What's wrong with fruit shoots?

[branflake81]

OK - forgive my ignorance but I have never actually had or been in contact with a fruitshoot or read its label* - can someone explain why they are seemingly akin to giving your child arsenic?

*this is not down to any kind of deliberate alimentary puratism, I just haven't.

The interesting q is: why does MN pick on fruitshoots when there are 100 other fruity/fizzy drinks that are just a s bad. Anyone know?

Oh ffs step down morningpaper.

My children eat a massive variety of homecooked meals, eat in restaurants regularly, and love nothing more than a huge plate of fine cheese and crackers.
But I don't mind giving them such things occasionally. Why the fuck should I?

These threads always remind me of a friend at uni who was never allowed chocolate or 'junk food' at home and gorged on burgers, chocolate and fizzy drinks and gained three stone in her fresher year.

Oh mercy!

Preach preach.

They eat a good, all round diet and occasionally I buy cheese strings. Even more occasionally they have a Fruit Shoot that comes with a meal in Wetherspoons when we got for a treat. Yes I said treat because we like Wetherspoons and can just about afford to go there occasionally.

I am so not torturing myself over any of it

I don't give them to the DC to drink because I wouldn't drink one in a million years

Belgo, processed is not a dirty word. The majority of fodstuffs are processed in some way.

In what sort of world is processed cheese a treat?

We bought some the other day because DD had seen an advert. So I said ok, try it. She opens it, takes and bite and spits it out. "Don't worry" I say, chortling with glee, "You don't have to eat it." "Oh mummy, it's made of PLASTIC!" she said, horrified. Hahahaha.

She might live on bread and butter but at least she knows what cheese is supposed to taste like.

The treat is Wetherspoons. Not the cheese.

But carry on.

ahem, from a pack of cheesestrings in my fridge.

'Cheesetrings contain 100% cheese and nothing else'

Chocolate Rocking Horse, may I recommend that when you go to Wetherspoons you swap their free drink for something YOU like, and then get them a glass of water. Then you get your drink free and it's still an exciting treat! You will have to sup from plastic though.

what do we think about those mini babybells? are they supposed to be good or not?

(And PMSL all cheese is processed! How else do you think it exists? From a cheese plant!? )

You just have to TASTE a cheese string to know that it is Not Proper Food

My ds used to drink a lot of fruit shoots, particulary blackcurrant ones.

Dentist told me to stop giving him them!

Apparently, it's the spout on the bottles and the fact that the juice 'coats' the teeth and any other sugar in foods will stick to the teeth and cause cavities!

DS only has water in bottles now.

You may indeed recommend anything you like MorningPaper. My disabled child can't drink from a normal cup; a glass of water is not a whole lot of good to him, except to hurl at neighbouring patrons.

But thank you

The cheesestrings site says "Our cheese is just 100%, stretched before it is packaged"

lol

how does that work then

so if all cheese is processed, how would you descibe the difference between a cheese string and ordinary cheddar?

You would put it in your mouth and KNOW

Look up the word "processed" will you. And ponder concept of difference between an apple (no processed) and a lump of cheddar (processed).

Just because the consistancy of a cheese string offends some adults does not mean that it will offend all children.

Must go now. Sorry.

Oh fuck off morningpaper. Just fuck the fuck off.

Apologies I can't/won't make scrambled quails eggs every time my children need a snack.

And as I said the fruit shoot bottles make fab water bottles for tots. I don't really care if smug mothers in the park think I am abusing my children when they see them.

look I am just here until Moondog comes off her lunchbreak

There is no need for rude words

lol at fuck the fuck off

sorry still got my namechange hat on

No need for anyone to be a food nazi either MP.

I always had you down to be a level headed humorous kinda gal but on this thread you are coming over as excruciatingly pompous.

DD has Fruit Shoots all the time. Proper Fruit Shoots - none of this namby pamby fake mineral water Fruit Shoot nonsense. In fact, even if she didn't want it I'd probably persuade her to drink it just to piss off all the people who go on about how bad it is.

I once tried a fruit shoot - to me it tasted like very very strong squash. (I admit to drinking sugar free squash but quite weak so the fruit shoot was a shock).

I think fruit shoot (on mn) has become a kind of generic term for ANY drink that is marketed at children and contains any of the following: sugar, sugar substitutes, flavourings or colourings.

Ideally I would like my children to drink water, failing that water with a tiny bit of pure juice. dd1 is now 4 and obsessed with fruit shoots as well as numerous other well advertised products.

However as she was brought up on mature cheddar and other similar cheese varieties, she wouldn't eat a cheese string or indeed a "mild" cheese.