My husband has lost the plot !!

[MyWonderfulbutcrazyHusband]

Ok, so hear me out here!!!

In my opinion, DCs (6 and 4) are pretty healthy kids! They exercise a LOT and their diet is, I think, pretty ok!

Example

Breakfast - weetabix with fromage frais, honey and grapes

Snack - milk and a some fruit (or occasionally Pom bears or a 'YoYo' bar for a treat!!)

Lunch - sanwiches with cucumber slices and carrot sticks

Snack - banana or raisins

Dinner - tomato pasta or spaghetti bolognaise or something like that! With veg sticks

So ... my (usually amazing, very sane, very sensible and completely gorgeous lovely he's reading this!!) DH said tonight he thinks the children have too much sugar and we need to cut out the fromage frais and honey in the mornings?

I think ... 'well at least they don't scoff chocolate, don't eat takeaways, and they deserve at least something they like (life is too short to cut out everything, right?)'

So - what do you think!?

Husband is reading this! So please tell him to leave their breakfast alone! They are good, healthy, sporty kids and a fromage frais in the morning won't kill them!?

(Sadly, I am prepared to be told IABU, but you do realise DH will not let me forget it!!)

I think it sounds ok and quite typical of kids diets these days. Better than many and pretty similar to my kids.

BUT I think your DH is right to consider and reassess your children’s diet. There would be no harm in reducing the fairly substantial level of sugar or broadening their diet a bit. I don’t think he’s wrong for taking a good look at what they are eating. I personally am not happy with my kids diet which is similar to yours but I don’t currently think it will lead them to problems so I’m picking my battles. My eldest (5) is doing me proud and starting to eat and request to try broader food, calamari and asparagus were a hit at the weekend. DH and I eat an extremely broad range of things and love to cook so it kills me to see them with sliced white bread toast and petit filous day after day. But they’ll get there. Like I said some battles are just not sort it at this point.

OMG, Lidl buckets of Greek yogurt are amazing! So delicious and my kids happily eat that with stewed fruit. Much prefer them eating that over petit filous!

FFS, are we now living in a world where we are demonising carrots? CARROTS!? WTF??

OP, your children diet sounds fine. If some of the posters were anything to go by, we'd all be living on kale and fresh air. Christ, we may live until we're 500 years old but it would be a fucking miserable existence how long until we have posters declaring "Kale? It's CARBS which is just pure SUGAR!!"

If you want to break it down, and a tomato sauce is homemade:
Onions
Garlic (great for the heart)
Tinned tomatoes (great source of vitamin ç and lycopene)
Herbs (also lots of nutrients)

Give an apple with it, also a great source of vitamin ç as they're currently in season which helps to fight colds etc at this time of year.

If we are really demonising fruits and some vegetables, all of which contain an abundance of nutrients, then we are all doomed.

Also kids do NOT need low fat foods (oh and by rhe the way, those advocating low fat also seem to the ones concerned with hidden sugars, guess what some low fat items are stuffed with when the fat is removed? Yep, sugar!)

No one should be choosing "low fat" anything. Have the proper stuff but in a suitable portion. Keeps you full and isn't packed with sugar.

there are other sugars apart from the obvious like fructose

Even better than weetabix with milk and yogurt is weetsbix with half milk, half double cream and two spoonfuls of light brown sugar. Heaven.

I sort of hope the DF picks up on this its so pretentious!

@Teateaandmoretea your idea of a healthy diet isnt normal, it is 'normalised' and is what has become socially acceptable rather than what is actually healthy.

You're the one talking nonsense, I promise you. The fact you can't see that is worrying tbf.

Also you know what's better than fucking weetabix or any shitty breakfast cereal for breakfast? Protein.

Cornflakes were litterally invented to stop monks from wanking in bed!!! The UK and America has a serious issue with what a proper breakfast should be. Cereals of any kind are utter shite.

OMG can't believe people think weetabix is sugary. It tastes like cardboard unless you sprinkle a thick layer of sugar on it. Then it's I different to the crunchy nut cornflakes or cocopops which my kids eat (which apparently are basically crack).

My dd is 12 with no fillings and skinny as a rake and she eats a hell of a lot more sugar than the super healthy diet mentioned here - biscuits, cake chocolate etc.

In real life I only know two people who don't give their kids biscuits and cake as snacks pretty often. Mumsnet really is another world.

Alpha Nobody really knows what's healthy- we only know what we have read and been led to believe. It's all just different theories. Where's the proof that protein (which could mean a wide range of things) is healthier for breakfast than whole grain cereal with milk (which does contain protein). The theories and the evidence to match are constantly being rethought, changed, and then go back to the beginning again. How are you so sure that what you think is healthy is.

So carrots, certain fresh veg, all fresh fruit, weetabix, pasta, bread and yoghurts are all junk foods

By the way too much Kale is actually extremely bad for you apparently!! A lot of the dark leafy greens are- it's moderation for everything!!

No alpha you are pretending to be expert on something that is common sense.

fifty Why are you so obsessed with other people being obese? I'm no more obese than you are, your way isn't the only way.

I'm honestly surprised that anyone is agreeing with your DH. Their diet sounds more than healthy enough and to want to cut out the little bit of treat that they have just seems unfair and completely unnecessary! I don't get where your DH is coming from at all.

And more to the point Kale is fucking rank. Nothing that spiky can be good for you.

@Teateaandmoretea

I didn't start the thread. Someone asked a question. I answered. Then loads of folk start saying there's nothing wrong with sugar, kids need junk and if you don't provide them rubbish then there's something wrong with you. If these "normal" diets were fine, we wouldn't have an obese population. And all those obese people cost the rest of us thousands every year.

It's frankly unbelievable that I've been insulted because I choose not to use pre-prepared and processed foods. But choosing to feed your kids crap is totally cool?

Grapes can completely plug a child's airway. Terribly dangerous. Google it if you don't believe me.
Also absolutely full of sugar. Two reasons for not giving them to children to eat......

belinda789 surely if you quarter them they're fine?

Grapes are a fantastic food for children. Just make sure you cut them up for little ones.

Grapes are fine as long as you don’t overdose. You could choke on lots of foods- obviously babies and toddlers need watching carefully and have them cut up, but for older children they should be fine! Kids eat them off the vines in the med!

It's offensive fifty to imply that anything apart from the ideal home cooked food is 'crap'

Most normal people have days eating like the OP. They cook 'from scratch' but not every single meal and sometimes chuck a pizza in the oven, they eat vegetables (although kale IS rank). That's life.

Talking to the friends I have who have weight problems it is comfort eating that causes the problem particularly in the evening, not the occasional jar of ragu or eating too much fruit (which tbf I don't use anyway unless I'm in a caravan or something).

Ragu that is not fruit

Grapes are fine if you sprinkle sherbet on them, it’s true!!! The sherbet cancels out the sugar.

It's a measure of this thread that I can't actually tell if Daphne is being serious or not I'm really hoping for not...