Nutella ... who gives it to their children and what age are they?

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My children did 'cookery' at nursery yesterday and came home with a Nutella sandwich each, which apparently was the most delicious thing ever!!

Am I depriving the DD's (aged 4 and 3) of their childhood by not having this stuff in the house?!!

So ... who gives the stuff to their children and from what age?

from the age of 12 months. I live in Belgium, and it's practically part of the staple diet here!

(My dh even has it with cheese in his sandwich!)

DS2 (he's 4) lives on the stuff too (but only proper nutella, don't like any other makes)

DD has had it at a party last year - so age 4. I never think to buy it TBH; I don't like it.

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mine have that Green and Blacks Chocolate and Hazelnut spread

they had it from around age 5 (once I knew they weren't nut allergic)

I don't buy Nutella, but I do sometimes give tesco value chocolate spread on some toast.

I look at it this way - if I'm going to buy crap, it will be cheap crap. It tastes the same to me, and my nearly 4 year old can't tell at all.

It is a rare thing though, to have choc spread on toast. It's not for breakfast, it's for midmorning snack, or similar.

Oh belgo, GROSS

"if I'm going to buy crap, it will be cheap crap" - ha!ha! Colditz, that's funny!

Belgo - do you have it for breakfast?

A cheese and chocolate spread sandwich ... oh my goodness ... that must be something of an acquired taste. I can't even begin to imagine how someone would think of stumbling across that combination!!

I don't like Nutella/chocolate spread but I think I did when I was younger and I figure that having two girls there's a likelihood that they won't be eating this kind of stuff when they get older, so they might as well get to try it, eat it and enjoy it while they are young IYKWIM!

i'm sure my kids would go mad for nutella. but i don't like it so don't buy it.... have bought the g&b version ocasionally which goes down well (dp & i eat it out of the jar ).

We don't buy it.

DD1 and DS would love it though!

I buy chocolate spread. Not Nutella though. All my DC love it on toast ,in sandwiches and especially sandwiched between two rich tea biscuits! Yummy!

We don't have it in the house but that's because I would eat it in 24 hrs or less, with a spoon

DD made sandwiches at pre-school the other week, she put ham, cheese and chocolate spread in hers and no doubt ate the lot

Have just had a spoonful of Nutella for research purposes - it's quite a sophisticated taste, i think, like praline.

dd has it on toast all the time - quite often at breakfast time

@ Foxtrot!

foxtrot, that's the best way to eat Nutella! I only allow it in the house for holidays (we all eat it way too fast). It's half term next week, must add it to shopping list.

I have a friend who puts it in her ds' sandwiches for packed lunch. I've never had it myself or given it to the dss.

I don't have it in the house for the same reason as feetheart. I look longingly at it on the supermarket shelf, but it would be the start of a really very slippery slope

Have never had in it a sandwich, or on toast, only ever straight out of the jar.
DDs 6 and 9 have never got a look in

Nutella and peanut butter sandwiches, mmmmmmm.

DD's been having it occasionally since she could eat sandwiches (so 10mths?) but we don't have any nut issues in the family. TBH DH eats it the most, especially since he discovered the pound shop near his work sells huge jars for a £1.

mine don't know what nutella is! 5 and 2
i didn't grow up with it and find it v v sweet and sickly

for sobernow

No, I don't buy it. You're not depriving them.