Comments on: What Can You Say About Trix Yogurt?

By: Alli

Alli — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:32:37 +0000

So, I’m a late-comer to the discussion (clearly), but have so far gotten “around” the packaged foods battle with my twins (6, so the battle’s not over yet). One way that we’ve done this is to have them decorate their containers. We make our yogurt, and they painted their metal containers. The paint peels off, so periodically they can redecorate these containers. In the past we’ve used plastic containers and they’ve put stickers on them (I peel them off when I wash, they redecorate while we’re packing lunch…)

So far, so good.

By: Meeta

Meeta — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:07:09 +0000

This is always the general problem. Kids want what other kids have. Here in Germany we too have many yogurt types like Trix. I have gotten over it with Soeren by explaining to him that they are so full of false colors, sugars etc. We actually bought a book about The Body for kids and one section explains how the food gets digested. This way it is easy to explain the “bad” stuff needs to be thrown out of the body. Soeren seems to understand this and is not crumbling under so called peer pressure.

This was a good write up BlogLily!

By: bloglily

bloglily — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:23:44 +0000

Hello relaxed dad (I’ve decided you’re no longer un(relaxed) — I can tell!) Tri-tip! Can be great, can be awful — a cut of beef that’s thick & lovely when grilled well.

Hello Shaheen — Yes, scary nuclear colors! We’ve gone through our package and have moved on. Sometimes, it’s good enough to say yes, and let a phase die a natural death.

Flaunting is bad. It happens all the time too! The lunchbox wars deserve their own post, don’t you think??

By: (un)relaxeddad

(un)relaxeddad — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:27:59 +0000

Really silly question? What’s tri-tip?
Dudelet went through a big phase of tiny pots of fromage frais. Currently (when mobile) he’ll make a bee-line for those tiny pots of bio-live yoghurt drink. Toddlers are just suckers for anything tiny and cute…

By: shaheen

shaheen — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:52:39 +0000

I am off trix for 2 reasons.. they taste too sweet for my little one and their flavor combinations are weird. I do understand the idea and I too have to give and send package yogurt so I try to look for the one with th eleast sugar.. stonyfield is good and so is dannon.

By: marymom

marymom — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:44:21 +0000

You do a wonderful job of giving the kids treats, BL. I have diverted the kids to the Stoneybrook yogurt squeezes a few times. They are bright colors, supersweet, and have sassy pictures of skateboarders, etc, but also have live cultures. But I do regularly find the Trix yogurt in my shopping cart, if I take the kids to a standard grocery store. There’s an advantage of Farmer Joe’s– they don’t carry Trix, or their yogurt. The sweets at least have some thin skin of virtue around them. I have also heard a lot about what other kids get– there was one mom in pre-school who totally ignored the no candy rule, putting a single Hershey’s kiss in her daughter’s lunch, much to the consternation of the other, chocolateless children. Treats are wonderful, and sometimes not to be shared, but not to be flaunted, either, I think. Cheers!