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If you don't feed your kids Yogurt melts
Do you let your child eat any flavor yogurt but plain? This is an honest question, I'm not trying to be snarky.
To me, plain yogurt is just so yucky, I can't imagine feeding it to Helen either. One of the foods she has consistently liked over the past couple of years is vanilla flavored yogurt and she's eaten a serving of yogurt nearly every day. She's recently branched out a little to the Simply Gogurt strawberry and mixed berry flavors. It never even occurred to me to be concerned about the added sugar (except that I don't buy her the light yogurt, because she doesn't need to restrict her calories).
Re: If you don't feed your kids Yogurt melts
She likes yogurt melts and yogurt too. But Vanilla yogurt is a different taste than plain yogurt.
Plain yogurt is the nastiest sh!t I know of!! Vanilla actually has a taste too it. T likes banana, raspberry, strawberry, peach, and vanilla flavored kinds.
James used to get the yogurt melts, and while I knew they weren't the healthiest, it never bothered me much. Now that he eats real food, he gets some hoity-toity organic plain yogurt. To me, it tastes like sour cream, and I personally am not into eating a giant bowl of sour cream.
But I figure he doesn't know any better. It's not like he knows how awesome super sugar laden raspberry and lemon and key lime pie flavored yogurts are, so he's not missing out on anything. I sometimes mix in berries or wheat germ to change things up and up the nutrient content. Today I was having some raspberry yogurt and mixed in a spoonful of mine and he gobbled it right up. (I don't know that it was the extra sugar or him just being hungry since he ate 2 pieces of toast after that!)
I try to remember that just because *I* want cheese doodles and ice cream and juice and bologna and chocolate because it is horribly delicious for me, that doesn't mean he knows how horribly delicious it is and I can teach him to enjoy better quality foods by making them normal early. Who knows if my philosophy will work, but I figure it's worth a shot!
(Sheepishly responding... I'm fully expecting one of these
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We make all of our own yogurt. DH and I both like my plain homemade yogurt (although I'm not a fan of store bought plain yogurt). Adrian likes my plain homemade yogurt just fine (it's a new food), but goes bananas when we make him a yogurt-banana smoothie. He LOVES bananas.
Edit- I did clear this with our doctor too before I started.
I can't bring myself to do yogurt because of the sugar. I haven't looked in awhile, but I think it's the 2nd or 3rd ingredient in YoBaby. Due to the nature of BLW I do share mine with her if she's around and interested, I eat the flavored Chobani, but she gets very little of it.
Same here! We put plain or vanilla yogurt in the smoothies we make for Eli.
ditto this! And YoBaby makes fruit/veggie yogurt which is often the only way all day that I get any vegetables into Owen...so I feel that it's a good compromise.
I must have missed the yogurt melt train since I didn't even know they existed until I read the last post on this a few days ago... oops.
We started with YoBabys around 6 months-ish(?), and have since gone to the bigger size of stonyfield whole milk french vanilla since it's basically the same thing. It is SO good. He loves it, and I'll add in blueberries or bananas every now and then to get him more flavors/ nutrition. I use the gladware with the red screw-on lids to ration it out for daycare and our system works great, is cheaper, and less trash than yobaby.
It's all about balance in my opinion... they're going to get sugars, but just like with our nurtition, there's good and bad sugars, and you have to compromise. Whatever works for you and your system, in my opinion, is the right answer :-)