To let my kids have a fun size chocolate every day?

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Is there an issue with this?

DS9 and DD6, both have normal BMI (although DD6 is always on the cusp of overweight), both eat varied diets.
Every day after dinner they have a piece of fruit then a “sweet thing”. Might be a yogurt, a cake bar, piece of cake, moam sweet, lollipop etc. I’ve recently bought a bag of fun size chocolate bars and they’ve been having one of them.

This is fine yes?

Rest of day - porridge for breakfast with teaspoon of Nutella. School lunch or at weekend sandwich with piece of fruit and raisin or yoghurt. Snack after school normally carrots and hummus, cheese crackers etc. Normal dinner - spag Bol, stirfry. Fruit then “sweet thing” after dinner. Saturday night is a film and we don’t have sweet thing but have snacks with film. Drink water and 1 cup of Ribena a day.

TIA

Sounds fine. Mine always have a little sweet treat with glass of milk after school as a snack. As long as it's in moderation with a balanced diet, I don't see a problem

No I don’t think they should be having a sweet treat every day. Only occasionally.

Fruit is a sweet thing isn't it?

Personally I wouldn’t do Nutella, plus fruit / dried fruit at lunch, fruit and another sweet thing at dinner, and a glass of Ribena.

Fruit and dried fruit has a lot of sugar… but dies have other great nutrients.

But we never made dessert a thing. Probably too lazy or mean to provide it after tea / evening meal. I wouldn’t do a dessert / sweet thing after lunch and after tea.

But no intrinsic worry about fun sized chocs when they do have something.

We always had a little pudding after tea like this, often a cake bar. But no Nutella on porridge or Ribena or raisins – that’s what tips it over the edge for me, it’s sweet things all day, rather than as a treat/extra.

I think it's fine. I've had some fun size toffee crisps today

It's a very, very sugary day.

One sweet thing - fine. All the things that PPs have listed above - really not great IMO.

I would cut out the sweets/chocolate at home.
Keep them for special occasions, birthdays, days out etc.
Yoghurts and fruit are a much better pudding.
I would be concerned about their teeth as much as their weight.

It's a bad habit to get into. But I'm sure it's normal.

I read somewhere raisins cause a lot of damage to teeth op.
A small sweet treat once a day won't hurt.

Mumsnet is not the place to ask this..!

Eat drink and be Merry.

If this is genuinely all they have then I think it probably fine. However if your kids are anything like mine they also get , sweets from grandma, cake at a birthday party, ice-cream at the park, desert when we go out for a meal on the weekend - it adds up.

They only have raisins at the weekend and not normally both days but sometimes both.

Mon-fri the sugar they have is a tsp of Nutella, a small cup of Ribena and a fun size chocolate

I used to have the same as a child, small bar of chocolate every day. Still have an extremely sweet tooth and I'm now an overweight adult.
But that might just be me, my sister had the same and she is extremely slim. She says she would never offer her kids chocolate every day though.

Wrong place to ask OP. It's fine and it's what most kids eat every day.

Fun-size seems a bit mean. What's up with proper sized?

I wouldn't at this age. I know there's more or similar sugar in lots of supposedly healthy foods but it's a bit much everyday. Personally I wouldn't as an adult eat a fun size bar everyday and it's just empty calories. I'd also be trying to encourage more low sugar treats if your six year old is on the borderline of being overweight . In my experience in school nursing there are a lot more overweight kids at year six than in reception so it's really important to encourage healthy choices in the primary years

To me, it sounds habit forming so they will feel dinner is incomplete without a sweet treat. I would disassociate the sweet treat from meals and just have it as Friday night treat or similar.

PPs are correct, it is a lot of sugar

• Nutella, fruit, raisins, fruit, sweet thing, ribena.

They’ll probably have pudding at school too.

Sorry, just seen your updates about the raisins

To all those saying that is too much - my mum restricted sugar a lot. As soon as I was of an age to eat what I wanted - I got fat!!! I was bullied for it.

Some of the most self loathing days of my life were these, it was awful. All of these years later even after loosing all the weight abd some it has left me with eating issues and guilt of eating the ‘wrong’ foods.

Just saying, be very careful as the kids you are restricting treats to so much will one day have a choice. If it’s the first time in their life they can eat these things you can bet your life they will over indulge.

One fun size bar of chocolate per day, after they've eaten the healthy stuff, is FINE !!! It's not like they're 1 and 2. Honestly, people on mumsnet can be a bit highly strung about this sort of thing Op.

It looks fine for me. We don’t eat Nutella, I would rather have a banana and honey with my porridge but the rest of it sounds fine.

Do people think that eating yogurt each day or even twice per day (say morning and evening) is too much?
( I’m talking about fruity yogurt like Yeo valley, not about natural one)

1. That's too much daily sugar and it also creating a sweet tooth/mindset for them that they need the chocolate after a dessert as well.

2. Why are you giving daily chocolate if one child is on the cusp of being overweight?

It's absolutely fine!

My pre school age DC get sweet treats every day, like a chocolate or a biscuit. It's no big deal. Everything in moderation.