Why feed baby yogurts like petit filous?

[SparkyUK]

Sorry if this is a silly question, but I was wondering what the point of those baby yogurts/fromage frais are. I mean, why do parents use those rather than just regular yogurts to their kids and babies? They seem more expensive and much more wasteful environmentally. Are they fortified with vitamins that baby wouldn't get otherwise or something?

DD loves little stars - shoot me

We've never got them - but that's because ds is (and always has been) a yoghurt monster. Aged 1yr he could quite happily eat 1/2 a large (500g) pot of yoghurt with some fruit - and that was just for pudding!!! He always had plain, full-fat to start with - but now he's 4 we just get the lowfat ones as he's eating a good range of different things so its not such of an issue.

The Rachel's ones without added sugar are only the "My First Yoghurt" ones in the yellow packaging.
Those are the ones that I use now that my daughter is a bit older as she can (usually) manage a whole one now.
Before that I gave her Little Stars or Petit Filous, as they are smaller, but I don't like the taste of them myself really so I try to avoid them now.
I have tried the buying a big pot idea, but half of it always get wasted, my daughter has such a tiny appetite there's no way she'd get through a big pot before it went off, and my husband and I don't really eat much ourselves.

glad it's not just me who's been reading the entire yoghurt aisle recently!

Sainsburys Greek yoghurt keeps fine in the fridge for a couple weeks.

Now if someone could recommend a leakproof container for yoghurt that's easy for someone with crap hands to open and shut...? Nearly had a sticky incident the other day with A's lunch on the train...

A pack of Little Stars yoghurts costs £1.58. A pack of Tesco's brand yoghurts costs 49p.

They have exactly the same nutritional value.

Don't be a sucker.

notcitrus - Lakeland do a set of 10 small plastic boxes (blue lids) that are fairly easy to open and quite leak proof....

The dds and I quite linked the rinky dinky, sweet petit filous. If you're not on a money saving mission, why not

I'm a 'mean' mummy that just gives 16 MO DS Yeo Valley organic full fat natural yoghurt, I prefer the small ones as he doesn't eat the bigger pots quickly enough. DS likes to 'dippy dip' fruit like dried apricot, banana, peach slices into it - it aint half messy but he enjoys it. I'm holding off sugary branded yoghurts as long as possible!

do I get brownie points for buying the Plum Baby ones? I've bought them for DS2 (6.5mo) and he loves them so much he cries when it's finished

We buy sainsbury's ones usually, or petit filous or whatever is in the shop we are in or whatever is on offer (can't remember the last time I didn't buy PF on a bogof).

It's a pudding, not poison and one a day isn't going to harm my DC in the long term as they have a pretty good diet.

And yes that includes the occasional fruit shoot, sausage roll and fast food.

And, although I buy plum baby stuff for DS, I really don't see the point in buying organic food for him because of it's organic-ness......after all I'm not organic!

I give DD (14 months) Greek Yogurt. She loves it! Much cheaper than Petit Filous etc.

there's tons of sugar in greek yog/ natural yog. i was pg diabetic and had to check sugar contents. was surprised. once you mix a fruit puree in, the sugar content will be higher even if it is fructose.

quite frankly i use the petit filous (the ones with the fruit on the bottom are less sugar) as they are easy and i don't have to faff around defrosting purees and washing up bowls with dried up yog all over them.

I give DS (8 months) Longley Farm yogs. Similar to the Rachel/Yeo Valley stuff, but made (on a nationwide commercial scale) locally, and avalailable all over the place here. They are just yoghurt, sugar and fruit. Sometimes he finshes one, sometimes not, in which case either 1 - I do, or 2 - I put it in the fridge and give it to him later.

Runnyhabit, harking back to A Level chemistry, Food Project, I think I know why. There are laws about fatlevels in food and food labellin. "Low Fat" means less than 5% (I think) fat. Ordinary yoghurt is less fatty than this, so it has to be called "Low Fat". Yoghurt only becomes "Fatty" when it has cream added, or is Greek or otherwise enhanced.

Merrymarigold - having just looked at the websites (yes am at work and so have the time ahem):

Petits filous: 12.4g of sugar per 100g -7.4g per 60g pot (6g of that is added to the 60g pot)

Yeo Valley natural whole milk: 6.6g per 100g all of it lactose - ie not added.

In my book thats not the same at all.

giantkatestacks, wasn't saying that they are the same - just that greek yogurt (some brands have more than others) are not 'sugar free'. and once you have added a fruit puree (especially if it contains dried fruit), there is more sugar too. it can come across like natural yoghurt and fruit have no sugar in them.

As far as i can see plum organic are the only ones that don't have sugar? am i wrong
would love to buy cheaper sugar free, organic ones as they are v expensive

they are v expensive you compare them to other yogurty things, but they are only 33p each. I spend more than that on a chocloate bar for me every day.....so I think my DS can have his wee treat as well!

Haven't read the whole thread but I don't think there is much point to most of the kid/baby yoghurts and, as others have said, many of them contain as much or more sugar than adult yoghurts. As crokky says, they are made with whole milk (4% fat) compared to a variety of skimmed/semi/whole milk yogurt/fromage frais.

I usually buy Total Greek Yoghurt or plain fromage frais add chopped fresh or semi-dried fruit (or nothing as DS happily eats it plain probably because it tastes less sour than other plain yoghurts). I do also buy the (expensive) Plum Organic fromage frais or, sometimes, Rachels Organic Yoghurt - the my first yoghurt ones as the other Rachels kids ones do contain sugar. I don't buy these often though as they are very runny.

I understand that some of the yoghurts are fortified with vitamins in the same way that cereals but I tend to think that this is unnecessary if a child is getting a balanced diet.

I sometimes give DS a sample of whatever yoghurt I happen to be eating too

Notcitrus - If we're out and about I put yoghurt in those tommy tippee weaning pots with lids and not had a spillage yet (fingers crossed)

Before Godwin's Law is applied...

DS normally has some greek yoghurt with some st dalfours jam mixed in.

My local supermarket only sells little stars and I have on occasion given him some of these. I follow the 80% good 20% bad guidelines. His constipation cleared up when I started giving him the odd bit of sugary food.

hi everyone. can i give to my 9 month old bb a yeo valley organic natural yogurt?

hi everyone i'm new mum here and i got a question if someone can help me.can my baby 9 month old can eat a yeo valley organic natural yogurt?

Yes, I give my dd yoghurt and she is 8 months. She likes it with mashed banana to sweeten it a bit.