How often do your kids…

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Have chocolate, sweets, crisps, Mcdonalds?

Please be honest

Chocolate or sweets. Daily. We struggle with keeping her weight up so are happy she is willing to eat some calories.

crisps and McDonald’s. Never. Neither are in her arfid safe list.

Crisps are generally in the house, they can help themselves. Nobody is that bothered about chocolate, if they fancied it, one of them would pop to the shop. Sweets get eaten alot - DD plays county netball and top 10 UK ranked across 4 athletics disciplines. Jelly babies/beans are encouraged between matches and during pentathlons. Same for DS as a competing cross country & middle distance runner.

McDonald’s rarely - they don’t really like it, but we did have a huge bucket of KFC tonight after DS had a 1500m race this afternoon. He’s not touched a fizzy drink/sweet/piece of chocolate/processed food for a week in preparation for his race so had a blow out tonight.

A small piece of chocolate a few times a week. Icecream maybe once a week. Crisps never. McDonalds once. Juice maybe once every two months. Soft drinks never.

Chocolate - maybe once a fortnight, they're not that interested in it (although we'll sometimes bake a chocolate cake)

Sweets - rarely for most sweets, but my youngest has decided multivitamins count so would claim every day.

Crisps - rarely, they don't really like them.

McDonald's - never.

Their preferred treat food is home baking so we'll bake something low sugar fairly regularly (once a fortnight at the moment).

Teen boy ASD- Chocolate every 2ish days, mcdonalds every 2 days or frozen off brand the other days, crisps never and cant sit in the room if he knows crisps are there

Edit: just to clarify he has a very limited list of safe foods if that wasnt obvious but he basically runs on total processed junk

The Israeli defence forces. There were lots of people protesting as I drove through the McDonald’s drive thru.

My oldest has sweetie day on Fridays but sometimes buys herself sweets on other days. My youngest gets sweets occasionally but not regularly, he made his Easter chocolates last until a couple of days ago.

Chocolate is about once a week on average but its not regular.

I always have sharing bags of crisps in and they'll have some every few days.

McDonald's etc. is only when we're travelling over a meal time, which is once in a blue moon.

chocolate and sweets: maybe once a week, when I'm feeling generous.
crisps: every day in their lunch boxes
Mcdonalds: around once a month

Mine are older now but going back 10yrs i’d say crisps every day for DS (1-2 a week for DD). Chocolate 3-4 times a week. McDonalds - not that often, maybe every 3 months, though if travelling might sometimes get a subway or McDonalds. Mine have always preferred home cooked food, like pasta (pasta addicts) but DD is partial to an odd burger, DS don’t think he would ever choose McDonalds over other places (prefers Popeyes, chicken shops).

My kids are 4 and 6 for context

chocolate; less than once a month esp now am fighting my ritter dark choc n hazelnuts
Sweets: only after friends' birthday sobranges from once a week to once a month
crisps; on average may be once a week sadly
,Macdonalds: hardly ever. Never with me but they have had it 4 or 5 times in their lives

However dad sometimes gets them supermarket nuclear cakes or jam tarts. Horrid. And am guilty of giving them buttermilk chicken and chicken bites from Sainsbury's hot counter. Both not the healthiest but makes for a quick after school snack at least once a week 🙀

Same but never had KFC either.

Can you just not have them in the house? If they’re in the house then the children want them. If they’re not, they forget about them
fwiw mine have crisps and sweets only at parties, except Halloween
if it’s after Easter they have a small amount of chocolate every day after dinner til it’s gone , then nothing really til Christmas. Maybe once a fortnight
McDonald’s never
ice cream once or twice a week in summer
pudding once a fortnight if we are out

My child is only three so...

Chocolate: a bit of easter egg every few days after Easter, and Advent calendar chocolates. Sometimes we'll share a chocolate icecream or muffin at the park.

Sweets: if someone gives us sweets we share them, so quite infrequent, maybe a few times a month.

Crisps: one or two packets of pom bears or some nachos in a week. These are the only thing that goes in the shop, and I top up about once a month.

McDonalds: he's never been. I don't like the food, so I never go.

That all said, he eats pastries, cakes, flapjacks etc. fairly regularly, so it's not like we're militantly against sweet things. But they're more something we eat out of the house, and not something bought at weekly shop available on demand. There's no treat cupboard.

Small chocolate, every day probably, crisps maybe once every few months. We usually buy burgers from the butchers but she is partial to a horribly processed hotdog on occasion.

Mine are still little (3&6)

Chocolate - only stuff the get at Christmas, Easter or in a party bag. So semi regularly.
Sweets - like sweets in a packet? Hardly ever really.
Crisps - never
Theyve never had macdonalds.

