How often do healthy families have a dinner dessert or sweet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD (age 4) and I eat healthily. I.E: Tonight, for Dinner, she had tortellini, corn, peas, tomatos, oranges. For dessert, she had pumpkin chocolate chip bread (homemade by one of students mom.) We do eat dessert pretty much everyday. Right now, at home, we have Oreo cookies, vanilla ice cream, miniature chocolates, animal crackers, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles...:

You consider that healthy? Pasta and dessert?

and oreos... And the healthiest thing her kid ate is peas, which aren't exactly known for their nutritional punch as far as green vegetables go. We call that a filler in our house.

Wonder who she's comparing herself to.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that meal. She is feeding her child the way 99% of people do. You on the other hand are likely creating an eating disorder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD (age 4) and I eat healthily. I.E: Tonight, for Dinner, she had tortellini, corn, peas, tomatos, oranges. For dessert, she had pumpkin chocolate chip bread (homemade by one of students mom.) We do eat dessert pretty much everyday. Right now, at home, we have Oreo cookies, vanilla ice cream, miniature chocolates, animal crackers, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles...:

You consider that healthy? Pasta and dessert?

and oreos... And the healthiest thing her kid ate is peas, which aren't exactly known for their nutritional punch as far as green vegetables go. We call that a filler in our house.

Wonder who she's comparing herself to.

Ok I’ll bite. What are your 4 year olds eating for dinner?

It’s mediterranean night-Spanakopita, carrots, hummus, chickpeas with a few chunks of rotisserie chicken. Not the healthiest meal ever but it beats pasta and pumpkin bread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone who grew up in a fanatic healthy family and learned to find a balance for my own life, I'd say have dessert every day. Not an entire pint of ice cream, but a daily treat w/ an overall nutritious, veggie/fruit heavy diet, is "normal healthy."

And yes, you should stock these things in the fridge/pantry. Not doing so creates more of a taboo and mental obsession with restriction, and can cause kids to overdo it elsewhere. If it's available at home, they know it's not going to go away, and they don't have to gorge the whole thing while they can.

+1. This is also my approach to it. so Far, seems to be working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD (age 4) and I eat healthily. I.E: Tonight, for Dinner, she had tortellini, corn, peas, tomatos, oranges. For dessert, she had pumpkin chocolate chip bread (homemade by one of students mom.) We do eat dessert pretty much everyday. Right now, at home, we have Oreo cookies, vanilla ice cream, miniature chocolates, animal crackers, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles...:

You consider that healthy? Pasta and dessert?

and oreos... And the healthiest thing her kid ate is peas, which aren't exactly known for their nutritional punch as far as green vegetables go. We call that a filler in our house.

Wonder who she's comparing herself to.

Ok I’ll bite. What are your 4 year olds eating for dinner?

It’s mediterranean night-Spanakopita, carrots, hummus, chickpeas with a few chunks of rotisserie chicken. Not the healthiest meal ever but it beats pasta and pumpkin bread.

Um ok filo dough is super nutritious unlike tortellini

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD (age 4) and I eat healthily. I.E: Tonight, for Dinner, she had tortellini, corn, peas, tomatos, oranges. For dessert, she had pumpkin chocolate chip bread (homemade by one of students mom.) We do eat dessert pretty much everyday. Right now, at home, we have Oreo cookies, vanilla ice cream, miniature chocolates, animal crackers, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles...:

You consider that healthy? Pasta and dessert?

and oreos... And the healthiest thing her kid ate is peas, which aren't exactly known for their nutritional punch as far as green vegetables go. We call that a filler in our house.

Wonder who she's comparing herself to.

Ok I’ll bite. What are your 4 year olds eating for dinner?

It’s mediterranean night-Spanakopita, carrots, hummus, chickpeas with a few chunks of rotisserie chicken. Not the healthiest meal ever but it beats pasta and pumpkin bread.

You are quite the ugly person.

Peas, tomatoes, oranges? What’s wrong with those? Tortellini has a filling...maybe cheese so there’s protein. Get some help for your eating disorder.

