Why would you give your child unhealthy foods?

[RBBMummy]

At easter my son tried some unhealthy foods for the first time I don't like it but i thought he had come to a good age for his first taste. He didn't really care for it and much preferred the healthy treats. Now im struggling to see why i would offer unhealthy foods ever again. But i would hate to see him become an adult and make bad food choices because he hadnt had any exposure to bad foods. Why would you give your child unhealthy foods? Ive been overthinking this for days

Fruit is not unhealthy in its whole form, as it contains a lot of water and a lot of fibre. If you process fruit, it is unhealthy. Don't listen to what people are telling you over and over again, or read government guidelines that tell you that fruit in processed forms are high in sugar and shouldn't count as part of your 5 a day but then don't start pontificating threads when you have no idea about basic nutrition( i.e. what sugar is)

Dried fruit is one of the worst things for teeth OP. Surprised you didn't already know that what with being slightly obsessive over food.

Fruit leathers are worse than chocolate for teeth-they STICK like hell. My dentist told me this about 200 years ago when I said I ate them.

Let me guess, you're a "clean-eating mummy blogger".

Do you not understand that sugar from fruit is still sugar, and those fruit leathers are very high in sugar? They are essentially sweets. Haribo Starmix are 80% carbs, of which sugars are 50%. The fruit leathers are not far off.

Damn logic speaking sugar trolls

You gave your son a TREAT at easter?

Possibly the most irresponsible thing I’ve ever read on here

It’s all fucking fruity fun and vegetable games till you’re desperately short of time and need to feed the kids in an emergency so go to McDonald’s. Then you realise that you have neglected to teach your pfb to eat hamburgers, or chips, or nuggets so he’ll literally have to starve while your not so cared for second child eats well.

Eye opening day that was.

listens for the sound of tens of trolls trip trapping over the bridge to the next thread

What on earth is fruit leather. If wanting to be healthy just give fruit in natural form?

It reminds me of when my mum was diagnosed as diabetic and started eating honey instead of sugar. No amount of telling her that honey was sugar worked. She never believed us!

Damn logic speaking sugar trolls

Love this

I think OP is having a strop because her super healthy no added sugar pure fruit obnoxious smug snack is more than half sugar.

@RBBMummy Sugar is sugar!! If a 15g bar has 8g of sugar then it's more than half sugar!!

That being said,a healthy ,balanced diet contains carbs,protein,dairy,fruit and veg , FAT and SUGAR.

But yeah you're basically giving your kid of 4 Cadbury mini eggs.

Trolls? As has already been said, dried fruit smooshed together and marketed as a healthy option is not. I have a friend who only ever fed her little girl 'healthy' snacks like raisins and these sorts of fruit leather things and she had to have a filling at 5. This was because of the 'natural' no added sugar that made up nearly half of the contents of these healthy snacks. Juice is almost just as bad. May as well give them a coke.

Running Exactly same with sleep training, BLW, formula...

Had a friend that was adamant her kid was not to have sweets,oh no...the sugar,the horror. She begrudgingly accepted at special occasions,bdays,church events or playdates(oh ok then...but just one). Nearly every single meal the kid ate was slathered in ketchup.

I remember being in McDonalds saying "Just eat the bloody chips. I'm not asking for the bag of carrot sticks"

Oh no op please come back and educate us......

Although now ive just proved I'm one of those terrible mothers OP was talking about

You’re taking the piss, surely? Nobody is trolling and nobody is saying that fruit is unhealthy.
Fruit leather is full of sugar - not added sugar, sugar that is in the fruit itself (clue: fruit is sweet) and has none of the fibre that makes fruit healthy. If you get rid of all the fibre and concentrate the sugar so that you are eating more fruit than you would have done in a single portion of fresh fruit, it is unhealthy.

I have news for you OP- fruit juices, lovely all-natural freshly squeezed ones, are also full of sugar and not that healthy compared to eating a piece of fruit.

To answer your question I give my son “unhealthy” food like a bit of hot cross bun or a piece of chocolate biscuit now and again because I enjoy tasting them and want him to enjoy that too. I am also teaching him about consuming in moderation.

I was really hoping op child was a baby.....

Op how are you going to cope with birthday parties when your kid goes to school?

It's kind of like eating 10 apples at once isn't it only with all the water and fibre removed and just the sugar left in? So essentially eating the sugar from 10 apples in one sitting? That's what I always thought anyway with those fruit leather things?

Fruit leather. Yeah, we eat fruit winders here.
Your fruit leather, by the way, is FULL of sugar. Give him a piece of fruit, however children shouldn’t eat vast amounts of fruit because you think it’s healthy. Yes better than a pack of Oreos but still full of sugar.

Fruit leather is highly concentrated sugar! One quarter of the one you linked is Sugar!

Another i have seen regularly in the shops is almost half its weight in sugar. Thats 3/4of your 4yr olds Daily intake of sugar! Plus dried sticky fruits stick to the teeth far longer causing decay!
How is that 'healthy' on a regular basis any more than another snack?
You are deluding yourself.

Are you the vegan that won't sing Old McDonald?