Why do people give rice cakes to their small children??

[moondog]

Is it for chewing practice or wot?
There are bugger all calories or goodness in them.

I know what you mean but I figured it's because they don't disintegrate the moment they put them in their mouths and so as you say they can practice chewing. Have you ever tried one - completely tasteless even the flavoured ones!!!!

my kids love the bisto flavoured ones - the only thing they will eat, apart from sausage rolls

In order to look Smug.

Buys us 5 mins of conversation with the relative/friend we are trying to talk to. There is no other reason

They're rank. I'd rather give them an oatcake.

i like the organix apple ones.

dd3 likes them, easy to hold and dont fall apart.

It's mad though isn't it,how people expect their kids to eat stuff they would never touch themselves.
Huge indigestible chunk of old carrot anyone????

I eat rice cakes, with marmite.

Well I do too (and huge lumps of carrot) but am diehard lentil weaver.

they smell like cardboard
they taste like cardboard
they are, to all intents and purposes, cardboard
I always like to see dd's face when they are ofered because she is clearly expecting anotehr sort of cake entirely
though pruni gave her a marmite flavoured one the other day anf that seemed to go down well

I really like the marmitey ones (but am another one with lentil weaving tendencies).

that is misdee not sparkly. oops.

Because we offered him one and he loved it.
Simple as that.

My lentil weaving tendancies spring from being a food snob. I take the words of Jamie Oliver to heart when it comes to kids' food. Jamie tastes everything his kids eat and wouldn't serve them anything he wouldn't eat himself.

Amen! Oatcakes w/melted cheese and apple MUCH nicer!

if use use the ones made with wholegrain brown rice, like Biona, they are full of B vitamins, fibre etc so pretty good for you.

my kids won't eat them - but I quite like them

Gloworm,amfrankly rather sceptical about your claims re them being 'full of' good things.
How so?
They each way about 12g.

SparklyGothKat, my kids like those Organix apple ones too.

They like them as a snack and it doesn't fill them up too much.

I like them. The apple ones are nice but the orange ones are even better.

DS was given them during a food tasting in creche and he snaffled 7 of them!

the apple ones are bad for teeth according to my dentist

My son loves them and always has. He doesnt eat alot but they are pretty healthy compaired to the other junkie stuff he would eat if given the chance.

I often give my lo a rice cake, likes the Marmite ones and also loves the organix orange ones. It keeps him busy as he will ask for food the minute we go out in the car or buggy, and I know for a fact that he has just eaten.

I often try the rice cakes, quite like them, I enjoy the orange ones as well. Have to watch it though because the other day we got through a packet of the orange rice cakes, my son didn't get many of them. Rather give a rice cake to him that a biscuit, any day.