How often do your dc eat sweets?

[HereComesSimon]

Just wondering how often your dc are allowed sweets / chocolate.

My dc have something sweet after dinner most days. They might have either:

A fruit yogurt
A few squares of chocolate
A biscuit
A small slice of cake on birthdays

They also occasionally get ice cream if we go on a day out and it's very hot.

My dp says that we need to cut this down to every other day and then just to weekends. This is how often he was allowed 'treats' as a child.

Unfortunately I was allowed to eat sweets all day if I wanted to.

So just curious really as to what other people do.

Dc are 7 and 4.

I think I there will be a huge difference in the answers you receive OP.
Every now and again I tot up how much sugar DS eats on a random day and as long as that isn’t too high then I’m fine with with odd additional sugary extra. He can go weeks without things like chocolate or biscuits so if he fancies cake and ice cream one day that’s fine. It’s all about balance I think.

More than that.
They both have healthy teeth, are at the low end of healthy BMI centiles for their age, and eat lots of protein and vegetables. I'm happy with our choices

Sweets - never. DD is vegetarian, and isn't keen on the vegetarian sweets. DS is diabetic and he avoids sweets, unless of course we are treating a hypo and only have sweets to hand. As a treat even with the insulin dosed out, he gets huge spikes in blood glucose that's makes him feel hungover. So he's not fussed at all.

Neither like chocolate. The complete weirdos.

We have cake and ice cream, if its a meal out or we're out out and see an ice cream man.

Usual puddings will be sugar free jelly or fruit with Greek yoghurt.

They certainly don't get it from me. Eveytime I'm in a petrol garage I get several chocolates to fill my glove box. I can't go in a Costa without getting cake and I shamelessly ate all the Easter eggs this year.

I have no idea as it’s not a regulated thing where they can only have them on certain days and in certain quantities. Surely that’s just the sort of thing likely to cause issues.

I don’t believe in creating food into “treats”, so whenever she wants.

DD (7) eats sweets rarely, as she’s not keen on most of them,hates sugary drinks and juice, complains if anything tastes too sweet

Chocolate, she likes, but isn’t crazy about it, still has Easter eggs untouched, eats it maybe 1/2x a week

Biscuits, daily mostly, she prefers plain Abernathy ones

Overall, she’s a savoury girl, loves bread, cheese and meat!

We generally don't have sweets/chocolate/etc at home, unless they are received as a gift. However, the kids have money and can buy things outside in shops if they want.

A few of my friends and my sister regularly include large amount of treats/sweets in the weekly shop. Kids are young, active so burn if off. My sister and (some) friends probably have a sweeter tooth, do a lot of snacking on rubbish, and could do with losing a few stone as a result. DSis eats fairly healthy over all, does some exercise, does not drink a lot, but does eat a lot of sweets and struggles with weight as a result.

Every day after school. I find that the kids that are restricted the most are the ones who end up eating too much of the unhealthy stuff when they get to secondary school and they start spending their own money

Probably two or three times a week - same as me and DH really. I think everyday is too much, but then I wouldn’t eat something sweet everyday myself. But it also depends on the time of year - obviously after Easter and Christmas we have quite a bit of chocolate to get through so that turns into eating it most days for a week or two. But we don’t generally have stuff in the house all the time.

Just depends. Today we made chocolate biscuits so toddler DD had one and will have some over the next few days. She shares in what we are having generally, but some days doesn't have anything particularly sweet as we just don't have any that day. We don't really police it. She just has a normal amount I guess, some days more, some days less, some days none, some days a lot!

She eats a lot of fruit, though, on a daily basis.

We had sweetie day on a Wednesday where they each had 50p to spend on sweets. It worked well. It was a routine treat. I think this was one area of parenting I got right!

What you've listed doesn't seem like sweets to me. Those are sweet foods, but yoghurt? That's every day in this house!
It definitely seems on the low side, OP. I wouldn't be cutting it down, that would be mean!
Actual sweets, eg Haribo, once or twice a week. Yoghurt, ice cream, cake etc. - pretty much every day they'll have at least one of those. My children are skinny things as well!

My son is now 16. But when he was little he didn’t have sweets as he didn’t like them which he still doesn’t. Not many biscuits or cakes etc as he doesn’t have a sweet tooth and the has not changed. But as someone also said before. I don’t make bad things into a treats.