to think that advertising Nutella as a healthy food is just WRONG?

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Kit Kats would be healthy if they had two hazelnuts in them like Nutella.

Make sure you get your daily RDA of hazelnuts, everyone!

Ah the hazlenut noisette kitkat then? Must have another try at getting into them - could do with more selium (although I work on that with walnut ganache and walnut whips too)

leavingonajetplane, I think it's practically a crime (and certainly immoral) that healthy food doesn't taste like the finest (oooh, but the finest) Valvona chocolate.

IMO if you're going to eat junk food, celebrate it and embrace its junkiness! Why try and disguise what it's really for?

This is how I think Nutella should be advertised:

"Nutella. It's SO bad, but SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!"

(I actually hate Nutella but enough of you enjoy the taste that I am prepared to sacrifice my choccy snootiness for the sake of creating a winning ad slogan)

If they decide to take up my slogan for future ad campaigns, remember where you heard it first, awrigh'? I'll be contacting them with my invoice.

Is it wrong that I have to be dragged away from gazing adoringly at the lovely little jars of chocolatey goodness that are nestled on the supermarket shelves...

My DS doesnt like Nutella () So I have no excuse to buy it.

Now I want Nutella on brown toast.
YADNBU, the other one that winds me up is the implication that cocoa pops are a nutritious and well balanced thing to feed children after school. Well, there's milk there I suppose but really...

It is, apparently, what the Italian national footy team have for breakfast, if the ad is to be believed....and they won the World Cup after all.

Love the stuff - but the advertising is just plain wrong.. bordering on the ridiculous! hmm.. 2 hazelnuts and a mountain of sugar and fat. Wonder how much sugar exactly?!

loves the arguement and am so glad that chocloate is derived from trees.

makes me feel much better.

I buy it for kids of course, they have about one sandwich a week then the next week there is none left!!

Apparently it is a low GI food and a jar contains 13 nuts!

I also eat cake because they are made with eggs

DD and I are addicted to Nutella and go through a big jar a week!
One day, we'll feel strong enough to give up.
Paulo Nutini is now known as Paulo Nutella in this house

Less sugar than jam and less fat than peanut butter, what is not to like!

a very nice snack (and one of your Five-a-Day ), is a Nutella - and- sliced - strawberry sandwich. Deelicious.

But OP, YANBU

I don't think it's healthy, but it's no worse than butter and jam.

When my sister was about 6 Dad made her Nutella sandwiches for lunch but when she came home from school she hadn't eaten them as they were "dirty", he had wiped the knife clean on the sandwich......not relevance but always make s me giggle

My brother genuinely believes that eating McDonald's burgers is good for you because they contain "pure beef". So I imagine people might well be brought to see Nutella as a health food.

foods such as rice cakes, cereal bars and low fat yoghurts are all marketed as healthy options too (despite being packed full of sugar or aspartame) except rice cakes which are packed with, um, refined white rice.

Give me Nutella any day.

I'm in Belgium. Nutella is a basic food stuff, along with chips, mayonnaise and beer. I am NOT surrounded by fat people.

Love it, love it, love it. Don't care if it's unhealthy. Would live off it if I didn't care for my weight, and probably will once I stop caring (circa age 60).

oh no... really?! am currently chomping through half a pot (really good dipping for bread sticks don't you know...)

Have to reserve this pleasurable past time till my dds are in bed or they'd copy me.. probably not the best example to set now is it?

Nutella is part of my best childhood memories!

Love the cocoa tree- 5-a-day argument.

D'yoou know, our local health food shop stocks green & blacks. I try my best to be healthy, so I buy as much as my wallet allows. Butterscotch is best- butter comes from cows, and cows eat grass... I am practically Rosemary Conley.

cory -

annoyingdevil - our rice cakes are made from brown rice and virtually salt-free. How else am I going to justify copious amounts of dark chocolate?

On that subject, I was MORTIFIED to discover that dark and milk chocolate contain roughly the same levels of fat! But surely it's good fat...?

Of all the spreads you can have on your toast of a morning Nutella has to be the tastiest, and it's no worse than these;

Jam- full of sugar
Marmite- full of salt
Peanut butter- full of fat

So there.

Did you know it's the same stuff that's inside the ferrero rocher? (sp?)