I’ve just given my 2 year old a desert and just realised it contains alcohol

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Just bought a lemon desert from Lidls we’ve all sat down to share it after dinner and half way through thought i could taste alcohol so checked the ingredients and it does contain it. I’m freaking out. He’s only had a tablespoon worth of a fair sized pack but I am freaking out and feel like absolute shot 😢 posting here for traffic.

Don't worry hon. I accidentally gave my son a liquor chocolate as they were being sold individually in a farm shop and they didn't state they were liquor. He was fine. The amount of booze in a dessert won't hurt your son x

I was one of the generation that got brandy rubbed on their gums and alcoholic gripe water (I loved that stuff).
And I turned out pretty amazing! 😁

Give him an Oasis to drink, it'll cancel it out!

(Please don't actually do this, it's a bad joke).

As others here have said , It will not be harmful at all.Often used to rub whisky on gums to soothe teething. Do not worry!

I voted YABU. To be clear, I meant that the massive overreaction in your post was unreasonable. It's perfectly reasonable to give a child a dessert with a tiny bit of alcohol in it as an ingredient. There'd be as much alcohol in a ripe banana or a small glass of apple juice from a carton that had been in the fridge for a few days.

Someone I knew adopted a baby and thought that cassiswas the sane as Ribena! He'd been drinking it for quite a while before a friend realised what she was doing and told that cassis contained alcohol! He was fine.

This is the best comment on the thread. 100% agree

Ooh my teetotal daughter was given this in 1991 lol. Much mention her consumption habits as a baby lol

I just realised my auto correct but an e in whisky. The shame of it😳As a Scot i will never live it down.

Hi all. Well I’ve been laughing reading these posts. Honestly.. thank you all!!
yes I’m an anxious crazy mother and a first time mum at that. I absolutely over react to many things…. I’m working on it as Ds is getting older so am I… slightly 🤪

having said this I absolutely still feel shitty about feeding my son alcohol. But reading these stories has certainly made light of it safe to say I’ll be checking the label and the taste from now on 🥰

the update on the 2 year old was he awake most of the night (no bad reason, just awake wanting a book or a kiss - but happy) this may well have been all the other crap in the dessert 🤨 also woke up and downed a glass of milk and then Some juice soon after 🙈 other than that he’s been in great spirits!

I buy that dessert, it's not restricted which means the alcohol by volume is under 1/2%, nothing to worry about

When I was a kid it was fairly normal to put a tot of whisky in babies bottles to get them to sleep! I'm not suggesting that but a little dessert is fine

Oh dear, OP, you definitely shouldn't be giving him spirits! 😂

Good times!

Not saying it’s right , but a lot of people in the 60’s and 70’s often put a teaspoon of brandy in a baby’s night bottle ( I didn’t ! ) . Some of my friends did. They all thrived and are in their 40’s now 🫣

I remember the time that my toddler stepchild came into the living room and announced she had had some fizzy orange. It took a few minutes to realise that there was no fizzy orange.
She had helped herself to 1/4 of a bottle of Buck's Fizz.
The following morning she announced she 'had a bit of a headache'
She went back to bed and was fine.

I sneakily drank a full bottle of Advocaat when I was three (over the course of a few weeks)! I was fine, I still love it, alcoholic custard, yum! 😋

It will be minimal in that amount. I’d not give it a second thought.

When my son was 2, I gave him brandy cream with his Christmas pudding without thinking and he loved it, ate tons… it was MIL who said ‘doesn’t that have alcohol in?!’. I’ve always put red wine in bolognese sauce too, though that gets cooked for ages. The amount in your dessert will be really tiny, I wouldn’t worry about it.

When we were at Alton towers for the weekend, my kid once downed a full woo woo cocktail. He was about 4. He was busy dancing at the kid disco and came back parched, but didn’t want to interrupt the adult conversation so just took my drink. It looked like his blackcurrant squash (so he said), but tasted ‘yummier’.

he was tipsy, and grumpy as hell in the tropical swimming pool the next day, but apart from that completely unscathed.

Stop panicking the alcoholic content is tiny he won’t be crawling around drunk in charge of his teddy bear; it’s not as if you’ve given him a shot of brandy; it’s an easy error to make I’m sure lots of mums & dads can identify with you x

Eh as a child of the eighties I sipped whisky very young, a wee taste. DH had brandy administered as a baby- doctor's orders.
Your child will be fine, I'm sure.

I feed my children the Tiramisu from Waitrose (which is absolutely divine BTW) all the time. I assume it has alcohol in.

Glad you've calmed down op. Molehills can look like mountains when our kids are small.
In the early 90s my sister (8 at the time) snuck my mums sherry and got tipsy!
Mum was freaking out and I was just annoyed trick or treating got canceled 😂
Mum locked it up after that.

I soak our fruit for this Christmas cake in brandy every year for a day or two. When DD was 4/5 I did it as usual and came back to find it… depleted. I asked DH, no he hadn’t had it (clingfilm was neatly back on), then asked DD who said yes, she’d been eating it…. So I told her that wasn’t great because it had brandy in it, not for children etc.. I got back ‘it’s ok mummy, I like brandy!’ Flipping alcoholic child! Now she’s 18 this year and doesn’t drink or like the taste of any alcohol.

Basically OP, early exposure might have put your DC off totally!