To not offer squash?

[OwlinaTree]

Have just chucked out most of a bottle of diluting squash that went out of date in Dec! Me and dh used to drink loads of it but have given it up a while ago now. No one drinks it now.

It was useful though for visiting children. But not that many actually wanted it. My ds is 3, most of his friends don't drink it. I'd was mainly the slightly older children that visit us.

I don't really want to buy another bottle if it's just going to get chucked away, but can I really get away with only offering milk or water to visiting children?

I check with parents before I offer drinks.

My DC only drink water or milk.

We drink water here. The country I live in doesn't sell dilute juice. Millions of children, no juice. Not necessary IMO.

I never have any, unless we've won it on a tombola. The visiting children are used to the fact that it's water or water here. There is sometimes Ribena that gets sneaked in by either DH or DS2 but I'm not letting glasses of that away from the table on super staining grounds.

I like a nice cold glass of squash on a hot day, much prefer it to fizzy drinks and don't like tap water where I live because it's really chlorinated. However I wouldn't be offended if I was at a friend's house and they didn't have squash - I would just have tea instead.

I bloody love a glass of fruit squash! Me and DP always have some in the house.

That being said if I was at a friends house and she had none to offer I wouldn't care in the slightest. YANBU

I'd be happy to only offer water/be offered water. But also you may as well have a bottle in if you have the room. You don't need to chuck it, it just might've slightly changed in colour rather than go off as such.

I'd keep some in personally to offer visitors, just because I like to have a range of drinks to offer.

I buy juice but mix it with water like it's squash. Neat juice is far too sweet for me now.

We only drink fresh mountain spring water drawn from a well in this house.

Highalert I do hope that your well was built using ethical labour? Otherwise you are as bad as the mothers who have squash in the house.

Water or milk is enough. I offer juice on rare occasions (100% fruit, not concentrate)

Highalert - our water is drawn from a well.

Along with low levels of e-coli........

Thankfully we got it tested before offering to visiting kids and now have a filter.

I have no problem offering it to visitors now. It tastes really nice as there's no chlorine. And by the time they get sick they'll be gone home and won't know why (only joking - it's clear since we put in the filter)

I've never bought a bottle of squash. It never dawned on me that there was any reason to. Although people obviously do buy it as it's stocked in the local shops.

And wisterian - the labour wasn't at all ethical. There were threats of legal action on our part to get him to finish what he was meant to do.

I find visiting kids are surprised that I don't have squash (or biscuits) in the house. In fact, one rifled through my cupboards to check

It doesn't make me buy it, but it does make me think it's widely expected by primary age kids.

Lol at the well.

But it does make me think it's widely expected by primary age kids.

See that's what I think, children who visit would probably expect it as a choice.

I've never bought a bottle of squash. It never dawned on me that there was any reason to.

It doesn't taste of anything!

Just buy a bottle of squash,OP. Hopefully none of your kids friends parents are mumsnetters.

I love Robinson's Lemon squash! Having a jug of it with dinner.

My DC only drink water or milk.

My teen is like that - he very occasionally has a glass of squash when he's out for a meal, but 99% of the time he'll only drink water or milk.
He gets looked at like he's got two heads when he asks for a water.
"Are you sure you don't want some Coke? Not even a juice?"
No, he just wants the water and has to repeat himself until they get the message.

I have never bought squash as an adult. One of my siblings used to drink it so I remember it being in the cupboard as a child but I don't think many children drink it nowadays? We generally have water or milk or fresh orange juice as choices when children come here and it's never been a problem.

Plenty of adults and children drink squash it's only on MN that it"a considered evil.

I like squash, it's nice and refreshing (and most are sugar-free these days), but wouldn't expect it to be on offer in every house I visit.

Eye-rolling slightly at the superior tone of the "only pure, not-from-concentrate fruit juice in our house, thank you" posters. Fruit juice contains about as much sugar as Coke, dentists abhor it. It's lovely, but definitely not an ideal everyday drink.

Who used the word "unnatural" - I think only those trying to argue with ghosts...

It's no more "unnatural" than most things, it's just odd that it's almost a basic essential in the UK but totally unheard of and unavailable in most of Europe...

Juice is not squash. Squash is grim, why can't you have normal juice?