Page 7 | Would you give NikNaks to a 14 month old baby?

ColourfulHairbands · 2023-07-13T20:34:54+00:00

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

Swrigh1234 · 14/07/2023 07:30

MN strikes again. Nik Naks for a 14 month are controversial now apparently.

What3words · 14/07/2023 07:35

I agree about parents who think special "Baby crisps" are somehow also not processed.

The other con I thought was little flavoured rice cakes. We just bought a pack of plain normal unflavoured rice cakes and used those!

Same for most "baby snacks" really.

Xmasfairy86 · 14/07/2023 07:38

RSintes · 13/07/2023 21:42

Wouldn't even give to a 14 year old.

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helpful.

Maddy70 · 14/07/2023 07:41

Calm down everyone. It's a bloody crisp not heroin

Sunnierjim · 14/07/2023 07:48

ColourfulHairbands · 14/07/2023 00:14

You’re mad😂

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.
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👍

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But most people are voting YANBU because in your original post that voting option was to not give a baby niknaks.

CostelloJones · 14/07/2023 07:50

OP, we all saw these comments coming from a mile off from the second you wrote the post 🤣🤣

FWIW in “Ultra Processed People” it says basically anything containing an ingredient you wouldn’t have in your kitchen cupboard is an ultra processed food, and that basically anything claiming to be the “healthy” option (you know all the whole food bars etc) are almost always definitely a UPF!

so all the people weaponising organic carrot crisps against you are theoretically no better hahaha

my second child is an eating machine and ate more than my 4 year old at 14 months. Definitely had more than his fair share of crisps, and other things I darent mention on MN!

EmeraldFox · 14/07/2023 07:51

Sunnierjim · 14/07/2023 07:48

But most people are voting YANBU because in your original post that voting option was to not give a baby niknaks.

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Exactly. I wouldn't give x, y or z but IF I would give x and y then I would give z.

Bellabon · 14/07/2023 07:54

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🫡

OP I hear you!!! The comments on here are just hilarious.... when my son was 14 months old he showed curiosity in most of my food so yes I did let him try most things !!! Which sometimes included ... can you believe it... quavers and wotsits.

Arewehumanorarewecupboards · 14/07/2023 08:00

What is it specifically about NikNaks that makes you ask?
You aren’t worried about the nutritional value do are you asking because they are spicy?

My dc didn’t have NikNaks but did/do like spicy food.

cinnamonfrenchtoast · 14/07/2023 08:08

This really is MN at its most batshit

EmeraldFox · 14/07/2023 08:27

My dc didn’t have NikNaks but did/do like spicy food.

Same

freetheunicorn1 · 14/07/2023 08:28

The dramatics on this thread 😂

daffodilandtulip · 14/07/2023 08:36

OP, your replies suggest this is a second child, not a PFB. I'm surprised you've lasted this long 🙊 Of course it's fine. The world's gone mad.

Housekeeperbatcocoa · 14/07/2023 08:36

gherkeen · 14/07/2023 01:48

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

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Well as 2 / 0.018 = 111.111111111, I'm not sure where you're getting 50 from.

You're also totally missing my point which is thst one or two would have a totally insignificant amount of salt!

I'm not fucking suggesting you lob a packet at them and call it good for the day... 🤨🙄

User10486743 · 14/07/2023 08:40

I wouldn't give a whole bag but the odd one like the OP has given is alright

Motnight · 14/07/2023 08:55

00100001 · 13/07/2023 22:12

A 14 year old???

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It was a joke! Hence the 😬.
😬

00100001 · 14/07/2023 09:24

Motnight · 14/07/2023 08:55

It was a joke! Hence the 😬.
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sorry! :D

NameChange245 · 14/07/2023 09:26

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🫡

🤣🤣🤣

00100001 · 14/07/2023 09:28

Maddy70 · 14/07/2023 07:41

Calm down everyone. It's a bloody crisp not heroin

Don't you realise the DAMAGE a single NikNak can do???? It's a gateway snack....Today it's a NikNak ... tomorrow they'll be demanding a bowl of Skittles in Redbull for breakfast!

Original poster

ColourfulHairbands · 14/07/2023 09:46

daffodilandtulip · 14/07/2023 08:36

OP, your replies suggest this is a second child, not a PFB. I'm surprised you've lasted this long 🙊 Of course it's fine. The world's gone mad.

😂 thank you. I personally thought a NikNak was too strong because it’s a little bit spicer but his dad thought it was okay to give him one or two from his packet. Hence why I came on here to ask.

My 14 month old eats ANYTHING. It’s funny because he was in NICU for 6 weeks, tube fed for ages. He has a genetic disorder so we thought he’d be really funny with food and would need a peg. But nope that’s not the case. Anything his sister eats or we eats, he’s interested.

Some people are genuinely acting like I offer my children crack cocaine. So happy that the less batshit people have arrived on the thread!

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WeWereInParis · 14/07/2023 09:53

I personally thought a NikNak was too strong because it’s a little bit spicer but his dad thought it was okay to give him one or two from his packet. Hence why I came on here to ask.

Oh it wouldn't bother me from a spice perspective.
I don't cook hugely spicy things, but I've always given DDs curry or chilli if that's what I've cooked.

NamelessNancy · 14/07/2023 10:31

Housekeeperbatcocoa · 14/07/2023 01:27

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.

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You've calculated the salt per gram, not the salt per niknak. Unless the average niknak is a gram.

Irequireausername · 14/07/2023 11:43

I just can't see the point, why not give them real food instead?

Ineedsleepandcoffee · 14/07/2023 11:50

ColourfulHairbands · 14/07/2023 09:46

😂 thank you. I personally thought a NikNak was too strong because it’s a little bit spicer but his dad thought it was okay to give him one or two from his packet. Hence why I came on here to ask.

My 14 month old eats ANYTHING. It’s funny because he was in NICU for 6 weeks, tube fed for ages. He has a genetic disorder so we thought he’d be really funny with food and would need a peg. But nope that’s not the case. Anything his sister eats or we eats, he’s interested.

Some people are genuinely acting like I offer my children crack cocaine. So happy that the less batshit people have arrived on the thread!

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My daughter was a nicu baby, ng fed for a long time and is funny with food, yet when she was a toddler she happily ate some wasabi crisps. Children are strange.

LMNT · 14/07/2023 11:53

This thread is why I’ll never be out of a job.