MONTANA Brown is facing the wrath of the internet after her comments that food pouches for kids are ‘c**p’ left viewers feeling patronised.
The series three Love Islander, 30, posted a TikTok discussing what supermarkets brand as “healthy snack pouches” for children and how she feels sickened that people would ever actually purchase them.
Speaking candidly to the camera from her car, Montana said: “All the soon-to-be mothers… don’t get into the trap of buying ‘kids’ food.
“Like going to the kids aisle in a shop and seeing all these like ‘kiddylicious wafers’ and ooh a chicken casserole in a little squirty thing.
“I hate them. I really hate them. I think they [shops and brands] want it to be so easy for us.
“They want it to be so convenient for us that we buy them every day and feed them to our kids because it’s healthy and it’s an easy…
“[You think to yourself] you don’t have to MAKE them a chicken casserole.
” But it’s full of c**p.”
The star continued to say that it can be hard to not fall into the trap of feeding ultra-processed food to your family, but parents could instead give their children “a piece of carrot or cucumber”.
She said: “I used to give Jude [her son] pouches back in the day, he used to have pouches very rarely, and when I looked at the ingredients I was like ”oh my gosh I do not want to give him this stuff ever’.
“Miley [her daughter] I would never give her a pouch, and it just annoys me because I think we need to give kids real food.
“And actually there doesn’t need to be a kids section necessarily, we can just give them a carrot or we can give them cucumber, we can give them an apple, we can give them a pear.
“It just takes a couple more minutes to prepare. It’s just really frustrating.”
Viewers rushed to let Montana know they thought she crossed the line between being informative and rude, leaving parents feeling guilt-tripped for doing their best as well as patronised.
One user said: “Try being a busy mum with a full time job, being out the house 8am-6pm every day (bills to pay).
“We need a bit of convenience at times. Don’t guilt trip those of us who don’t have time to scratch cook nutritiously balance meals 21 times a week.”
A second responded sarcastically with: “Don’t give up breastfeeding until they go to high school, give them avocados and salmon everyday for breakfast otherwise they’ll never survive the real world x”
A third added: “This isn’t it babe. Mum shaming as a Mum herself is crazy.”
Montana and her fiancé professional rugby player Mark O’Connor met in 2021.
They share two children, who were born in 2023 and 2025.
Montana has been open about her difficult journey to motherhood, having experienced a breech as well as a home birth.