Foods that *seem* healthy but are not...

[Inanna]

I know lots of people think museli bars and commercial yoghurt are healthy...

I think lots of people think commercial fresh strawberries are healthy... They are toxic time bombs they are sprayed within an inch of their lives. I always feel sick when I drive past the farms around here and they have pick all you want for $10 - and kids are eating them unwashed...

[Phteven]

Breakfast cereals - if there was truth in marketing most of them would be in the confectionary aisle.

[Inanna]

Aaah yes cereal. Thhat does my head in. I have yet to find one that has no sugar. They are so choc full that you're right Pony they should be in the confectionary aisle... Grrrrr

[Tinks]

I was going to nominate breakfast cereal and muesli bars too. Have you eaten Corn Flakes lately? I can't taste the 'corn' for sugar!

Roll ups and fruit sticks are another pet peeve of mine.

[Kazbah]

dried fruits ...

fruit juices ....

"health" waters ...

[Inanna]

We don't have cereal apart from rolled oats - I just personally can't come at feeding my kids sugar for breakfast. I think those companies have a lot to answer for. My kids think I am mean for not feeding them "iron man food". I have tried to explain that iron man is on a sugar high.....

[Tinks]

I'm the same Inanna. I refuse to allow my kids to go to school hyped up on sugar. i dn't care how 'uncool' I am. I do buy a small pack of Coco Pops as a treat on school holidays though.

[LimeSlice]

Hot chips...well they are a vegetable...

Roll Ups are a pet peeve of mine

Commercial yoghurt

Philadelphia Cream Cheese - people seem to think that because it has way less fat than butter you can use 6 times as much of it?? lol

[Floweryfields]

I'm the same Inanna. I refuse to allow my kids to go to school hyped up on sugar. i dn't care how 'uncool' I am. I do buy a small pack of Coco Pops as a treat on school holidays though.

I was never allowed coco pops or fruit loops as a kid - in fact, only recently (i'm 33) did I taste a dry cocopop - didn't like it either. I was allowed to have nutrigrain, rice bubbles or cornflakes though, all options I will not give to my children (i don't think!)

[Phteven]

The weet-bix are pretty salty. The kid's one has heaps less salt but we eat heaps so we finish those tiny boxes really fast.

[Floweryfields]

Roll ups, fruit sticks, muesli bars, those 'fruit' lollies, fruit juice poppers, colour cordial pop top drinks, custard cups - yogos, etc. Basically the majority of things people pack in their children's lunch boxes! rice bubbles, coco pops, any breakfast cereal that's not rolled oats, weetbix or maybe sultana bran. Even rice crackers can be bad if you eat too many.

My personal loves that I know arent' helathy - soy crisps, mmm, could eat the whole bag in one go, but full of fat!

The key is modertion - but parents need to be very careful of the amount of sugar and additives they feed their school children daily.

[Inanna]

I have a vendetta against lunchbox crappolla too. It's disturbing how much sugar, additives & chemical is in lunchbox...

[Inanna]

BJ - nutrigrain was listed as one of the highest on the sugar content list - just thought you might like to know.

[Tinks]

Aaah yes cereal. Thhat does my head in. I have yet to find one that has no sugar. They are so choc full that you're right Pony they should be in the confectionary aisle... Grrrrr

I only buy Weet Bix, Vita Brits and Porridge. They're the only ones with no added sugar. The other brands of wheat biscuit type cereal have sugar. Even the organic labelled Vita Brits have raw sugar added.