to object to a slim fast soup promotional pack being put in dd's tray at nursery

[pesme]

it is all trendy packaging and says something along the lines of 'yummy soup in your tummy makes you a yummy mummy' barf!

i object to this on so many levels!

1 - exposing dd aged 3 to the diet industry (ok she probably hasn't a clue but this is my high horse)
2 - using my childs tray as a marketing device.
3 - the phrase yummy mummy
4 - slim fast is evil.

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Oh, wow, Oops, how lovely! We're about to do that too (if we can find somewhere to move to - have sold our house in a week for the asking price - how fab is that? [waits for it all to go horribly wrong]).

I shouldn't worry Patty, think it's what they call a 'quiet news day' on MN, hence the furore over nothing.

i don't think the time would have been wasted returning the product, though, so that's where we differ. if everyone had returned the product the marketing avenue would be closed.

I prefer to choose when I broach these issues with my children though, rather than have it forced on them/me by cynical unscrupulous corporate shit-pedlars and thoughtless (at best) nursery staff.

I run the risk of being "done to" by the tossers whenever I switch the TV on, I know that and can decide when and how much to expose myself and my children to it. I do not expect to find adverts - and free samples are a very successful form of advertising, not an altruistic gift FGS - for unhealthy overpriced body-fascistic tasteless freeze-dried muck in my small child's bookbag at the end of the day. Nobody has really offered a decent argument in favour of it yet - all we've had is "oh, it doesn't matter, throw it in the bin and pretend it never happened" or "Soup!! Soup!! It's all just......Soup!!" [mild despair emoticon]

Hmm... 'furore over nothing'.
Is that the latest 'low fat' dessert from Slimfast?

Oops we moved on the 4th jan and I'm loving the new place, more space great neighbours (but could we have worse ).

Dont worry Patty - i dont know what people expect!

Trying to save people money by offering them for freesomething you received? oh the shame...

Though I dont agree with putting them in the childrens trays or bags, i dont think there was anything wrong with the decision your nursery chose to take. I probably would have done the same.

MN isnt always like that - dont be put off posting again.

Welcome!

Aitch - But someone stated we should be educating the children not giving out this material.
If we were organising for it to be returned we wouldnt have been with the children. We left box open in cloakroom for people who wanted it to help themselves to.
No time spent not with children.
No one being forced to have the product.

hunker, that's GREAT news.

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Erm - actually MN is always like this - but don't stop posting anyway.

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we're not going to agree, patty. i think that it wouldn't have killed you to take five minutes out of your life to write 'return to sender' on the box and hand it into the Post Office, because of the principle involved.

Can I ask what others would have done if they worked in a nursery?

Tis, Tisn't It, Aitch!

It might explain my happy mood, I think...

[feet dance, despite best efforts to keep them still]

I'm not arguing in favour of it. I wouldn't have been offended to this level though. I would never buy Slimfast, but it isn't illegal stuff.

I'd have tipped boiling oil on the stuff, and had the children troop round it chanting "evil soup, bad soup, mummy wouldn't like it".

hmm i wouldn't even call it soup!!

no, but if the company is going to use my child as an advertising delivery person then i would expect a fee from slimfast. tbh i am a bit that nurseries would just go along with it without thinking 'well what are we getting out of this? how do we feel about it ethically?'

please see my previous post re the making of play dough.

I think you've had that question answered more than once, Patty, if you reread the thread.

Some of us would have binned it. Others would have sent it back to the sender with a covering note explaining that a children's nursery is not an appropriate target for diet-industry advertising. Others still would have binned it and then written a more detailed complaint to the company concerned.

Many would have done exactly as you did, and attracted the same criticisms as you have on a public forum frequented by lots of parents.

NO I agree it wouldnt have killed me to have rung the courier to get it collected but it also didnt kill me to let parents who wanted have a few freebies. Its not like I force fed everyone a bowl full.

Fucking hell, you can get Slimfast to supply you a week's worth of product direct through their website.

The irony of it is they're owned by the same people as own Cadbury Trebor Bassett.

So they makes yer fat, they makes yer thin, they're never out of work.

so after giving it careful thought why did you choose your course of action (inaction) rather than ring the courier?