Do you give your LO dessert after dinner?

moosemax

I was home sick yesterday and was watching a billion episodes of Jon & Kate Plus 8 (talk about bored!) and I noticed that they give their kids dessert after dinner. I have never given DS dessert. I know that our LO's are a little younger but do you do this or plan to later??

Stacyc625

usually fruit with her milk before brushing her teeth and bed

ling79

I usually do - sometimes yogurt, or still a gerber dessert (peach cobbler and banana pudding are DS' favs)  or graham crackers...I guess thats a dessert...just a litttle something after dinner

megwitt

I have not and don't plan on it until he actually can start asking for one! Dont really want to get him in that habit....but I am the type of person that NEEDS sweets at the end of my dinner! (I can prob blame that on my mom!!)

olivejuice127

Maybe twice a week I'll give her a Vanilla Wafer or 2, but def not routine.

KASOTO

Maybe when she get's older we don't do it know.  At snack time she can have a cookie here and there, not all the time, but she really doesn't like sweets.  She actually would prefer a cracker. 

clarice928

I guess I'd say yes, but her dessert is fruit and/or half a graham cracker.  When she was eating purees, I bought the gerber vanilla custard with bananas once, but that's the closest we've gotten to real sweets for dessert.  Just don't feel like she needs it yet.

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DS & I share a very small cup of ice cream every night after bathtime. He takes about 5 small bites total.

NewlywednOhio

Only on Sundays when we go to the in-laws.

wendyj

Usually fruit or yogurt is his dessert, but sometimes I let him have animal crackers or the Earth's Best ABC cookies.

MrsPreK

DH and I will usually share a 100 calorie pack of Fudge Stripe cookies and every once in a while he will get 1-2 of them (they are tiny) and it's definitely not every night.

MegGary

Usually blueberries. They are her favorite. She could eat a lb a day if I let her. If we don't have blueberries my mom will share her sugar free pudding or jello w/ her.

 Last night she got a cupcake. I had to because I told her if she was good for me & let me cut her toe & finger nails she'd get a cupcake.

aforst

I will sometimes offer him a nutrigrain bar after dinner if he still seems hungry.  I guess that could be considered dessert.  If DH and I are having ice cream or something, I will offer him a few bites. That doesn't happen very often though.

lanie26

Jo has a snack of yogurt or fruit, or cheese and fruit about an hour after dinner. Does this count?

If we make a dessert (which is exceedingly rare) we'll serve it to her, but not every night.

 

Lucky_Dragonfly

maybe fruit. right now we have b-day from MH b-day so we will give him a couple bites of cake but that is a treat.

KristinKD

Very rarely. Sometimes I'll give her fruit if she's still hungry after her meal, and I'll let her eat a few bites of cake if we have it after a birthday dinner.

Dobie_Mama

DD always has an after dinner/pre-bed snack ... like cheese, yogurt, fruit, Bunny Grahams, etc.  We don't really make real desserts so she wouldn't have one unless we were at the IL's or something.

chrisnj0614

Only if he doesn't eat well at dinner.  Usually applesauce or fruit with some milk.

JillStar

We don't give DD dessert after dinner, but we're not really dessert people.  We don't keep any dessert items (cookies, brownies, ice cream, candy, etc.) in house.  With that being said, DH surprised us with the a piece of the best key lime pie I've ever tasted last night after dinner and I let DD have a couple tastes.  :-)

ETA:  DD doesn't eat dinner until 6:45 or so and goes to bed before 8:00, so she doesn't have a snack either.

violetvirgo

we all eat together and if we've happened to make dessert (very rare), she gets a bite, but if not, then no. 

MrsKellyOrBust

If he didn't eat particularly well, I'll offer him some fruit or something before he goes to bed. He has always been in the 75%+ range for weight yet I'm still paranoid about the kid going hungry!

mabst196

I give DD a half a graham cracker or gerber cookie for desert She normally nibbles on it for a minute and then throws the rest of it on the floor. If we have a dersert like cake in the house which isn't that often, I will give her a small sliver.

newportbride715

Like, sweets? On special occasions, once in a while when we eat out, eat at my parents, times like that- when he is older.

Currently, if he is still hungry after dinner we give him blueberries or a banana. So, I guess that is kind of dessert...?

Mustang Sally

He always gets fruit after dinner.  We don't "do" dessert as a part of the meal really.

That said, I do have a sweet tooth and like to nibble on anything sweet or chocolaty, and I always let DS have a few bites.  I don't want him to be denied anything or think that anything is off limits so that later in life he gorges himself on desserts when they are available because they were off limits previously.  I know one family who keeps sweets in the house but her kids can take them or leave them because they were never denied anything.  It's the friends who come over who go straight to the candy drawer to pig out because they never have access at home.  kwim?   

SpartanGirl

We don't usually eat dessert or even have it in the house, but if we do for some reason, we let both kids have some as long as they have tried their dinner.

Tess12

Maybe once a week, she'll get a cookie after dinner.  Once she's older, dessert will probably be more frequent.

Amrice78

sometimes

VTbride05

Yes, almost everynight, but its either frozen blueberries or cherries or a graham cracker. He's never had cookies, ice cream, cake, etc.