What Age Do You Let Your Kids Drink Soda

[Pinkmani]

I only had soda at parties. Otherwise, it's juice or water.

[Jaded]

Reading over these posts has made me smile. I had no idea soda was such a hot topic. But honestly, there are plenty of things much worse than soda that kids can/do eat. Just sayin'.

[Natsku]

Originally Posted by thursdaymcgee

I'm usually something of an "all things in moderation" kind of person, but just as a point: I can't think of much that's worse than soda. It's caloric chemicals intended to mimic sugar combined with chemical food colorings to make it look palatable. At least some of that other crap has a modicum of nutritional value - though I think I'm not the only one for whom soda is the tip of "I don't keep it in the house" iceberg. Nothing is 'banned' ; no one is getting in trouble for eating things when they are offered at parties, friends' houses, etc. But I see no need to keep as staples the majority of products I can pick up on the side aisles at Costco.

You are buying the wrong sodas then. I never buy ones with articial sweeteners, flavours or colours. Quite often I get ones that are only sweetened by the fruit sugars already present in the fruit juice used to flavour it. Or then just plain old sugar (we don't have that high fructose corn syrup here). I also use the sodastream to make fizzy pop out of fresh squeezed fruit juices.