Toddlers: 24 Months+

Do you always give your kid a desert?

after lunch and dinner? Something like appelsauce, fruit, yogourt?

Re: Do you always give your kid a desert?

  • He gets a fruit with his meal so I do give him a cookie or a mini ice cream sandwich or a few vanilla wafers etc.  He's a great eater and loves fruits and vegetables so I don't feel guilty about giving him something sweet.
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  • he gets fruit at the end of lunch and dinner.
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  • she gets fruit with lunch and yogurt with dinner, but we don't do "dessert"
  • Almost never.

    They get "fruit time!!!" if they make a happy plate at dinner.

    They almost always clean their plates when they know fruit depends on it. 

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  • We don't do dessert here. Gav is a great eater, so he would technically be able to get some, but no desserts.
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  • Almost never.

    Fruit is a part of her breakfast and lunch.

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  • No. She gets fruit with breakfast, lunch and dinner so I consider that her dessert. I do on occasion give her a cookie or something sweet, but just randomly and not all the time so it's a treat and not an expected part of her diet.
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  • fruit is part of his lunch, sometimes breakfast/snack as well. 

    Sometimes on desert.  If we go to friendly's he will get his sundae.  or if I have baked brownies he will get one.  but it is unusual to have that, usually only if we have company over.

  • Fruit, yogurt or applesauce is typically part of the meal. I don't consider it dessert, I serve it with everything else. We don't really do dessert.
  • Fruit or yogurt is for breakfast or with lunch. We don't do dessert unless we are at like a buffet or a restaurant where it's included lol.
  • Yes, we give fruit after every meal usually and treat it like dessert. If we gave it to her with her meal she would not eat anything else. She loves fruit!
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  • i don't consider yogurt, applesauce or fruit a "dessert"  he eats fruit and veggies with every lunch and dinner.

    after dinner sometimes i will give him a pudding or a popsicle......never after lunch though.

     

  • Yogurt is so full of sugar that I consider it a desert. Occasionally I'll give him yogurt for breakfast with a piece of fruit.

    I give him desert if he asks for it AND he's eaten all his dinner. On occasion I'll even serve it as a snack. Cookies, a piece of cake, chocolate covered granola bar. I'm good about brushing his teeth and he's really healthy, so I'm not worried too much. Also, he's a very skinny kid...lol

  • Nope.  They can usually have some kind of treat later in the day, but rarely is it something that immediately follows a meal.
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    Yes, we give fruit after every meal usually and treat it like dessert. If we gave it to her with her meal she would not eat anything else. She loves fruit!

    This is how DD is.  From the moment she could feed herself fruit, I gaveit to her at the end of meals.  As much as a reward for sitting well and eating as it is to extend the time she's seated, but much to MIL's dismay, we don't do dessert here.

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  • He doesn't get dessert and I have no plans on instituting it when he's older.  He LOVES fruit and eats it at breakfast and often at lunch and/or as one of his snacks.  He also will eat yogurt as a snack sometimes. 
  • Joseph likes oranges or raisins, and we usually finish up lunch or dinner with those. I usually make dessert, but have it after Joseph is in bed.

     

  • Always.  It's mostly fruit, but every so often it's ice cream, a cookie, or something else treat-y.
  • No. My kid won't touch sweets with a 10 foot pole for some reason. Fruit has been a no-go from day 1, which is frustrating.
  • Sometimes she gets a Hershey kiss.  I give her fruit with her meal and yogurt she usually has for a snack.

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  • My kids get a fruit with breakfast, lunch and dinner they LOVE fruit but I don't consider it a desert just something that they should have haha.  As far as sweets go...they NEVER EVER get sugar, not even juice bc they go nuts after they have it...so we just avoid it all together until they are a bit older haha

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  • No.  She'll get Jello as a special treat if she finishes all of her dinner without any prompting.  She's not big into sweets so Jello is about as much of a dessert as we can come up with.
  • Sometimes I give her a cookie or ice cream.  But I do that every once in a while.  She usually has an apple or strawberries as a dessert on a daily bases.  
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    Not with lunch (sometimes on rare occasion) but yes with dinner.  Sometimes it is a couple Dibs.  Sometimes it's "special" yogurt -- the Wallaby brand which she continually steals from me.  In the summer, it's often nectarines.  It's always her choice and she oftentimes surprises me by refusing the sweets and going for yogurt or even multigrain pita chips.  She obviously gets a bit more if it is better for her so I think she's gradually figuring that out.  Oh and she doesn't always get it -- she has to eat a good dinner (we decide how much is enough) to earn her dessert.  Kind of like a bonus at work -- she has to earn it!


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  • we avoid applesauce since he gets constipated, and usually have fruit with meals. DS gets yogurt just as a part of a regualr meal as well. no separate dessert, except on special occasions.
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