What is "crap food"vor "junk"?

[aragon]

Go on then - that'syour "Starter for 10"

Am I going to list mine - you must be joking.

I'll do the MN list though

Cheese strings (have tasted one and thought it shite but then I like such strange stuff as Camembert).

Fruit Shoots - hate them but DS does not agree.

ANYTHING w/artificial sweetners in it. YUK.

Oh, this should be fun

I'm off to get another glass of wine and then I'll be back with my list...

Lunchables!

Hydrogenated fats.
Artificial colours/flavours.
Bloody haribo.

gonna agree with you aragon....

I don't like fruit shoots, but my kiddies do[despair emoticon]

and mine also like dairy lea strip cheese, altho I don't!!

BUT.....I like avocado and they don't so me thinks they just need educating their taste buds!

My kiddies still don't forgive me tho for never letting them have candy floss!!!

Kids seem to love:

Those bloody sugar sweets shaped like a dummy. (the HV in me shrieks with despair).

Any Dairylea product - those lunchables scare me.

Advertising is POWER!

Fruit Shoots
Billy Bear ham
Lunchables
Pepperami
Cheese Strings
Micro Chips/pizzas/whatever
Those chocolate straw things and those Nesquik (hawk, spit) things with the strawberry stuff inside that makes the milk pink
Cookie Crisp cereal

etc etc etc ad nauseam (literally)

Oh I forgo0t Billy Bear ham. MIL bought some for DS and..........he wouldn't touch it.

ooh now i like micro chips.

Fave meal at the moment for me is micro chips and king prawns!!!! How odd hey????

Still can't understand whoever thought up pepperamis tho, most odd food out!

Hydrogenated Fats
Aspartame
Sausages[non-organic ones etc]
All non organic meat/veg
Chicken nuggets etc

Microchips ingredients listed are only potato and oil - not even salt. I was suprised.

Every Kellogs cereal except all bran, corn flakes, shredded wheat and special K.
IN fact all the ones aimed at KIds
And Mcdonalds MC"might be a"chicken sandwich

Chips are not meant to be microwaved, though. In fact nothing is meant to be microwaved

Findus crispy pancakes

With Dairylea - I'm staggered that they (Kraft) were in my local Sainsburys doing a film on how healthy their food was!! I can't think of one product in the aimed at children range that could be called healthy.

for me it's anything where, to save money, they've put a load of crap in to bulk up or flavour food. e.g. artificial sweeteners, vegetable oil instead of cocoa butter in choc, soy protein instead of meat protein in sausages, MSG instead of herbs,

It can't be right that the amount of money you spend on a food product is in inverse proportion to the number of ingredients! So you pay more just to not have it filled with a load of cheap additives: not exactly fair on low income families!

Haribo is honestly not that bad though.. they don't use artificial sweeteners or colours at least..

Furball - I remember begging my mother to buy Findus Crispy pancakes, and also French Bread Pizza. Seemed extraordinarily exotic to me compared to our constant menu of stew and tuna casserole. Anyway, I dislike junk food in general, am always astounded at the choices on offer at the supermarket, but also feel that the odd Fruit Shoot/McD's/packet of Haribo is not the end of the world. I do have a weird thing about crisps though - poss because all the overweight kids who walked past my old flat on the way to the local secondary school were chomping on a packet of Walkers at breakfast time. So I am a crisp nazi, I think, do I get my own clique?

don't all bran have loads of salt in them tho or something?

Anything containing Hydrogenated fats (and aren't there alot of them?) I think sometimes we can get a bit hysterical over food labelled to appeal to children when in fact they aren't really that bad. This is probably why my grocery shopping takes ages - I read the labels on EVERYTHING. I do try to guard against being a Nazi mother whose Kids are refused everything except organic ethically produced soya products from sustainable and traceable sources. Lighten up - an odd sweet or packet of crisps will not harm them for life (unless they contain the trans fats mentioned earlier which IMO you would do less harm to your child by feeding them arsenic in small doses). So long as these 'unhealthy foods'do not become a habit, the odd treat is not a disaster. As a general rule, if it has no nutritional value, it may only be consumed now and again for taste purposes only. I feel I must mention at this point my total and utter hypocrisy. I am, and fear I always will be, completely in love with Coke (Coca Cola, that is), but never, ever let my DDs drink it or any other fizzy, sugary stuff.