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

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AndThenInTheEnd · 11/10/2021 18:56

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

OP posts:
Elvisinthechipshop · 13/10/2021 09:49

If they had the very active lifestyle that many people had 40/50 years ago, this wouldn't be so much of a problem. But very few kids these days 'play out' all day, so if you feed them treats every day and get them in the habit of expecting sugary puddings, there's a decent chance they will turn out fat. The 'neurotic' Mumsnet parents that everyone on Mumsnet likes to mock are an easy target, but since child obesity costs the NHS significant amounts of taxpayers' money each year, maybe they're just a little more public-spirited than the 'cool mum' brigade?

TirednWorried · 13/10/2021 11:18

I gbink it's fine, but it your child is veering into the overweight category you should think about maybe about his lifestyle and keep an eye on things

YouTubeAddict · 13/10/2021 11:20

Why are you asking for justification from strangers on the internet?

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