Sweets - do you allow them? Interesting article in Guardian weekend mag

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Sense of guilty recognition when I read this - suddenly realised that I do feel smug about feeding ds raisins instead of sweets. Then again, he's only two - maybe it will be different as he gets older?
Unfortunately can't make link work but this is the URL:

www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1542389,00.html

pink shrimps...

This site is superb.

I hate raisins. Horrible metallic taste. No substitue for chocolate at all.

That's all I have to say on this subject!

I love that site, Scummy - could spend a small fortune there

aaaaaaaaaah! ooooooh! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! oh oh oh OOOHHHHHHH!

(thanks for the link, Scummy)

That website is amazing thanks scummymummy!

....chocolate raisins....

my mum scoffs chocolate raisins kidding herself at least there's something healthy in them...

Pear drops...they're weird...anyone else get a funny feeling in their chest eating them? Like not being able to breathe or something.

chocolate raisins are a completely different matter. Fruit'n'Nut even better.

There is usually half a packet of sweets in our cupboard, because ds never actually eats a whole packet. He sometimes asks for one, and I nearly always give him one or two. Once he spotted some buttons half way through his dinner and asked for one. To the horror of my friend I gave him one, he ate it very happily, then went back, equally happily, to his spag bol with broccoli.

There are v many things I feel I have got wrong with DS and food (like getting him to sit DOWN sit STILL and EAT) but the ability to really enjoy sweets without making an issue of it is something I feel unworried about.

I go for chocolate-based stuff, not sugary highly coloured / artificail things. He doesn't actually like things which stick to his teeth, a tendency I have encouraged, so he doesn't ask for haribo etc.

Eeeurg, pear drops are indeed weird and taste as if they should have 'HAZCHEM' stamped across them

i wasn't allowed sweets when i was little and i have decided to do the same with DD. and i'm talking about sugary sweets. biscuits and chocolate aren't included in my ban!

Funnily enough I haven't introduced dd to sweets yet. She's almost 2. I think cos of the choking hazard of the small ones. But even chewy ones...hasn't even crossed my mind. But she has eaten a lot of chocolate (i'm a chocoholic myself and just can't resist it every day so once dd was eating it too I would have to sneak into the kitchen secretly if I wanted some!) and biscuits.

mmm dip dabs!
Still browsing on that link!

Rainbow drops! candy lipsticks!
I just wanna go down the sweet shop now!!

Candy whistles!

I prefer this site

www.montezumas.co.uk

especially their geranium & orange dark choc