I bake a lot, so they do have stuff like that fairly regularly, so I’m not anti sugar or anything. And if they get a packet of sweets from somewhere I don’t take it away, they aren’t not allowed sweets, I just don’t buy them.

Pom Bears X2 a week

Sweets/chocolate at Christmas, Halloween, Easter and birthday parties. We do bake once a week at home though.

McDonald’s - Twice to date, but my DC is only 4.5yo.

Never introduced crisps and my now 16yo doesn’t eat it, same with sweets or chocolate but she likes apple pies/ strudels, cakes. She likes MCD and will have it once a month because of her Dad 🙄 And he also introduced Fanta so she likes it. Why create rod for your own back? So silly!

two children, 4 and 7.

Chocolate: at the moment they’re having a bit of their Easter eggs for chocolate for pudding most evenings after supper. However normally I don’t have chocolate in the house for them
to eat. I do have chocolate digestives in the house for dh - they might have one every now and then - once a week or so?
sweets - hardly ever. My parents never bought them for us and I’ve just kind of continued with that.
mcdonalds - sometimes. A few times a year? I don’t like it very much so only go if desperate.
crisps - dc4 has a pack of Pom bears when she goes to nursery. They both love Pom bears probably have a packet each day. Other crisps - younger child never. Other child maybe the odd packet if dh takes him out on his own at the weekend.

i feel this makes them sound healthier than they are! Vegetables are a loosing battle at the moment!

My ds 9 isn't a fan of chocolate. His Easter eggs are still unopened on the side. Actually, that's a lie, I have opened his Wispa one last night and ate some watching tv. I doubt he'll notice or care. He will occasionally have crisps with his lunch, tends to be a few pringles alongside a sandwich. Never really has sweets unless gp's buy them then they only get half eaten.
He does love a McDonald's, which he has eow on his Dads weekend, which is fine, I can live with that.

Chocolate - a small amount each day.
Sweets- practically never.
Crisps- if are doing a buffet or picnic or sometimes her nanny brings her a pack.
McDonalds- Dd doesn't like chips at all so very rarely and only if we're travelling and need to stop at the services.

DS year 6

Chocolate - small amount every day. At the moment he's still working through Easter Chocolate but when there's none left I'll buy some in shop.

Crisps once a week (only because he's not fussed about them so doesnt see them as a treat and therefore I dont offer...I think most kids who take packed lunches have crisps every day and I don't judge this). I have crisps in cupboard for me and eat a packet every day (I am underweight).

Mcdonalds - unlikely more than once a month but has other takeaways or convenience food once a week.

Eta - sweets rarely

Despite the above being worse than the majority of posters, IRL my DS has one of the best diets of kids I know. He has a decent breakfast, lunch and a homemade dinner with lots of fruit and veg, loves sport and is on the low end of BMI. So I'm OK with it.

What's the better quality places you get the burgers from?

Ds (13) will have something chocolatey or biscuits or sweets pretty much daily. Crisps maybe twice a week. Quite often though the chocolatey thing or biscuits are homemade, I’ve reduced right down to almost nothing the amount of processed foods I eat and trying to incorporate changes to the wider family - they are less keen than me but small changes like making the sweet stuff is helping!
McDonalds once a month or so.
Older 2 are way less into sweet stuff and are more likely to have crisps over sweets or chocolate.

Mcdonalds more when doing a big day trip for example, so not local days out- further away,

crisps, we buy a 12 pack (there’s six of us) weekly and the older two sometimes buy a share bag each at the weekend when they’re out

chocolate- the price has gone waaayyyy up so not very regularly at all (although they’re still eating some of the Easter eggs they got)

we get a bag of haribo on shopping day and I always have those mini bags of haribo and chocolate mini rolls hidden for when friends come over.

I’ll be honest probably a lot but nothing unusual from what I see other kids having when we are with others. I’m actually surprised what I see some friends letting their kids get as I don’t think I’m strict but I do have a limit!

Crisps everyday, 1 bag usually after school.
Sweets everyday but it’s small nothing full sized or big. Sometimes it’s chocolate (tiny kinder bar) but they prefer sweets. They get a treat after dinner if they’ve ate it all or “done well”.
McDonalds - Not often. We’ve had 2 in the last month, sometimes we can go months without one. Other times it can be twice in the same week.

We always have a huge bag of crisps. They’ve had to be moved higher up recently as youngest was helping herself (sneakily). Same with sweets and chocolate we always have lots in I buy them every week with my regular shopping. Also kept up high so they can’t reach 🤣