on our laps, so definitely no jugs of water on tables.

[Philoslothy]

I have just had cheesy chips with a can of coke.

[queenofthemountains]

We mainly have vimto at mealtimes or lemonade. No one has bad teeth or overweight. I am working class though.

[justgirl]

I do. And in fact (don't flame me) I drink nothing else almost everything I ever drink is coke (literally!). I am hugely embarrassed to admit that.

[Meh84]

The kids all have dandelion and burdock...I'm drinking neat gin and DH is on the special brew.

Nowt wrong with us

[Quangle]

We never have anything other than water. Ever (occasional glass of wine for me!)

I recently got a letter from school telling me that DS is too fat and I should try replacing fizzy drinks with diet versions. Threw that straight in the bin and got on with eating my quinoa and lentil wrap .

[Meh84]

Cheesy chips Philoslothy....that's soo trampy

[Meh84]

[Sallystyle]

I am. I drink pepsi max for breakfast and dinner. With meals and in-between.

I am not dead or obese yet and no, I don't believe aspartame is evil.

My children usually have water with a meal and then squash and sometimes.. gasp.. lemonade after.

[taxi4ballet]

Iron is absorbed best by your body when eaten in the same meal as - vitamin c... er, what, like an orange juice perhaps?

Doh!

[Sallystyle]

For some people, sweet drinks will trigger you to crave crap. For me, it curbs them. Drinking diet coke won't cause you to gain weight, it just might trigger you to eat more, but a no calorie drink doesn't make you fat.

I am slim and drink pepsi max like a fish. Despite being told on MN a few times that people who drink diet drinks are fat or will soon become so.

[pandarific]

Why do people get so knickers in a twist about scientific fact? There is a shitload of pure sugar (which is really really bad for you by the way) in fruit juice. Give it to your children with their dinner if you want to give them a nice punch in the pancreas as well as a potential future weight problem.

[EndoplasmicReticulum]

We did tonight. It's Friday.

[fatlazymummy]

panderific I was advised to give orange juice to my son at dinner time to aid iron absorption. I believe that is science as well?
He ate very little, was probably malnourished and the 'shitload' of sugar in the orange juice didn't seem to make him obese.

[WashingFanatic]

Not usually. The dc's usually have squash, water or juice. Occasionally we have a bottle of pop with Sunday lunch - us and the dc.

[taxi4ballet]

The sugar in fruit is FRUCTOSE. Naturally sweet and in a form usable by your body in the way nature intended it to be.

The sugar in sugar is SUCROSE. Pure unadulterated, manufactured sugar.

Scientific fact.

I know which I'd rather have.

[JassyRadlett]

Where on earth do you think sucrose comes from, taxi?

And on the same subject, how do you feel about wheat, maize and rice?

[MistressDeeCee]

I had orange & mango squash with sparkling water. So did my teen DDs. Then I had a whiskey & coke. So did OH. Still we all drink water quite a lot, in general. No rigid rules on it tho

[taxi4ballet]

I'm talking about the difference between refined sugar and the stuff found naturally in the fruit and veg we eat.

Don't know about you, but I don't go around sucking on half a ton of sugar beet to get the sugar out of it.

[steff13]

I do. And in fact (don't flame me) I drink nothing else almost everything I ever drink is coke (literally!). I am hugely embarrassed to admit that.

The reason I don't buy soda except on Fridays when we order pizza is because my husband and I are absolutely addicted to Coke. If I bought it regularly, we would drink nothing else. We buy one 2-liter bottle on Friday when we pick up the pizza, we all have a cup (except the toddler), and it's gone in one night.

[JassyRadlett]

I grew up in the land of sugar cane. Getting sugar out of sugar cane is bloody easy. To extract raw sugar from sugar cane, you squeeze it. Sort of like, oh I don't know, getting the juice out of fruit.

If you want to eat the fructose in the way 'nature intended' you certainly shouldn't remove the best nutrition by juicing it. You should eat the bloody fruit. But don't kid yourself that fructose is inherently virtuous.