A tiny bag of harribo and multi vitamin is healthier than a little box of raisons

[Southglosmum]

Another other mum thought this was rubbish, but the harribo have less cals, are less sticky so cause less tooth decay and don't get stuck between the teeth, have more vitamins and most importantly fill a child up more and leave them satisfied. So far as I'm aware they area healthier choice right?

Some of the stuff I read on here...

patricia the op means a packet of haribo with a separate multi vitamin.

Mistyped, meant to write doesn't the op mean haribo with a separate multivitamin?

Haliborange ingredients are just as bad.

OP you make it sound like Haribo is some sort of superfood.

This has made my morning.

Just when you think you've seen it all..😮

Apple, blackcurrant, elderberry, grape, kiwi, lemon, mango, nettle, orange, passion fruit AND spinach. Well that's the 5-a-day sorted - who needs raisins?!

Haribo, though tasty, don't have any real goodness do they? Fine as an occasional snack and part of a balanced diet overall, but not a regular consumption.

Raisins are healthier in that they are fruit but they are horrific for teeth - worse than sweets and chocolate quite often and they do stick much more than sweets. Partly as some people treat them as really good/healthy and give regularly. Dds dentist hated them. He was seeing an increase in issues with children's teeth particularly among Crain groups of people - and dried fruit was a real bug bear.

So again, a few dried fruits occasionally, teamed with good dental hygiene - fine. But definitely not to be used as a regular treat/snack.

Sats

Scary how dense some people are.

What do people think about snacks generally? The HV told me to give my 9 month old baby several snacks a day as well as her three meals. She's not struggling to gain weight or anything, all fine, and breastfed in addition.

Snacks are fine. Small people have small tummies, there's nothing wrong with them needing to eat a few times a day.

If Haribo filled a child up, I'd be concerned about how much Haribo they'd eaten.

They're both quite shit OP. To be enjoyed in moderation. Did you make the mistake of criticising what she was feeding her child by any chance? Then splutter about trying to justify it by saying Haribo are healthy?

Neither are healthy. But it doesn't matter anyway. Because if you're genuinely hungry (rather than thinking you're hungry) you should be eating something decent. And if you aren't genuinely hungry then no need to be eating anything. Of course if you just fancy something high in sugar, then it also doesn't matter which because it should be occasional enough not to matter.

It's bad enough we have adults that can't just stick to eating only what they need 99% of the time. It's beyond me why anyone would then go out of their way to teach young children the same bad habits. This culture of following kids about and constantly offering snacks is bonkers.

I'm inclined to agree with the comments about snacks. Why do people need to graze so much?

The concept of the OP is stupid beyond belief. I take it that it's yet another attempt to be "controversial".

I would dispute that haribos fill the child more.

Put the packet in a glass of water - they expand by 10 times - it's disgusting

Kids do need to graze. Setting up a dietary habit of eating little and often rather than three big meals and fasting between them is actually metabolically beneficial. I'm going to stand up for snacking.

But not on bloody Haribo. And I say this as a relaxed Mum.

I don't feed my boy dried fruit though. Fresh all the way.

And I'd much rather he had chocolate than haribo or indeed any sweets/lollipops as a treat.

cauli if you mean 'grazing' in the sense you are spreading out a healthy balanced 3 meal diet over a greater number of small snacks, then I agree it makes no odds. Other than perhaps on a personal choice level.

Most of those who buy into snack culture aren't doing that with their kids ime. It's eating snacks when they aren't hungry, and more along the lines of a bit of breakfast, mid morning eat random crap, pick at lunch, pick at shite afternoon, pick at dinner, eat more junk evening.

My friend who lives in the states these days was 'educated' by her ante-natal care specialist about the importance of the food groups. She ended by saying that in order to combine protein, carbohydrate and vegetables, pizza was the perfect meal and should be eaten often in pregnancy.

Don't eat shit instead of food. That would be my advice.

Not the point as I hate Haribo personally but does anyone else LOVE the Haribo adverts?
Especially the rugby one where the hunky male adults all have the voices of 4 year olds.

I disagree on the needing to graze thing. I think the 'little and often' thing has been oversold. My children have a snack after school because they're genuinely really hungry and that's it.

I think it's important to be able to recognise hunger, but also to realise that it's not an emergency. Without those tools it is very very easy to get fat, especially in our society which peddles junk food to everyone all the time. And regardless of how healthily your household eats, your children will be exposed to the prevailing culture of eating a steady stream of refined carbs, fat and sugar.

I think people have different needs. It's far too simplistic to say "people shouldn't graze"
Dd1 does graze. She always has since a toddler. Shes also very skinny and has been since a child.
I on the other hand don't graze, i don't want to. I'd much rather have 3 meals a day.

If I didn't snack I would loose a lot of weight that I can't afford to (and be an utter bitch most of the time). Different things suit different people.

I'm with you OP. I'm having a glass of prosecco tonight because it's healthier than diet coke with all that aspartame.

Give your kid Haribo if you must but don't kid yourself it's healthy while you're doing it.

I see where you're coming from but I think the point is more that raisins probably aren't that much better than haribo rather than that haribo is healthy... That said the raisins do have fibre which the haribo don't.