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?

Tastes like soap anyway. Now dark rich cholate is another story altogether.

phew - thanks zippi - was starting to worry.....

I wouldn't go for the crappy stuff myself, so ikwym
tbh gave ds1 & dd1 white chocolate at 6 months but in tiny doses and they liked it but since then guidelines on weaning have changed(going back 11 years), going to ask HV for advice, thanks everyone

AM with Lockets and the others on this one - why would you want to give your child a taste for chocolate so early ? - I would think that the ideal thing would be to wait as long as possible before giving them such sweet stuff. - sorry -

I'd wait until he's older for white chocolate, It's very sickly. Personally I would start with milk chocolate

Not given ds any chocolate yet - not even a biscuit although someone gave him a piece of shortbread recently when I wasn't looking. He is 8 months and am not in a hurry to start on sweet things, he's still not taking many solids so want to get him onto 'real' food properly before I start on chocs/sweet things. I'd wait if it was me after all your ds doesn't know its Easter.

As late as possible imo. What babies & young children eat moulds their taste buds for life so giving chocolate or other artificially sweet things will only give them a sweet tooth and fill them up with empty calories so they have less room for other foods that contain nutrients. They have no need to eat everything on the planet in their first 2 years - they have the rest of their lives to explore food. Don't see the point in the rush to get them eating what is seen as adult food (ie the highly processed stuff) when it has no real value for them. My ds had no refined sugar until the last few months (he is now 20 months) and I dont intend giving chocolate until he is at least 2 years, mainly due to this issue and also because of allergies. He would rather eat a banana or mushroom etc. I've already had to refuse an easter egg bought for him by well meaning relatives but most know that he only eats nutritional foods and very little refined stuff & are fine with it - he is of course our child not theirs! Chocolate contains caffeine as well so making an already very energetic child hyper is not something I want to do

Decide which is your favourite chocolate. Tell relatives that it is your ds's fave chocolate. Await Easter eggs. Eat them yourself, he wont know.

Peaches, you rock.

breakfast is as good a time as any for me

but for DS wait till he can pester you himself

Give it to him for pudding when he can manage a full chip butty by himself.

at least white chocolate doesn't stain. I've given up trying to recover dd1s clothes with Vanish when she's dribbled out chocolate onto them. Tell children that the dark chocolate tastes pants and probably has dirt in it to make it that colour.

I have to agree with Peaches - eat the damn chocolate yourself, ffs! Party bags should be similarly edited until the age of at least seven. 'ooh look, a hairslide and a pencil, how lovely' (chomp chomp). And for the first b'day present they get a lovely scrumply paper bag.