FORMULA THREAD - am absolutely FUMING!

[DanJARMouse]

We have been feeding DS on Farleys Hungry Baby milk.... piglet that he is.

Farleys has been discontinued and replaced with Nurture. All the advertising with the old Farleys tins said nothing is changing apart from the name.

WHY then, when I went to stock up today, is Nurture £3 a tin more expensive?!

I am absolutely fuming that they can warrant such a hike in price.... with what reasoning?!

Have emailed them telling them as much!

Feel free to ignore rant!

[simpson]

VS - my DH cross he can't have shredded wheat anymore.

[LackaDAISYcal]

I called Heinz to complain and also filled out there email complaint form, over two weeks ago now. They have yet to get back to me

We are trying to avoid Heinz as well. Thankfully DS is the only one who eats tomato ketchup so he's happy with supermarket own brand rubbish!

[VictorianSqualor]

We go through a huge bottle of heinz ketchup a week, DP eats so much of it.
I doubt I can get him to boycott heinz he's fed up enough about not being allowed Yorkies

[theSuburbanDryad]

Simpson - we've just bought a bottle, which will last us a little while! Not going to buy any more though!

Is there anyone out there who has a baby who's better off on the Nurture? Seems like everyone I know who used it had their baby made quite poorly on it!

[pinguino]

Ocado still have Farleys in stock. You can get free delivery if you don't mind a late evening delivery.

[shrinkingsagpuss]

We were using Farleys follow on milk for DD - the new stuff is awful - it has a new ingrediant to help "constipation" - wel she wasn't constipated before on Farleys, but she does have the runs now. So thanks Heinz. I've changed milk. Am getting her onto cows milk anyway though.

It is disgraceful though isn't it!

[simpson]

TheSuburbanDryad - Feel the same as you. Said to DH yesterday we are boycotting heinz then he points out I am eating Heinz tomato sauce Opps!!

[theSuburbanDryad]

My friend's had to switch to Hipp Organic because the Nurture made her ds so poorly.

She's really, really cross - we'll be boycotting Heinz here too! (Bugger as I only like Heinz ketchup...oh well, Daddy's Favourite will have to do!)

[simpson]

I have boycotted Heinz too. Their treatment of customers is shocking Am thinking of switching to hipp follow on milk but the tin is only 600g so although its cheaper you get less iyswim

[sarahmikeharryandrosie]

we have boycotted too and gone to Hipp organic- my DD is now 6 months so is on follow on milk- heinz do not derserve my custom and refuse to give them the satisfaction- i just hope DD is happy with the change over xxxx

We are fuming about it!!!!! Heinze have screwed them selves over imo

[andreaob]

Another fuming mum here. New Heinz Nurture is completely different milk and now has pre-biotics and this anti-consipation ingredient)- but no way does this justify the price increase of £3. They just want to go after the Aptimil market share (must be more profitable). Will be changing my 18 wk old dd onto Cow&Gate when my stock of Farley's runs out. We used it with ds and it was fine. It's got prebiotics too (which old Farley's doesn't) and the anti-constipation help surely isn't worth £1 extra a tub (dd doesn't have a problem in that dept.). Don't worry about changing babes from Farley's onto another brand because Heinz Nurture sounds sufficiently different from Farley's now anyway.

Heinz must think we are stupid. One minute "commited to fair prices" the next minute most expensive on the market (1p more than Aptimil in Boots!)

[gegs73]

DS2 is on cows milk now, but if they had done this when he was still on formula I would have been fuming. Only thing I would suggest is swopping to a completely different cheaper brand as it sounds like a different product anyway! Also I would definately be calling for the voucher!!!!!!

[FabioTheLiterateCat]

Looky here, DanJARMouse

[emysmummy]

Oh yes and we too are boycotting Heinz products!

Can you all tell i'm still mad ???

[emysmummy]

I had the same shock when we ran out of milk last week. I drove all the way to asda to find that our not no local store did not have the replacement tin the farleys booklet informed us we needed to move onto in the nuture range. I bought the sensitive tummies formula for newborn as a best option! When we made up a feed the powder was an awful waxy consistancy. What we found next was that the milk would not come through the teat on our bottles, so i asked a friend to try on her babies bottles, still nothing coming out and one very hungry baba. Then we noticed it setting in the bottles, what??? Thought nothing was changing and nuture was the same!! Called Heinz and the lady asked if the water was 40 degrees and had i remembered to shake the bottle!!!!!!!!!!!!! She told me price increase only applied to the product i bought not the whole nuture range!!!! Don't think so! I was so mad as if i would forget to shake the bottle. She also told me that the sensitive tummies formula was alot thicker than the rest of the range and my baby probably has a problem sucking! I replied YES she has a problem sucking solids through a teat!!! Got a £10 voucher but does not make up for the insult from the woman on the phone who sounded as though she was still at school! We are now using Cow and Gate and my 4 week old has slept from 11pm to 6:30am 3 nights in a row now - maybe a coincidence but i'm not convinced when i've always used Farleys! Call the careline for your voucher too no proof of purchase required!

[Sparkly08]

Slummymumm66 - did you realise that you've been quoted in the guardian today?

[metmoo]

really peeved at price goingup just so they can make packaging prettier, as if little one looks at it. in morrisons all follow on milks have gone up too

[slummymummy66]

Just found this thread after searching for other outraged mums. Just went to my local tesco to get follow on for my dd and found they don't stock farleys (or even Nurture) anymore, so drove to the next town to an even bigger tesco, a journey of twenty miles there and back, and found myself having to pay £8 for a tin, as we don't have enough left to do her first morning drink. Am absolutely furious with Heinz - committed to fair pricing my a*se . I shall be buying Hipp next time. Can I suggest that we start a campaign to boycott ALL Heinz products from now on in? Hit them where it hurts, girls!

[TheProvincialLady]

I know it is not an ideal solution but you might find some Farley's in independent chemists that don't have a high turnover of stock. Both my local chemists are still stocking Farley's (don't ask me how I know - DS is 22m and was never FF except for the first couple of days)

[lulumama]

what oil in breastmilk?

farking snake oil more like



like what is in breast milk can be duplicated for formula> each woman produces milk that is right for her baby.

[tiktok]

It is not the same oil that's in breastmilk ...as if.

archive.food.gov.uk/maff/archive/food/bulletin/1997/no88/acnfp.htm

gives you the background - this product is not especially new, as we can see. It was passed for including in formula 11 years ago. It is not the same as the fat in breastmilk, and they should not be telling people this. The ingredient is Betapol and it is the result of a process which alters components of fat (presumably cows milk fat).

"The novel fat blend is produced using an enzyme to rearrange the position of fatty acids present in the triglyceride fat molecules. By rearranging the positions of these fatty acids in the triglyceride to a pattern more like that seen in human milk fat, enhanced fat absorption may result."

Any food scientist mumsnetters might be able to understand this better than me

[DanJARMouse]

So much for being committed to fair prices.

Well, Cow & Gate it is from now on, unless DS starts eating more food (rather than spread it around!) and I can switch from hungry baby milk to follow on Hipp Organic.

[scorpio1]

[VictorianSqualor]

here mum2angels spoke to them

[VictorianSqualor]

There is another thread on this too, apparently the milk now has the same oil as breastmilk in it as an improvement so is being increased in price at least that's what the MNer was told by customer services