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 agree with your husband. I think he understands more about hidden sugars. Kids don’t need a diet that’s so carb heavy.

Jeez - I'm so glad I didn't grow up with this level of policing. It's not like their cramming doughnuts, haribo and fizzy drinks

*they're

Jeez - I'm so glad I didn't grow up with this level of policing. It's not like their cramming doughnuts, haribo and fizzy drinks hmm

That is why life expectancy is beginning to decrease, because we all (me included) stuffed ourselves with processed foods in the last few decades.

I don't even want to think about the rubbish I ate (pies, crisps, sweets, cakes, fizzy drinks).

@trancepants

Just one reason of why you are wrong.

Here's why you shouldn't eat an unlimited amount of fruit, or even overdo it: While it may be packed with nutrients, fruit is also a major source of carbs. One medium apple, a cup of blueberries, and a small banana each contain about 20 grams. It's important to get a healthy amount of carbs in your daily diet, to fuel the activity of your cells. But when you eat more carbs than you can burn after a meal or snack, the surplus can either feed existing fat, or even increase your body fat stores. For this reason, your total carb intake—including nutrient-rich foods like fruit—should correspond to your fuel needs, which are based on your height, ideal weight, sex, age, and physical activity level.

If you want to eat fruit all day long then go ahead, but be careful about handing that advice out. Excess sugar is excess sugar... no matter where it comes from.

Anyone with diabetes could tell you that’s bollocks. It’s simply that’s the sugar in fruit is mixed in with fibre so it’s absorbed more slowly.

Now that would sound to me like he wants to take over with all the meal planning, shopping, cooking,and mealtime nagging for the children- in which case I'd tell him to crack on.

That was to trancepants ^^

Natural sugar is important especially in active children.
And their diet sounds brilliant.

Looks ok to me apart from the honey esp in the morning They will just be spreading the sugar around their teeth when they brush them.

Oh but raisins are evil, they absolutely ruin teeth, it's one of the things I won't let mine have!

It is a good diet but my only comment is that the starchy carbs are all wheat based: weetabix/bread/pasta
What about substituting other grains, rice or potatoes?

@GrouchyPreggoLady

Their diet is almost entirely carbs. The snacks are all carbs. The bulk of dinner is carbs. That is not brilliant. They are lacking in protein.

Anyone with diabetes could tell you that’s bollocks. It’s simply that’s the sugar in fruit is mixed in with fibre so it’s absorbed more slowly.

Nope. Studies are increasingly showing that whole fruit actually has a positive effect on insulin spikes rather than the previously assumed opposite.
nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/1475-2891-12-29
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20564476
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23365108

I think it takes a special kind of masochist to post their child's diet on MN. You are invariably going to get a range of advice and most of it will be fairly extreme. Loads of people will have Read An Article and loads more will just be here to spoil someone's day.
If you have a real concern, ask a health professional. Otherwise carry on as you are since the child is a healthy size and growing well/active. See, I can read articles too!

He'd have a heart attack if he came to mine, we do eat fairly healthy tbf but if she wants a snack it's usually a chocolate spread wrap....with grapes (mini kids wrap not fajita size) and she has chocolate spread with her ready brek for breakfast or chocolate on wholemeal toast

Hahahaha raisins are evil. Honey in the morning will just spread around their teeth - you might as well just give them a bag of sugar.

WTF!!

Just one reason of why you are wrong. Here's why you shouldn't eat an unlimited amount of fruit, or even overdo it: While it may be packed with nutrients, fruit is also a major source of carbs. One medium apple, a cup of blueberries, and a small banana each contain about 20 grams. It's important to get a healthy amount of carbs in your daily diet, to fuel the activity of your cells. But when you eat more carbs than you can burn after a meal or snack, the surplus can either feed existing fat, or even increase your body fat stores. For this reason, your total carb intake—including nutrient-rich foods like fruit—should correspond to your fuel needs, which are based on your height, ideal weight, sex, age, and physical activity level.

Except I addressed that as I said eat as much fruit as you want apart from calorie control. Although, tbh, studies show that in groups of people who eat the exact same diet with one group eating extra fruit, it is those with the extra fruit who lose the most weight.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21621801

@combatbarbie

I don't want to be rude but I probably am! But can I just ask why? What makes you use chocolate spread for breakfast and also snack? I simply don't understand how anyone can plan their kids meals and decide on chocolate spread... I can't imagine giving that to my kids. It just seems like pointless food... like cheese puff crisps or something.

Did you read your links Trance? Two of those pieces of research merely indicate certain chemicals in fruit reduce glucose uptake.

Love these threads

I have no concerns about my DC's diet. Today the 12 yo ate

2 slices of wholemeal toast with butter and marmite
A ham wrap, a bag of crisps, a sausage roll (homemade ) and a cereal bar
4 free range scrambled eggs from our own rescue hens, 2 slices of bacon, baked beans, wholemeal toast and butter
Toast and butter and hot chocolate.

Pick it apart folks. Its worthy, yet shite

I'm sorry...it's a bit more sugar than I'd give (only because I have a massive phobia of dentists)

There's a bias towards sweet snacks rather than savoury

Dentist told me to try and keep fruit to with or straight after meals rather than as a separate snack so have savoury snacks

I give mine natural yoghurt rather than fromage frais but that's because I can't find any unsweetened fromage frais. If it's got sugar or equivalent like grape juice concentrate in the fromage frais and the sugar from grapes then I don't think it needs honey

If I give a sweet snack in the morning I'll try and give savoury in the afternoon like toast with peanut butter, hummus with breadsticks, kids crisp things, cheese scone etc

I am a freak though so don't go on what me or anyone else has as a snack. I'd try and add up all the sugar they have in a day and see if it's over the recommended limits or not.

Also depends how much veg they eat. If one veg then you need more fruit for their 5 a day. If me veg then they need less

Is this anything to do with the news articles today about yoghurt having more sugar than a can of coke or half a child’s daily allowance? I saw it earlier today so if he checks the news he may have clocked the sugar in take from there

Wait till they are teens! You will fondly remember the days when they ate fruit and high fibre cereals!!! I'm just happy that mine actually eat breakfast occasionally

Sudden parental health kicks can make make certain children develop food anxieties.