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Petits filous for 7 month old

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Gingernut81 · 28/04/2016 17:00

Lots of my friends seem to be obsessed with sugar and I can't help but feel I'm being frowned upon for giving DD petits filous. She has one a day, at lunchtime and nothing else she eats has added sugar as I make pretty much everything myself. I know she shouldn't be having loads of sugar but I don't want to be one of those sugar police mums who completely bans it. I mentioned it to my HV and she wasn't concerned just feel like I'm being a bad mum for letting her have them Confused

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Xmasbaby11 · 28/04/2016 22:34

My two had 1 or 2 petit filou a day. Neither of them liked natural yoghurt. That was the only sugar they had.

cricketqueen · 28/04/2016 22:37

OP- I feel like a bad mum.
Other posters... well you should, sugar is the devil etc etc etc
It won't kill her, in the grand scheme of life it doesn't matter.
Please don't beat yourself up. My dd also doesn't like plain yogurt.... She obv didn't get the message about eating what she is given and having no preferences. I'll tell her when she wakes up how wrong she is.....

KindDogsTail · 28/04/2016 22:38

What about plain yogurt with mashed in blue berries, or some grated apple?

ElderlyKoreanLady · 28/04/2016 22:38

PF actually has 11.2g of sugars per 2 x 47g pots. Some of which is from the fruit purees and juices in the ingredients list that I'm currently looking at which certainly isn't as long as my arm. There are 11 ingredients in one flavour and 13 in the other, all of which I recognise. Hmm

Pinkangel23 · 28/04/2016 22:41

No I don't think one a day is bad at all. DD,also 7 months, usually has one after lunch. We buy the vanilla ones that have less sugar and the Ella's kitchen ones with fruit. She also has a slice of cheese afterwards just to neutralise the sugar acids.

Just wondering do these mums have older children or are these pfb? DD is my 2nd and I do try a bit of homemade soups, however pouches and petit filous are just so convenient. Smile

EarthboundMisfit · 28/04/2016 22:41

I can see both sides of that. My LO took a few meals to adapt to Little Yeos but now loves them.

CorBlimeyTrousers · 28/04/2016 22:48

Believe me I am far from perfect as a parent or in any other area of my life. But yes both my children (5 years and 8 months) like natural yogurt. The older one would rather have a fruit yogurt (we buy then sometimes) and he has treats like ice cream and chocolate. But he still has natural yogurt on his breakfast cereal every morning (with a prune or fig or apricot on top) and likes it.

I specifically said the OP wasn't a bad mum because I don't think she is. But if your baby will happily eat natural yoghurt and whole fruit why would you give them something more processed. She posted here asking for opinions and that's what I've given.

StylishDuck · 28/04/2016 22:51

Petit filous has 13g of sugar per serving which for some reason is 2 pots worth so if you're only giving one pot its 6.5g.

OP have you tried Munch Bunch? They do a 30% less sugar variety which has the lowest sugar of all the "baby yoghurts" I've found.

I was a bit pfb and paranoid about sugar when DD was weaning but she wouldn't eat plain natural yoghurt and I figured if I was putting fruit puree in it it was more or less the same as giving flavoured yoghurt.

ElderlyKoreanLady · 28/04/2016 23:18

Where is this 13g number coming from? I'm looking at a pot right now.

Jemappelle · 29/04/2016 07:56

I've got a six month old. We have a big family tub of full fat plain yoghurt the really sour kind sat in the fridge - it's used for marinades etc.

DS gets a blob or two of that for breakfast with bananas smashed in. Or a big dollop on his chilli con carne blended up to take the edge of. He had it as raita the other day with some cumin and coriander powder in it!!

In other words - he eats plain old sour yoghurt he doesn't know anything else exists!!!

TheUnsullied · 29/04/2016 10:00

He's 6 months old. It won't last. And I'm not sure the chilli really matters here...I doubt anyone is putting petit filous in that.

Where was this ingredients list as long as your arm?

Artandco · 29/04/2016 10:14

I wouldn't. They really do have a lot of ingredients in compared to just Greek yogurt

Petite Filous:
Raspberry: Fromage Frais (Skimmed Milk, Cream, Lactic Cultures), Sugar (6.2%), Raspberry Purée from Concentrate (5%), Fructose (3.1%), Carrot Juice, Corn Flour, Lemon Juice, Milk Mineral Concentrate, Natural Flavouring, Vitamin D, Strawberry: Fromage Frais (Skimmed Milk, Cream, Lactic Cultures), Sugar (6.2%), Strawberry Purée from Concentrate (5%), Fructose (3%), Carrot Juice, Corn Flour, Lemon Juice, Natural Flavouring, Milk Mineral Concentrate, Vitamin D.

