Snack help?!

[Mummy1820]

My son is 15 months old and eats a varied diet, however, when it comes to snacks, OH insists on buying crisps, buns etc all the time! Not even baby crisps either, it's always skips and quavers etc.
Our son loves fruit and veg and I always give him something healthy through the day and then as soon as OH is home, he's giving him crisps and all the unhealthy stuff. I'm not against the unhealthy stuff, it's just that it's every day!! I don't want my son to get tooth decay and have horrible teeth all of his life. So any suggestions on healthy snacks would be helpful, I give him fruit and Yoghurts through the day, I'm thinking cucumber and pepper sticks with hummus etc. Thankyou 🙏

Fruit and yoghurt is fine. They don't really need snacks but obvs sometimes you need to give them something. Some other alternatives might be rice cakes, bread sticks, malt loaf, cheese sticks.

Fruit and yoghurts are full of sugar. The crisps will be less bad for his teeth.

I used to give mine rice cakes, a small piece of cheese, mini breadsticks, couple of olives if needed, usually as a bribe. Otherwise no real need for snacks. He shouldn't need fruit / yoghurt / crisps / hummus as snacks in a day.

To be fair you're offering sugary foods and your OH is offering salty, fatty foods. Neither is that great!
If your DS is actually hungry, something like some veg sticks and unsalted snacks, like rice cakes or oatcakes is fine. Don't make snacks too appealing as they then become preferred to meals..

I wouldn’t worry! You’re not going to ruin his teeth for life.

Our snacks are- The baked walkers crisps, raisins, fruit, hummus with breadsticks, crackers with spread, sometimes mini scotch eggs, bear yoyos (need to extend the mortgage for those things!), biscuits, toast/ crumpets/ bagels.

I have found as she’s got older I have relaxed a lot (she’s 3 soon), as I often need sweets/ chocolate biscuits to bribe her to do stuff! She generally eats well, and gets a good meal at nursery so I don’t see it as something to stress about. I grew up on far worse- basically frozen pizza and haribo and I survived so I can’t be bothered with Mum guilting myself over it.

Yes to keeping the good stuff for bribes! I used to give DD a small box of raisins to eat while I was strapping her into the car seat. Never had any problems with compliance