when exactly can you give your lo's conventional drinks of squash?

[snowkitten]

ds is nearly one and i just give him water. Obviously he is OK with this as he has had not altertive on offer but recently he has had some of his sister's fruit squash from a glass and loves it! Is it OK to give it to him in his beaker?

Ribena does stain terribly, I admit. I avoid it on that basis.

Thank you for the fan and smelling salts.

I don't think I should stand up after a shock to my system like that.

OK know im asking for it here but whats wrong with ribena? I know water, milk and pure fruit juice is better but Im all for variety (daren't say everything in moderation )

hmmm, well, in my experience, it is only th ebrits, and those who have grown up in this country who drink it. i grew up elsewehere, and it was rarely ever seen in any of those countries. lots of fizzy drinks certainly, but not squash.
i dont embargo it as such.it's just not something we consume. however other people always give us strange looks when thekids drink water.or ther kids ocmetoour house, and look strangly at me when i offer them water withtheir dinner.
we dont have pudding with our meals either. one because i never had it regularly as a child, and two ,i can tbe bothered. lazy mom that i am! and three, buying pots of youghurt etc is expensive.

nzshar, what's theneed for it either?

Well let's just take some water. Stir in a couple of spoonfuls of processed sugar. Then drip in some noxious food colourings. Yum.

Then let's feed this mixture to our children.

dont forget the e's

Growing up in New Zealand in the 70's/80's we had a powdered drink called Raro can't have been good

Have a ribena carton here ingredients are : Water, sugar, blackcurrant juice from concentrate (6%), vitamin C, citric acid

Admit the processed sugar isnt great but only because it is processed the amount of natural sugars is exactly the same as what is in my pure orange juice though that is natural I must admit am I missing something? Not being funny or anything genuine question.

maybe someone else will come along adn answer your question properly.
personally i am of the camp that says, why spend so much money on that? have somewater, andsome blackcurrants. you get the goodness of everything, without the excessive carbon footprint, nor the worry about what is in the carton!

Whats wrong with the juice from concentrate? I often buy this in diluted form in 'kids' cartons. Very handy but is it bad?

Also watch out for the carton juice 'drinks' - big pictures of fruit on the packaging with hideous chemicals inside.

Not sure why panda, but juice from concentrate does not count at all towards your 5 a day (at least !!!) fruit/veg intake.

Don't know that it's actually bad tho.

That's a myth, Theodore'sMum -- juice from concentrate does count in the 5 a day (see here). In theory the processing could cause it to be lower in certain Vitamins, but in reality I think the lab studies show concentrated juices are higher in the fragile vitamins/flavinoids, etc. because better protected from light.

Hmmm, fair enough.

Wonder why I have read so many times that they don't count then ?

Will look into this.

From concentrate tastes rank tho...

My DD drinks tons of Ribena. Never did me any 'arm.

i agree with dumbledoresgirls's post.

in moderation it's ok and i don't buy low sugar etc or anything with aspartame. my son hardly drinks it anyway but loves to now and again.

you can buy rocks organic juice too.

Actually this thread has motivated me to give ds2 water at school, although it took a letter from a PAediatrician to get ds1 to be allowed fruit juice provided by me instead of that Jucee squash! - ds1 has several allergies and intolerances

Would love to give ds1 and ds3 water but its not worth the fight, alst tiem I tried ds1 had an ambulance on hold as we force fed him ribena as he stopped drinking- he is Sn though

I just cannot believe this. Someone is actually advocating making some foul concoction from water and blackcurrants rather than buying Ribena which has been shown to have nothing bad in it. Have you ever tried making a palatable drink from water and blackcurrants? What utter nonsense!

I think you would need water, many many hundred blackcurrants and lots and lots of sugar.

Ribena = sodium benzoate

doesn't sound too bad, fur. What am I missing?

According to that link, sodium benzoate is found in soy sauce too - hope none of you eat Chinese food ever - and is found naturally in greengage plums, prunes, cranberries and apples. Oh dear.

well to be fair we had Ribena and when I posted on a thread thats what we drunk, someone pointed out it had sodium benzoate which was a know carcinogenic. It does say that in the link.

it's water in the pippi household. Occasionally is apple juice or orange juice but more as a threat than for thirst or with meals.

Ribena is only poison in MN world. in the real world, it's absolutely fine. I give my kids dilute juice very often. Orange juice is a great source of vitamin C, and if given with food hugely improves the uptake of iron.