Give your kids a good start to the day with ... Nutella??

[Cocobear]

Does everyone else see that ad, or is it just me? WTF.

is there something wrong with nutella on toast??

It's not wrong. It's very right. It's yummy. It just ain't, by any stretch of marketing, healthy.

No, but its no worse than jam or marmalade.

I dont spread it, i prefer to sit with jar and spoon

I tried this thread earlier and let it die! I thought maybe it was just me that couldn't stand the thought of anything chocolatey passing my lips before lunch time! I'm sure its not actually that bad. Everything in moderation as they say.

mmm a spoonful stirred through my porridge yummmm

rather sommat that nothin'

I'm a jar & spoon person too Kaishay! But not before lunch time!

Ds1 sometimes has hazelnut and chocolate spread on toast for breakfast - Green and Blacks though, not Nutella I couldn't face chocolate for breakfast but it's got nuts in it as well so must be reasonably high in protein. Is it any higher in sugar than, say, jam?

It's LOWER in fat and sugar than jam isn't it - god if it helps prevent people scoffing chocolate at 10am surely a bit of nutella on your toast has to be a good thing.

I meant just lower in fat if you use it INSTEAD of butter and jam obv

Aha! The advert is just there __>

Less sugar than most jams and 52 hazelnuts in each jar.

MML - I could eat chocolate quite happily at any hour, thank you. Just get annoyed with companies marketing sugar for kids and trying to dodge the issue by calling it "balanced" (everything else you serve them with this product had better be healthy, because our product isn't). My brother's kids eat Fruit Loops for breaky every day, SIL says it's part of a "balanced" breakfast because they eat them with milk.

52 hazelnuts - positively healthy then

Would everyone just stop being so flippant please. I am trying to be outraged about sweets being marketed as healthfoods. And none of you, frankly, are being very helpful.

Coco!

You forgot your spoon!

It says 3 level teaspoons per slice - more like per bite

When I saw that advert I thought it gave the impression that it contains pretty much only nuts, milk and a spoon of cocoa whereas a quick look at the half empty jar in the cupboard shows the first two ingredients (ie largest quantity) are sugar and vegetable oils.

There's nothing wrong with nutella but as a healthy breakfast?

Here in France it's marketed as a healthy breakfast. So is nesquick.

Thats great - ds2 has strawberry nesquik in the morning with his nutella on toast!

well after spending 2 years watching dd1 eat no food and drink no drink at breakfast time, I think that Cheerios and pink milk are a lot more balanced than six teaspoonsful of air and a pintful of tears

DCs love nutella - their fave breakfast is home made pancakes - they don't have a truck with those ready made ones - sadly for me - spread with nutella - is the only thing I can guarantee that DS will scoff down - to be honest too I don't care what he eats as long as he eats something - cheerios, sugar puffs all the crap sugar coated crap mus have some sort of nutritional value somewhere!

All the mums at DDs school think I am some sort of domestic goddess when DD says she has had home made pancakes for breakfast too so always some good there!

Cappuccino!!

Yum yum, before nutella hit the shops in a big way here in England my sis and I would devour it during our summers in France. Big fat slices of fresh bread straight from the wood fired bread oven at the boulangerie smothered in nutella.

Not quite the same when you stick it on a slice of hovis really

DS2 would shrink to nothing without nutella on toast, on a bagel, on a pancake, before school, after school, before bed, washed down with flavoured milk. DH refuses to put it in packed lunches though.

It's more nutty than chocolatey.