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no arguments please...

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ELF1981 · 21/05/2007 21:13

okay, my 1st thread tonight with a touchy subject worked well, I hope this does not descend into madness...

Fruit shoots, the H2O ones, are they really, really bad?

DD is 19 months old and at the CM's she refuses point blank to drink out of her juice cup, 'cause all the other kids are drinking out of fruit shoot bottle type thingies. I had been using one and re-filling with water, but that's not too hygenic. DH brought 12 bottles of the H20 ones. I tried to decipher the ingredients list but I'm naff at all that.

Are they terrible?

No fighting - just explain to me why!!

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millie99 · 21/05/2007 21:15

if you really have to give something like this you could try the mini tropicana drinks that are 70%juice 30%water and look like a fruit shoot.Sainsburys sell them in packs of four.

elsieanjoanne · 21/05/2007 21:16

dont know what in them you can buy bottles with that sports type lid you can wash them and even steriise it if you worried about the germs then you will know whats in it!

TheMoistWorldOfSeptimusQuench · 21/05/2007 21:21

How about getting her really funky colourfully patterned flask type bottle with a sports lid? Papaerchase do some great ones for about £5 (cost of a few fruit shoots?)

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ELF1981 · 21/05/2007 21:21

she has a sports type cup (I have a cupboard full of different types) and she'll happily drink out of them at home, but once inside the CM's she was to be like the other kids (next she'll be telling me she doesn't have the right type trainers or something!)
Usually I have been buying Tesco own brand or Panda juices but looking at the ingredients they all seem very similar to Fruit Shoots - I'm not sure what I should be looking for on the list of ingredients to avoid!

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FrannyandZooey · 21/05/2007 21:22

I think this one has sweeteners in - not recommended for children.

Could you go with her to choose a really exciting new cup? Otherwise I agree that properly cleaning a sports type bottle is hard but not impossible. It could go in the dishwasher?

millie99 · 21/05/2007 21:22

tropicana-see below

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ELF1981 · 21/05/2007 21:23

I have seriously broken my heart over the amount of money I have invested in juice cups (and bottles, she little madam took about 20 different types to settle on one she'd use, and it would be the most expensive one!). She's had all sorts of juice cups and sports cups, plus glasses with strawers on them etc, and at home she is happy, just not at the CM.
Bless.

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Raggydoll · 21/05/2007 21:23

i second the tropicana ones - nothing bad in those and look just like fs h20

FrannyandZooey · 21/05/2007 21:24

Avoid sweeteners such as aspartame

some just have sugar in which are obviously not the greatest thing for them to be drinking, but better than artificial sweeteners

try to get one that is just fruit juice, no additives

hairymclary · 21/05/2007 21:24

I thought the H2O ones still had aspartame in them?

I would either buy the tropicana go bottles, or just re-use old ones.
tbh though it seems odd that a 19 month old would cave to peer pressure [hmmm] and personally I would just send her with her ordinary cup. she'll drink if she is thirsty

Flamesparrow · 21/05/2007 21:25

Just sterilise the lids of the fruitshoot bottles if the germs worry you so much?

WelshBoris · 21/05/2007 21:26

Tropicana drinks are fab.

When we are out with friends and I know they are going to be drinking fruit shoots I take a tropicana for DD, and her Dora flask which I fill up with juice. I then top the tropicana bottle up.

CorrieDale · 21/05/2007 21:33

Or don't worry about the germs! Germs are good for toddlers. Build up immunity. Well, that's my excuse.

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ELF1981 · 21/05/2007 21:35

Tropicana juice it is then!

I do not mind her drinking juice, we tend to give her Robinson's quite heavily diluted. Its not just about how filthy the bottles are, but she chews on the lid as well and it looks a bit manky.

hairymclary - if she is at the CM's and only has a juice cup, she will not drink from her cup, but run off to the corner with some other childs fruit shoot type bottle. Seeing as there is one particular girl who pushes my dd around, it is easier for me to give her a fruit shoot type bottle to stop arriving at the CM's to find she's been pushed / smacked by the other girl. She doesn't drink, she does go on a strike. She still has not started drinking milk again since I stopped b/feeding and will only drink water at night now, plus throws a bottle of milk on the floor if given it. Very strong willed my dd - dunno where she gets it from

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nappyaddict · 24/05/2007 00:23

hijack

colditz · 24/05/2007 00:31

Milton - sterilise the fruitshoot bottles.

Although I have used them for ages with no ill effect - just make sure you NEVER put milk in it, and let it dry thoroughly.

DaisyMOO · 24/05/2007 09:22

The fruit shoot bottles shouldn't get that germy anyway if they've only got water in - there's not much for the bugs to grow in! My eldest two take this sort of bottle to school with water in and we just give them a quick wash (not even every day ) No tummy bugs whatsoever.

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