I bought my 5-year old a packet of M&Ms as she always gets a small gift on her sister's birthday. However, I didn't realise that they were selling them just in one colour - and unfortunately she happened to get blue (not good for a constantly hyper child ).

Anyway, firstly she ended up with blue lips - so I asked her to go and wash her mouth. She couldn't get the blue off, so came back looking like this...

Then she went for a No.2 tonight and ran out saying she'd done a green poo. I was alarmed until I remembered the blue..... can't be good though, can it?!

Wow you're really brave

Yeah! Sod's Law, Amelia got mellow yellow

I remember the same outcome after we had a blue slush puppy when we were kids !!

And no canny be good for your insides at all

Dougie

And a harmonica I hear

I had a really nasty experience after a blue Powerade once......defenitely not good!

Hmm - music to my ears At least she's more interested in her DS at the moment

I'm getting the urge to experiment

I don't understand why they're doing these stupid 'one colour per packet' things.

Surely it's a bad marketing ploy. I wouldn't buy a packet with just one colour - and I wouldn't go out and buy more colours either.

I would.....the green mint ones are delish!

I think you're supposed to buy a packet and if it's a mixed one you will something - a non hyper kid presumably My eldest had a mini box of smarties when she was about 4 - it took us four hours to pull her off the ceiling and stop the manic hysterics. An experience I never want to suffer again

I can remember my son at about age 3 or 4 screaming from the bathroom that his poo was all colours. He was scared shitless (pun intended)! It really was a rainbow of colours from the Fruit Loops he'd had for breakfast that morning.

Really why? If you want to but a pack does it matter what colour they are?

It was always a widely known problem that blue smarties were the worst for inducing hyperactivity - a common phrase a while back with my friends was, God, has he been at the blue smarties? I understand however that they altered the blue ones to make them non-hyper as they were getting such a bad reputation and when I last bought them they boasted contains no this, that and the other. I wonder then if the colouring they are using is better for hyper kids, but is bad for clothes and poo's. Can't have everything I guess!