When is a good time to introduce white chocolate

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With easter coming, ds will be 6 and half months, would that be a good time?

yep

I'm amazed you haven't done it already

intraveanous

I think Heather Mills McCartney might have the answers to this one....

In all honesty - later rather than sooner.

DS never liked white chocolate.

All my relatives bought him white chocolate eggs last year - they were still sitting on top of the spare room wardrobe in August, and most of them had gone past their sell-by date!!!!

Deffo - why have you waited till now?

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why white...?

yum - am hooked on hotel chocolate....now that reminds me - i have some chocolate in the cupboard.......
grr zippi - i was doing so well till you posted that link.....

didnt want to encourage sweet tooth, dont like chocolate much myself, the odd bar every now and again, more of a savoury person, I know the cupboards will be full of white chocolate at easter from relatives, so thanks everyone, I will try him on it.

I don't know if this is a wind up or some joke I am missing out on, but I would rather make a fool of myself than risk the vague chance that someone is going to go away thinking it is really ok to give white chocolate to a 6 month old baby.

Red, if you are serious, they are having a laugh at your expense. White chocolate is full of sugar and additives and other things that a young baby does not need and should really not be having. Wait till he's older. Eat the rellies chocolate yourself :)

I also endorse F&Z post, I would delay chocolate as long as possible and especially the kind of poor quality stuff that fills the shops and bears little relation to real chocolate..encourage the givers to buy something delicious for you and maybe Peter Rabbit books or something for the baby

Cheers zippi, I was feeling like I had entered some alternate universe for a minute :)

I thought I was redaing the post wrong and that your ds was 6!

I wouldn't bother introducing it either. I think 6 and a half months is way too young to give the kind of chocolate that will be on the shelves this Easter anyway.
I think the present idea is much nicer.

6 months is probably too young for chocolate and white is not better than regular

oh you kill joys

Bit young for choc imho.

White chocolate is the work of the devil anyway - urgh [sick icon] Now dark chocolate is another thing altogether - and my dd's won't learn about this as I want it all!

It's not the chocolateyness in chocolate that's bad (in small amounts) IYSWIM - it's all the added sugar and in some cases other additives that aren't great for small children. You'd be better with good quality, organic milk or dark choc than bogstandard white, which probably has the most sugar and least chocolate in it.

I've recently started to let DS (9mo) have a tiny sliver of chocolate when I have some - the size of a grain of rice - in the interests of "everything in moderation", so he can experience it and so he doesn't see it as something exotic and forbidden. But I wouldn't let him have a lot.

I only let my girls eat organic chocolate that is made from milk from the local farm, which doesn't smell of manure but of roses. Virgins package up the chocolate which also gives me peace of mind. You can't be too careful with this stuff.

Ho ho OO :)

Gosh - i really do think i have turned invisible now....must go back and get me pills changed....

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the bog standard white chocolate easter eggs are just rank - so nasty that even my chocoholic dh and dd wouldn't touch it

If you're going to try chocolate, at least go for something of some quality

vicky i did notice you said

later rather than sooner