DH buys loads of sweets

Buy a large storage tin keep it under the sink,or anywhere else you want, hide the bagged sweets and wrapped choccie in the bottom, then cover up with things like a bag of curtain hooks, pegs, new scouring pads etc If they look in the tin they won't expect sweets to be hidden underneath.

I was quoting the OP. She thinks her dc looked scared.
HTH

It's the OPs approach that is unhealthy!

Fucking hell, calm your jets.

both of you have a disordered view. We never buy sweets or chocolate etc as part of the normal weekly shop but we do buy them as a treat. Every few months is just ridiculous, though. Something once a week is fine. We also have cake and biscuits quite a lot - both home made. We don’t regard those as treats, though. Just a normal part of regular food - but we wouldn’t have them every day.

I got fat after two parents banned me from choc and sweets most of the time. As they were forbidden it was more tempting, so I bought loads myself. so it’s not always the case that being healthy all the time now will stop them gaining in future.

He’s an adult man, if he’s a healthy weight and his teeth are ok/blood pressure etc is ok, I would just let him get on with it. Sounds like he’s being responsible not giving loads to the kids YABU

Dad was very strict with sweets.1960s child .not allowed gobstoppers ,crunches or Penny sweets.chocolate was allowed at Xmas and BD ,Friday and Sunday afternoon.my own DC similar. Ds likes fruit. Have to clean teeth after sweets as well.chocolate is a food said nan .somewhat to dad's consternation I expect!

I'm sorry but this simply isn't true.

Getting fat and the myriad of health issues that go along with that is a very real consequence of eating too much high sugar and processed food. Op isn't using language that is 'disgusting' and if you're personally offended by the fact other people may see being overweight as undesirable then you perhaps need to examine your own insecurity and why you find this so offensive.

Everybody I know who is or has been overweight, feels the same about their weight. They don't like it they don't want that body. I see posts on here and other sites where adults are angry that their parents never intervened when they were eating utter crap. It isn't something you should only implement if you child becomes obese because they might not, but the habits that they have picked you will last a lifetime and when they enter adulthood it can and does catch up with people.

Oh come on… the children won’t shake in their boots with fear about hearing the hard facts about sugar, don’t be ridiculous. There are even dental ads aimed at children about the danger or overindulging in sweets. Why do people think that modern kids are so sensitive and have to be shielded from the slightest breeze? Do you also withhold information from your kids about the harmful rays of the sun, because then the poor things will never leave the house? Or the dangers of drowning, otherwise they will never go into the sea?

Yet being the operative word.

Your health and diet is your choice. Blaming your mum, as a fully grown woman, isn’t cool.

Sure. But making sweets and chocolate a forbidden fruit for my whole childhood didn't help.

Like I say, my teeth haven't fallen out yet and I'm not obese so it can't be that much of a problem 🤷‍♀️

When will you take personal responsibility though? You eating too much junk is your issue, not your mums.

Diabetes, tooth decay, high blood sugar - not fun diseases to have.

Kids will thank you for sweets, not for ill health.

Whilst OP may still have some disordered thinking around food, her husband should stop buying so much eat week, it’s not healthy for any of them. 6-10 packets a week is crazy!

Why is DH being so OTT about rubbish sweets. He’s being the fun parent whilst ruining their diet. Why is he like this?

My mum was very strict about food and healthy eating. Guess who now eats far too much sugar? What your DH is buying really doesn't sound that much to me, we probably get through that each week. My teeth have not fallen out yet.

If you restrict something you cause problems, as a child we never had much money treats really were treats can't even recall having a selection box at Christmas, I can't recall having sweets till much older. So when I left home and had my own money for years I would tonnes of crap, sweets, chocolate all the stuff I had.never had, like everything it's a fine line.

No, 67% think it's not normal to "reel off" the dangers of sweets to children and watch while their "little faces look so scared"

67% think it’s ok to have daily sweets? This, my friend, is why the nation is obese.

I am guessing your mum or dad used the word sneaky about sweets when you were a child.

My advice is do as I do and be sneaky with your hiding places. I’ve used inside saucepans before and one that is still going strong - in the ironing basket!

Fucking hell you’re doing way more damage than any sweets will do. Please reconsider the language you use around them

Did you ever had sweets though?

It is not a recurring item on our shopping m/grocery list; only if the kids ask for it sometimes, or at parties.

It is not ideal but you are making your kids anxious about food, causing them an eating disorder.

I don’t buy sweets in every shopping trip but I do let them have them if they feel like it. Including ice cream in this weather. I provide mainly healthy food but don’t criticise DD if she eats a whole tub of ice cream when she had her period. It is not everyday.

Everything in moderation is ok.

You can’t change your husband though.

I don’t like sweets, chocolate bars, crisps but ate junk food when I was a teen on ocassions. I still treat myself to cake if i feel like it

Sounds like you still have an ED, perhaps seek help. Good luck!