Is petits filous really suitable for weaning???

[Emandwilliam]

Friend of mine recommended it, I've brought some but now not so sure.....I tried one and it tastes quite sweet. Ds is 6 months next week.

[Seona1973]

ready brek has absoultely NO salt or sugar added to it and is perfectly safe for babies over 6 months! It was the instant mash (Smash) and instant gravy that would have been responsible for that poor babies death not the ready brek although it seems to have unfairly been given the blame for it.

[Seona1973]

ready brek ingredients:

Wholegrain Rolled Oats (60%), Wholegrain Oat Flour (39%), Calcium, Niacin, Iron, Pantothenic Acid (B5), Vitamin B6, Riboflavin (B2), Thiamin (B1), Folic Acid, Vitamin B12.

[MortaIWombat]

I stand corrected. Thank you, tigger and Seona.

Shall still be sticking to cheaper porridge oats, though.

[Seona1973]

Ready Brek acts to clear death salt charges.

They even sought legal advice to clear their name as they do not add salt to ready brek.

[YaMaYaMa]

I've been giving DD baby porridge for breakfast but if I give her Ready Brek instead, would I just make that up with some formula too? Or full fat cows milk?

I will start giving natural yogurt and pureed fruit for lunch though, now I know how sugary the Petit Filous is.

I wish I had a weaning mentor, I am getting into a bit of a tizz now!

[YaMaYaMa]

In fact, would just bog standard porridge oats be ok?

[Seona1973]

p.s. we used muller little stars fromage frais which had a little less sugar and more natural ingredients than petit filous

[Seona1973]

if your lo is over 6 months then you can use full fat cows milk for cereal/cooking, etc. You could use normal porridge oats too if you wanted

[itsatiggerday]

How old is she YaMa? I used cows' milk with ReadyBrek as I was using it after 6 mths but I probably would have used formula or expressed milk earlier than that.

Don't get in a tizz, I know it seems intimidating but it really isn't. Just beware anything that is marketed heavily for children and read the small print! IME they're the most dodgy. Oh and if you want sugar free yogurts for out and about, Rachel's do lovely ones - called My First Yogurts I think - but the Taste Explorers which are also there do have sugar. Most confusing! The sugar free ones are quite often on a 2 for 1 type deal though so makes them less pricey.

[4madboys]

yes you can use normal full fat milk for cooking and cereal etc from 6mths, i only use formula as my dd has so little of it, that its a good way of getting it in her and is has the extra vitamins etc i would rather she had that than cows milk.

by using formula with porridge and occasionally in food i am managing to get 16oz or so into her and then that is topped up with cheese yog etc :)

i forgot when the boys were younger i made them porridge by grinding up millet oats etc that was easy and cheap and i also made semolina with breast milk! you could make that with regular milk, my ds loved it for bfast in the winter as an alternative to porridge :)

[thefirstMrsDeVere]

There a couple of baby yogs that dont have sugar in them.

Little plums is one I think and there is another one but dispite buying it every week for about a year I dont know what its called.

So I am not very helpful but Sainsburys is your best bet. Morrisons is your worst.

[4madboys]

slightly diff subject i know, but its quite good to make porridge out of millet and other grains (most health foods stock them) and they can all be ground in a blender, that way you can avoid overloading with wheat products, as if you have porridge, toast, sandwiches, pasta etc thats a lot of wheat in one day, some babies are fine with that, others not, and as alwasy with food variety is good!

[4madboys]

oh quinoa (sp) is another one thats good :)

[YaMaYaMa]

Thanks, she's 7 months. We were doing well with a bit of blw and then she gnawed off a chunk of banana and nearly choked on it a few weeks ago and it's knocked my confidence and set us back a bit. So I've been doing baby porridge, then baby rice for lunch with a bit of yogurt.

I'll give her full fat milk with porridge oats tomorrow then. Thank you!

[RitaMorgan]

That article about Readybrek was about a 3 month old baby - the parents were obviously feeding him completely inappropriately.

Readybrek with full fat cow's milk is absolutely fine for a 6 month old.

Beware lots of baby products/yoghurts which say "no sugar" are actually sweetened with fruit sugars anyway!

[cakeoholic]

yamayama buy regular porridge oats and whizz them in a food processor to make them finer then use them to make porridge for your dc, cheapest and healthiest way.

[SinicalSal]

I'm a little unclear about bio-yoghurts beyond that they're 'good for you'. Are they suitable for 6 mo olds?

[WhatGoodIsThis]

I'm not sure but a few years ago, health visitors were regularly recommending it as a food suitable for 6 months plus (along with Weetabix and Ready Brek)

[WhatGoodIsThis]

incidentally, for those saying petits filous are full of sugar... what is wrong with that. (not being inflammatory, genuinely curious)

[RitaMorgan]

Large amounts of sugar in a child's diet is bad for their teeth and likely to lead to obesity.

[Halogen]

I gave Petit Filous occasionally from about a year old, and DD who is nearly five now has at least one a day now (but she is super-skinny, won't eat large amounts of anything and I feel like she needs the calories and calcium - and she brushes her teeth after meals). Wouldn't give them to a six month old personally though obviously they're not the worst thing in the world by a long shot. I wish you could buy the plain pots of fromage frais over here like you get in France - those little pots are exactly the right size for a baby/toddler.

Like others have said, greek yoghurt mixed with fruit mush is genuinely delicious and much healthier. Greek yog also high in fat which is important for small children - lots of the vitamins in milk are fat-soluble so skimmed milk products won't contain as much. A single portion size pot of greek yoghurt won't go off in the few days it takes to eat it. And it's lovely mixed with other kinds of food, too. I make tzatziki with it and dollop it on curry/pilau rice and hope my milk-hating child is getting enough calcium.

[vez123]

I really don't understand why petit filous are getting so much stick all the time. I have just compared them to other commercial yoghurts and they actually contain less sugar than the ones i compared them to (danone and rachel's organic). We do not have a big supermarket near us so this is pretty much the only choice we have (except plain yoghurt). I do sometimes get them for the convenience and apart from this our DS (14 months) has a pretty balanced diet with plenty of fruit and veg. I probably would not use them as first weaning foods though as i would not want the baby to get used to the sweetness at this stage and i would also be careful with dairy at 6 months, our DS brought it all back up again until about 8 months.

[FunnysInTheGarden]

a lot of fuss about nothing IMHO. Petit Filous is a perfectly good food for children of all ages

[CelebratedMonkey]

They're (Petis filous) fine now and again, imo. And Ready Break has been a staple for us since we started weaning our little one.

[cakeoholic]

vez do danone do kids yogs? I can't think of any by them though I do live in Scotland and we don't always get the full ranges. Rachel's organic have fruit sugar rather than sucrose which doesn't raise your blood sugar as much, and all the other things associated with that.

I think the reason they get so much stick is because they market them as though they are healthy/nutritious/good for children and they state that they are suitable from weaning onwards. Why would anyone want to wean using something with so much sugar in it? There is no need for it, babies do not need yogurts but they are the right consistency and convenient for puree weaning and they are dairy and people seem to be caught up with the idea of babies and children having a 'pudding' then these children grow into adults who then have it as a lifelong habit and feel the need to deprive themselves of these things for their weight and health.

I just don't understand why parents would give them to a small child, it really baffles me. You don't have to give yogurt and if you want to then give them one without so much sugar.