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

Fine as an occasional treat. Although honey is pure sugar and soo sticky it will easily coat and rot your teeth.

I know it's not nutritionally brilliant, but it's one breakfast! I was just a bit that DH literally forbade her from having it. I didn't contradict him, cos parenting/united front and all that, but blimey, it's brown toast and a bit of flipping organic honey!

I think I read that honey bears have the worst teeth/cavities due to all the honey they eat.

I think she had peanut butter in the end. I dunno, I was out the door already

I also remember a thread where someone said their kids were only allowed Weetabix on very special occasions as it's basically junk food.

People are being extreme out of defensiveness and in an effort to discredit others by exaggerating the opposing viewpoint for comic effect.

Meh. I wouldn't call people rightly correcting others saying honey has no nutritional value whatsoever is defensive.

Aren't you charming laurie

OP I think this is the bonkersest thread ever

some really defensive people on here who have gone on the attack.

Erm, at the risk of sounding 5 years old - you started it
Calling everyone chubbies, with their type two diabetes on their snort wine o clock snort cheeky Nandos.... but, you read what you want to read.

it's brown toast and a bit of flipping organic honey!

I'd be baffled too OP. Banned foods become longed for foods.

Since when is it defensive to correct people?

OP I think this is the bonkersest thread ever

I'll say
Who'd have thunk honey could be such a contentious issue.
I really hope we have some lurking in the cupboard as I know what I want for breakfast tomorrow now!

IHRTWT but there are very few 'normal' cereals like weetabix which are without much more sugar that you think. If you make your own porridge it would be or shredded wheat I think, they may add sugar to it now I don't know. A bit of organic honey on toast is far better than cocoa pops or whatever.

BitOutOfPractice

Adding cheese is a step too far. Some MNers can feed a family of six on those egg muffins for at least a week. Shame on you.

TequilaSunshine tell me about it!

I'm so suggestible that I had to force my DP to make some muffins earlier after reading on MN about someone who received unexpected cake in their Ocado order

some really defensive people on here who have gone on the attack.

Umm, yeah.

You.

The sad thing is, honey isn't even that exciting. So if you're restricting or banning that then what else is there that's being restricted. No yoghurt? No fruit (too much sugar)? Obviously no chocolate or crisps or sweets. It's all very well but I do think these kids are the ones who grow up desperate to eat rubbish.

My two cousins diets were extremely restricted from a 'treat' point of view, mine and my brothers were not. We are both slim and fit now as adults, but one cousin is obese and the other is anorexic (literally, I'm not just being dramatic). Anecdotal obviously but I think there is something to it.

AwatWithThePixies I feel suitably ashamed*

*I don't

I thought Hodd had 'lolled' off. Oh well.

People have been responding to your rather rude posts, Hodd. Defensive? No.

Aren't you charming laurie

I haven't done a thing except call you out on exaggerations you're making to undermine other people's points. But bash away if you want, I don't have the energy for you tbh.

I can't speak for anyone else but the reasons I was fat (post age 18, I wasn't a fat kid):

• I was always encouraged to eat up all my dinner like a good girl and thus did not learn to have much of a gauge on my natural appetite. Hence I would simply carry on eating even when full and this continued into adulthood.

• My Mum was very into healthy eating - we were never allowed crisps, sweets or biscuits. When I went to uni I went on full on rebellion with the junk food.

It's really not as simple as just telling people to eat more vegetables and less sugar, hence why current anti obesity campaigns aren't hugely effective.

I was on a low carb diet for three years. During that time I was slim but I wasn't happy and I did not have a healthy attitude to food.

have sum hunny Laurie hun? cures all ills and isn't sugar at all.

Honey toast is perfectly acceptable.

Oooh-Kaaaaay!

This thread is hilarious, thank you all for making me laugh.