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Would you give NikNaks to a 14 month old baby?

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ColourfulHairbands · 13/07/2023 21:34

Baby already has the odd Wotsit and Quavers but what’s your opinion on NikNaks? This is the orange pack - Nice ‘N’ Spicy flavour btw.

YABU - it’s fine, I’d give it to a 14 month old
YANBU - I wouldn’t give it

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LakeTiticaca · 13/07/2023 22:29

Bloody hell unclutch the pearls!! A few wot sits or suchlike is not going harm a 14 month old kid!!
Get a grip!!

onwardsup4 · 13/07/2023 22:29

RSintes · 13/07/2023 21:42

Wouldn't even give to a 14 year old.

😂

CapEBarra · 13/07/2023 22:29

Mine preferred pickled onion Monster Munch.

Cvn · 13/07/2023 22:30

Also, a 14 month old is hardly a tiny baby is it?? Mine were both roaming around trying to eat sticks and woodlice long before that age. Pretty sure a niknak and a couple wotsits aren't going to be the worst things to have passed through OP's child's digestive system🙄

CrustyWingshield · 13/07/2023 22:30

00100001 · 13/07/2023 22:15

Well, that's just a ridiculous statement.

Can you pronounce all these ingredients and have them in your cupboard?

skimmed milk, whey product, palm oil, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil), lactose, galacto-oligosaccharides from lactose, fish oil1, potassium chloride, Mortierella alpina-oil, choline, sodium citrate, L-phenylalanine, calcium salts of orthophosphoric acid, L-tryptophan, magnesium carbonate, calcium carbonate, L-histidine, zinc sulphate, ferrous sulphate, vitamin C, vitamin E, niacin, pantothenic acid, cupric sulphate, vitamin A, vitamin B1, potassium iodate, vitamin B6, folic acid, sodium selenite, vitamin K, manganese sulphate, vitamin D, D-biotin, vitamin B12

That's baby formula!!

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Baby formula has tryptophan in? Wish i knew that, I would have stopped breastfeeding as my baby might have fucking slept on formula. Looks like my MN organic earth mother milk was lacking in nutrients 😂

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ColourfulHairbands · 13/07/2023 22:31

@PumpkinSoup21 oh don’t say that! I’ve currently got a pack of Pom-Bears in my cupboard for my 2 year old. My 14 month old will no doubt have one or two after dinner. I’m sure I’ll get jumped on for saying that!

@Hugasauras they’re bloody delicious aren’t they. Forget the kids, I buy them for myself😂

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RedHelenB · 13/07/2023 22:31

A try of one won't hurt.

00100001 · 13/07/2023 22:31

Gettingbysomehow · 13/07/2023 22:29

Why don't you just give the kid a pile of salt on a plate and a teaspoon!!! No 14 month old should be eating any kind of adult crisps at all.

How much salt do you think there is on a single niknak??

Go on, tell me.

And what is an "adult" crisp? What therefore is a baby crisp???

LePetitChat · 13/07/2023 22:33

Is anyone else singing the list of ingredients in formula to the tune of the element song?

Namechangeforanamechange · 13/07/2023 22:35

Hmm... my DC are grown up now and I was the queen of PFBs feeding them organic quinoa as babies when nobody knew how to pronounce it but even I wouldn't have lost sleep over a taste of a niknak.

That said, I do remember my bestie at school pointing out that niknaks had calcium silicate (aka slag) as an ingredient after we studied iron smelting in chemistry. A quick check suggests that is no longer the case so they are a tiny bit healthier than they used to be 😂

WeWereInParis · 13/07/2023 22:36

Gettingbysomehow · 13/07/2023 22:29

Why don't you just give the kid a pile of salt on a plate and a teaspoon!!! No 14 month old should be eating any kind of adult crisps at all.

Oh come on. I don't think I've ever actually had a nik nak, but I can't imagine that a single crisp contains spoonfuls of salt.

Abouttimemum · 13/07/2023 22:37

Lol at the perfect parents not giving their child a Quaver 😂

I bloody love Nice n Spicy Nik Naks. Not as much as pickled onion Monster Munch, but they’re up there.

