mijas99
My dc don't get junk. Most of their meals are what we eat, unless on the odd occasion we have steak, they don't because they don't like it, so they have quiche or fish. They have a great diet! Along with chocolate, ice cream (their ice cream is homemade with full fat cream), jelly etc etc in moderation, they eat tonnes of fruit. Mostly nothing is off limits to them food wise.
We, as the adults are allowed a treat too. For me it is usually a bar of chocolate (the family size) that lasts over 2 weeks.
Or ferrero Rocher, which are so expensive here that they are a rare treat (on a birthday, for example). I begrudge sharing these when the dc get so much other stuff & this is my one treat.
Call me selfish, I don't care. What I think is selfish is having children growing up thinking they are entitled to EVERYTHING they can lay their hands on!
They need to respect other people's stuff & I believe that the reason my friends ds steals food from her cupboards is because nothing is off limits to him. He eats everything, so when he is told no, he waits until she is not around (in the toilet etc) and hides food in his room.
He ate a whole packet of biscuits (family pack) over the course of a week once & she only found the packet when she changed his bed (hid down the side of his bed)