Or is toast with honey a perfectly acceptable breakfast for a 4yo?

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Just that, really. DD(4) is asking for toast with honey for breakfast. DH is telling her she can't have it. I ask why, he says it's just pure sugar and looks at me like I've got two heads. Surely toast with honey is a perfectly normal breakfast option? It's not like she eats it every day (or in fact ever before).

DH is foreign, if that makes a difference. He has some really weird (to me) ideas about what is and isn't an acceptable meal

We have it on toast for breakfast too but he is right it is pure sugar but then so is jam !!!

I'd say fine. but then I say no to toast and syrup or toast woth sugar on which I suppose is the same thing....

As long as it's not a regular thing, I don't see a problem. She might be about to go through a growth spurt, my DC always wanted sugary foods and fatty foods just before they shot up and for what it's worth they are now older teens who have lovely, healthy diets.

I'd say not ax acceptable breakfast for 4 year old

He's right - your body can't tell the difference between honey and sugar so it's nutritionally the same as getting some white bread and smothering sugar on it.

Not great. I'd offer weetabix, porridge, shredded wheat instead. Those are the theee choice that our 3 and 5 year old have.

I think it's fine - you can buy manuka honey if you want extra health benefits - seeded or whole meal bread would make it a bit healthier. Mine eat toast all the time

What about toast and peanut butter for a change too? If your dc eats vegetables with dinner, in reality they're doing better than most of the kids I know in RL.

It's a perfectly 'normal ' breakfast.

If it's wholemeal toast with a scraping of honey I can't see the problem.

Everything in moderation. Honey on toast every now and again is absoluteky fine.

Its when these foods get "banned" or forbidden problems arise years down the line.

I work with a young girl that was brought up on a v healthy diet but at 16 had never eaten a Snickers or been allowed croissant and jam. She eats loads of shit on a daily basis. Her mum still makes her an amazing salad (i get salad envy) every dsy but she gives it away a opts to go to Greggs, KFC etc and eats lots of monster munch and chocolate. She openly hides the evidence before she leaves work and says she eats it because its always been forbidden. Its things too like jam on toast that she says she considers a real treat and cant get enough off when her mums not looking.
She eats more shitty food than anyone else i know.

It's not a huge issue if it's once, but honey or jam at every breakfast, or most breakfasts, would be a huge amount of sugar. We have no honey or jam at the breakfast table because if it is there then they all choose it every time.

One of my children would be fine with that, another needs some nuts and seeds and a glass of milk on the side or she gets a low sugar dip later on. I think.
With my oldest child I would have allowed it though, we had jam for weekends. Now it doesn't seem like a big deal.

I think you both have valid points.

Sorry, with my eldest I wouldn't have allowed it.

My 4yr old occasionally has toast with honey, and weetabix or porridge with a little squirt of honey on top.

As a one-off, fine.

Wouldn't do it regularly, though.

Well there isn't much nutrition there and a lot of sugar. Would DD have it as part of something else e.g. Chopped banana and honey on toast?

It's a perfectly normal breakfast!!!

I had a cooked breakfast every day until I left home and it never did me any harm.

Perfectly acceptable. Is marmalade now 'banned' from breakfast for being sugary?

My mother is like Sensitives colleague. Chocolate and sweets were banned, so once she left home, she overindulged and set herself up with a lifetime of weight problems. She brought us up with everything in moderation, we are all slim. Sure, it's anecdote, but she taught us self-restraint, which no one ever taught her.

Perfectly fine. Honey is fine, it's not crack.

To be fair, lots of people are brought up on a healthy balanced diet and then go on to eat loads of shit too.

I am a big believer in moderation, but I would try and ensure she gets a little protein in every meal. Seedy toast has a little more, but even a glass of milk or a yoghurt would balance it a bit.

IMO its own it isn't enough but with some protein it would be fine -a glass of milk would do.

Honey is never ok. Not on toast, on ham, in tea - just no. Vile, horrible, disgusting stuff. What's wrong with Marmite on your toast?

I think it's fine.

I'm Holland they have sprinkles on toast. Basically 100s and 1000s!

Of course it's fine.