How much do you relax on young childrens diet on holiday?

[Cloudybutwarm]

Yes of course there's going to be more ice cream and puddings and treats etc but I think that actual meals should still be vaguely healthy?

Ds4 has chosen some terrible 100% sugar cereal as a treat for breakfast and I've just got out of the shower to find that Dh has deemed it acceptable for our 20m old to basically pick the marshmallows out of his brothers cereal and eat them for breakfast. And it's ok because we're on holiday.

I may be slightly biased because Dh is rubbish with their food when we're at home as well, doesn't give a thought to balanced meals, fruit, veg etc that's all down to me, but surely even on holiday on holiday marshmallows for breakfast for an under 2 is a bit much?!

I just went on Amazon to see if I could buy Count Chokula cereal, but sadly not

Rhoda, holiday showdown! I loved that programme!

My view is that I like them to continue to eat fruit and vegetables and to drink plenty for constipation avoidance reaskns. One ice cream a day only. But everything else is fair game eg pizza for dinner each day or chips or whatever .....

I'm on our first holiday with our 22-month old. I've relaxed a lot and let him have juice and ice cream for the first time.

Juice and ice cream for the first time? At nearly 2??

At an AI then 3yo DD gets to choose what she wants on her plate, and I add fruit/veg to it (within reason, I put things on there I know she enjoys!). Sometimes she eats it, sometimes she doesn't - but the same can be said for the food she chooses too. If we're eating out, I give her the choice of a couple of things I know she likes.

Ice cream for pudding and to fill an 11am/4pm hunger gap is absolutely mandatory. We relax but we don't stop giving her fruit and veg she likes. It mostly gets eaten, she doesn't know it's supposed to be yucky or the least nice thing on her plate. She's particularly a fan of fruit kebabs.

We are on holiday right now and I have been pretty relaxed. They've been drinking slushies and juice plus eating ice cream. I've insisted on vegetables at dinner time though and tried to encourage some fruit eating at breakfast time. At home they eat a very healthy and balanced diet so I'm not too worried about what they eat on holiday. Although I am a little worried about constipation but they seem to be "going" fine!

Iusedtobecarmen - yes, that's right. I only give water or milk and I don't really like ice cream myself so it's not something I have in the house.

Tbh a large part of why I like going on holiday is freedom to stuff my face without judgement.

I generally chuck all notions of healthy eating out of the window on holiday. for me, I want a break from as many responsibilities as I can, including the constant low-grade pressure to churn out nutritious and varied meals that accommodate everyone's likes and dislikes.

We go self catering but eat out, and depending on where we are they might eat a vegetable or two, but it's a rare occurance. I think dd2 had calamari and patatas bravas on five of the 10 nights we were away most recently.

there are also daily ice-creams, plus sweets for any longer car journeys or on the plane. and the DC are allowed to pick a usually forbidden sugar-loaded cereal for breakfast. no-one's got scurvy. yet.

I relax a bit but not much. More ice creams, chocolate and puddings, less strict about vegetables (it's often hard to get veg if you're eating in restaurants anyway). But otherwise fairly normal meals. I try to get enough fruit and veg in to keep them regular and from getting scurvy and enough protein that they are not hungry.

I don't buy total junk like haribo though or marshmallow cereal and that applies on holiday as well.

We took our 2 dc to US when dd was just turning 1 - she survived for 2 weeks on fries, pickles, apples and the occasional bowl of clam chowder. She's 14 now and perfectly healthy.
We don't stress about food too much anyway and I have kids that have always loved salad so our diet doesn't change that much on holiday - except that the kids actually eat breakfast (usually scrambled eggs with salsa on the side). I do insist that dd drinks plenty though as she has a tendency to become constipated otherwise.

Stop your on holiday! One week of fun filled sugary snacks for a child is pure bliss my 2 aged 10 and 8 are bottomless pits especially when we are away but I make them try something new each time we are away like swordfish or squid because these things I would never afford at home.relax and enjoy your time away its your holiday to

We're always self catering so we cook fairly normal meals but will get pain au chocolat or pain au raisins for breakfast. Ice creams, cakes, chocolate all in plentiful availability. It's never hard to get them to eat fruit and yoghurt anyway. I give juice to make sure they drink plenty in hot weather. I've never had any difficulty getting them back to normality afterwards. Bedtimes and nap times go wildly askew as well but it never caused us any problems on our return whether we took an 8 month old, an 18 month old, a 3 year old or anything in between. Though when they were babies I didn't give them lots of sugary stuff as they didn't know what they were missing.

Loads.

We have car sweets, they're allowed fizzy with meals every meal, slushes for the entertainment evening ect ect.

Chips everyday, nuggets ect ect where normally if we go out to eat I make them have proper food like a spag bol on holiday it's whatever.

Icecreams are eaten everyday, if I have a cream tea they can have whatever cake they want ect.

No wonder I spend so much on holiday.

As long as mine don't live on dust or crack cocaine, on holiday I'm relaxed :)