Nursery gave baby rusks

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7 month old recently at nursery.

They've fed her rusks. Should I be worried?

I don't offer rusks at home because I heard they are full of sugar. I was fed them myself as a baby though as were others in 80s.

A nursery worker today commented that 'she loves rusks'. Do I need to step in and say no rusks? I hate the idea of kicking up a fuss but I don't want her eating rusks every day. Once a week I can cope with.

The rest of the nursey food seems healthy but I'm surprised they give rusks as I assumed they know about sugar etc. Unless these are special rusks...do those exist?

Yabu - no need to kick up fuss
Yanbu - tell them no

Babies love rusks, so do I actually.
They won't harm your baby.

Rusks to me are fine but I've only used home made rusks.
They are made of bread dough. (virtually no sugar).
Make your own finger food and include in her lunch box.
It's the grasping food attraction that sometimes babies love.

That’s very young to be adding in unnecessary sugar. Don’t feel bad at all about mentioning it if you’re not comfortable, I would do the same. Ignore the PFB comments. I’d do it in the traditional British apologetic but matter of fact way we all deal with awkward things in. ‘Sorry to be a pain but I’d rather she didn’t have anything with added sugar as she’s so little, I’ve included xyz in her bag instead’. She’s your tiny human and you get to decide.

You need to find out more info before you start loading her bag with stuff made from home that they might not be able to give her because of other children’s allergies anyway. We definitely were never allowed to send food in. They could be home made rusks for all you know, you’ve just assumed they are the shop bought ones.

Lol the five second rule 😁 .

Good lord, the amount of pearl clutching on here is mind boggling. It’s a rusk. Provided it’s an occasional treat and she’s not mainlining them it’s fine. They’re not going to harm her in any way.

My main thought reading this thread is that I really want to eat a rusk now!

Personally I wouldn’t mind a nursery giving my baby a rusk, as part of a balanced diet. No food should be treated as a bad forbidden food. My experience is that often its the kids bought up with very limited access to sugar who are the ones who then can’t regulate themselves when they’re older.

I wouldn’t worry. DS goes to nursery here in france and they are halfway through a choccie advent calendar & have monthly cheese tastings as an activity 😂 he also has birthday cake every now and then!

A 7 month old just doesn’t need a ‘treat’ though, especially at nursery. And if OP doesn’t want her daughter having sugary ‘treats’ or would rather be the one to give them to her at home, that’s absolutely fine, she’s paying for nursery, they aren’t doing her a favour. That isn’t pearl clutching.

I now want a rusk! When I got my wisdom teeth at age 16 I had real teething pains and my mum got me some rusks, partly to help me and partly as a bit of a laugh. They really did help with my throbbing gums.

Out of interest is he 7 months old? Because that is shocking if so.

I'll go against the grain and say, let it go if you are happy with the nursery overall. It's a tiny part of his overall diet. When your kids are teenagers you'll look back and wonder why you were ever stressing about this stuff.

Wow, id be calling the authorities over this. Feeding a baby a rusk?! I'll be keeping you in my thoughts and prayers tonight OP

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Possibly still the choccy, cheese and birthday cake in the French nursery contain less than the one teaspoon of sugar per rusk in many commercial rusks.

I would hope that the kids have easy to make, home made, very low sugar rusks. Healthy rusks can be included every week.

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I agree - love them!!

I wouldn't be too bothered. As a treat, as part of a balanced diet.
I was actually craving rusks with my last pregnancy (ok, not craving, just really wanted to taste one soaked in milk again) it was a disappointment. They are nowhere near as sweet as they used to be, which is a good thing really.

I thought rusks were more about something to gnaw on rather than nutrition? A bit more like Sophie le Giraffe rather than a mars bar...?

Mine spent there first few years refusing to put ANYTHING in theirr mouths so my experience of rusks is limited...

My children back in the day all had rusks 🤦‍♀️They are in their 20s and still have their own teeth !

Maybe they are using these or similar. I'd remain calm and ask next time you go in if they use the sugar free rusks. If not ask if you can bring these ones in for when they next have rusks.

As part of a healthy balanced diet then there’s nothing to worry about.

Just wait until they are teenagers and you find out that lunch was a packet or haribos and a can of something fizzy. You’ll be wondering why you ever even gave the rusks a second thought.

That's terrible. Sugar is highly addictive. No baby needs to have sugar in their diet. Absolutely tell them never to give her rusks again. Bloody idiots.

I stopped talking to my brother for six months because he gave pfb a spoonful of petis filous when ds was 5 months old. Fackin madness I tell thee

I'm shocked at the amount of people defending this.
It's a sugary treat - completely unnecessary for the nursery to give one. Treats can be given by parents if they choose.
I wouldn't want my just weaned baby to be fed a sugary treat at nursery. They're developing their palate and filling up fast on what they eat so it really is a waste of what could be good nutrition going in.

People are laughing about it but we do have a crippling obesity crisis with many people addicted to sugar and processed food. Why start young?

A 7 month old baby should not be having sugary biscuits and an ofsted regulated nursery would certainly not list them as food offered to babies that age, so OP is absolutely right to look into this and reassure herself that they are no sugar rusks (which would basically be cardboard!).

And it's not nice to tell a parent who has most likely only recently been offering her baby food for a matter of weeks to calm down or laughing at her.