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!!)

Well as long as hes cutting out all the sugar as well.Lead by example and all that.

Sethis - thanks :) that's my thinking too :) (they r around 40th to 50th centiles for weight, and good teeth apparantly at last dentist check!!)

@Nubbin How can you live with yourself allowing your child to have a normal diet like that! I'm shocked. Please see my above post for some handy kale-based advice about how to look after your child properly.

ASDA do a big tub of natural fromage frais very cheaply, I prefer it to natural yogurt as its a milder flavour.
Do cut out the dried fruit, really bad for the teeth, sling some cheese and nuts in there for protein.

Weetabix with semi skimmed milk.

Kids that age don’t need semi skimmed milk 🙄

it's very carb-heavy, and although you mention fruit and some veg, i'd need more context/portion sizes to really comment.

I think it sounds like very quick-release energy, and not enough protein really.

it's a very typical 'british' way to eat well when you don't really know much about good nutrition (mostly because your average citizen is totally confused and bamboozled by the constant barrage of lumping foods into 'good' vs 'bad', fad diets, etc).

Other posters have suggested other ways to make switches (a good one being e.g. greek yoghurt) so that's already covered, but thought i'd offer my view backing up your DH.

Yes, it could be worse in terms of processed food, but your DH does have a point if he is mainly concerned about overall nutrition.

Honestly I think that looks like a good day of food. If only my ds would eat like your dc's.

However remember this is Mumsnet.

Remember also people like my friend at uni who was on such a tight leash at home - limited tv, v restrictive diet, only naive acceptable activities.

Lived on pot noodle, watched telly non stop and got horrendously drunk and sick on so many nights out on snakebite and black showing my age especially in 1st year because she had no idea of moderation because she had been so restricted.

Her mother lived in a parallel universe to everyone else
Xx

Honey is actually similar to sugar in its GI level, and contains around 75% sugars. It does have more health benefits, but this is outweighed by the amount of sugars in it.
Grapes are very high in sugar.
Weetabix is low in sugar but the salt content is not low. Shredded wheat has the lowest amount of salt, sugar and fats so is much better.
For breakfast, you need to make sure the foods you select are as low in sugar as possible to avoid the energy dip that happens, and provide a low sugar snack for break time, such as a banana.
Saying that, their diet looks fairly well balanced!

oh one more thing OP... stay away from faddy "low X" diet crap.
Low sugar, low fat - just given them a well-rounded, nutritious, well-balanced diet - there's absolutely no need to buy into the diet versions of perfectly acceptable foods!

He is correct. You could try a healthy natural option. Cut out the weetabix, honey, treats and grapes.

I mean honey ! Why dont you just give them a bag if sugar. It will harm their teeth the same.

DH take the time to analyse this concoction.

Yes I was wondering how we all managed to have children at all given the way I was fed in the 1970’s.
I should be dead.
Except for the kale, great idea.
Kale and water and nothing else.

Portion size is the most important aspect after content as another poster has said. I have visualised minuscule portions but of course that won’t be the case will it.

Stop calling biscuits and seaweeds treats.

Seaweeds lol. Sweets

Raisins are bad for teeth:

www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/727115/dentist-warns-parents-to-stop-giving-kids-raisins/

Fromage Frais has a lot of sugar.

Honey is just sugar in another form.

I would have eaten all the above in the past before I realised how much sugar they contained.

It's a perfectly normal healthy day for most children.

But if your husband is doing all the cooking then I would let him crack on with it.

If he has decided that you get to be the enforcer of militantly healthy meals because he has decided it, and you get to prepare it and look sad while they don't eat it, he can bugger off really.

Seaweeds ?

Oh . Ha.

Also try a non processed cereal such as porridge or shredded wheat.

Weatabix is processed and contains sugar.

I agree with him.

I think this is great.

If weetabix is an unhealthy breakfast option then I give up. I had crunchy nut cornflakes this morning. It's a wonder I didnt have a heart attack at work.

You can get plain fromage frais with no sugar in at all.

I’d swap some of the fruit snacks for nuts, seeds, whole grain crackers or vegetable sticks with hummus etc.

Ditch the Pom bears and the YoYo bar (they don’t need a snack mid morning anyway).

Really 🙄🙄

JFC could people stop regurgitating the fruit nonsense. Fructose consumed as a natural part of whole fruit is not even remotely comparable to refined sugar. It's absorbed wholey differently by the body and has absolutely no negative effects. Unless you are on a calorie controlled diet there is absolutely no upper limit to the amount of fruit you can consume. None. As long as it isn't replacing vegetables, which have an entirely different range of nutritional values, and you still brush your teeth, knock yourself out on eating fruit.

I think it’s a bit too much sugar at breakfast tbh but overall pretty balanced