To be horrified at an 18mth old drinking actimel?

[shootfromthehip]

Was at playgroup the other day and one of the LOs sat down for her snack to be given some fruit, a biscuit and an Actimel as her drink.

Am I missing something cos I can't think of one single reason why a perfectly healthy 18mth old should be having one of these?

So, AIBU?

It's like sausage, but in a burger shape. Nice and thin. So pappy it is easily chewed. In an emergency obv .

If only it weren't full of salt, saturates and chicken anuses and it would be part of the daily protein.

were the hangovers buckfast induced? (i lived in scotland for 3 yrs!)

Have only read the OP, not the whole thread...

YABU for a couple of reasons

• it's only Actimel - nothing to be "horrified" about

• I (irrationally) hate those sorts of drinks (they make me feel queasy for no reason) but there are times I have considered giving them to my DD, such as when she was one and had been on a 6 week course of heavy-duty antibiotics and I thought it might give her a boost. I didn't give them but I know a number of mothers who said they would have.

shootfromthehip I have participated in many a discussion on the AIBU topic.

May I just say that your response was one of the most dignified I have seen after someone has received somewhat of a pasting on here.

I bet you only nipped off to the loo/to put kettle on and we all piled in.

actually, moony, dr chris steele off this morning (my personal health guru) recommends them. well actually, he recommends probiotic tabs. he's a bit about the likelihood of a yog making it in the hydrochloric acid in the tum. but he thinks a tab has a fighting chance.

Aitch, for one, I am like a virgin down below.

it sounds like a lorne sausage, wilf. yum. [scottish]

oh my GOD what an x-post!

no, no 'fuckfast'. i made teh mistake of hitting the town with a mate and drinking two pints of stella on top of, well, some other pints .

and over the course of the night i think i probably smoked about a pack of cigarettes.

that was a bbbaaaddd hangover.

What, that ancient old bog standard GP?? I thought he was dead. They do nothing some bog standard plain yoghurt couldn't for a fraction of the price.
I abbhor the idea of food as medicine.

I love how the thread has been hyjacked on the basis that I would never give my kids a Greggs sausage roll- I am not an overly precious parent, I just think these things are a con and are totally unnecessary unless given for a medical reason. Actimel is also not supposed to be for under threes (according to their website).

PMSL at x post

it's pretty far from a lorne sausage. more like, erm, reformed meat.

expat you and I share an enjoyment of McD's food.

I get an organic veg box every week, we have organic milk, then on the way home from work at 10pm there I am in the drive thru queue drooling over cheeseburgers.

TAlking of baggy fannies, at the Chimpanzze house today, me and the DH were wondering about the sex differences.

I pointed out the, er, flappy arses of some of them and wondered if they were the females. DH laughed and said: 'yes, you're all prolapsed after you have babies aren't you?'

I don't know whether I was more horrified by his misogyny humour or that he thought I was a chimp.

I KNEW I was right shootfromthehip. That's a first.

dr chris is not dead!

he'll never die. he's on the probiotic tabs, donchaknow?

Aitch I assumed that with 2 dds you had less time to mnet. Now you confess you are watching This Morning instead. Now that is horrifying.

micky d's has very yummy apple turnovers. good coffee, too.

bless you, my little american chum, what do you think a lorne sausage is?

whats wrong with gregs? where my dh is from, the kids there are called pasty babies because there's so many greggs, it's almost their staple diet!

i watch This Morning. but i switch over to Working Lunch when those fug, boring auld slags Loose Women come on.

Love how a fairy innocuous Actimel thread (other probiotics are available) has now turned into a conversation about baggy fannies.

Only on MN!

I love a McDonalds every now and then. I just don't take the DDs. I left DD2 with my mum the other day and went to the Drive Thru.

Oh go on. Just ignore my baggy chimpanzee fanny then...