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

Wow everyone's lost the plot. Just use common sense!!

Yes, sugar high is completely disproven now, why do people still repeat that it exists?

...by the way mine had white toast with strawberry jam on for breakfast & so did I!

When I was a child we'd have occasional barmbrack and a scraping of honey. Very nice it was too.

Our French students used to have weetabix with about an inch of butter on it (dry) then strawberry jam. This was in the 80's, wonder if they still do that?

Most of us aren't diabetic though
Maybe not, but type 2 diabetes is on the rise, especially amongst younger people, and you can have pre diabetes and not know. Eating high GI/GL meals regularly puts the pancreas under strain as it pumps out loads of insulin to keep the blood sugar in a safe range. It can cope with that for years, but sooner or later for a lot of people it simply wears out and that's when you have diabetes. So, much as many people seem to like rebelling against this healthy eating message (especially on threads like this) and say they will eat whatever the hell they want, when they want, they really should treat their bodies with a lot more respect IMO. Sooner or later regularly abusing our bodies can come back and bite us on the arse!

Wow everyone's lost the plot. Just use common sense!!
Unfortunately "common sense" is not that common any more.

It really isnt abusing your body to have toast and honey for breakfast

honey needs kale's PR team

or Jeremy Corbyns

There is no 'healthy' eating message on this thread though. Because honey on toast occasionally/once in a lifetime (according to the op) is not unhealthy.

Clearly!

Used to have it ALL the time as a child, not just a once off, not just a scraping of honey! It was my preferred toast topping ! :)

Risk factors for type 2 diabetes

Three of the main risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes are:
age – being over the age of 40 (over 25 for people of south Asian, Chinese, African-Caribbean or black African origin, even if you were born in the UK)

genetics – having a close relative with the condition, such as a parent, brother or sister
weight – being overweight or obese

I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my life
It may taste rather funny
But it keeps them on the knife

This thread is comedy gold. High 5 to the few lone voices of sanity defending a nations right to toast and honey for breakfast. Fucksake, there is nothing more normal than toast for breakfast, with jam, honey or marmalade. I have it pretty much every day, it keeps me going until lunchtime and I am not fat. Wow - I must be a medical miracle. Or a completely normal Brit raised in the 70s by a non-hysterical mother who didn't squawk 'sugar and carbs, sugar and carbs' like a demented parrot over completely unexciting, normal meal choices.

'So, much as many people seem to like rebelling against this healthy eating message (especially on threads like this) and say they will eat whatever the hell they want, when they want, they really should treat their bodies with a lot more respect IMO. Sooner or later regularly abusing our bodies can come back and bite us on the arse!'

Eat right. Exercise. Die anyway. Something is going to kill us all. It's not 'rebelling' to use common sense and moderation in what you do and eat, especially when the 'healthy eating message' as evinced by this thread, is so incredibly warped. There is some serious orthorexia about, look at all the drama about a kid eating a piece of fucking toast with honey on it. Get a grip, people.

hodd I posted about my 70's diet. I am 49 and am not, and never have been, overweight- not that it's any of your business. FWIW, I do generally eat healthily and so do my DCs. However, I don't obsess about what I or the DCs eat.
I don't get all this 'empty calories' and 'no nutritional value' thing.
All food has calories which provides energy. Those of you banging on about empty calories- do you honestly never eat anything that isn't perfectly nutritionally balanced?
Food isn't just about nutrition, it's about socialising and celebrating and sometimes eating something for no other reason other than it tastes nice. Are your DCs not allowed a slice of cake on their birthday or an ice cream on a hot day because it's 'empty calories?'
Banning or demonising certain foods is not healthy. All my DCs are good at moderating their food intake because I haven't told them that sugar is EVIL, just that it's not good to have too much.
There is no food on earth that is so bad that it should never be consumed under any circumstances.

Our French students used to have weetabix with about an inch of butter on it (dry) then strawberry jam. This was in the 80's, wonder if they still do that?

OMG, I totally forgot about weetabix with butter on - used to love that as a kid!!
Not with jam on it as well though, just butter.

Hey Luminaries, you only need to read the threads on here about snacking, what snacking did you do? Were you walked to school or driven door to door? Did you have a games console or roam the streets in the evening? What size portions did you have? How many meals? How many snacks? Did you do movie nights involving buckets of pop/multipacks of sweets etc.?

We're in the middle of an obesity epidemic, why are so many of you so keen to pretend we aren't?

Ok hodd so what you are saying is that doing minimal exercise and eating buckets of sweets and fizzy pop can make children overweight

no shit sherlock

not honey on toast for breakfast then

Winnie The Pooh would be turning in his grave

Winnie The Pooh would be turning in his grave

Winnie The Pooh is DEAD?

Well he will be...it'll be all that PURE sugar on CARBS that did it.

DS has honey in his weetabix almost every morning. Not sure what the problem is, as long as your DD has a balanced diet she'll be fine, especially as her sugar intake is already closely monitored by your DH

hodd I have 3 DCs who are all a healthy weight. I haven't done this by banning sugar. My point about the 1970's diet was that kids actually ate quite a lot of sugar - cereals, sweets, fizzy drinks, Angel Delight etc. We had a tuck shop at school that sold nothing but sweets and iced buns. However, hardly any children were overweight let alone obese. Sugar is not the root of all evil.

It's fine.

DS has Nutella at weekend. At least there's protein in it, more than in honey for example.

Who said that, Thyme

Hodd, do have a Sugar free, of course. Your posts have been ridiculous and contradictory.

I do smile at these threads..My son is now a drainpipe..He would only ever eat chocolate squares for breakfast till he was about 6 ..It was that or nothing..

He has a balanced diet..He had porridge for breakfast this am but it is the golden syrup put in the microwave version.. I am not in any way concerned about his diet..He will have school dinner and lamb in the slow cooker for tea.