Candy (incl. dired fruits and chocolate)

mommyfied · May 2013

How much candy do you give LO during week, weekend or Saturday (or other Candy-days) :P

J is not getting any "real" candy - except in birthdays, holidays and other special events. What he do get are a "healthy" alternative: dried fruits such as raisins, bananas, pineapple, apple etc (he gets this both as snacks in the afternoon and "candy" during the weekend). and popcorn (like every 2-3rd weekend) - without salt.

PGASTL · May 2013

I would say LO gets something sweet once a day - it's usually raisins or fruit snacks, which are both basically all sugar so I count that as a special treat.

She will also snack on what I'm having, so if that's something like baked cheetos or whatever - not the world's most nutritious food but oh well.

Her main meals are VERY healthy so I am okay with a few snacks here and there.

lrn327 · May 2013

C has a cookie each "Cookie Friday" at daycare pickup and a sucker if we're at the grocery (because they had them out). Other than that, he gets an occasional fruit snack or newton at DC or home, but he doesn't get a daily treat. He eats very healthfully otherwise and is generally a good eater so I don't worry about the occasional treat. We actually still don't do juice on a regular basis (maybe once or twice per month?) and he doesn't seem to care as he never asks for it.

missmuffin87 · May 2013

No candy, popcorn, chips, chocolate ever. Cupcakes only on birthdays, which luckily we don't go to many. Occasionally she gets ice cream, but in the summer my parents give her too much whenever I ask them to watch her, even for like 20 minutes... the price you pay for free babysitting I guess. My grandfather looooves to give her an oatmeal raisin cookie every time he sees her (which is pretty much daily), so I let it happen but I wish he would stop buying cookies and give her grapes or something instead.

I give her a small cup of raisins once in a while, but I prefer to give her freeze dried fruit to the chewy kind of dried fruit and she likes it better too.

pitterpatter129 · May 2013

It's random here. Like the bank gave him a sucker the other day and this morning I gave him 4 m&ms (we bought them to potty train, didn't start training yet and I've been eating them instead!) We bought a pkg of cookies this week, so he' had a couple of those. The kid eats fruit, veggies, protein at every meal and fresh fruit for snack, so I really don't care if there are sweets occasionally. He's healthy and gets much healthier meals than the average family around here. The kid in my class whose mother sent a box of Little Debbies as LUNCH on field trip day...that's the kid I worry about.

Blondangel · May 2013

missmuffin87:
No candy, popcorn, chips, chocolate ever. Cupcakes only on birthdays, which luckily we don't go to many.

This

We don't keep any junk food in the house, but once in awhile DH and I will buy a treat and eat it after he goes to bed. The closest thing to candy he's ever had is gummy vitamins.

lrn327 · May 2013

pitterpatter129:
It's random here. Like the bank gave him a sucker the other day and this morning I gave him 4 m&ms (we bought them to potty train, didn't start training yet and I've been eating them instead!) We bought a pkg of cookies this week, so he' had a couple of those. The kid eats fruit, veggies, protein at every meal and fresh fruit for snack, so I really don't care if there are sweets occasionally. He's healthy and gets much healthier meals than the average family around here. The kid in my class whose mother sent a box of Little Debbies as LUNCH on field trip day...that's the kid I worry about.

Me too, all the time!!

ChicagoBroad26 · May 2013

Random. I don't give her sweets as a rule. But at our twice weekly parent tot class there's a snack each morning. She's been exposed to lots of cupcakes, cookies and crap because if that.

sdpookie13 · May 2013

We only do candy on holiday's and birthdays and even then it's just a piece here and there. She does get fruit snacks and raisins fairly regularly but I think it's fine as long as shes eating healthy meals. We still have lots of chocolate eggs and hersey kisses left over from Easter. I give her a kiss if she a.) uses the potty or b.) stays in her toddler bed all night (without coming in to visit us in the middle of the night). So she does get a small piece of chocolate on random occasions.

Five Months to Plan · May 2013

We do not really have candy in the house. We do have lots of fresh fruits, and she does also get rasins or dried fruit a couple times a week. As for deserts ( cookies, cupcakes etc) she does get desert at my MILs on Sunday when we all go to Sunday dinner. She also gets cookie when we have dinner at my parents. My dad will get her one cookie and they go eat it on the porch swing together. Sweets are really limited but if she has end here and there I am ok with it like if they have cookies after church or something. She is allowed one which she does not even always finish.

lrn327 · May 2013

Five Months to Plan:
We do not really have candy in the house. We do have lots of fresh fruits, and she does also get rasins or dried fruit a couple times a week. As for deserts ( cookies, cupcakes etc) she does get desert at my MILs on Sunday when we all go to Sunday dinner. She also gets cookie when we have dinner at my parents. My dad will get her one cookie and they go eat it on the porch swing together. Sweets are really limited but if she has end here and there I am ok with it like if they have cookies after church or something. She is allowed one which she does not even always finish.

Ah, the porch swing/cookie tradition is so sweet! I bet she'll have nice memories of that. :-)

kat81again2 · May 2013

DS eats great at daycare, but the snacks they give them are sweet (usually fruit or a baked cobbler of some kind). Very healthy, but sweet. (Baked things are homemade.)

At home we are not as amazing cooks as at school so we will give him dried fruits quite a bit. He gets several servings per weekend. And some regular fruits as well, such as blueberries or bananas.

But, he pretty much never has cake, cookies, chocolate croissant, etc. Only at someone else's birthday party, or if we're traveling and it's an emergency.

Coltsdad · May 2013

J occasionally (like maybe once a week) gets a very small handful of mini M&Ms. Most of his snacks are fruit (lots of berries), and that is what he asks for. Occasionally he'll ask for "popcorn" (Gerber crunchers) which we keep in the house, but mostly it is blue, black or strawberries.

bosha711 · May 2013

Maybe once a week on average.

He isn't that big on sweets. He will have a bite of a piece of chocolate & then he's good - he won't want anymore. Same thing with cake.

I gave him 3 mini Lindt chocolate bunnies inside Easter eggs & he ate the ears off of one bunny & that was it, lol.

GrayGhost13 · May 2013

We are "all things in moderation" type people. Our everyday diet is generally very healthy and we are pretty good about portion control, but if H and I treat ourselves to dessert after dinner, I don't have a problem sharing with DS.

jnicolen1 · May 2013

we do sunday donut day. he gets a donut every sunday morning. this is not dependent on finishing a meal or anything.

occasionally, he will get a mini ice cream sandwich after dinner if he has eaten really well and asks for a treat. this happens maybe once a week.

he doesn't eat candy except if its on a cupcake at a birthday party or something. its just not something we have in the house. and if hes going to eat sugar, i prefer it have something else of substance in it to help fatten him up

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