Would you give NikNaks to a 14 month old baby?

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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

@TalkingSchist they'll probably still be on a purée diet when starting school

@Mamai90 what's the difference between that and some chicken and a broccoli? Neither of which melt in the mouth but both of which my DD eats

I was just thinking that.

My 7 month old is capable of eating finger foods that don't 'melt in the mouth'. 😂

I never understand people’s desire to get their babies on to junk food young. Up to about age 7 you’ve got almost complete control over what they eat, so you should make the most of it. There’s plenty of time for the relentless McDonald’s pestering.

It’s nothing to do with making your own organic carrot chips etc etc, it’s about trying to keep them eating the healthy stuff as long as you can. Because once Pandora’s box is open and they’ve discovered chicken nuggets and haribo, you can’t go back.

My 7 year old is still surviving purely on sugar paper, should I try her with something like a skip?

My sons 15 months and had quavers and other crisps. I think some on here need to get a grip. Few crisps now and again ain't gonna do any harm 🙄

One or two, yes, a packet for lunch every day, no.

Agree with this. It's not the salt I'd be worried about, I'd give a toddler the occasional few ready salted crisps or plain tortilla chips if I had bought them for others.

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

Well, I don't think they're that bad! But I wouldn't feed them to my 14 month old, and you'd be wrong to assume she's a PFB. I wouldn't feed them to my four year old either. I wouldn't object to her having some at a party or something, but I just don't buy them for me or DC.

I wouldn’t consider any type of crisp snack tbh. Maybe pick up a pack of those Ella’s kitchen things if I was out and about and really had no other options

I love the rib n saucy ones. I’ll have yours.

I probably wouldn’t give any of those crisps to a toddler though. Too much salt. And I don’t want to raise their expectations of tastiness too high!

Far too much salt for a baby's tiny kidneys

Chicken and broccoli, carrots etc can be prepared in a way that they are soft and easy to chew even if they still have a bit of bite it's not like a nik nak which can be quite hard to get your teeth through. My DD didn't have a lot of teeth at 14 months, there's no way I'd have fed her a nik nak.

Because I don't think forbidding food is necessarily a good thing and can potentially cause unhealthy relationships with food. I think most people have had a friend at a party growing up gorge themselves on junk because that's the only time they were allowed to eat it.

Even at 7 months, I give mine a little taste of anything he's interested in. The unhealthy stuff included.

@supermamio I’ll need to get on the hunt!

Their gums can be quite hard too. Mine doesn't have any teeth yet and will have a good gnaw at most things.

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Ds could always try whatever I had (except alcohol), but I just didn't have things like nik naks in the house. I couldn't have afforded to buy rubbish on top of the cost of regular food, and I'm not interested in much of it myself anyway. He could eat whatever at parties and didn't go crazy over any of it, many things he tried and wasn't keen, he tended to go for foods he was used to.

This has to be a joke.

I mean, at that age mine kept trying to eat the snails she found in the garden, so….

My desire to get my baby onto junk food from young because of the occasional wotsis and quavers? Pull the other one

That will be the difference. Some people will have nik naks in the house or they will get the odd takeaway and it will be included with them trying whatever their parents have.

My 276 month old had his first pack with a beer last week. Worried I've given in too soon.

So they go crazy at parties if their parents have it at home but they aren't offered any, but not if their parents just don't buy it?