Jun
26
PARENTS – how many of you feed snacks to their kids before reading the ingredients?
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777888 -345 questioned:
if you do, what kind of snacks are your kids eating?
if you don’t, what are you looking out for?
Become A Childrens Writer:Insider Secrets
if you do, what kind of snacks are your kids eating?
if you don’t, what are you looking out for?
Become A Childrens Writer:Insider Secrets
I do check ingredients a lot, primarily because I’m a vegetarian (he’s not, but close), though that doesn’t always mean we eat the most healthy of foods, either.
For juice, I do look for 100%. He’s taken a liking to some chewy fruit bars and likes Sunchips. Sometimes it’s apples or grapes – but we also eat rice krispie treats (not tons – hah!) and both of us like a hit of chocolate once in a while. He likes hard boiled eggs, too (and will eat them without salt) and corn on the cob without butter.
He can tell you that some things are just full of sugar (Gatorade, which he enjoys, is sugar water) or salt (soy sauce).
I do mostly notice animal products and percentages of different ingredients. There are some chicken nuggets I buy on occasion, too, that are 100% chicken – which can be hard to find. Same with fish sticks. We mostly eat fake bacon and fake hot dogs – still not the greatest for you, but better than the real thing. (We eat Worthington.)
P.S. He just picked out some snack food – cheddar flavored rice cakes, a blueberry/gran bar and ritz bits with peanut butter. Not too shabby!
I’m worried Ill have to say I’m guilty here.
Although I do like to give my son lots of veg and fruit (which he likes too) I don’t find myself reading the small print on everything he puts in his mouth.
I guess it would be a excellent thought to, but common sense suffices for me