Sugary yogurts

[AnnieHallScotland]

I am aware my son age six does not have much dairy in his diet. He has milk in porridge / cereal in the morning and sometimes cheese (but more grated over pasta etc). His little sister loves natural yogurt and is cheese crazy.

He really doesn't like natural yogurt and doesn't like to drink a glass of milk (he had a milk allergy until he was four so never got in the habit of these things).

WIBU to give him petit filou style yogurts or flavoured milk despite the sugar so he can have the calcium?

Any yoghurts are fine for giving to children in reasonable amounts.
Anything with no added sugar still has sugar anyway, it's no better for teeth, if your son likes petit filous then let him have it.

Milkshake with sugar from the milk, sugar from the fruit and sugar from the honey.
Yep, that's amazingly healthy and so different from that nasty petit filous.

Dear god, it's the MN orthorexics.

Getting calcium in is way more important that fussing over sugar.worst case scenario-looses a tooth or two(with a balanced duet and tooth brushing unlikely still).no yogurt/minimum calcium-weak bones/rickets.I know which Id prefer.in a calcium dairy front will he eat rice pud,cheese sauce,custard,good quality ice cream?tinned pilchard/salmon with bones mashed in and eaten is also calcium rich (but not popular with all kids mine weird exceptions--)

I discovered Longley Farm fromage frais when my sister was (baby led) weaning her eldest daughter. My mum worked in childcare for years and actually recommended it for self feeding as it's less sloppy than yogurt, so little one can't fling it as far! They do contain sugar, but like their yoghurts they only have 3 ingredients - milk unrefined cane sugar and fruit.
Only trouble is I can't find them anywhere. now :(

I can't stand the whole concept of "childrens food". There is no such thing so it's not giving kids, kids yoghurts. It's giving kids junk dressed up as "healthy child friendly snacks"

Fwiw i would go with greek yoghurt and mashed berries or milk & banana smoothie.

Milkshake with sugar from the milk, sugar from the fruit and sugar from the honey. Yep, that's amazingly healthy

Only on mn could someone be stupid enough to try and argue that the sugar content of a glass of milk and a banana is as bad as that in kids synthetic-sugar packed yoghurts

Couldn't agree more Willow

Food is good, it doesn't have to have a cartoon character on it to give it to kids.

Food is FOOD that is

Morrison's have Longley Farm yoghurts. They are sweetened with sugar, but less than most other brands. There's still a natural sourness left which can take a while to acclimatise to if used to the usual ranges of sweetened yoghurt.

There is nutritional benefit to yoghurt and it is a reasonable part of a balanced diet, and it isn't unreasonable to consider the sugar levels of it when combined with other foods.

One of my DCs had CMPA. Fortunately his taste for food was quite varied at the time so he could make up a decent calcium level from fortified "milk" and other foods- including baked beans.

Yes I agree with above poster that I'd rather a treat here and there of chocolate (also they get these things at birthday parties etc) than an every day thing, hidden in for e.g. sauces, cereals, yogurts. But I am also concerned he is not getting enough calcium. The smoothie ideas are great actually as I do have a smoothie maker gathering dust in the cupboard so could give that a whirl.

I also try and avoid "kids food" someone said to me think before you give something to a toddler- would you eat that yourself. I like that philosophy, I wouldn't eat a yogurt with added sugar refined sugar.

We tried to stick to Little Yeo or Rachel's "my first yoghurt" as both are far less sweet than petit filous or similar.

This post makes me feel depressed!

Camnico why?

Cause I give my little one different kinds of yoghurts, including the peppa pig ones etc. This post just makes me feel like I'm knowingly not doing my best by him just because I'm giving him sugary yoghurts

It's not even the divided opinions that's making me feel like that.. it's just some posters are so raging at even the thought of a petit filous going near their kids mouths

Little Yeo's are great or you could add fruit purée to natural yoghurt to sweeten it.

Camnico I'm sure you are doing a fab job, please don't feel bad :( we all feed our kids differently and as long as they have a balanced diet I don't think there is much harm in a petit filou or two!! I am just aware that my son is at an age (6) where there are lots of birthday parties and school seem to give them cake as part of supposingly healthy lunch (that's for another thread) so I am weighing up some other yogurt options x

Smiling at the idea of offering dd a few chunks of firm tofu when she asks for her after-dinner yoghurt.

We are Little Yeos fans here.

Cause I give my little one different kinds of yoghurts, including the peppa pig ones etc

Spend some time browsing the back info of the mini pots for sugar content (per 100g). Even the kids yoghurts vary massively and the more 'branded' the worse they are IME. Tesco used to do an own brand of the tiny fromage frais yoghurts which were much lower in sugar than PF and lots of others.

If your young dc like a certain pot (a friend of mines dc would only eat yoghurt from a PF pot which they recognised), try washing one out and decanting other yoghurt into it which often works too.

Be careful with the light stuff OP, even some of that is full of sugar, especially if marked as low fat.

I dont see no harm in the little petit filois yoghurts either. Everything in moderation, even moderation.

Camnico whatever you do, do NOT admit to giving your DC a fruit shoot. You'll break MN

I'm lucky with my ds he will eat plain Greek yoghurt but dd won't so she has munch brunch or whatever, hopefully as she gets older she'll switch to plain stuff but her diet is good overall so I'm not bothered about her having a munch brunch

My ds is dairy free to shrink his adenoids atm. I get his calcium in by giving him green smoothies with colliard greens or kale. Would that work?

Cakescakescakes mine do too, and they have healthy teeth and are healthy weight.

another thing I do is buy big pots of natural yogurt and top it with fruit and honey.