"Give your kids a good start to the day with Nutella" on Mumsnet

[Daddster]

Anyone else think Mumsnet should exercise some advertising restraint on high-sugar, high fax products?

And it's 99p for a 400g jar in Lidl - on special offer!

ah blu - I bought the wee jar....otherwise I'd end up scoffing the lot and.....horror....there might have been some left over for the children to discover!

I did just the same as hoarsewhisperer! Not for the children of course, far too bad for them
In fact it seemed so cheap in Lidl that I got several jars...
Last night dp put some on warm buttered toast and the whole downstairs smelled divine. Smelled twice as nice after I emerged from the kitchen 3 minutes later with my platefull too!

god I give mine nutella on toast all the time

they are kids fgs not fat lardy housewives who sit on the pc all day

is this the 5th thread on this subject?

all things in modera......

It's NOT a question of "I ate it and I'm not 48 stone" or whether it does you any harm in moderation (and I'm sure it doesn't).

It's a question of whether MN should allow a junk food manufacturer (and it most def. is junk food) to state "Give your kids a good start to the day with Nutella" as if it were some kind of health promotion on a site aimed at parents. Is Mumsnet just a business and do the owners really not give a funk who advertises what under their name?

I;'d rather my children ate nutella on a peice of wholemeal bread for breakfast than a bowl of sugar coated crap breakfast cereal which has just about zero fibre content. It's not a bad start to the day.

Please tell me what's "really bad" in the ingredients. Fat is not "bad" for children...they need a certain amount of it for their brains to develop. I'd rather they got that from nutella than chips. SUgar??? Sugar is not poison, despite what everyone would haveus believe...it exists in just about every bit of fruit and veg you eat as well. Rather sugar than some aspartame crap.

I think unless you want to go live in a totalitariam state where everything is laid out in a little "chairman mao style red book" you should forget about this one. DOES it REALLY matter?

There are people starving to death in the world and we're having an argument about Nutella advertising fgs

I think Mumsnet management assume that we can make up our own minds.

i'll probably get shot for saying this but there you go

Hang on a minute - there are people starving in the World, so why on Earth should we worry about what our children's diet?

Not a lot of protein in it though, is there? I think they'd get hungry again quite quickly. Probably ok with a glass of milk.

Daddster

Again - Please tell me what's "really bad" in the ingredients. Fat is not "bad" for children...they need a certain amount of it for their brains to develop. Low fat diets are actually BAD for small children.

SUgar??? Sugar is not poison, despite what everyone would haveus believe...it exists in just about every bit of fruit and veg you eat as well. Rather sugar than some aspartame crap.

If ou're that worried about your kids diets don't buy it. Go boycott macdonalds and forbid them from advertising anywhere, or KFC, or McVities biscuits, or sweets or god forbid low sugar Ribena which isn't good for you because it's full of nerve toxin aspartame, but it's labelled "tooth kind". yeah toothkind, but brainbad...

Re the comment about people starving to death in the world.....I'm trying to suggest we keep a sense of perspective...Nutella is not going to kill your child, turn it into a sociopath or ruin their life.....

There's no way its junk food. Surely, junk food has to be purely empty calories. It has got some protein in it, allbeit not much, and a bit of iron from the cocoa.

agree there isnt anything intrinsically wrong with fat and sugar for kids

think it is pathetic to get so wound up about it

mind you green and blacks spread is nicer

Ah yes elliot - Nutella AND butter. I used to love that too.