<<sighs>> So then, how should DC who have a propensity to be sturdy be fed/be encouraged to make food choices?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

I would rather that my DC don't have sugar on their cereal. They have never been offered it and are perfectly happy to eat it without.

To me this is not banning sugar, this is making wise food choices, along with frilling food rather than frying, and only using a scraping of butter if necessary, and so on.

I am trying to educate them that the best policy is moderation.

It has been mentioned to me that if I "control" how the children eat then they will grow up to rebel and eat everything possible because of a restrictive upbringing (which I don't think I am doing).

So, how should I be feeding the DC so as not to damn them to a lifetime of sturdiness?

Undercovermutha, it's a couple of pages back now, but you say you ate really healthily as a child and now crave white bread, I am the same! My mum baked her own bricks wholemeal bread, and I do sometimes eat really nice organic wholemeal but nothing is nicer than a lovely white bloomer. The wholemeal bread habit just hasn't lasted with me.

See exotic re above posters white bread - suagar could become an candyfloss explosion if you not careful!

It is on the other thread-people think it is acceptable to not have sugar to offer to visitors.
I have sugar-I don't ban foods-totally counter productive IMO.

I see - Im pleased give your MN name

I don't have white sugar for guests, just for baking, (and yes I know brown sugar is white sugar and molasses, but we normally put maple syrup on porridge as it doesn't spike your sugar levels in your body) but we use organic unrefined sugar cane sugar. Its nicer. Too expensive for baking though; I'd have to charge my visitors for a piece of cake or cookie when they came over for coffee... actually, with the price of coffee going up 25 cents a cup, I might have to anyhow.