to be annoyed at my mom for giving nephew a jaffa cake?

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he is 11 months old.
the child eats everything you give him, and everythign he sees you eating. i wish she would drae the line at things like jaffa cakes. chocolate i can deal with. but not those orange jelly things in the jaffa cakes.

Is this the place to admit that ds1's very first finger food was a Jaffa cake? I didn't know I was doing it all wrong - Mumsnet wasn't invented yet

sorenlorensen

The orangey bit in the middle is the best part of a jaffa cake. It's smashing, as that ad used to say

i am well known for always having packet of jaffa cakes in drawer at work. they come in handy!

I think an indignant aunty is sometimes a good thing... my friend has had to butt in when her mother gives her little nephew chocolate he's not supposed to have (behind parents backs despite repeated rows for same) and I'd want one of my ds's aunties/ uncles to pull up indulgents grannies for breaking parental rules.
Of course if his parents aren't bothered...

Ewww i'm gonna be in the minority and say they give me the creeps! That orangy bit in the middle reminds me of marmalade which is equally ewwwie!

Now if it had been chocolate fingers, thats a whole other story . Damn Tesco and the bogof offer they had, i have no willpower dammit!

See when I introduce chocolate/biscuits/sweets or whatever to my DD's diet. I, selfishly, want to be there to see her reaction.

My MIL today unexpectedly cooked her courgettes & tomato (instead of the silly Hipp organic jar I was going to give her, never seem to have time to cook proper stuff at the mo!) but thats a brilliant treat and I was very grateful.

I jut cant see why they need 'bad' foods so young? Surely with their tiny tums everything they eat should be nutricious?

At her 1st bday my DD can try chocolate, doesnt make it right but at least she will have had 6 months of healthy stuff to prevent a taste for rubbish.

Soren my ds wasn't quite getting it with finger food so I gave him some choc buttons.

Got the hang of it fairly sharpish after that.

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Snap Jumpingbeans. I haven't been on here for YONKS, and now I remember why.

Having said that....some of the other threads look good. I guess I've missed MN in some ways.`

pam, he eats whatever everyone else is having now. that includes healthy stuff, including homemade spicy curries, and non healthy stuff, an example of which is the jaffa cakes, and the hula hoops. i did stop my dd from trying to feed him her preservative laden ice lolly, which he was gagging for. but didnt say a word when ds fed him his ice cream.
my sister, his mother, just lets me get on with it when i am around. she is a lot younger than me, and decides to act like one of the kids when around me and my kids.

Just a bit of anecdotal evidence - I was weaned on a veggie lentil weaving type diet and had no sugar until I was about 2. I blardy love sweets and chocolate! I don't think that it makes a jot of difference when you let kids taste these foods.

Of course this is just my opinion and I'm sure will be proved wrong by some fancy pants research out there.

It is nice to have someone say that Ewe, I don't think it makes any difference whatsoever as to whether they have sugar before they are two or not. Some people have a sweet tooth and some don't.

I'd be pissed off to be honest at 11 months but I don't think you should expect people to be qs informed as you about why white refined sugar is not the best start. I tried to be sugar free for my dd too but had to give up after 2. She gets crap from everyone now but never ever at home.

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He just had the one? Jaffa cakes should be eaten by the packet, and most definitely not shared with children.

They're all mine I tell you.

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You'll have more success bashing your head against a brick wall than trying to be sugar free or hoping others feel the same.

if its one jaffa cake and eats well all other times in all honesty it wouldnt bother me

i used to give my ds treats in moderation at that age and still

he eats all fruit and veg has great appetite and loves his treats im not bothered by things like this if its not all day everyday

and it hasnt put him off eating well he sees we eat well an dhe loves it his fave word is more veg at dinner time so hasnt done him any harm

and he has 5 pieces of fruit a day his breakfast is 2 bananas grapes and choco hoops lol

he'll have fruit at lunch and at tea 2 veg or more if he can get to it he is 3.3 and known well by fruit lady he chooses 5 different fruits a week to last the week and always eats it in few days

and loves a bag of crisps and chocolate and yet is mad on fruit and veg i only give it in moderation never to keep him quiet and all is well

jesus christ on a bike, its only a god damn jaffa cake!!!!!
could understand if it was a 21b bag of sugar, but dear god,
imo this 'dont eat this, dont eat that' malarkey has got way out of control.. everything in moderation, works for us.

Stitch, I'm with you on the Jaffa cakes. It's just unnecessary to give them to the under 1s. They've got so much time to eat crap, let them start once the stuff is actually useful (eg in stopping tantrums in the terrible 2s). If you were the parent, I'd be right behind you.

Do you think that some of this is more about your relationship with your sister? (ie the fact that she acts like a child around you? )It does sound like there's a bit of a backstory there.

my dd's never ever eat jaffa cakes!! ewww! why would you feed them that rubbish. they only ever eat spinache and oily fish and brown rice! honestly they do!! and they enjoy it.

Just reminded me of the advert

"Full moon, half moon, total eclipse"

YANBU - never share jaffa cakes with children. Adults only

lol shesells!!