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If your child was eating their eighth apple today..

382 replies

hibbledibble · 22/02/2022 13:52

When would you tell them to stop?

It's just fresh apple, cut into pieces. They are a big fruit lover.

OP posts:

Regularsizedrudy · 22/02/2022 16:35

So basically this is a weird stealth boast?

Competitive apple eating is a new low even for mumsnet

LondonQueen · 22/02/2022 16:35

Way before apple number 8, the acid isn't good for their teeth.

firstimemamma · 22/02/2022 16:36

Id have stopped the child at 2 apples. 8 is crazy I'm sorry.

LondonQueen · 22/02/2022 16:38

Upset tummies aren't an issue🤣
With that amount of fructose, I'd expect diarrhoea later on...

catscatscatseverywhere · 22/02/2022 16:39

OP, maybe he's lacking some vitamins? (asking from my own experience) Sugar levels OK? If it's just one-time thing, I think the trots next day will speak for itself :D

oakleaffy · 22/02/2022 16:39

@Regularsizedrudy

So basically this is a weird stealth boast?

Competitive apple eating is a new low even for mumsnet

Definitely a stealth boast!

Eight apples sounds positively porcine.

hazandduck · 22/02/2022 16:42

Count yourself lucky, OP. My toddler takes one bite out of every apple in the fruit bowl and puts them back for me to discover later. Also takes bites out of bananas (through the skin!!)

Aquamarine1029 · 22/02/2022 16:43

Given lots of peers won't touch anything green I think I'm doing well.

Allowing a 3 year old to eat 8 apples in one day isn't "doing well."

Wannakisstheteacher · 22/02/2022 16:45

Is to parents of the school “AIBU to let my toddler stay up all night reading advanced physics textbooks? He just gets so engrossed it them”.

Shit parenting disguised as a humble brag.

LuckyAmy1986 · 22/02/2022 16:48

@hazandduck presumably you could easily stop that…?

collieresponder88 · 22/02/2022 16:51

Bad for teeth 2 is plenty

megletthesecond · 22/02/2022 16:52

I'd have stopped them after 2 and suggested a banana and some veg.

Xmasbaby11 · 22/02/2022 16:53

No way. I'd stop them at 2. 2 portions of any one food is enough really. It seems compulsive to keep eating and not a good habit even though it's obviously better than crisps etc.

VickyEadieofThigh · 22/02/2022 16:55

@hibbledibble

Dentist is very happy with all my children's teeth!

Clearly this has offended some people

Sorry!

Why did you ask, if you think it's fine?

elbea · 22/02/2022 17:01

We allow our toddler to eat as much of any food as they want at any meal or snack but no food outside those times. Some days it is a whole punnet of strawberries or a whole vine of tomatoes others not much at all.

It was as recommended by our dietician for picky eating. She was quite happy with fruit and veg but everything else went on the floor. Worked really well and she’s eating lots now.

me4real · 22/02/2022 17:03

You can pretty much eat as much fruit and veg as you want. Stop him if he's effecting your meal/snack plans for the family maybe.

Juice is sugary but when bound into the whole fruit the sugar isn't released onto the teeth in the same way.

Be glad that he likes his fruit and veg.

Thenose · 22/02/2022 17:04

From your last post about "doing well" in comparison to other parents, I infer that you originally posted to stealth boast about your child's diet and it didn't go the way you planned. Presumably, your 3 year old is going to miss out on essential protein and fat when she refuses her next meal as a result of being filled with apples now, so you didn't do well in this instance.

2YearsOfWastedTime · 22/02/2022 17:05

Its not about what else the child has eaten

Do you normally have to come onto mumsnet and ask these kind of questions

8 normal size apples for a 3 year old
Is a huge amount if sugar, you might as well gave them a multi pack of mars bars and a coke!

00100001 · 22/02/2022 17:05

@Turquoisesea

I think a 3 year old eating 8 apples is probably equivalent to an adult eating 20 apples in a day. I don’t think anyone would think that’s a particularly good idea.

I don't think anyone would think an adult eating 8 apples a day was a good thing

OnceuponaRainbow18 · 22/02/2022 17:05

I would probs suggest something different to eat after 4

incognitoforthisone · 22/02/2022 17:05

A three-year-old needs maybe 1,400 calories a day, so yours is probably consuming at least half their entire daily food requirement, possibly more, in the form of apples. That's not ideal. Great that your kid likes fruit, but if they're having three square meals a day as well as all the apples, it's pretty excessive. And they need a lot more variety in their diet than just eating one relatively sugary fruit all the time. I don't think a three-year-old needs eight portions of any snack, whether that's an apple or anything else.

2YearsOfWastedTime · 22/02/2022 17:06

Surely not a stealth boost 😂🙈😂🙈

00100001 · 22/02/2022 17:06

@2YearsOfWastedTime

Its not about what else the child has eaten

Do you normally have to come onto mumsnet and ask these kind of questions

8 normal size apples for a 3 year old
Is a huge amount if sugar, you might as well gave them a multi pack of mars bars and a coke!

🙄

JustLyra · 22/02/2022 17:07

If it's a one off it's no drama (one of mine is eating like a horse today after the morning they had, it's fine as it's linked and a one off).

As a regular thing - nope. Too much of the one thing isn't healthy regardless if it's a fruit or cake.

2YearsOfWastedTime · 22/02/2022 17:09

@00100001

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