Sweets

Married2003

When did you introduce sweets to your LO?  Currently the only sweets Thomas gets is frosted shredded wheats and jello.  I'm scared to introduce cookies or other stuff...scared he won't want to eat regular foods.

vanverth

I confess.  Michael was upset in the oxygen tent over the weekend so I gave him a sucker.  He has had ice cream and cookies (not at the same time.)  He still eats vegtables and fruits.  He is not so hot on the meats.  I think that if we do not make a big deal of sweets, he will not either.  My problem is that my kid is a salt lover like his momma.  He likes salty snacks.  Thank goodness he is happy with the Gerber snacks right now.

stever

Mikey didn't have any sugar until his 1st birthday cake, and he wasn't a fan. Now we give him occasional treats - ice cream if we're have some, desert at Christmas, a cookie at my mom's the other day. We don't give him sweets often but don't want to deprive him either. Seems to work and he hasn't been disinclined to eat his regular food.

ScoobyM

We didn't give Ellie real sweets until she started noticing them and asking for them.  She had arrowroot cookies when she was younger and at some point I started giving her animal crackers as dessert if she finished all her dinner.  Like PP she had a real cake for her 1st birthday but didn't eat much of it. 

Somewhere between I'd say 18 months to 2 years she started noticing if we were eating dessert or whatever and would ask to try it, so we let her.  She definitely likes sweets - she is allowed to have a cookie if she finishes her dinner or as a reward if she does something good but to be honest, she almost never finishes the whole thing and she hasn't stopped eating regular foods, so I don't think her attitude is unhealthy or anything.  I think if I let her she'd eat several cookies a day but it hasn't prevented her from eating her healthier foods for her meals. 

BrideBuddies

I give Charles a small cookie every once in a while and he's okay with them, but not crazy for them.   Mostly animal crackers, mini vanilla wafers, fig newtons, etc.  Stuff that's not super-loaded with sugars.

We haven't given him any chocolate or ice cream yet, which is odd since DH is a HUGE ice cream freak.

lawry13

DD probably got her first cookie around her first birthday.  She gets sweets when we are eating them and even though we have them in the house and she can see them in the cabinet, she doesn't ask for them.  She will ask for cheerios or fruit but not cookies/ice cream, etc.

Piranha54

We've let Ellie have a taste of almost everything if she's been interested.  Some days she loves fig newtons, some days carrots, so I think a taste here and there, even if it is a chocolate chip cookie is OK.

thumper57

DD has been getting tastes of sweets ever since she could eat  table food. She wants a taste of whatever I am eating and stares at me until I give her a bite, whether its rice, soup, cookies, ice cream, etc.

 If it is sweet or heavily seasoned, I make her bites very small.  She has been exposed to everything I eat  but she still loves regular food like soup, rice, sweet potato, carrots, peas.