EmeraldFox · 13/07/2023 22:37

TheChosenTwo · 13/07/2023 22:08

Meh, crisps are crisps and if you’re okay with them having a couple of one brand then as far as I’m concerned they’re all crisps.
I wouldn’t have sat my dc down with a bag at that age, no, but they’d have had one of anything they we’re interested in at that age and toddling about towards someone who was eating!
Of course they’re not nutritious but a crisp isn’t going to ruin them for life.

Not really, a crisp made of potato, sunflower oil and salt or a tortilla chip made of maize, sunflower oil and salt is not comparable to some of these snacks with a long list of ingredients, flavours, colours.

LightSpeeds · 13/07/2023 22:40

LunaandLily · 13/07/2023 22:05

Also, how sad is it that you never see Scampi ‘N’ Lemon Nik Naks any more?? They seem to have taken them out of the multipack.

😂

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 13/07/2023 22:42

I don’t think I’d give a baby crisps of any kind. Maybe those baby crisps that look like wotsits but are vegetable “flavoured”. All of them would have too much salt, wouldn’t they?

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 13/07/2023 22:43

LightSpeeds · 13/07/2023 22:40

😂

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This is a good point.

They were lovely. I really like all NikNaks though (but not for a baby!)

Friendshipissue · 13/07/2023 22:44

No. Baby stomach is tiny and they go through a period of massive growth. Ideally everything they eat should be dense in nutrients.
Also the first few years of life is about establishing familiarity with healthy food and taste wise industrially processed stuff can't compete with fresh fruit veg etc. so there is no point in introducing baby to salty junk food.

OdeToBarney · 13/07/2023 22:45

Wow, I thought I was a bit over the top with my 14 month old PFB. But she loves skips and has a few a couple of days a week, and she's just fine. She also would climb over my rotting corpse for a tomato (cut appropriately of course) a blueberry (squished flat), avocado, sweetcorn or houmous, so I don't think we're doing too badly.

Housekeeperbatcocoa · 13/07/2023 22:45

ColourfulHairbands · 13/07/2023 21:53

These comments are brutal!

No the 14 month old did not have a whole bag of bloody NikNaks. I also said that the baby has the odd Wotsis or Quavers. When his sister is having a few, we may give him one or two here and there. It isn’t a daily occurrence….

I personally thought giving a 14 month old two or three spicy NikNaks was too much because of the flavour so I wanted to gather other peoples opinions. I forgot that everyone only gives their child homemade organic carrot puffs and nothing else until they’re about 20.

Off I go to grow my own carrot crisps🫡

My oldest stole a bite of my ham and mustard sandwich at not much older. Expected him to spit it out but he ate it and tried for more! 😂

EmeraldFox · 13/07/2023 22:46

00100001 · 13/07/2023 21:44

Why not???

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I wouldn't either, if they are old enough to eat them then they are old enough to go buy them themselves.

Mamai90 · 13/07/2023 22:49

No, I wouldn't. They don't melt in your mouth like wotsits so I'd be concerned them being a choking hazard.

Namechangeforanamechange · 13/07/2023 22:49

@00100001 a "baby crisp" is an abomination. It is an unhealthy but tasteless version of a proper crisp with no salt. What's the point of an unhealthy snack that doesn't taste good? Disclaimer - I am not suggesting feeding babies salt, just pointing out that marketing persuades parents to buy nasty UPFs that aren't even nice tasting thinking it is a healthy treat whereas it is an unhealthy vile tasting mess.

smilesup · 13/07/2023 22:50

Lysianthus · 13/07/2023 22:06

Can you pronounce the ingredients, and do you have them in your kitchen cupboard? That's all you need to know (for everything you feed your small children). FWIW I suspect none of those crisps pass that test.

This. Google ultra processed foods. We are walking into a health crisis nightmare. Might sound dramatic but this is the age you set their taste buds

TalkingSchist · 13/07/2023 22:50

Mamai90 · 13/07/2023 22:49

No, I wouldn't. They don't melt in your mouth like wotsits so I'd be concerned them being a choking hazard.

😂

At what age do you introduce foods that don’t “melt in the mouth”?

mummyh2016 · 13/07/2023 22:50

My 17 month old adores salt and vinegar crisps, he steals them from his older sister and the other morning I caught him eating pick n mix out the snack cupboard. I'll expect SS at my door any minute.

Those that are acting like bag of quavers is equivalent to crack cocaine am I wrong to presume you only have one PFB?