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

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Snowstorm · 08/02/2007 16:52

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?

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magicmummy · 08/02/2007 17:46

DS1 (6) sometimes has it in his sandwiches for packed lunch.
Love it on toast

pinkchampagne · 08/02/2007 17:48

I used to have Nutella when I was a child, but have never bought it for my DS's, so if your children are deprived, so are mine!!

2gorgeousboys · 08/02/2007 17:48

My DS1 aged 7 loves it but has it as a treat occasionally have not given it to DS2 who is 2.10 yet. We have it in sandwiches with banana then I can pretend to be a little bit healthy! Won't tell you what DH and I do with it

sillysausages · 08/02/2007 17:49

started giving it to ds1 when he was 10 - he has it for school lunch in 2 slices of wholemeal bread, along with 4 slices of wholemeal with marmite.

This was acompromise on all the other children get a chocolate biscuit penguin and the like - i figured it was probably the better.

But we hide it from ds2

Freckle · 08/02/2007 17:50

DS1 (13 next week) discovered it a couple of years ago, so now I always buy a huge jar of the stuff when I go to Costco. DS2 and DS3 aren't quite so enamoured but will have it occasionally.

belgo · 08/02/2007 17:52

Serious question: What do you all consider worse, nutella or butter and jam?

filthymindedvixen · 08/02/2007 17:53

ds1 has it every day on brown bread for breakfast with an apple..and dry cereal. Yawn. Except for the days when I get tough and say he must have something else. Then he has dry toast and an apple and dry creal.. He hates butter/marge/whatever. he hates jam. he hates, oh , actually, everything Except for Nutella.

foxtrot · 08/02/2007 17:53

we have nutella and butter

MrsBadger · 08/02/2007 17:56

I just love it for the marketing message on the side of the jar - 'less sugar than jam, less fat than butter'. Must mean it's healthy then, eh?

Dophus · 08/02/2007 17:57

Oh dear.

I also don't have it the hosue normally due to lack of will power with a teaspoon problem. However I am pregnant so last week succombed to temptation and a bought a giant (anyone who goes to CostCo will know what I mean) jar.

I just read this and thought 'why not' and gave DS1 (2) his first nutella sandwich. He is sat with chocolate all over his face going 'nyum nyum'

franca70 · 08/02/2007 17:59

Nutella is not crap!

belgo · 08/02/2007 18:00

Mrs Badger, I've never seen that message on the side.

DumbledoresGirl · 08/02/2007 18:01

I don't buy it often - maybe once a year as a birthday treat. Who cares what its fat or sugar content is? Let your children live a bit!

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Snowstorm · 08/02/2007 18:18

I really don't know what's better out of Nutella or butter and jam ... think that's one of the reasons I started this thread.

My DH uses butter when he makes a peanut butter sandwich - that's just WAY too much buttery stuff IMO. Makes me squirm!

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filthymindedvixen · 08/02/2007 19:28

oh do stop all being so smug and precious about never letting your kids have Nutella. French kids eat it every day, washed down with hot choc, milky coffee, sweet brioche and jam. Yes, the porky French known for their obesity, bad teeth and diabetes...oh no, wait, that'd be us lot, the Brits...

foxtrot · 08/02/2007 19:34

In the interests of research i have once again run my teaspoon over the jar in search of MrsB's message, but can find there none.
Have you seen the size of the nesquik packs in France - humungous (gonna get me some)

Waswondering · 08/02/2007 19:38

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DumbledoresGirl · 08/02/2007 19:38

I absolutely agree fmv. Ds1 was checking out the nutrition guide on some oven chips today - yes oven chips - so sue me! and discovered that children are supposed to have the same fat intake as adult women. I think people forget this when they obsess about their family's eating habits. Children actually do need quite a lot of high energy foods in order to grow.

I am not advocating a diet of pizza and chips, but do please chill out about letting your children have some of the "naughty but nice" things in life.

franca70 · 08/02/2007 19:39

when I was a child, in the seventies, in Italy you could get small pots of Nutella (the equivalent of one big tablespoon). Heaven was finding the money to buy one (50 liras for three, if I remember well), and eat it with a small teaspoon and see how long it would last (possibly while reading micky mouse).

serenity · 08/02/2007 19:40

I have to have butter with it too I'm afraid, it's too sticky without extra fat to wash it down (so I have nutella, peanut butter and butter)

Pinotmum · 08/02/2007 19:40

Dd has it with bread sticks but ds doesn't like it. Will they ever agree on something

filthymindedvixen · 08/02/2007 19:40

Franca - nice memory

foxinsocks · 08/02/2007 19:42

how do you have it with butter

I don't like chocolate so the jars last ages round here!

Pinot, my 2 are polar opposites when it comes to food too - totally understandable but highly inconvenient!

DumbledoresGirl · 08/02/2007 19:42

Oh yes that rmeinds me, I would always have butter too, no matter what else went on the bread. In fact, for those who think peanut butter doesn't need butter because there is already butter in it: a) there isn't and b) my dh comes from Australia where they call it peanut paste, so he definitely has no problem putting butter on too.

foxinsocks · 08/02/2007 19:43

when I got to SA for the first time, all the people I met had peanut butter and syrup in their sandwiches (ewwww) - was ever so sweet