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.

nowt wrong with bread

nice bit of bread and butter, lovely

I think it's all part of a feeding baby culture that assumes that they should be fed bland foods and that the closer the texture resemles wallpaper paste the better

they have toast with their bfast tho, don't want to give it to them for lunch as well, so it rice and something or ricecakes usually for lunch.

I've never given them, well I did once and they didnt go down too well. And after tasting them I can kind of see why,

Also, my 2 have always been tiny so I've always wanted to get as many calories into them as possible.

Mine won't eat them but I have become sadly fond of them myself, after eating them when the dds refuse them. It feels so virtuous eating them, you feel they must be good for you, being so chewy and bland. A bit like eating highland oatcakes.

because ds likes them:) (and so do i!)

absolutely Enid - in fact I'd go as far as to say my ample girth is due in no small part to large quantities of fresh bread and butter -however ds will have no truck with such things recently and I've had enough of oily butter smearings on the furniture and carpets. So looks like I'm stuck with mushy smearing instead

I am sat here munching my way through a new packet of Ogranix Apple rice cakes as a very frustrating plumbing problem has me temporarily fuming.

lol

I like rice cakes.
I eat them myself.
Ergo ds gets them too.
(Mind you, he doesn't get gin or Godiva chocs, but that's another thread.)
Jeeeeeez.

I give the Marmite-flavoured ones to DS3 because they're one of only about eight foodstuffs he actually eats.

Nice bits of bread and butter just don't do it for him, I'm afraid.

I only ever gave thenm to DS when we were out to keep him quiet. If he was really hungry I would have given him something nice, like a sausage roll or something. Mmmm sausage roll flavour rice cakes.

I buy the snack-a-jack apple danish ones (gluten and dairy free) as a treat for ds, and the kallo unsalted plain ones for general appeasement. He often has them with peanut butter or jam for lunch as an alternative to a sandwich. He's gluten intolerant, so has rice cakes when I haven't made him any bread.

All that said, I think they're quite nice too - maybe I've followed slimming world too long! He also likes the ryvita corn cakes, which are handy as they come in foil sealed packs of three so don't go stale as quickly.

cod, where is my 15mm snapfit insert ?

To stop them eating expanded polystyrene packing chips instead.

achually I like giving my kids rice cakes

and then not letting them have a drink

try it .. you can see all the moisture in their mouths getting sucked up

arf arf

use to think they stink - hated the smell (also hate the smell of popcorn) but they don' rot teeth and dd loves them - I say biccie (the goodie animal shaped ones) or rice cake and she goes for the rice cake!!!

'cos we love them.

And the right brand is good on fibre too. And no sugar or salt.

I give rice cakes because they are not crisps :)

I quite like the fact that they have the texture of polystyrene . dd loves them as well, she chose one over cake at m&t today.

Ninety six posts on rice cakes. Hilarious!
It's whetted my appetite for a huge bowl of popcorn (which my klids love.)

I buy them for DS just to watch peoples faces when he crams them into his mouth whole.

(they are the little Organix or Boots ones, not the big ones, by the way! )

They are like stuck together polystyrene packing chippings. So is popcorn. Yuk yuk.

TinyGang have you ever had fresh popcorn? Different species from bought stuff... Yum yum yum!