do your toddlers/kids have dessert?
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Anonymous
No it's not. She's a happy toddler who eats healthily and well. She will learn about sweets eventually and taught about moderation, but there is no need to eat something with no nutritional value every single day. |
Anonymous
| No dessert here. We do fruit after dinner, but I din't really think of that as 'dessert'. Din't get me wrong, kids manage to get tons of 'treats' otherwise. We just never got in the habit of nightly dessert. |
Anonymous
OP, mine has fruit with dinner sometimes or a a snack, I wouldnt consider that a dessert though, maybe thats cos I dont like it 
maybe i'm lucky in that mine is a good eater but I have never had to bribe her to eat dinner in order to get dessert. I thought the food gurus/latest child experts advised against that and have said not to bribe kids to eat or make mealtimes a battle. Again, I only have one kid and she likes to eat so not judging. |
Anonymous
| We are no dessert household but kids get plenty of treats. We just don't "officially" end a meal with dessert. I love to bake and we always have cake, fruit breads, cookies,etc around but we eat them when ever. |
Anonymous
| No dessert. We eat a no sugar, no white flour, low carb diet so it just doesn't fit in. Fruit at breakfast sometimes. |
Anonymous
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My kid is six. We don't have dessert regularly. But we are making brownies tonight.
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Anonymous
| our 3-year old just discovered oreos. I use it as bribe to get him to eat his dinner. He never gets more than one oreo a day. We do ice cream once in a while too. |
Anonymous
| sometimes yes, sometimes no. No real rule, except that I cook a healthy, substantial dinner every single night. If they feel like having something sweet, they can. If they are full and it doesn't come up, no problem. We don't call is "dessert" for everyday-just if we are having company or a more formal meal or if we bake something together. Sometimes my youngest will say "can I have something sweet?" or my oldest will go to the fridge "looking for something sweet". They will find something, ice cream, fruit, cookies, nutella, apple pie and that's that. Nothing is forbidden, nothing is used as a reward, no biggie. |
Anonymous
hope you dont invite us to dinner |
Anonymous
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Dessert here = fruit. Sometimes a minicupcake, but my kid doesn't have a sweet tooth either. I don't really restrict because he's a kid where I can leave sugary stuff sitting out and he doesn't touch it. We still have a basket of last year's Halloween candy in the kitchen. He's grabbed maybe 20 of the lollipops since last year.
I wouldn't get hung up on terminology. If I were going to save something for when DH gets home, it would be cherry tomatoes. I'd still tell him it's "dessert". |
Anonymous
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We do desserts and treats, but not on a regular schedule. Sometimes it will be after dinner. Sometimes it will be a mid afternoon treat. Sometimes both.
Its ok for them to like food and enjoy it. My parents were the "only have desserts on holidays" types and it caused major food issues. |
Anonymous
Genuinely curious- what do you do at birthday parties? School? What is your plan for when your child is older and has access to make their own decisions regarding food? |
Anonymous
+2 fruit almost every night. Sweets are special treats that might occur once a week |
Anonymous
LOL 
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Anonymous
| Yep. Cookies. Cake. Cake pops. Lollipops. M&Ms. |