Do you feed your little ones 'crap'?

[DetentionGrrrl]

I was amazed yesterday at the amount of rubbish food i saw people feeding babies and toddlers- has the world gone mad?!

2 kids got on the bus (max ages 3 / 4)at 10am, both eating full size chocolate bars AND crisps, then saw toddlers with McDonalds in their pushchairs, and my personal favourite...a baby of no more than 3mths being spoon fed ICE-CREAM in her pram!!

I don't feed my DD crap, but then she's only 16mo, to date she's only ever had a couple of spoonfuls of ice cream and the odd digestive biscuit. Plenty of time for the rubbish later. I know she's going to be exposed to junk food as she gets older but I don't see any point in introducing it now and I can't see me ever buying the stuff when she's older. If she wants it she has it elsewhere.

I agree with GreenLumpyTonsil, it's not so much the cakes or biscuits themselves but the chemical additive laden stuff. Also, I really don't see the point of squashes when there are perfectly good fruit juices (lol at Ribena and dog's piss). I was never allowed squashes or fizzy drinks when I was small and no, I didn't rebel big time and drown myself in coke later, I've probably only ever drunk it about twice (after a bad hangover lol) as I find it too disgustingly cloying. I don't even have sugar in my tea as I don't like it, yet I do eat chocolate and cakes occasionally (usually home made - oh dear don't I sound smug!).

My personal view is that when they're tiny you have the opportunity of a lifetime of shaping their tastebuds before it all goes spiralling out of control, so why not use it to shove as much "real" food in, instead of giving them a rapid introduction to a possible sugar/salt/additive dependancy. After that, OK, everything in moderation.

JMO

ah yes, all the old favourites, just for old time's sake.

ffs humph, could you not stretch to banoffi popcorn?

greenytha, sterling work there my friend.

things on the no way! uh-huh absolutly no way list for my kids are

cheap squash (dd1 has allergy to food colourings cheap squash being loaded with them)

blackcurrent jaffa cakes (dd1 had a reaction to them)

cheap chicken nuggets (birds eye dippers are ok)

chocolate containing nuts (choc buttons, and milky way stars are fine, everything proceed with caution, after reaction to a dairy milk bar)

soups containg colorings.

plus loads more.

surpisingly dd1 doesnt have a reaction to coca cola.

Oh yeah, sweets, chocolate, chips, mcdonalds, candy floss, the works. Of course all in modersation and plenty of good stuff too.

I eat crap also

Am I bovvered?

Clearly some people do not know it, HMo2, or the companies which manufacture these products would have gone out of business.

If you don't want to be patronised, don't behave like a child. Of course the points you make will be "picked over" in a debate in which you are participating - it would be a pretty one-sided affair otherwise, don't you think?

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm MrsF!!! DD has bloody been eating the apples this time

thanks, and so easy to make too.
gonna have a go tonight.

Im going now as gaskets are blowing and i cant cope.

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oh mrs f, that sounds lovely. i used to make an apple sponge minus the toffee/syrup, and i really fancy it now, but am on low sugar diet

eating just a normal apple sponge would bring me down and sleepy

Oooh, a personal insult

And a "whatever", and "I can't be bothered".

Yup, definitely a child

I try and avoid crap for my kids, which is DEAD easy when I'm with dd and ds2, so I can feel really smug as dd eats asparagus and pepper, with every fruit under the sun. Ds1 eats no fruit except grapes, and no veg except baked beans, peas, tomato ketchup (yes I do count that...). So sometimes he does eat crap because otherwise he would not eat. So after swimming he has crisps (only time in the week though), he has sweets at parties.

'No such thing as bad food, just a bad diet.'

Says a cleint of mine who just happens to be a top nutritionist.

misdee...its lovely without the toffee etc....

when i'm being 'healthy'...i serve mainly apple to me...and what i call a 'taste' of the sponge!!!

Brain Licker: Glucose,fructose syrup,water, sugar,acids,citric acid,lactic acid,malic acidE202,E211,artificial flavour,artifical colours,E102/yellow 5,E110 yellow 6,E129 red 40,E133 blue 3,.Not suitable for under 3 years of age.

I wonder whether your nutritionist friend would classify that as a "food" at all.

Bit different from a gingerbread man or a chocolate brownie, IMO.

Greeny I would not class a brain licker as food and I'm not a nutritionist.

I'm with you on that one. I have never seen one thank goodness.

There is such a thing as bad food.

Transfat, for instance.

that brain licker has at least 4 things that would bring dd1 out in hives

why would anyone want to eat that?

I really couldn't care less what other people feed their kids tbh, and I don't lose any sleep if my ds had had a day of sweets, juice, pizza and chocolate. Because I know the next day will be a better one.

Well, that's my point. There are bad foods. Parents have to decide where to draw their own lines. Personally I won't let them have aspartame/Acesulfame K, so that's Fruit Shoots out. And I have a horror of anything with a colour not found in nature (blue slush, for example, or radioactive green).

It's NOT the same as giving crisps/chocolate/cakes, which are better given in moderation rather than all the time, because of sugar/salt etc, but aren't going to do any real damage.

And I have seen mothers buying Brain Lickers and blue slush for toddlers.

Seeing as some people on here have connections with nutritionists can one of you please answer me this - I'm assuming transfat is hydrogenated vegetable oil which is the devil of all devils. But is vegetable oil hydrogenated vegetable oil.

I ask this as some products say h v oil and some just say v oil.

I always wonder why people include pizza under the junk food label. It's perfectly good, isn't it? Bread, tomato, cheese, ham, veg - nothing wrong with that IMO.

I was going to ask another food-related question, but this isn't the thread to do it on, so I'll start one, I think.

Bloody hell this thread took off!

Yes, perhaps some of them were 'treats', but feeding a little baby ice cream?!

When my babies were weaning they had little tastes of icecream. Not weaned at 3mo of course, but I always underestimate the ages of babies as mine were such monsters.

Pizza is healthy food (carbs, protein, lycopene from the tomato sauce, calcium from the cheese etc), just read the ingredients and make sure there are no dodgy additives when you buy it. Obviously better if you make it yourself, but I for one can never be bothered. In Italy it's considered a complete meal in itself.