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!!

Victim speech? You mean the one where I told you to carry on as you please, because you weren't bothering me at all? That victim speech?

Come on Smug, give it up

JJ2, I don't disagree with what you say about medicines containing unnecessary toxins. I didn't actually know about it until this thread. It is pretty shocking that medicines/vaccinations that children really need have got things in them which parents wouldn't knowingly give them. Well worth campaigning against IMO.

But I'm having difficulty finding anything in that which lessens my concern about children eating poisonous crap which hasn't got medicine in it.

want to point out that my argument here is only aimed at those who will not allow a toxic chemical disguised in food to pass their child's lips. Just because I've often wondered about the logic.

want to point out that my argument here is only aimed at those who will not allow a toxic chemical disguised in food to pass their child's lips. Just because I've often wondered about the logic.

apologies- computer "stuck" cross posted.

jimjams, where can you get whizzers? i still dont 100% trust smarties to give them to my kids.

lets all just stick to worrying about what we feed our own kids and not everyone elses if we all do that then we know they will be the best fed kids (even with the ocassional junk meal thrown in)

lost them for years, but recently spotted them in morrissons. DS1 was so pleased he kept climbing up on things to get them then chewed his way through a packet when I wouldn't open them!

no whizzers in our morrisons.

asda sell them

you mean i;d have to go to ASDA

dd1 misses her colourful sweets, dd2 does as well. reminds me i have to provide the nursery with a bumper bag of buttons.

NQC virgin olive oil and groundnut oil should not be hydrogenated. You should check the label though because cheaper brands may be partially hydrogenated in order to increase their shelf life.

Haven't read it all, but thought I'd share this with you.

My friend (not close) who has a ds the same age as mine (15months) said to me "ds eats proper food now, you know smily faces and mcdonalds"

The thing is, they have been brought up very differently from me, and that is what they BELIEVE. Thats how they were brought up.

We need to have some sort of education for new parents, that educates them in what is healthy for babies and children.

Still don't know what a food pedant is.

Very difficult to insititute any programme of "education" such as you suggest, PanicPants - anyone who dares to raise the topic of children's eating habits gets run out with pitchforks and cries of "Smug bastards!! Lentil-freaks! Organic obsessed ubermums!" People who are happily feeding their children food that they think is OK don't appreciate being told it isn't. Look at the two old bags with the shopping trolley full of burgers. You'd need a crowbar and a team of transplant surgeons to change their minds.

Ds is 14months old so hasn't really been given much crap yet just a cupcake every now and then. I think he's has 3 in his life.
When I was little I was always fed very healthy meals. When I got abit older and noticed my friends had white bread and crisps in there lunchboxes, i wanted the same. My mum would buy crisps and chocolate every now and then and me and my brother would eat the whole lot in one. I'm even like it now, i can't have anything like it in the house because I just can't stop myself.
When ds gets abit older I'll allow him to have the odd treat when wer'e out but im not keeping any in the house. When I say treats i mean cake, cookies or crisps hate mcdonalds myself so ill try not to go there.
I don't have a problem with other children eating chocolate or crisps. Its none of my buisiness and it could just be a treat.

Me, Caligula. I'm a food pedant. Apparently.

I did once offer my dd a greggs pasty, she threw it on the fall but thats not to say in a few years time she won't be crying for one when i walk past greggs

oops should read floor not 'fall'

GLTA you are right which is very sad. Really don't know what the answer is.

I try to give ds a broad and balanced diet, but although he never has chocolate, crisps, mcd, I do allow him some of those 'organix' gingerbread men, which are probably just as bad as a normal biscuit

My defintion of a food pedant is this
You go out
See mother with child - you do not know this woman, know her medical history or social background etc
Mother feeds child a food that causes you to have an apolectic fit
You post your indignation on here and wait for other likeminded, smug, self-righteous perfect mummies to agree with you and wallow in the castigation of unknown individual

The fact that it could have been a treat for the child or some other factor does not deter you or your bullying, smug, perfect mummy crowd from flailing this woman for being less than perfect like you.

Speedymama, if that means being absolutely horrified at a wedding recently to see a 1 year old drinking Coke out of a baby bottle, then sign me up for the pedant's club straight away please. Can I pay my sub by direct debit ? Rx

How d'you know DG was having an apoplectic fit? Her OP sounds quite amused to me.

And bullying? The anonymous woman doesn't even know we're talking about her, how on earth do you have that down as bullying?

I don't see that posts laughing about food choices are any different from laughing about home decor, clothes, etc. Would you call Cod a clothes pedant when she sternly tells us we're not to wear x with y this season?

That is the trouble with people like you Rosiemac. Most of us would not give a baby coke in a bottle and most of us would be taken aback by seeing that. However, because people like you don't believe in giving others the benefit of doubt, you think your indignation is something to be proud of.

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A paranoid pedant, apparently.....