Bread is an issue here, I buy the no-additives stuff from Bakers Delight.
I stay away from highly coloured stuff - icy poles can cause a dry irritable cough in me, so I don't let the kids near them I make my own.
Strawberries and grapes are an issue here too, it's not an instantaneous reaction but if DD2 has them a couple of days running she gets this 'mentalness' about her.
I know about the Sue Dengate stuff (excellent info), I was just wondering what foods YOU avoid in your house and why.
I try to avoid anything with too much colouring. I iced some bikkies for Easter, and for a treat put pink colouring in, and they were as high as kites lol. Bread is the same here, and i'm thinking the Veal German (i know horrid stuff, but the kids like it) I give them has an effect too.
Hi Lulu, That is interesting about the grapes and strawberries. My DD gets so hyped up at bedtime lately and we have been eating heaps of grapes in the past few weeks. Have you done any reading about what it is in them? Is it the sugar?
MSG is one here. Only found out after giving DD2 theatre pop corn, rather than mocrowave stuff.
Yellow is the worst colouring for my kids. Purple also sets DD2 off (the gp office gave her 2 lollipops & I paid for it for hours!)
I pretty much avoid anything sugary that might have colours. Cordial, juice (I occasionally buy apple, but I have to watch the brand )
I can't give DD2 'chemists own' iburofen coz its orange. It literally gets her bouncing off the walls!
I don't buy grapes often & rarely buy strawberries, so I have no idea how they'd go. The few times we've had them we've been ok, but then, DD2 doesn't eat them
Oh, & chocolate! Also depends how its eaten. Easter eggs seemed ok, but cocolate muffins yesterday had them going. So it may have been something else in the muffin, but other flavours are fine.
We are pretty much trial & error still.
Your top additives/foods to avoid with children
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