Fruit shoots are evil............

[posieparker]

So I never buy the things, but yesterday all children were thirsty and I hadn't prepared by taking water. Anyway the shop I chose to go in ONLY had fruit shoots with a good lid thingy, no water, no juice, no milkshake....NO alternative.

Now my dcs didn't go crazy with the mythical sugar rush......but dc4 has just found one that he must have thrown under something and squeezed it all over my lounge carpet. EVIL EVIL THINGS!!!

nah I wouldn't want him to hurt you're litte 'un - I swear he was a Thai Boxing champion in his former life.......and is built like a sumo wrestler now

Well my DS says yours "ain't worf it" anywaay

LOL at the poor dr pepper stained dog!

To all Mummies who dont want to buy FS but want to pull wool over their DC's eyes...go for the Tropicana ones, they come in similar bottles but no sugar and no sweeteners.

I buy the Tropicana ones but we'll probabbly get told off for that because Tropicana use some kind of almost extinct oranges to make the juice or something...

As to your carpet... bicarb, stain remover, plenty of water and fairy liquid maybe, NOT SALT.... Dab it don't rub it..

yessirnosir

In regards to your daughter who is diabetic. I though aspartame was bad for people who have diabetes? If this is true/untrue please let me know, I'm genuinely interested.

lol cupcake on the rare fruits! Great tip though, will check out the Tropicana ones.

I totally agree with the everything in moderation however, I do think there's something about the good ol' trustworthy 'well it's Robinsons' and the nostalgic barley water associations. Yet FS are made to a concentration never before contemplated by most humans making their own squash!

"I have never been so wrapped up in my own ludicrous standards that I can't bend when I need to"

GOING TO MAKE THIS MY LIFE'S MOTTO

oops sorry

and pmsl at the dr pepper stained labrador

Mindy - you've never met my DS2 then............or maybe he's not human - I don't know how he drinks squash like he does >

Thesunshinesbrightly - have you seriously never been unprepared for whatever happened in your life? Do you carry a second set of emergency drinks in case the first lot get spilled? And if, following some utterly undreamt-of emergency, fruitshoots were the only option, would you really let your children go thirsty?

And what are you going to do later on in life, when they have their own money and can choose things from the shops themselves, and come home with Supernoodles and cheap energy drinks? It will happen - I promise you.

Ds3 says I should shut up now - clearly the dreadful additives he buys himself have adversely affected his attitude - I should have been a better mother, in thesunshinesbrightly mould - and then he'd be a perfect angel, drinking only milk and fruit juice.

MuffinTop - You have now worried me there is further research I am unaware of! Someone once spammed a support group I'm on with how aspartame would give you brain cancer etc and how you should buy their product instead - very sensitive. At the time the moderator of the group, who's a very educated lady when it comes to all matters diabetic, put up some links to research that suggested that on the whole Aspartame is pretty much proven to be safe and I had a good look into it. All I could find is that there's a whole load of scare mongering on the issue, but as far as I can see while it's obviously not a health food, some once in a while - for us usually at times when other kids would be stuffing themselves with sugar - is not going to kill her, while poorly controlled sugar levels will. I'm going to ask our dietician about it specifically at our next clinic now though!

yessirnosir

Please don't let me worry you. I do not claim to know anything about this. A few months ago I read quite a lot of articles about aspartame and there where many people talking about diabetes and aspartame. These could have been scare mongering stories, I don't know.

You and your dietician know what is best for your DD. Sorry for scaring you.

Thesunshinesbrightly - have you seriously never been unprepared for whatever happened in your life? Do you carry a second set of emergency drinks in case the first lot get spilled? And if, following some utterly undreamt-of emergency, fruitshoots were the only option, would you really let your children go thirsty?

And what are you going to do later on in life, when they have their own money and can choose things from the shops themselves, and come home with Supernoodles and cheap energy drinks? It will happen - I promise you.

Ds3 says I should shut up now - clearly the dreadful additives he buys himself have adversely affected his attitude - I should have been a better mother, in thesunshinesbrightly mould - and then he'd be a perfect angel, drinking only milk and fruit juice.

Oh please! Thanks for taking so much time on me tho. Would answer but it appears you cant have a opinion on here.

I give my DS fruitshoots but it's ok because I buy them from Fortnum and Mason.

Jesus it's a fruitshoot ffs! Some people on here are so precious! I blush when I think of the stuff I had when I was a kid; blue lemonade, party rings, and my (clearly awful) mother, even let me have a jam doughnut once a week. Terrible. Everything in moderation, that's what they say isn't it? Whilst I'm not going to be serving my DC McDonalds for every meal, I'm certainly not going to let any child in my care go thirsty on a hot day for want of a bloody sugar-free, caffine-free, sodding wheat-free alternative.

My main truck with FS is that they're a tiny bit of liquid in a lot of plastic. If it was a really hot day and there was no alternative, I would get them too though.

The ones with green caps don't contain aspartamane.... just shedloads of sugar.

everything in moderation

I grew up, from ten, living in a sweet shop. Prior to that my mother had been very evil restrictive about biscuits, sweets and cordial....we never had them, cordial and biscuits only on birthdays and 2oz rainbow drops oin a Sunday. This meant when I moved into a sweet shop it was like winning the lottery, within three years I got five fillings!

My dcs have sweets every now and then , nothing regular but not so little that they see them as magic dust! I have a very good controlling friend whose son has no sweets, no puddings, no chocolate and nothing but water, he's seven. I just see that all ending in tears.

I have ordered the spot remover!

except for galaxy counters ....they cannot be moderated.

but you CAN eat two bags in one sitting
nom nom nom

disclaimer
i would never do this**when my kids are looking

ooh - the other day we were being told how great Organix fruit bars were - checked the back of the packet - 85% sugar! all from fruit, but still bloody sugar...

all the more insidious for being sold as 'healthy'..

I don't mind sugar but aspartame bothers me.

Thesunshinesbrightly - why would I ask you a question if I didn't want you to answer? And it seems to me that no-one here minds you having an opinion - what they mind is the tone of superiority you used in delivering said opinion.

Hence my questions - are you perfectly organised and prepared all the time?

Are there no circumstances under which you would consider a fruit shoot to be better than nothing for your dc?

"They are disgusting!! full of crap, would rather let the kid's go thirsty. "

Well, my opinion is that letting your kids go thirsty makes you cruel.