Am I being neurotic about amount of sugar in fromage frais/yogs? And a question about veggie sausages!

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Hi

LO is 10 months, we've been giving her Little Rachel's yogurts but was looking at fromage frais today, they all seem to contain sugar (I know Little Rachels do as well)

Are there any brands that don't out of interest?

Also, want to give some veggie sausages - any recommendations?

Ta

If you really want sugar free yogurt - buy plain organic yogurt and stir in some mashed banana, fruit puree or similar. Or even a tiny bit of sugar so you control the amount.

No idea re veggie sausages, I would be a little concerned over salt content but that's just me.

I saw a sugar free children's yogurt once (heavily advertised in a magazine). Only actually saw it once in supermarket - was v expensive so I expect discontinued now.

what you don't want is anything 'sugar free' or 'no added sugar' as they will have artificial sweetners in. a natural substance such as sugar is far better than anything processed and potentially harmful such as aspartame.

as for yoghurt i would tend to get a big tub of plain full fat yoghurt and serve it with fruit mixed in, whether that be puree or chucks depending on how you're fedding your lo.

for veggie sausages i like anything by cauldron. but then i don't like any 'fake meat' stuff so no tofu or quorn. it's not a good idea for small babies to eat too much soya product, and i just can't bear the texture of quorn or the thought of what it is (much the same as meat!). so cauldron so things like leek and cheese sausages and some others which are nice.

if you're trying to get protein into your lo i would try different beans.

I think the Sainsburys own brand are sugar free. But nice creamy organic yoghurt with fruit mashed into it is even nicer.

Not sure about the veg sausages.

I second RN - cauldren sausages are really good - but check the salt content...

Also we too bought large tubs of yoghurt - ds could get through 300g in a single sitting so it worked out a lot cheaper that way too. Ds (now 3.1) still chooses yoghurt with fruit for his favoured pudding most nights - fresh fruit or fruit puree or raisens, sometimes topped with crunchie meusli, oats, grape nuts (but these are all better for an older child obviously)

Is it sucrose or fructose though. Fruit has loads of sugar but that's not a reason not to eat it. Sorry, not much help.

Is there any advantage of fromage frais over yoghurt then? I don't know of any off-hand, in which case I would stick to the Little Rachel's yoghurts which have no sugar or sweetener. Natural yoghurt with pureed dried apricots (the natural, brown ones, not the ones which are orange) is delicious. But a fair bit of faff cooking and pureeing them. We are definitely a Little Rachel's yoghurt family :

We buy the "Kids" Fromage frais in Sainsburys. No sugar, sweetened with grape concentrate or something (?) You might wanna check the ingredients but I'm sure it's all healthy stuff in there

I buy little dish yoghurts and custards in sainsbury's that are sugar free. The supermarkets round here seem to stock two varietys of Little Rachels one of them is sugar free so I buy those. Tesco also stock a sugar free make but haven't bought them there recently so cannot remember the make! Also buy plain greek yoghurt and add pureed fruit. Probably am paranoid but wanted to concentrate on different flavours rather than sweet stuff whilst weaning.

Buy plain yogurts and stir in HIPP fruit jar.

Sausages. I found Wicken Fenn to be utterly disgusting. And I'm not usually fussy!

Petits Filous are waaaay too sweet and full of additives.

And I don't like sweet-but-sugar-free products because of the yucky chemical sweeteners

So like Shitemum we have plain yog and fromage frais and the kids eat it either as it is (DD1 prefers it like that) or stir in a tiny bit of sugar, or jam or fruit puree.

Kids yogs are a) an absolute fleece and b) mostly full of crap.
We buy a big pot and stir in fruit too.

Little Rachels or Sainsbury's Kids for yoghurts (no added sugar - just fruit/juice to sweeten) and little dish fromage frais (we get from Waitrose).

Sausages generally all packed with salt, so at 10 months I'd be really careful of this, as limit is only 1g per day, and milk already uses some of this. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a recipe on Aitch's blog for some you could make yourself though.

I buy Rachel's as they are sweetened with grape juice. But mainly I get it as I cant find full fat yoghurt. I dont really want DD eating low fat, not yet.

If could find full fat plain yoghurt, I would use that.

riven they dont 'need' them but as they're not full of rubbish like the other ones (ie Petits Filous), only just over £1 for 6, and DS loves having his own little pot and peeling off the top, we buy them .
Nothing wrong with buying a big pot and stirring in fruit (I love it) but DS is rather picky and doesn't like lumps. Fromage frais are lovely and thick too, yogurt just goes everywhere in this house

Pavlov - there is plenty of it about. Yeo Valley do one?

We use Redwood or Fry's veggie sausages from Holland and Barrett or other health food shops.
Incidentally, Tivall's sausages contain battery eggs.

Beanspout - really? I spent hours looking up and down for one. I even asked a muppet shop assistant once. That was pointless to say the least!

I will look some more!

Thanks everyone, very useful advice. Have given natural yog before so may go back to that.

Just been to Sainsbury's and can't find the Cauldron sausages - where can you get them they sound yummy!

Hey there

I had the same problem when I wanted to get my little one onto dairy products. I really liked the idea of fromage frais because of the different tastes they come in - as my little one absolutely dislikes natural yoghurt ! but the off the shelf ones had far too much sugar in them - so i tried a lot of different brands but settled for their fromage frais in their dairylicious range by Ella's ... you might want to have a look at them my lo is crazy about them!

Hey there

I had the same problem when I wanted to get my little one onto dairy products. I really liked the idea of fromage frais because of the different tastes they come in - as my little one absolutely dislikes natural yoghurt ! but the off the shelf ones had far too much sugar in them - so i tried a lot of different brands but settled for the fromage frais in the dairylicious range by Ella's ... you might want to have a look at them my lo is crazy about them!

I give my 9 month old twins Yeo Valley full fat fruit yoghurts mixed with Yeo Valley plain yoghurt. 4 tablespoons of plain yoghurt with 2 tablespoons of fruit yoghurt & they share it.

I cannot find organic Greek yoghurt anywhere. Have yet to check Wholefoods though.