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Are Petit Filous really that bad? What yoghurts do you give to your kids?

138 replies

Geordielassinacoat · 04/10/2017 23:31

From the "is this an acceptable tea" thread yesterday, there was a lots of comments about PF's being bad. So, what yoghurts does everyone give their kids? I need some ideas!

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LovelyPrep · 05/10/2017 07:41

"sugar bomb" Grin only on MN.

Cat2014 · 05/10/2017 07:44

Ok so if ds wouldn't eat natural or Greek yoghurt and I was going to buy him a flavoured one what's the best?

londonrach · 05/10/2017 07:44

Little yeos

nomad5 · 05/10/2017 07:47

My kids love yogurt but not plain Greek yogurt. I basically just look at whatever full fat one in the supermarket has the least amount of sugar and isn't ridiculously expensive.

Mind you we live in a continental country famous for chocolate and pastries so my DCs do have their fair share of sugary treats! I just don't like them having lots of sugar in ordinary non-treat items like dairy.

thenewaveragebear1983 · 05/10/2017 07:53

My older two prefer a chocolate mousse to a yoghurt these days. We also have tinned fruit, rice pudding, custard, jelly- that sort of thing. Ice lollies too. We like pudding in our house!

Little ds will eat full fat Greek yogurt with defrosted frozen cherries or raspberries, but that's mostly because he steals food from me as a result of doing BLW and thinks all food is fair game. He also has quite adult tastes for a 2 year old such as he likes olives, various dips, spicy food, etc so can handle the taste of plain yoghurt. Full fat is considerably less sour tasting than fat free. (He also will eat peppa pig yoghurts but I don't buy them often. The supermarket value ones are the same but I think they have less sugar (marginally)

TammySwansonTwo · 05/10/2017 07:55

CourtneyLove that's true, but there's a reason that the body handles sugar differently in fruit than separately - the fibre in the fruit helps the body to process the sugar. That's why fruit juice is not great for you (all of the stuff in the fruit that helps you process the sugar is gone) but whole fruit smoothies and purees are better.

If anyone is concerned about sugar, there was an excellent documentary on Netflix a while ago called Fed Up which focussed on the myth of energy in / out being responsible for the obesity epidemic. Spoiler alert: it's really sugar, and its in everything. Which sucks for me, as I bloody love sugar.

My twins don't get yoghurt (they're allergic to dairy and soy, I'm allergic to nuts and seeds... doesn't leave us with many options sadly) and I wouldn't be afraid to give them the odd PF if they could have it, but I am absolutely trying to limit their sugar. They have whole fruits and fruit purees but no other sweet treats yet (they're almost 13 months) or added sugar / honey etc to anything and I'm hoping to keep it that way as long as possible. Their sweet tooth seems satisfied by fruit for now!

CandyMelts · 05/10/2017 07:57

I've no kids but was shopping for a friend and worked out that Asda organic little angels fromage frais have the lowest sugar and are like half the price of little yeos. she's not switched back since

Ionarocks · 05/10/2017 07:58

Little Yeos. But I have an under 2 yo, I wouldn't be so bothered about what an older child had. My ds has always refused plain yoghurt, even when weaning.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 05/10/2017 08:03

I don't buy the little pots for my 3 year old any more. He'd eat 3 in one sitting if you let him! He has a grown up sized pot of fruity yoghurt in his preschool lunch box, the Sainsbury's own ones. Always eaten with gusto.
I did once have a search for full fat yoghurt. I found one pot of plain yoghurt in the supermarket, which everyone hated. Had to mix stuff into it so it would get eaten, honey, fruit etc. In which case, what's the point? Buy a low sugar yoghurt… and then add sugar.

DerelictWreck · 05/10/2017 08:07

*A pot of Petit Filou has 4.5g of sugar and a Frube has 2.7g. A teaspoon of honey has 6g. Just shows how pointless being superior is

You just beat me to it. A tangerine has more sugar in it than a Petit Filou*

Yes but surely you know it's not that simple - there's no way people can be advocating processed, refined sugar filling foods over natural things like honey and fruit... right?!

Nancy91 · 05/10/2017 08:20

Come on people - we all know that children shouldn't be allowed enjoyable food and should eat their pot of unsweetened misery and be grateful that their parents have a superior knowledge of nutrition gained from extensive MN thread reading.

CourtneyLoveIsMySpiritAnimal · 05/10/2017 08:26

Nancy Grin

Yes but surely you know it's not that simple - there's no way people can be advocating processed, refined sugar filling foods over natural things like honey and fruit... right?

