If your baby never ate sugar, when did you allow it?

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I know some parents won't agree with this approach, so this question is really only for those who didn't feed their babies any sugar or nasties. When did these types of foods get introduced into their diet?

My baby is 11 months and grandparents want her to have a chocolate birthday cake with coloured icing etc for her 1st bday. Whilst it's fine I'm sure, and we will probably just go ahead, it made me think about when we start to feed her this stuff and why. Obviously there will come a time where we can't control it but at the moment she doesn't have a clue and she only really eats at home or with us anyway - so we may as well stay healthy.

If your baby ate really healthily, how and when did you start allowing unhealthy things?

You could always do a fruit “cake” if you’re not keen on eating cake yourself. Recently I saw a 3 tier not-cake made out of cut watermelon with other fruits to decorate and it looked really good (even to a cake fiend like me!)
I generally offer dd a tiny bit of whatever I have so she does have some things with sugar in so would say I’m fairly relaxed but there’s no need to give it if you don’t eat it yourself. That being said I was shocked to see chocolate ice cream on the menu at nursery!

My DC1 had a banana bread cake for his first birthday - banana bread sandwiched together with cream with berries on top. It had refined sugar but not as much as say a Victoria sponge. He was obsessed with bananas and loved it!

We didn’t give him any processed/refined sugar before he was 1. I don’t see why anyone would give it to their child because it’s not good for them and they won’t miss it. After 1 we let him have it occasionally when out (I’d share a cake with him at a cafe, an ice cream from an ice cream van sometimes). He’s 3 now and we do lots of home baking so he has that but we don’t buy sweets so he doesn’t have those. Thanks to lockdown he hasn’t seen anyone else so hasn’t had the experience of a kids party yet. Remains to be seen whether he would go mad but he’s a fantastic eater with a really varied diet so at least we’ve laid the groundwork.