To wonder who is drinking sugary drinks with their dinner

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Govt advice is that families should have a jug of water on the table at dinner time. Do people really have sugary or even fizzy drinks with their meal?

My DC's usually have water or milk with meals, they choose which. I rarely buy squash - at Christmas maybe. They sometimes have apple juice in their school lunch boxes.
Occasionally DP will get DS (8) a coke if we're eating out but we don't have it in the house. The DD's (4 and 6) have never had fizzy drinks.

I only drink diet coke so they don't make me fat cake on the other hand

My DH and dd2 are like sticks.

Dd1 doesn't drink much fizzy and is big but not what I would call fat.

My friends kids aren't allowed fizzy drinks and the whole family are massive - 9 year old has have to have adult mans large altered to fit him.

Are all tea drinker fat ?
Are all beer drinkers fat ?

I'm baffled too by that link between weight and supposed class...jenny.

I couldn't really care less what other people do, or what people think of what I do. Especially over something so trivial as what people drink with their dinner!

OP, you drink water with your dinner?

Try harder. I drink the cooking water from the mung beans that I have boiled for dinner. Don't want to chuck any lost nutrients down the plughole!

Never actually thought about it. We have water and sometimes a glass or bottle of as well. DD is nearly six months...

We used to have fruit juice with meals but since ds has started eating with us we have switched to water. He has severe sn , can't brush his own teeth (although at the moment he lets us do it) and won't open his mouth for a dentist. He also can't tell us if anything hurts. We prefer not to increase the risk of dental problems so don't offer him fruit juice, pop or sweets although he is not banned from having them at parties etc.

DD won't drink water to the point she will become constipated and lethargic. DS will guzzle tap water. Both have perfect teeth, are a perfect weight, enjoy a varied diet and have a healthy relationship with food thusfar. No fizzy drinks.

I have no intention of changing what my children drink.

Like PP have said, everything in moderation. And your pearl clutching patronising tone is hilarious OP. Hopefully, it was meant as a joke.

i don't actually drink with meals my kids do since they started school but i think its probably because thats how they do things at school!

we always had a cup of tea after food

Pepsi Max with dinner. And a cigarette afterwards. Bring on the smelling salts...

Um, I meant just for me, that is. The kids are happy with their gin.

Asha :)

I have asda diet coke, DP was generally water but seems to be stealing my coke now and DS has milk or NAS squash. I can't say I super dilute it though.... Or at all worried about aspartamine

I give DS water, I have diluted apple juice (can't stand our tap water, would rather not drink!). Between meals we have diluted juice (i.e. diluted as if it was squash) or DS sometimes has a very dilute cup of the sugar-free squash that DH likes.

At dinner, DS will drink ordinary water (as he calls it!); coconut water (I wonder what class that makes us?!) or occasionally flavoured water. DP drinks water. I drink water or diet Coke.

I must live in a completely different bubble because when I meet friends for lunch and look round the restaurant I see lots of people drinking fresh fruit juice or fizzy juice, as well as water. Maybe our Northern roots over-ride everything else!

Maybe we have the same drinks at mealtimes as we had when we were young and the vast majority of us have no health problems regardless?

Personally, my parents always had a jug of water on the table at mealtimes and still do now. We only have water / wine to drink at mealtimes at home and the majority of restaurant meals but that's down to our preference. McD/ Five Guys and the like, the DTs like coke/anything fizzy.

Why Diet Coke? It isn't any better for you than non diet coke.

Well, no - apart from the seven teaspoons of sugar, I'm sure non-diet is FINE

I do not believe that you genuinely did to know that anyone ever drank anything other than water with meals. I think you wanted a bun fight which is fine as long as said buns do not come with full fat coke. Judge away but you sound a but uptight to be honest which is far more tedious than someone drinking lemonade with their lentils.

Everyone I know who drinks diet coke is overweight and eats large portions, so I doubt that the 7 teaspoons saving is going to make much difference to their weight given that they don't watch what they eat or do any exercise.

Drinking coke instead of diet once a day is an extra 50,735 calories a year. That's 3 1/2 ish extra weeks of calories!

I drink Diet Coke and I'm not overweight!

Gulp!

I don't have squash or fizzy drinks in the house. But I don't have tofu or wraps or pudding rice or cleaning wipes or crab or cheesecake ... or any number of things - we just don't.

I don't know anyone who drinks fizz with meals but the point of MN is to broaden everyone's outlook. Different people do different things. OP just asked.

Wine or water for me, or sometimes a diet coke if I'm craving wine (am trying not to drink midweek at the moment...)

I've never really liked squash or fizzy drinks, too sweet. If I'm going to drink calories I'd rather they were alcoholic....!

We drink nothing but water at home except for Chip Tuesday (chips every Tuesday after swimming) and with that dc are allowed one of those mini cans of pop.

However if we eat out it's pop all round often TWO glasses full

We drink either unsweetened iced tea or milk with dinner. We order pizza once a week, and then we will drink soda. I don't keep soda in the house, though, so we don't have it every day.