How often does your baby/child have dessert?

[Elmers]

Just that really? I see loads of ready to eat food pouches/jars which seem to be pudding rather than main meal. I've never bought one because I don't give my 8 month old dessert - but should I be??
I know he has dessert when he's at nursery, normally like a crumble or something, and that's ok but at home if I think he's still hungry after his lunch/dinner I'll just give him some fruit.
I seem to remember a friend giving her kids dessert every day when they were younger but then when does that stop? I don't get to have dessert every day, as much as I'd love to.

Mine gets fruit. They don't serve pudding at his nursery either. Poor deprived doesn't even know about pudding! We eat it when he's gone to bed.

Should you be giving an 8 month old baby dessert?? No, definitely not. They should have fruit, and shouldn't be eating any extra sugar. No pouches, no crumble, no biscuits etc. I'm sick of seeing people insisting on giving babies a ton of sugar.

I hate the whole dessert thing. Mabey comes from growing up with a clear your plate to get dessert.

I give mine fruit ( 8 month old and 3 yo) and Yogurts ect but its all served up together and they can eat it in whatever order they like.

We also sometimes bake so it may even be that he does get an apple scones or cake with a meal but that's more the exception

I know what you mean OP- there’s a lot of marketing around it. I def don’t think a baby needs dessert, no. There will be more than enough time for that!

Sorry to clarify the baking bit more reffered to my 3 yo I haven't given the 8 mo cake yet.

With my olderb son he first had cake on his first birthday but didn't like it 🤣🤷‍♀️

Mine (DD4) gets fruit after a meal. She does get pudding at school, but we;re just not really a pudding family. High days and holidays only!

I think DS (who is now almost 4) only started having pudding regularly about six weeks ago when he realised ice cream was an option. DT are 16 months and they end up having pudding every day because they see their brother having it.

My baby has just turned 1 and in nursery they have fruit and jelly or a small biscuit (this is usually only every couple of weeks though) or they have homemade fruit pops which is puréed frozen fruit on a lolly.

At home we give fruit or Greek yogurt. Actually gave her a tiny piece of caterpillar cake on her birthday on Monday, she licked it and screwed up her face then launched it for the dog 😂

He doesn't get any pouches, jars or pudding (16 months old). He gets plenty of fruit and vegetables both at home and nursery. He might get the odd bite from us if we are having a biscuit just so that he joins in. We are trying pass on the message that no food is off limits or banned, we just try to make wholesome food more readily available and attractive.
Their palate is still developing and from a taste perspective it's very hard for natural fruit and veggies to compete with processed pouches etc, so we give the former a bit of extra support for DS to like them.

Every night. It ranges from an ice pop to biscuit to ice cream etc so it really depends on what we have in and what she's had during the day.

I didn't use jars or pouches generally, but back in the day yoghurt with fruit was the norm. Also things like pureed apple (home made with lots of sugar!), or sliced banana and custard. We aren't a big pudding family either, but I don't subscribe to total exclusion either.

Mine gets fruit or yogurt for dessert most meals. I don't go to any effort to make a proper "pudding", and I rarely buy pounches. Actual or tinned fruit is so much cheaper

After every meal but 90% of the time it’s yoghurt and/or fruit. My eldest is 6 and still gets offered the same and it’s about 50:50 whether or not she says yes.

Oh and those pouch/jar desert things I only buy for plane journeys! It’s more practical than anything fresh as it lasts out of the fridge and can’t squish.

At 8 months never!

He's 3.5 and has a proper desert when we go out to eat at a restaurant.
At home he sometimes has a yoghurt or fruit if he's still hungry after dinner.

Mine have fruit after meals, we class it as pudding. Occasionally il do a jelly or a trifle. They have yoghurts aswel as fruit in their school packed lunch aswel.

Mine are older(7, 11. 12) but have one every day. What it is varies, sometimes ice cream or cake, sometimes fruit or yogurt. All 3 are good eaters, healthy weights and very active.

but at home if I think he's still hungry after his lunch/dinner I'll just give him some fruit.

What constitutes dessert? We call fruit or plain yoghurt dessert/pudding in our house. DDs (4 yrs, and 15 months) rarely have any actual sweet things like cake or ice cream etc. We had some cake last week as it was DH's birthday.

My 11 month old has one every day after their tea - it will be fruit and/or some kind of no added sugar yoghurt, occasionally some fruit flavoured rice cakes. Never bought the pouch/jar types though!

Fruit most of the time, sometimes yoghurt. Eldest (6) gets an occasional fruit juice ice lolly at home but has sugary things like ice cream, ice lollies, sweets at grandparents or on holiday. Behaviour goes rapidly downhill on sugar though, so I avoid it!

At 8 months, definitely not!

Fruit and yoghurt! I used plain yoghurt and added fruit puree into it rather than shop bought ones.
There are some food recepies for ice lollies (I just blend up yoghurt and fruit and freeze them).
Around 10 months I started to make carrot cupcakes (without any sugar) or oat biscuits (no suggar).
You can buy baby snacks without any sugar: my little one liked the apple biscotties.

She's 18 months now and still not getting dessert other than fruit, yoghurt, ice lollies and some unsweetened baby biscuits. If I'm eating a cake or ice cream infront of her (only when we eat out which is very rare) I give her a little bit to try. (YES, she loves it!)
She goes to nursery twice a week where I know she gets dessert. I'm ok with it, as its only twice a week.

I find it bizarre when we go to toddler groups, children around her age eating whole slices of cake. I try to keep her away from sugar as long as I can.

I used to give mine fruit or yoghurt for pudding

Mine gets fruit or yoghurt daily after her dinner and that's her "dessert". She's 15 months old.

I mean it depends on your definition of dessert I guess?

I do not see fruit as a dessert, DD gets fruit as part of her meal. We often have sugar free jelly, perhaps some bananas and custard, or a mini milk. Angel Delight if I remember to make it. She probably has this a few times a week? They get little puddings at nursery a few times a week too, although they recently switched to savoury starter and main rather than main and pudding as the default.

My 13 month old gets fruit, sometimes with the meal and sometimes at the end. Even at nursery there is a choice between standard nursery puddings and fruit and we have specified fruit only for now. I’ve done the odd bit of low sugar baking but mostly she hasn’t been keen on the results but I might just be a crap baker.