How often do your kids…

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Have chocolate, sweets, crisps, Mcdonalds?

Please be honest

Chocolate... Don't usually buy them chocolate but they are still working their way through their Easter eggs, so atm a little every 2 or 3 daysm
Sweets... maybe once a month.
Crisps... Once a week. They choose a packet during the weekly shop and eat them afterwards.
McDonald's...once or twice a year.

My kids are more likely to ask for ice-cream or cake than any of the above.

Chocolate or some sort of sweet thing most days - they are still finishing off some chocolate from Easter, the didn’t get loads. We tend to make a cake once a week that we all snack on over the course of the week (take to work, school, have with a cuppa). Bought ice cream in the recent warm weather.

Crisps - rarely have them in the house. One DC is not keen on them.

MacDonalds, Burger King - pretty much never, once in few years. Usually if that is the only thing available at a service station, airport.

I’ve got a 4 yo, his snacks still mainly consist of those toddler snacks, veggie straws, fruit yoyos etc.
Chocolate maybe 3 x a week
crisps maybe once a week
McDonald’s every 4 or 6 weeks
He does get quite a lot of ice cream though - probably 3 x a week

McDonald’s almost never, little buggers don’t like it which makes road trips a bit annoying sometimes.

Chocolate really depends, at the moment it’s every day as they are still getting through Easter stuff so they have a little egg or something after dinner. I prefer them to eat chocolate to sweets so they probably do have more then they should but I try to limit haribo and stuff. Once Easter stock is depleted they probably won’t have that much till Halloween.

Crisps, 2yo never really unless we get one of those lunch box things when out and it has Pom Bears. She’s not a huge fan. My 6yo loves Walkers salt and vinegar crisps though so we do occasionally buy a bag and she has a handful a day for a few days or if we are ever out and need a meal deal type thing she’ll have them.

We don’t tend to have chocolate and crisps routinely in the house as I found in past that if we have it in drawers, both kids just go on about it and keep asking for it until they’re all gone. If they’re not there then they won’t even ask, they’ll just ask for fruit or something else. But I’m not really bothered about what they do out and about. I figure if I can keep house stuff relatively healthy then I can relax about whatever else they eat!

Oh the exception is chocolate spread, we always have Nutella in!

I sometimes buy chocolate in the weekly shop or fancy ones from the chocolate shop, but what they eat daily is cooking chocolate (added to pancakes ds1 makes with apples and chocolate chips, or sometimes he makes brownies).

6 and 8.

Chocolate or sweets - a small amount almost every day. A few blocks of chocolate, a bit of cake, an ice lolly, a biscuit. Today they had home made flapjacks.

Crisps a few times a year.

McDonalds never.

Thank you all, feeling a lot better! My 7 year old is constantly asking for it all and I feel like it’s got a bit out of hand recently

When she feels like it.

Chocolate or crisps most days. Sweets rarely as they prefer chocolate and crisps.

Mcdonalds every couple of months.

Chocolate — few times a week but small amounts (today they had 4 chocolate buttons each for example)
sweets - rarely, I never buy them so unless at a party but even they they tend not to go for them much.
crisps - I don’t buy them but if at grandparents or friends house they will go for them so maybe 1-2 a month
mcdonalds - a few times a year, normally when travelling at airport etc.
we do make things like banana bread and scones and they have those 2-3 week and they’ve had ice cream every day this weekend because the weather was so nice.

Crisps 3x week
Chocolate 3x week
Sweets 1x week
McDs 6x a year

Numbers are averaged over the whole year - more during school holidays and after Easter & Christmas. We buy crisps, most choc and sweets are gifted. Chocolate portions are small (eg a single mini egg not a whole bar).
I rarely buy sweets or chocs when we go out, it costs so much more than buying a multipack from the supermarket.

Teens- chocolate and sweets most days. Crisps occasionally as I have stopped buying them. McDonald's monthly.

They ate far less rubbish when they were little.

Buy them in the weekly shop, they can just help themselves (teens). When they were younger they had to ask for sweets/chocolate:crisps but could help themselves to fruit.

Mine are under 4. They will have chocolate or sweets once a week for a treat. Very rarely have crisps. McDonald’s we only ever really get if we’re visiting family and there’s on at a service station.

McDonald's a few times a year, a couple of weeks ago at a birthday party for example.
Crisps rarely, but has mini cheddars a couple of times a week. Sweets again rarely at parties etc or we might get some Percy pigs if we're going on holiday and have a long flight or drive.
He probably has chocolate, cake or home baking at least once a week, away from Easter it is much more likely to be a cookie or homemade fresh cream jammie dodger in our local cafe. We bake banana bread most weeks but it's a recipe without sugar. He's only 6 though. We do live by the sea and he does love an ice cream, over the summer he probably has one every couple of weeks but his favourite flavour is cherry rather than chocolate.

I was classing Mini Cheddars as crisps in my posts above… that’s what mine have in their lunchboxes! They don’t eat any other crisps

Crisps practically never. Chocolate around 4-5 times a week. McDonald's around 1-2 times a month, but as they both have the fish fingers and don't like soft drinks or milkshakes (they have the water), it's basically an overpriced fish finger meal for them so not the worst thing in the world imo.

My two are late teens. They typically only have crisps, McDonalds or sweets about three times a year.

They eat a small packet of Minstrels each about once or twice a week though.

Crisps - pretty sure it's daily with all 3.
Chocolate or sweets - probably 3 times a week on average.
Mcdonalds - once every couple of months maybe.

I have a 4 year old, he has skips with his lunch everyday.

He's never had a McDonald's or a takeaway. He loves pizza express though!

Chocolate - after Easter choc has gone, he'll go back to not having much.

Sweets - I keep some in the car and he'll have one each day.

He has a mix of snacks over a week - fruit/naked bars/raisins/cake/biscuits etc.

He's quite take it or leave it - he stops when he's had enough and he isn't obsessive or demanding about treats. I wish I could be more like him!!

Mine too 😂

Mine have chocolate, crisps and sweets every day but thats like a freddo, five sweets and a bag of crisps. theyre often so hungry after school I need their blood sugar up so we can get home without meltdowns.

McDonalds is pretty rare, maybe once every three months?

They're both very slim but I do worry about their teeth.

Chocolate - a small amount a few times a week
sweets - parties, holidays etc
crisps - Friday and Saturday evenings when we have family ‘cocktail hour’
McDonald's - never unless at a party. I won’t set foot in the place.

18yo - crisps once or twice a week, chocolate most days, McDonald's once a week

14yo - crisps occasionally, chocolate every day, McDonald's once a week

13yo - crisps once or twice a week, chocolate every day, McDonald's once a week

5yo - crisps every day (pom bears in packed lunch), chocolate every other day, McDonald's once a week.

I buy the little multipacks of chocolate and crisps in the weekly shop

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