Nestle Boycott and Halloween - Page 2

[Smalls181]

Originally Posted by lacysmommy

OK, I will admit it. I eat the Butterfingers. I can't buy them so this is my only opportunity to eat them.

Me too! My daughter is only 19 months, so the candy all goes to mom and dad anyways. I told my husband that he can have any of the candy he wants, just please PLEASE PLEASE save the butterfingers for me!

[pumpkinhead]

I don't buy Nestle, but if someone else buys it, my kids can have it or I give it away. Throwing out food when their are people starving just seems selfish and wasteful to me no matter who made it. FWIW I also donate formula samples instead of dumping them.

[hottmama]

We boycott Nestle but I wouldn't throw it away. Likewise, I don't eat farm-raised meat or dairy, but I'd eat it before I'd let it go to waste.

[Da WIC Lady]

Originally Posted by pumpkinhead

I don't buy Nestle, but if someone else buys it, my kids can have it or I give it away. Throwing out food when their are people starving just seems selfish and wasteful to me no matter who made it. FWIW I also donate formula samples instead of dumping them.

: It's killing me and DH not to have Hot Pockets and Butterfingers. But, I'm also not one to turn down food given to me, or my children. It's only one night a year, my kids might come home with loot for a lifetime, but they're only going to get maybe 20 pieces total. DSS can't have red 40, so that cuts a lot of the junk he eats. I got M&Ms, Snickers, and Sixlets because if they don't get passed out, I'll eat them. I even got Teddy Grahams for the little ones.

Anna

[lesley&grace]

[QUOTE=menomena;9514604]I never buy Nestle...

In fact, for Halloween, I usually buy some chocolate and then smarties.QUOTE]

Did you not know that smarties are Nestle products?
It was the hardest part of the boycott for me, I love smarties.

I let my kids have Nestle products if other people are giving them. The money has already gone to the company, we're really just punishing ourselves in that situation. The company does not give a crap if you eat it or not, they've already made the money off of it.

Plus, now I get to have smarties, since I didn't buy them

I remember a couple of years ago my cousin gave us the grocery store brand of gourmet hot chocolate (he works for the chain) and some nice mugs. The hot chocolate was awesome and we told him that we loved it and we planned on buying more with our next grocery order and he replies "OH yeah, it's great isn't it? Nestle makes it for us" and both DH and I went "arrrrgggh...nooooooo!" He was totally bewildered by our reaction, until we explained the boycott.

[menomena]

Smarties confusion!!

In the US, Smarties are round little pastel sugar disks. They are made by the Ce De candy company in New Jersey. Outside the US, they are marketed as "Rockets" to avoid confusion with Nestle Smarties - which are essentially Nestle's version of M & Ms. AFAIK, Nestle Smarties aren't commonly sold in the US. At least I've never seen them in my 27yrs.

So unless Ce De is owned by Nestle (stranger things have happened), then Smarties/Rockets are okay. Nestle Smarties are still right out.

[lesley&grace]

Originally Posted by menomena

Smarties confusion!!

In the US, Smarties are round little pastel sugar disks. They are made by the Ce De candy company in New Jersey. Outside the US, they are marketed as "Rockets" to avoid confusion with Nestle Smarties - which are essentially Nestle's version of M & Ms. AFAIK, Nestle Smarties aren't commonly sold in the US. At least I've never seen them in my 27yrs.

So unless Ce De is owned by Nestle (stranger things have happened), then Smarties/Rockets are okay. Nestle Smarties are still right out.

I was just coming back to edit my post You beat me to it.

Yes, here in Canada these are Smarties

And I miss them

[Da WIC Lady]

Originally Posted by menomena

Smarties confusion!!

In the US, Smarties are round little pastel sugar disks. They are made by the Ce De candy company in New Jersey. Outside the US, they are marketed as "Rockets" to avoid confusion with Nestle Smarties - which are essentially Nestle's version of M & Ms. AFAIK, Nestle Smarties aren't commonly sold in the US. At least I've never seen them in my 27yrs.

So unless Ce De is owned by Nestle (stranger things have happened), then Smarties/Rockets are okay. Nestle Smarties are still right out.

I was about to cry... Smarties were one of the things from my childhood I remember and still enjoy on occasion. My father would give us a sleeve of them after church for the ride home.

Anna

[pumpkinhead]

Smarties and KitKats. I miss them desparately.

[PatioGardener]

Speaking of Smarties and KitKats... have you seen these posters?

http://www.babymilkaction.org/pdfs/n...arties0507.pdf

http://www.babymilkaction.org/pdfs/n...kitkat0507.pdf

They are from the Baby Milk Action web site.

[delphiniumpansy]

I don't participate in the boycott because I think there are better ways to promote breastfeeding. I volunteer for a probreastfeedig organization, for example. In looking at their product lists we don't eat any of that stuff anyway and when I went through the halloween candy, much of what I tossed included nestle products just because they are junkier than most.

I kept the smarties - the sweet and sour disks. That is what we have here. I did eat a few crunch bars. I never buy this kind of thing, for health reasons, so for once a year it is ok to indulge.

[amydawnsmommy]

I am proud of myself I didn't buy Nestle mini chocolate bars even though I was tempted to. (Coffee Crisp and Kit Kats are two of my favourites from childhood trick or treating.)

Instead I bought a 75 variety pack of Hershey's bars.
You know what? They taste better!!!

[pumpkinhead]

Originally Posted by yellowpansy

I don't participate in the boycott because I think there are better ways to promote breastfeeding. I volunteer for a probreastfeedig organization, for example. In looking at their product lists we don't eat any of that stuff anyway and when I went through the halloween candy, much of what I tossed included nestle products just because they are junkier than most.

I kept the smarties - the sweet and sour disks. That is what we have here. I did eat a few crunch bars. I never buy this kind of thing, for health reasons, so for once a year it is ok to indulge.

The Nestle boycott really isn't about promoting breastfeeding. You're right, there are much better ways to promote breastfeeding, but again, that's not what the Nestle boycott is primarily about.