How often do your kids…

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Have chocolate, sweets, crisps, Mcdonalds?

Please be honest

McDonald's, never

Crisps - twice a week

Biscuits x 2 every day in lunch box

Then chocolate/ice cream etc after dinner (small portion)

They do also have home baked stuff most days - muffin/banana bread

Chocolate or crisps, once a day, portioned by me, at a set time so they don't pester.

McDonald's once a week but we don't have other takeaways.

I am really chilled about treats though...they do eat healthy stuff too. Both have good teeth and get plenty of exercise. They are toddler/primary.

I answered the question.
I was raised on junk, largely because we were poor and it was the only kind of treat that was affordable. It's not given me a healthy relationship with processed food. DH wasn't, he and DS are much better at eating only as much as they need and not craving sweet things. Sorry if that irritates you in some way.

Mine are in their 20s now, but in the primary school years they would have crisps 3 -4 times a week and the same for cake. Chocolate less often.
By secondary school they took packed lunches and had crisps daily.

MacDonalds never.

Honestly wouldn't know for chocolate, sweets and crisps. A stab in the dark would be most days?
We have a snack drawer and they help themselves.
Filling it, to answer your additional purchase frequency question, I buy bits maybe every 6 weeks or so, so on that, they maybe don't eat them as often as you'd expect having free access.

Mcdonalds, 2 or 3 times a month. I know they go with grandparents after school occasionally.

It doesn’t irritate me in the slightest was just having a little laugh 😆

I have one 5 year old.

Never been to McDonalds (I haven't been for over 20 years myself, it's not somewhere we go as a family).

Sweets/crisps/chocolate - we don't specifically buy these for him except for chocolate on special occasions e.g. Easter egg, chocolate coins at Christmas etc. He has plenty of these foods at the birthday parties he goes to but they're not part of his daily diet. Because of that he has no expectation of having them so it's not like I'm having to constantly say no to him. He likes cake and ice cream and probably has those more often than the other foods you ask about.

We have crisps, chocolate in our pantry and buy them whenever I see something I fancy. My kid isn’t too big on snacking though it’s mostly for us adults.
ice cream- we have few kinds in the freezer. When hot,have 1-2 a week otherwise just stays there.

Crisps and chocolate most days. McDonald's once, sometimes twice, per week.

Have to say i’m really surprised and should maybe be a bit more relaxed with my Dc

Thoughts on Pringles?

Takeaway never.
Chocolate: 2-3 times per week
Sweets: rarely. Never from us, only at Halloween or parties because they are awful for teeth and have no redeeming qualities.
Crisps: in half term for clubs and at parties.

We never do dessert or squash at home either.

I know that sounds strict but we are still quite relaxed! Chocolate for breakfast on a Saturday morning now and then isn't a problem.

Chocolate - most days, although I do try to ensure it's Montezuma and has fewer emulsifiers etc where I can. Hopeless after Easter though.

Crisps - rarely, I don't like them so I never give them. My DH gives them though so maybe once a week.

Sweets - only at the odd birthday party and Halloween.

McDonalds - occasionally if desperate. Again, DH is more likely to go there than me. Maybe once every 3 months?

Chocolate every day
Crisps, couple of times a week
McDonald's, every couple of months

I buy them when we run out but I mostly buy Montezuma dark and milk couverture buttons online and use that. Lasts for ages. No emulsifiers etc.

Crisps are often "forgotten" on purpose for a while before I restock. I used to buy Pringles but have swapped to ready salted crisps which are much less processed.

What is IDF?0

Sweets once a week, crisps once a week. Rarely McDonald's but takeaway or nandos a few times a month. I get them sweets on the way home from school on a Friday. Crisps is usually when we're out at the weekend or similar.

I think having Friday as sweetie day helped (a bit) with the constant requests as they know when they're getting them.

McDonald’s - she doesn’t like it so we don’t have it. I might get a Macdonald’s craving once every five years or so, and that’s more than enough for me!

sweets - she doesn’t like sweets that much so doesn’t eat many, but likes the odd Moam. Occasional I’d say, maybe a couple of sweets every few weeks.

chocolate - maybe a bit more often than sweets. Once a week or fortnight or similar?

crisps - she doesn’t like them (but I do, and have to stop myself eating them too much!)

DD is 12 and we tend not to buy snack foods at home so she’s never got used to having them at home daily, but we didn’t ever stop her having them when out/at parties etc. She’s never been too bothered about sweets or crisps. She does like a bit of chocolate or ice cream, or pastries, however! But we don’t have those more than for an occasional treat.

Chocolate/sweets - maybe once a week, if that. We don't buy them as part of the weekly shop and we are still working through Easter chocolate.

Crisps - hardly ever, although we did make a chilli this week and served with salted tortilla chips which they loved. I am currently pregnant and absolutely obsessed with prawn cocktail crisps, but luckily for them they don't like them.

McDonalds - they've only had it twice and they didn't like it much.

However, they have cake (not always the healthy homemade kind) and ice cream more often than that - maybe a couple of times a week. Plus, my mum looks after them once a week and always seems to get them fish and chips as a "treat".

Chocolate - generally around Halloween, Christmas, Easter (could easily be every day for a week!), rarely otherwise. Sweets and crisps - only at birthday parties (not including cakes or brownies which tend to happen every weekend as one of the snacks when I get a coffee). McDonald’s - never (but we do eat out at restaurants, say twice a month).

Pringles are so expensive they are very much a treat and I give them about ten at a time (with their post school sandwiches) to make the tube last longer.

On the weekly shop question, yes it all goes in the weekly shop.

McDonald’s - twice per month

Chocolate rarely. DS not really interested in it.

Chewy sweets/Haribos - never

Crisps - every other day

My DF was a dentist and habits he passed on to me have been passed on to my DS. It’s amazing how easy it is to restrict sweets if they’ve never been readily available. My DS is 4 and couldn’t care less if he never had chocolate or sweets.

lol, he’s 4 and you’re acting like you’ve cracked parenting. Lots of children don’t have many sweets, chocolate etc at 4. It’s a bit harder as they get older and most do choose and want to eat it.

Macdonalds, once a year if that.
But we do have Kfc more reguarly, once every couple of months as we all like it. we dont order any other fast food, apart from occassional chinese or chicken kebab.
We have sainsburys pizza once a week, burgers from sajnsburys or marks.
Sweets a few times a week, haribo or similar mainly.
Chocolate less often, maybe once a fortnite.
Crisps, not that often but we always have them in the house.
Ice cream once a week in the summer.
Other snacks we have are dunkers, cheesestrings, popcorn.
Try to always have fruit as a first port of call for snacks.

So we have an app that you can scan bar codes on food and it rates foods on additives, healthiness etc from 1 to 100.
Pringles was a 3 out of 100, worst crisps out there!!!

So I have stopped buying them as they are basically shit.
The app gives you healthier alternaitves to anything you scan. Its calles Yuka. Its really helpful.