When did you first introduce chocolates and sweets to your LO?

[Hope54321]

Hey guys,

When did you first introduce chocolates/sweets to your LO?

When did you allow your child to have icecream/ ice lollies?

My DC is just under 2yo... I think they had their first taste of proper ice cream at around 1yo, though because of the seasons it would have been winter before that so the opportunity never really came up. They have had small amounts of chocolate at random intervals from me (though I suspect less random at MIL’s!) and hasn’t really had any sweets yet, I tried one a couple of months ago and it got spat out from about 1yo I’d say I started including them in things we had, so if we had a cake they got a small bit etc.

DC1: about 3years
DC2: about 15 months
DC3: probably less than a year
DC4: can't remember

I think my answers would be very different between the eldest and youngest

Kids are 4.5 and 2.5

Sweets - never

Cake around a year

Choc around 3 ish

Ice cream around 2 maybe 1 at nursery

Around a year

@Onceuponatime1818

Kids are 4.5 and 2.5

Sweets - never

Cake around a year

Choc around 3 ish

Ice cream around 2 maybe 1 at nursery

Your kids have never had sweets, but they've had cakes, ice-cream and chocolate? What's your reasoning? :)

Chocolate and ice cream about 2. Ice cream in hot weather only, it would be cruel not to as some days are so hot that only an ice cream will help cool a person down.

@00100001

I guess mainly because nursery seemed to give them ice cream and cake for pudding.

Seems silly but to me sweets seem like pure sugar at least with choc there’s some milk in there🤣

Also i would always choose cake and choc over sweets so don’t tend to buy any!

And ice cream- because there’s always a bloody ice cream van near our local playground!

He had cake at just turned 1 as part of the egg ladder (possible egg allergy although he seems to have grown out of it). A little bit of chocolate at his first Easter after weaning, so 14 months.

[quote Onceuponatime1818]@00100001

I guess mainly because nursery seemed to give them ice cream and cake for pudding.

Seems silly but to me sweets seem like pure sugar at least with choc there’s some milk in there🤣

Also i would always choose cake and choc over sweets so don’t tend to buy any!

And ice cream- because there’s always a bloody ice cream van near our local playground![/quote]

2.5 , we were really strict with no puds at nursery just fruit or plain yoghurt. However, we have in after this point and he’s a proper chocolate lover. Have small cake or ice cream once a week now

Dd1 - probably around three 🙈
Dd2- 6 months 🙈

Tbh dd1 would be the child at a party standing over the treat table , always asking for treats .
DD2 can take them or leave them

Don’t deny any food, everything in moderation as they say!

Cake & ice cream from about 18 months, chocolate from about 3yo (bit of Easter egg or a few chocolate buttons). She tried a haribo once and just looked confused so I decided I should eat them all instead.

DS is coming two, so was offered marshmallows and a bit of white chocolate his first Easter which would have been about nine months, and didn't like either.

About a week later he face-planted into his grandad's ice cream and was very happy, so gets his own bowl when he's there.

Got cake for his first birthday and wasn't fussed.

Got some white chocolate buttons after his one year vaccinations, was still not super impressed.

Had Kinder bars as part of his Christmas present and liked them but didn't go looking after they were gone.

Got a milk chocolate egg this Easter and was 100% on board with that.

Hasn't gone in for sweets at all, and still will not countenance marshmallows. Nursery give them out on birthdays and he lets his his wee friend steal them, then looks appalled when she eats them. He's a wee weirdo, but it makes the dentist happy.

My DD is 10 months. The other week she caught me with a magnum and was VERY interested so I let her have a lick of the ice cream a speck of the chocolate (like 1/3 the size of your average raisin). She also has had a tiny taste of her granddad’s birthday cake. Surprised myself actually as I’ve been really PFB about weaning up to now but I didn’t want to make a big deal of refusing either.

I was looking at sugar free cakes for her first birthday but for how much she’ll actually eat it doesn’t seem worth it, I’ll just do a normal one and she can have a little piece if she wants, then the rest of us can eat it. We’re going away around her first birthday I imagine I’ll let her have an ice cream at the seaside - or a taste of mine again anyway. I won’t be buying her sweets or chocolate specifically for a while yet but she can have the odd taste it it comes up.

Cake – first birthday. Nursery seem to cake them up almost daily, between puddings and birthdays. Every weekend she shouts “BAKKING! BAK CAK NOW!”
Ice cream – when she stole my magnum around a similar age. Now she’s lactose-intolerant so has a lolly or sorbet fairly frequently.
Chocolate – haven’t given her any, she has purloined some and knows of it as a concept to which to aspire.
Sweeties – not yet.
Biscuits – long may she consider an oatcake a “treat”.

Probably from around 9/10 months? I would offer a little bit of something if I was having it. I really don't want her to be obsessed with sweet things so I have tried to offer things very nonchalantly, and usually as part of a sit down meal or snack. So she would get a tablespoon of crumble and custard to eat / play with when we were having dessert after Sunday lunch etc. Every single child I have seen who has a parent who has been very strict with sweet things usually then becomes obsessed with them 🤷🏻‍♀️ All things in moderation!!!

To all those who didn't offer cake until they were 2 or 3 - did you not have a cake for their 1st birthday?

Sweets: Not yet.

Pain au Chocolat: 10 months. When COVID hit and everything was closed I used to do morning breakfasts in the park with 2 other mums and we would take it in turns to buy pastries for us and mini pastries for the toddlers.

Ice Cream: H had a lick or two at about 10 months. DH bought himself an ice cream with DS in the sling and DS made a lunge at it and that was that.

Cake/Donuts: First birthday!

Don't remember when he first had chocolate. He's partial to a chocolate chip granola bar though. Maybe a nutella pancake for pancake day when he was 8 months old?

I don't have a sweet tooth so don't tend to keep much sweet stuff in the house. I'm still eating my Christmas chocolate and its almost June! We tend do do sugar at the weekend so he knows it's not an every day thing. We live in a city, so used to go on long walks to find the best cookies/hot chocolate/pain au chocolat.

With my first i was so anal about them having sugar
I look back and roll my eyes tbh

With my second she was trying chocolate and sweets as soon as she was on solids...

Guess which one has a sweet tooth and which which one literally never eats sweets or chocolate now? Hahaha 🙈

Chocolate about 13-14 months mark by accident as we left a little bit on the coffee table and felt it was too mean to take off.
Ice cream ~18 months
Ice lollies not allowed at all.
Now at 2,5 years she’ll have a biscuit almost every day as we like to have some with our morning coffee.
Chocolate on special occasions.

1st probably about a year for chocolate or sweets. A bit older for ice lolly. Younger than a year for cake
2nd I think she tried all of those apart from sweets within the first week of weaning! She hasn’t had sweets yet but that due to the choking hazard