How often should kids have sweets?

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I think there should be some days of each week on which a child doesn't consume any sweets/chocolate etc. Is that mean? Do your DCs have sweets every day? More than once a day? How about if they also have dessert after dinner every day?

Only just realised my expectations could be way out of step (never mind the reality for now, just wondering what we should be aiming for! )

Myotherusernameisbetter fruit is an excellent source of fibre so will be good for your dc

Thanks ivy I meant that they'd be better eating their vegetables than me substituting fruit but I'd rather they had fruit than nothing :)

53 posts on this thread, and nobody has yet mentioned what their kids get given after their school dinners. DS (5) was never particularly into sweet stuff, until he started school, and now gets dessert after his dinner- Every. Fucking. Day. Now, he's badgering me for dessert after his tea, too (the answer is generally "No", except when we've been baking or whatever), and at weekends. This, accompanied by all these healthy eating leaflets- produced by the caterers- that he keeps bringing home..... The sad thing about this is that I rarely feel I can be the one to give him a sweet treat, or do much baking with him, because he's already getting so much at school.

Stubborn - mine get the occasional fruit crumble at school, but otherwise the deserts are fruit salads/ Greek yogurt with honey / apricot oat biscuit type thing so they aren't too bad.

Why, what kind of dessert is he getting?

Stubborn - you are absolutely right. That is why mine have packed lunches.

Mine have a pudding when we go out and occasionally at home. They also have a sweet drink if we're out, such as appletiser or J2O. They have hot chocolate for a treat sometimes, with marshmallows and cream too. However, they only ever have sweets if somebody buys them for them. This has always been the case and they're now 15 & 16.

School desserts are much healthier than their names would suggest. They taste noticeably bland, because of the low sugar content. Don't be alarmed, school desserts these days, for example fruit crumble and ice cream, chocolate brownie etc. Are absolute not what one would find in their supermarket, cafe etc.

I have a bowl filled with different sweets and it's their choice totally. But as they are now adults it's not an issue. As kids they didn't bother with sweets as they knew if they wanted one they were freely available.
However dnephew was not so lucky and pigged out excessively!

DS is 5 and gets sweets on a friday after school. He gets 50p and chooses his own, sometimes he buys a Zomling for his collection instead. He'll have the odd biscuit at home and occasionally squash with dinner, but generally we don't buy a lot of junk food at least we don't when DH hasn't booked bloody holiday.

I have a 3 year old and 9 month old. I don't have fixed rules on treats.
Dd1 might end up with a treat every day or none for a week depending on what we're doing and who we see.
She gets quite a lot of treats at the grandparents and I'm kind of relaxed if we're at a kids party and accept she's just going to eat junk that day but that the next day we won't really have any treats.

She has yoghurt for a dessert unless we're out or at someone else's house.
We often go for tea and cake during the week so we share a cake or scone. We often bake and she samples some of our baking.
Dd2 has had a wee taste of chocolate as dd1 was having some and she was howling that she didn't get any, but I wouldn't give her it on a regular basis.

I don't like haribo or lollies for my own teeth so wouldn't give them to my kids but if theyre at a party or someone gives dd one I wouldn't stop her having it or make a big deal about it.

Our boys get sweets on Saturdays. They know Saturdays are 'sweetie days' and they don't get any on any other days.

We never have pudding at home so I' a bit annoyed that school seem to be giving them pudding every day for lunch.

My kids eat homemade meals and lots of veg. They have a piece of dark chocolate some days. They also make their own cake, own ice cream and own nut/oat bars and eat them a couple of times a week. Hard candy tends to eaten at parties as we don't buy it generally

janethegirl2 that's what I did with my dc

My 3 yo will have a cake or biscuit of some sort most days but never sweets like gummy bears etc

We don't have dessert after meals however if they do eat their tea I don't mind if they have a biscuit or crisp later on. They only have sweets like fruitella or haribo as a treat