When DH eats something that isn’t great like an ice cream or crisps or similar our DS inevitably starts clamouring for some, which means he either ends up with something toddlers really shouldn’t eat or we have screaming tantrums.
I know it sounds overly fussy but DS has quite a poor appetite and it doesn’t take much to put him off a meal. A handful of crisps and he will barely touch his dinner.
I’m not asking DH not to eat these things just not to eat them in front of DS. AIBU?
AIBU?
To want DH to stop eating unhealthy food in front of toddler?
Eatingunhealthily · 25/09/2022 10:38
Am I being unreasonable?
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POLLDiscovereads · 25/09/2022 10:59
I’d just have DH share a bite or two if the toddler clamours for some.
You don’t want to set up disordered eating by classifying regular snack foods as “bad” or “shouldn’t eat”- ice cream, crisps are perfectly fine in a balanced heathy diet.
PayPennies · 25/09/2022 11:07
Why have you labelled ice cream and crisps as “something that isn’t great”? Labelling specific and particular foods as “not allowed”, or never to be seen being eaten - will carry consequences for your toddler.
I say this as the mother of a 2 year old and a 6 year old.
Eatingunhealthily · 25/09/2022 11:07
If DS would eat a few snacks and then ate a really good lunch and dinner with plenty of veg and fruit that would be fine but he doesn’t. It’s either or. I agree about not labelling foods as good or bad but a magnum for lunch isn’t good no matter how we label it. If he was able to have a magnum and his lunch it would be different.
Eatingunhealthily · 25/09/2022 11:09
So you would honestly be okay with ice cream for lunch and crisps for dinner? That would not be ‘bad’ for you?
Eatingunhealthily · 25/09/2022 11:13
@Discovereads he has a very poor appetite. A bite of magnum and he won’t eat lunch, or have an even smaller portion of an already small portion.
He will eat just about anything but some foods are more nutritious than others. I genuinely don’t see what there is to be gained from giving him junk and filling him up so that he can’t eat fish, chicken, veg etc.
It would be different if he had a voracious appetite and would eat a bit of ice cream and then have tomato pasta and some strawberries and then some crisps and a roast dinner but he just doesn’t.
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Eatingunhealthily · 25/09/2022 11:13
@Discovereads he has a very poor appetite. A bite of magnum and he won’t eat lunch, or have an even smaller portion of an already small portion.
He will eat just about anything but some foods are more nutritious than others. I genuinely don’t see what there is to be gained from giving him junk and filling him up so that he can’t eat fish, chicken, veg etc.
It would be different if he had a voracious appetite and would eat a bit of ice cream and then have tomato pasta and some strawberries and then some crisps and a roast dinner but he just doesn’t.
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