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

No nutritional value. Sugar on top of carbs

That is the most bonkers statement I've read on this thread - and that's saying something!

Children need to eat carbs. As part of a balanced diet. Carbs are not poison and kids need them.

YABU for putting the idea of toast and honey into my head.

Sorry branflakes you don't get to shine today.

Had this for breakfast earlier and felt guilty at 35 years of age.
Probably fine if they're only having it once in a while.

Or does he have a tendency to be controlling?

I think this made me smile even more than expats great rant.

My kids love honey on toast - with proper butter. Also natural yoghurt, chopped fruit and honey, sometimes with granola. Or when I'm skint porridge with honey and cinnamon. All too sugary but delicious. I'm hungry!

I hadn't thought much about it. They eat loads of healthy food too.

All about choices in our house. DS (4yo) already knows that balance is key; sometimes we make choices that are not particularly healthy, but we make healthier choices for the rest of the day.
'Treat/Reward' or 'Bad' food are equally risky when you're trying to build a healthy relationship with food, it's about overall balance and adequate activity.
Adding in extra food (banana/yoghurt etc) surely only increases the energy content of the breakfast? 'Good' food doesn't counteract 'bad' food.

Honey is a great natural product. That on whole grain bread is a fab. Breakfast (or snack). Those manufactured breakfast cereals Brits are so keen on give me the horrors. Boiled egg and toast soldiers lovely too.

God I want some toast with honey now.

Just wow.....there are some people on this thread who appear quite disproportionately anxious about the contents of their children's breakfasts.

If you love food, and eat lots of different and interesting things over the course of the day, week and year, then surely you won't go far wrong? I imagine if you give it too much thought, it all gets at bit stressful and no-one enjoys a lovely meal any more.

I was in Lisbon this weekend. It's not the first place in Europe I've been to where the locals seem to get through the morning on some fuck-off strong coffee and a pastry. If this thread were to be believed, it's frankly a miracle there are any people still alive in mainland Europe.

fuck-off strong coffee and a pastry breakfast of champions

Honey is great stuff. Very healthy choice (I keep bees and always use honey.

One point to mention get raw honey (cloudy stuff) Processed stuff is clear, it's had all the pollen taken out so it's lost its antibiotic properties

I missed my toast and honey this morning because I've run out of my usual crack delicious local stuff

I had a Lidl apple turnover and two cups of really strong coffee it was amazing.

My kids have always been slightly in awe of honey ever since we went to the British Museum and they discovered that there was honey discovered in the Egyptian tombs that was over 2,000 years old and perfectly fine to eat

losing track of healthy diets has already happened, hence the number of big fat kids/big fat parents. Or did you miss the obesity epidemic?

Talking about what crap you ate in the 70's as a fat 40 something now, with poor habits which have led you to piling on the few stone extra....
kids today tend to do less physical activity, and probably didn't snack the way they do now. Times change, things move on, citing school breakfast clubs as a reason why toast and jam is a great breakfast club? Please.

Perfectly fine. DCs love honey on toast for breakfast!

FFS some ridiculous replies. Honey is not just pure sugar, it has a whole host of health benefits and is very good for you in moderation. I would second pp to buy the raw honey.

No nutritional value. Sugar on top of carbs

We're talking about a 4yo Childs breakfast, not an overweight 50yo's diet. Unless the OPs 4yo is 15st it's perfectly acceptable for her to have sugar and carbs in her diet as a growing child

Don't be so ridiculous.

I am eating white toast with solid honey and almond butter right now (yes I am eating breakfast at 11.30 because #goals) and oh God it's so good.

So many absolutely bonkers replies on this thread

Baalam where do you get your crackhoney from?

There's a house on the road near DCs school that sells local honey and it's delicious.

someone in our village makes it. We are only allowed to buy one jar at a time

I made honey cakes the other day. The kids told me I was the best mum ever

Baalam doesn't it take a whole for the bees to make it though? DCs go to school in a 'naice' so a tad expensive area, I can only afford one jar at a time! 😂 🍯

^No nutritional value whatsoever. Sugar on top of carbs.
^
That's bonkers isn't it? I'm no nutritionist but.....

*while not whole.

Yes luckily they've churned another jar out usually in time. I have to ration myself though

Talking about what crap you ate in the 70's as a fat 40 something now, with poor habits which have led you to piling on the few stone extra....

Was there a point in your whole post there, hoddtastic? I've only part quoted. Weren't you the poster serving up processed sausages and bacon to your children but not honey, because it's sugar. Bonkers.