You’re correct. From now on, I’m going to set my kids free in the forest every lunchtime and they can just forage for nuts and wild berries.

kaytee87 · 05/10/2017 08:27

nancy maybe you only enjoy sweet food but plenty of other people like plain yoghurt Hmm

DonkeyPunch88 · 05/10/2017 08:38

Whatever Sainsbury’s has on offer is what my lot get Grin

FartnissEverbeans · 05/10/2017 08:41

Activia and Yeo Valley - only plain ones. DS is obsessed with plain yoghurt, it's one of the few things he'll reliably eat every time.

He likes the flavoured ones too (has had them a couple of times) but I figured if he likes the plain ones we're better sticking to them. He has a yoghurt every day at nursery.

I'm quite laid back about sugar really and he does get the occasional milky bar Grin

FartnissEverbeans · 05/10/2017 08:43

Isn't all sugar metabolised in the same way anyway? It's all turned into glucose.

I thought fruit, for example, is better than refined stuff not due to sugar content but because it has lots of other good stuff as well as the sugar?

AtlanticWaves · 05/10/2017 08:45

Mine are 3 and 6

They both eat plain yogurt (adult size)
DS1 also eats a fromage blanc
DS2 also eats a child-sized chocolate/vanilla yogurt thingy. We do that to get him having more calcium as he doesn't drink milk.

Neither of them like flavoured yogurts

SnugglySnerd · 05/10/2017 08:45

DD will eat any yoghurt. Plain, fruity anything.
I wouldn't buy pf or any kids' yoghurt as it's overpriced and those little pots are ridiculous. She'd want to eat about 4!

kaytee87 · 05/10/2017 08:51

everniss basically yes, it's weighing up whether the goodness in the food outweighs the sugar basically. Fruit is obviously very good for you so the sugar doesn't matter as much. Whereas something like a fizzy drink is terrible because there's no goodness in it to outweigh the sugar.

Memememeandyou · 05/10/2017 09:25

My now teenage ds was practically weaned on pf. From 16 weeks old he'd have3 a day alongside his fruit and veg purée and baby rice. It never crossed my mind to worry.anyway he's now a tall skinny teen and doesn't have a particularly sweet tooth. He wouldn't eat a pf now.

Lostmyunicorn · 05/10/2017 09:49

Stealth sugar is added to so many things. If you buy low fat plain yoghurt (as opposed to full fat) which is marketed as healthier it will probably have almost twice the sugar (to compensate for the lack of fat). The point is it's cumulative so we are all consuming sugar without realising. There was a really interesting article in the guardian a while back where a family, who viewed themselves as pretty average, just reasonably healthy eaters, registered the sugars in every thing they ate with the help of a nutritionist, and they were really shocked by the quantity they were consuming without realising it. The worst culprits iirc were fruit yoghurts, yoghurt type deserts and especially fruit juice, smoothies etc.

existentialmoment · 05/10/2017 09:52

As usual the people wittering most and judging others are the ones who actually understand the least. Tarquin with his greek yoghurt and fruit and honey is eating twice the sugar of Frogmella with her petit filous.

Feed your kid what you like and unclench. It really doesn't matter.

PollyPerky · 05/10/2017 10:05

For a start you don't need a teaspoonful of honey in plain yoghurt.
I eat only plain greek yoghurt- the sort from Greece in the blue and white tubs.
I have a minute drizzle of honey on it. Certainly not a teaspoon.

If you add fresh fruit, ok it has natural sugar, but it also has Vit C, fibre and antioxidants ( eg blueberries.)

I don't think it's a 'biggy' to give a child a yoghurt with some sugar in it, but some pots have 3 teaspoons. Sugar is addictive and you are setting their taste buds for life.

Also, over a day, that yoghurt, plus some ketchup, plus a biscuit or something, takes them right up to the max suggested amount of 5 teaspoons a day (which seems a huge amount to me- we don't eat anything like 5 teaspoons sugar a day.)

FakePlasticTeaLeaves · 05/10/2017 10:06

Mine won't touch yogurt. Instead they graze on Quinoa, Avocado, Chia Seeds and Kale.

Coincidentally, that is what makes up all their main meals as well.

CheerfulMuddler · 05/10/2017 10:11

Mine gets Peppa yogurts in his packed lunch. But he will also eat plain yoghurt - he loves yoghurt in any form.
Vegetables, now, that's a whole different thing ...