Would you give NikNaks to a 14 month old baby?

[ColourfulHairbands]

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

Far too young!!! secretly impressed he's got to 23 withoutbeer

Really want a pack of niknaks now!

The point I’m making is that when they’re really little they don’t know about junk food, they don’t know what they’re missing, they don’t ask for it, they don’t know that any foods are forbidden. They just eat the food you give them.

Once they learn about how tasty junk food can be, then they want it, and of course you have to give it to them in moderation, or, as you say, you can cause an unhealthy relationship with food. So if possible I would delay that moment as long as you can.

It’s just not necessary to give them a taste for that stuff early. There’s no need for it. But as so often with AIBU, I wonder why you posted when you clearly think you’re right. Did you just want to have a little fun being the “oh so casual and cool parent”? Or do you just like being slightly rude to people who disagree with you? You asked a question, you got answers.

You’re mad😂

1. I asked a question and you didn’t answer it AT ALL. You went off on your own little tangent about how some parents like to introduce junk to their children from a young age which is not the case with me. I clearly stated that my 14 month old will have a crisp or two when my 2 year old has a few crisps.

2. If you even bothered to read my thread you’d see that most people agree with me and have voted YANBU. My post was asking whether you’d give a 14 month old a NikNak (based off of flavour) and most people have said no. Some won’t give their children crisps altogether and some wouldn’t based on texture/flavour.

I posted on AIBU to gauge opinions and answers to my questions. Not for idiots like you to tell me how I’m raising my kids when you literally don’t have a clue. I’m not going to carry on going back and forth with you. You half read a post and come in the comments chatting shit and I’m being slightly rude? Ok👍

Really? Because some quick maths tells me there's roughly 0.018g of salt per crisp (dividing the total salt by the packet weight for the rib ones.)

Guidelines are for 1-3 year olds to have less than two (2) grams of salt per day.

So they could eat over 100 and still be fine.

Only clicked on the thread hoping that it wasn't about the crisps but a misspelled questioning over whether or not a 14mo could have random nice but useless bits and bobs. Can't lie slightly disappointed, was picturing a tiny kid with a load of dopey ornaments and finding it quite funny

Definitely not - they don't need the extra salt and chemicals.

You didn't learn about rounding I guess. That would be just over 50 not 100.

And nutrition doesn't work like that.

This assumes your toddler eats nothing else all day

Which is not good

You know there's salt in most foods right?

A slice of bread can have 0.5g.

Your wildly inaccurate claims don't make you clever. Quite the opposite

I would ideally bake root vegetables sliced thinly with oil and sugar and serve as crisps. However your child will not die from nik naks.

How does the flavour matter compared with wotsits? Surely they have similar colours and flavours added as they are both those nasty orange dust type? I haven't compared the ingredients of the two myself. If a toddler finds something spicy they can just not eat another, DS was happily eating family foods at that age, so curries and chilli.

@ColourfulHairbands

If you even bothered to read my thread you’d see that most people agree with me and have voted YANBU. My post was asking whether you’d give a 14 month old a NikNak (based off of flavour) and most people have said no. Some won’t give their children crisps altogether and some wouldn’t based on texture/flavour.

I wasn't clear from your OP that you meant 'if you would give a wotsit or a quaver, would you give a niknak'. Is this what you meant? You just said initially that the toddler had had a wotsit and quaver, this could have been given by another person against your wishes or accidentally.

If I was happy giving a wotsit then I would be happy giving a niknak. Personally I wouldn't give either so voted YANBU.

I wouldn’t give a baby that age any crisps! Babies don’t need snacks like that?

Same - actually my oldest is 6 and he isn’t given crisps either.

I know this presumably doesn't apply in OPs case, but for all the PPs being so judgey about giving a 14m old wotsits:

my DS2 was tube fed as a baby, and every single health professional that we saw in connection with feeding - cleft, SALT, dietitian, paediatrician - recommended wotsits to us to start getting him used to textures.

I dread to think what you would have all thought if you'd seen him munching away on a wotsit, with the feeding tube taped all across his face

The odd wotsit, or even niknak, will be fine.

I am absolutely shocked at how many people think they're being all superior by falling for the marketing nonsense of "baby crisps".

Give your baby crisps in moderation or don't, but kid yourself that by paying well over the odds for "special" crisps you're somehow the better parent?

I don't fall for 'baby crisps' but would allow a toddler three ingredient crisps like ready salted or plain tortilla chips if they were being shared.

I wouldn't give any of those crisps

I think the biggest question here is which flavour is best? Scampi & Lemon or Nice N Spicy. It's Scampi & Lemon.

I'd think there was a good reason why he was eating them because of the feeding tube.

I gave my 14 month old quavers all the time. Cheaper than those bloody veggie straws and only a very slightly higher salt content. She loved them and was second born so I was less precious 😇

Nik naks I personally wouldn't as they are harder and also a lot stronger tasting and saltier.

Good grief some of the judgey people on here!

I wouldn’t eat those myself let alone give to a baby. So much junk and salt:

I have never forgiven lemon and scampi for being the cause of cream and cheesy being removed. Cream and cheesy was far superior to all nik naks

Niknaks are lower in salt than quavers

Based on a quick glance of the ingredient lists I would preferentially give a toddler niknaks over quavers or wotsits. They don't appear to contain flavour enhancers to start with.