Who else thinks the Nutella ad on the mumsnet homepage is RIDICULOUS and OUTRAGEOUS?

[dontwanttogetoutofbed]

i do

[Hecate]

In answer to op - I don't.

It's just an advert.

[OverMyDeadBody]

PMSL niceglasses!

[minorityrules]

minority rules
not if you do not give them any money they don't eat that...

They spend dinner money, pocket money, saturday job money, any money they can find money

They're teenagers, they choose what to spend their money on

And I don't care! They are healthy, active and slim.

[francagoestohollywood]

dd has been having nutella on toast for breakfast for a month now. other than that she has an incredibly healthy diet and eats lots of fresh fruit. also what constitutes a healthy breakfast varies from country to country. In Italy it is normal to have biscuits dipped in milk for breakfast for instance, followed by orange juice.

[needmorecoffee]

niceglasses, only if the McGoodys thing was handpicked by moonlight by virgins and washed in mountain dew. otherwise I wont touch it.

[needmorecoffee]

I'm with minorityrules. When they reach teenagehood they reject your natural organic diet and make an effort to eat the junkiest food they can find. dd1 stopped being a veggie but wouldn't eat organic meat, wanting the cheapest crap you could buy. She appears to live on potnoodles and factory farmed meat now with added chemicals.
But they are young adults. so you just have to ride it.

[psychomum5]

well, my MIL delights in telling me about when she was a child and what her diet was like (this was when I was in despair over my DD1 & 2's diet regarding allergies ect).

her breakfast was dripping on toast, lunch was a chunk of cheese with a doorstep slab of white bread, and tea was chips wrapped in paper as that was the only thing she would eat!!!!

she is now nearly 70, her mother is 96, and both very healthy.......and look at the start in diet she had!!!

[needmorecoffee]

as for the advert. Hadn't even noticed it but then I rarely notice adverts on webpages. Having said that, what exactly is Boden?

[Vacua]

when did it become 'unhealthy' for growing children to have fats and sugars in their diets?

[needmorecoffee]

sat in the organic supermarket cafe this afty with dd wathing the Clifton mummies feed their children chaff. Managed to horrify them in two ways without opening my mouth. One, dd being in a wheelchair and drooling and making CP noises (that sort of thing doesn't happen in yummy mummy land) and two, feeeding her choccy buttons because she can manage those. She can't chew.
People get so up their bums about it all. All things in moderation and don't take anything seriously. An organic sugar free diet is not a 100% surelty of health and happiness.

[bubbleandsqueak]

all things in moderation, my daughter loves nutella on toast for breakfast but equally she loves a big bowl of porridge, she chooses what she eats and at the end of the day she has generally eaten a balance of all foods.

children with active lifestyles should eat more fat and sugar than those that aren't.

[Piffle]

minority rules
Well I do care
DS takes packed lunch, gets pocket money fair enough but usually spends it on phone credit.
He gets treats at home, same as we all get.
Luckily he is food savvy though and know why I am like this

[Piffle]

and we prefer GReen and Blacks to Nutella purely on taste alone

[needmorecoffee]

I like the G&B and the organic dairy free one but just can't afford it except as a rare treat. So we buy nutella. ds1 takes nutella sandwhiches into school every day.

[Flier]

oooooh, my mouth is watering >>>

[Tinker]

OMG at melted in the microwave! Had never thought of that. It's a brilliant way to get some peanut butter into a picky picky child.

[ellasmum1]

dip grapes or strawberries or slices of banana in it- heaven!!

[Buda]

Wish I could get the G&B one here. I bring it back UK whenever poss. I did buy the Tesco organic one today - must check ingredients list.

[filthymindedvixen]

my son will not eat jam.
He has this for breakfast most days: thin layer of nutella on wholemeal bread/toast. Glass of milk, apple/strawberries/raspberries/pears/blackberries/blueberries. Sometimes he also has a bowl of cornflakes (without milk or sugar, he likes it that way)
I don't think this is a bad breakfast for a 10-yr-old who walks a mile to school, is thin and has perfect teeth (which, of course, he brushes after his brekfast).

I'm interested now, what do your kids have for breakfast?

[SoupDragon]

Remove that bag of organic muesli from your ar$es and get a grip