Rachael organic Greek yogurt:
Organic Natural Yogurt (from Milk)

You also pay way more per 100g.
Petite Filous -53p per 100g
Basic Greek yogurt -24p per 100g
Organic Greek yogurt -40p per 100g

thestarryeyedsurprise · 29/04/2016 10:52

DS is 10 months and currently teething so yesterday he had an ice pole. Anything for a break from consistent crying and winging Quite frankly your mother Theresa in comparison to me! FWIW Greek youghart with some mashed banana is worth a go!

AndTakeYourPenguinWithYou · 29/04/2016 10:57

However I would ask why would you give her a petit filous which has sugar in it as opposed to other yoghurt which don't

Because one is sweet and tasty and one is sour and revolting.

Babies are genetically programmed to enjoy sweet foods and not sour or bitter foods. Have you ever tasted breast milk? It's very sweet. There is no way that giving sugar in youghurts will give them a taste for sugar, because they already have that.

If you want to use them, do. In a few years time you will neither remember nor care what yoghurts they were eating at 7 months.

Notso · 29/04/2016 11:19

There is no way that giving sugar in yoghurts will give them a taste for sugar, because they already have that.

Giving them plain yoghurt could give them the taste for plain yoghurt though which is healthier for them. Just because they prefer sweet things doesn't mean they should only have sweet things.

ChoudeBruxelles · 29/04/2016 11:23

Stop beating yourself up. It's one tiny pot a day. Ds is 10 and I'm sure he probably had more than that at the same age. It's about balance.

AndTakeYourPenguinWithYou · 29/04/2016 11:24

Just because they prefer sweet things doesn't mean they should only have sweet things

Did anyone say they should? No.
And no, you can give them all the plain yoghurt you like, and they will still have a taste for sweet things. Like I said, its pre-programmed.

TheUnsullied · 29/04/2016 11:28

Just because they prefer sweet things doesn't mean they should only have sweet things.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that children be fed only sweet things Hmm some people are advocating a common sense approach and others have chucked that out of the window and say not to feed children anything with added sugar or more than three ingredients, but nobody is saying to only give sweet things.

Notso · 29/04/2016 13:47

Crystalgall asked However I would ask why you would give her a petit filous which has sugar in it as opposed to other yoghurt which don't

AndTakeYourPenguinWithYou replied Because one is sweet and tasty and one is sour and revolting

You would give the sweet one because the baby likes sweet things. That's what you said.

I'm not disputing the fact it's pre-programmed but that doesn't mean babies will only eat sugary things does it? Just that they prefer them.
It's possible for them to like sweet, sour, spicy, salty and savoury things all at the same time. Babies can like plain yoghurt.

AndTakeYourPenguinWithYou · 29/04/2016 14:01

Yes, because my baby likes the one and spits out the other. But you leaped (and again are still leaping) to conclude that somehow the fact that they have a built in preference for sweet foods means that I am suggesting they only eat sweet foods, whic h as I have already said is not the case.

Babies CAN like plain yoghurt, however many babies do not. I don't like it either. I eat my yoghurt with sugar in, and so does my baby. You can do whatever you like, but there is no reason why anyone shouldn't give their baby petit filous if they choose to.

LaurieMarlow · 29/04/2016 16:01

Of course you're not a bad mum by any stretch of the imagination.

However, the point about developing their tastes is a good one. I'm surprised by what my DS enjoys. He's got a real taste for sour things, loves really tart berries and eats plain greek yoghurt by the bucketful. I think as a culture, we're too quick to assume that they love sweet and reinforce that message for them.

LaurieMarlow · 29/04/2016 16:09

Giving them plain yoghurt could give them the taste for plain yoghurt though

I'm basically saying the same as Notso. There's an opportunity to shape their palates. It's not like they miss out on anything by not eating Petit Filous.

mrsmugoo · 29/04/2016 16:44

I think if you give sweet things like that at such a young age then it's all they've ever known and they will always have a sweet tooth.

Better off giving them plain yoghurt, unsweetened cereal, plain water etc so they know no different.

KindDogsTail · 29/04/2016 17:35

And watch out for no added sugar or sweeteners meaning grape juice and apple juice concentrates; or artificial sweeteners.

In my opinion it is nice to add whatever sweetness you want, in a form you choose yourself, not have it decided for for you by the manufacturer.

AndTakeYourPenguinWithYou · 29/04/2016 17:46

Better off giving them plain yoghurt, unsweetened cereal, plain water etc so they know no different

Bless. If only this had any effect whatsoever on their tastes later on in life. Wouldn't that be nice?

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