hotdogs

NHbride129 · October 2012

What's everyone's feelings about feeding your kids hotdogs? My kids love them. I buy the Applegate nitrate free ones. Do you give them to your kids?

littlemermaid · October 2012

We eat them every once in a while.

NHbride129 · October 2012

I'm talking about a few times a week... if they are nitrate free are they still unhealthy?

lollitots · October 2012

I try to avoid processed meat, nitrate free or otherwise, on a regular basis. Every once in a while I think they are fine.

ridesbuttons · October 2012

My kids probably get them about once a month (maybe less).

I don't think I would have them on purpose more often than that.

hellopoppyseed · October 2012

Mine won't eat them. No idea why not. So I don't buy them ever. Now and then DH does but I'd say it's been maybe 9 months since I've had one.

Rink08 · October 2012

I don't eat them so I won't personally give them to my kids. Everything about them makes me gag. The smell, the texture. The slime in the bag. Gag! I refuse to buy them.

DH and his family eat them at get togethers sometimes and I'm sure that the kids will try them at some point.

joyfullyfound · October 2012

DD is too young for them yet, but DH and I get ours from a local butcher and there's completely organic, free range and hormone-free. I'll have no issue giving them to DD.

Cherryblossoms07 · October 2012

No, but we don't eat them either.

sbevmc09 · October 2012

I have no problem with occasionally eating the nitrate-free variety, but DS doesn't like them yet so he doesn't eat them :shrug:

sbevmc09 · October 2012

NHbride129:
I'm talking about a few times a week... if they are nitrate free are they still unhealthy?

While Applegate Farms is one of the better choices, they're still pretty high in sodium. That would be my concern with eating them frequently.

So yeah, I definitely wouldn't go as far as calling them healthy, but they're not the worst thing you could feed your kids. Moderation

Jessica1232 · October 2012

My LO isn't old enough for hot dogs but we do go to my nephew and nieces baseball and softball games all summer. I probably consume at least two hot dogs a week while watching them. I also grew up on a baseball field and am living to post about it at a healthy weight and height. I guess I am one of those crazy moms that have the "if it didn't kill me it won't kill my kid" attitude. So watch out Peyton hot dogs are coming your way...Summer 2013!

notkateanymore · October 2012

We either eat Niman Ranch, which are beef and nitrate free or Hebrew National all-beef. Though I love all hot dogs, so it's the one thing I'll eat no matter what. I just try not to think about it. LOL

ETA- We eat them maybe once every other month. Not enough if you ask me.

penguingrrl · October 2012

Once in a while we'll pick up nitrate free turkey dogs. I'm honestly not a huge fan of hot dogs, so I just never think to buy/serve them. I also was hospitalized at 7 because one was stuck in my throat (below my windpipe so I could breath, near the site of a surgery I had at birth) and they couldn't get it out and almost had to surgically remove it, so I still cut them very small for both kids.

penguingrrl · October 2012

NHbride129:
I'm talking about a few times a week... if they are nitrate free are they still unhealthy?

Nitrates aren't the only concern with hot dogs. They're very high in sodium and have little nutritional value, so I still wouldn't eat them often. But we generally avoid all processed foods as a rule for that reason, not just hot dogs.

missbumblebee84 · October 2012

I love hotdogs, and my son loved them, but we were lucky if they were in the house once a month due to the nitrate and extremely high sodium content. I don't know why somebody would want to have them more than once a week honestly. Lets eat something that we don't even know what is in it....whats better, lets feed that crap to our kids.....>_< Sorry, not trying to sound mean. Just the way I see it.

HarrietNJMommy · October 2012

My kids love hot dogs. I buy Applegate Farms.

shibby00 · October 2012

She's had maybe 2 in her life. I love them, but they are so unhealthy that I can't give them to her often in good conscience.

12bailey18 · October 2012

They don't really care for hot dogs but they love corn dogs so we buy those. They're just regular old corn dogs in the freezer section. If they did like hot dogs, we'd buy them.

sophie206 · October 2012

It's more of a seasonal thing for us, too. We have them at BBQs/parties in the summer. Even without buying them at home, I think we're served hot dogs and/or hamburgers at least a few times per month in the Summer. DD isn't a huge fan of them, but if I cut one up for her she will eat a few bites with the rest of her meal. I guess we don't eat them enough for me to worry--I think of them as a party food.

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