[Anonymous]

Family of super healthy kale salad, organic salmon type eaters - all athletic - kids do travel sports - never been overweight a day in my life. Dessert every night. Usually ice cream, sometimes yogurt or cookies instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD (age 4) and I eat healthily. I.E: Tonight, for Dinner, she had tortellini, corn, peas, tomatos, oranges. For dessert, she had pumpkin chocolate chip bread (homemade by one of students mom.) We do eat dessert pretty much everyday. Right now, at home, we have Oreo cookies, vanilla ice cream, miniature chocolates, animal crackers, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles...:

You consider that healthy? Pasta and dessert?

With the peas, carrots, oranges.... yes, I do....also taking into account today's lunch; 2 hard boiled eggs, 1 cucumber, sliced red pepper, plum, cheesestick, organic yogurt ....

I did not say it was a perfect diet, but a very balanced diet overall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD (age 4) and I eat healthily. I.E: Tonight, for Dinner, she had tortellini, corn, peas, tomatos, oranges. For dessert, she had pumpkin chocolate chip bread (homemade by one of students mom.) We do eat dessert pretty much everyday. Right now, at home, we have Oreo cookies, vanilla ice cream, miniature chocolates, animal crackers, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles...:

You consider that healthy? Pasta and dessert?

and oreos... And the healthiest thing her kid ate is peas, which aren't exactly known for their nutritional punch as far as green vegetables go. We call that a filler in our house.

Wonder who she's comparing herself to.

Ok I’ll bite. What are your 4 year olds eating for dinner?

It’s mediterranean night-Spanakopita, carrots, hummus, chickpeas with a few chunks of rotisserie chicken. Not the healthiest meal ever but it beats pasta and pumpkin bread.

Barf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD (age 4) and I eat healthily. I.E: Tonight, for Dinner, she had tortellini, corn, peas, tomatos, oranges. For dessert, she had pumpkin chocolate chip bread (homemade by one of students mom.) We do eat dessert pretty much everyday. Right now, at home, we have Oreo cookies, vanilla ice cream, miniature chocolates, animal crackers, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles...:

You consider that healthy? Pasta and dessert?

and oreos... And the healthiest thing her kid ate is peas, which aren't exactly known for their nutritional punch as far as green vegetables go. We call that a filler in our house.

Wonder who she's comparing herself to.

Ok I’ll bite. What are your 4 year olds eating for dinner?

It’s mediterranean night-Spanakopita, carrots, hummus, chickpeas with a few chunks of rotisserie chicken. Not the healthiest meal ever but it beats pasta and pumpkin bread.

How convenient to forget the "filler" (LOL) peas and oranges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD (age 4) and I eat healthily. I.E: Tonight, for Dinner, she had tortellini, corn, peas, tomatos, oranges. For dessert, she had pumpkin chocolate chip bread (homemade by one of students mom.) We do eat dessert pretty much everyday. Right now, at home, we have Oreo cookies, vanilla ice cream, miniature chocolates, animal crackers, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles...:

You consider that healthy? Pasta and dessert?

With the peas, carrots, oranges.... yes, I do....also taking into account today's lunch; 2 hard boiled eggs, 1 cucumber, sliced red pepper, plum, cheesestick, organic yogurt ....

I did not say it was a perfect diet, but a very balanced diet overall.

Why do you feel compelled to defend yourself to these harpies? Let them chew kale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD (age 4) and I eat healthily. I.E: Tonight, for Dinner, she had tortellini, corn, peas, tomatos, oranges. For dessert, she had pumpkin chocolate chip bread (homemade by one of students mom.) We do eat dessert pretty much everyday. Right now, at home, we have Oreo cookies, vanilla ice cream, miniature chocolates, animal crackers, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles...:

You consider that healthy? Pasta and dessert?

With the peas, carrots, oranges.... yes, I do....also taking into account today's lunch; 2 hard boiled eggs, 1 cucumber, sliced red pepper, plum, cheesestick, organic yogurt ....

I did not say it was a perfect diet, but a very balanced diet overall.

Why do you feel compelled to defend yourself to these harpies? Let them chew kale.

Agree, PP...You are right. Thank you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD (age 4) and I eat healthily. I.E: Tonight, for Dinner, she had tortellini, corn, peas, tomatos, oranges. For dessert, she had pumpkin chocolate chip bread (homemade by one of students mom.) We do eat dessert pretty much everyday. Right now, at home, we have Oreo cookies, vanilla ice cream, miniature chocolates, animal crackers, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles...:

You consider that healthy? Pasta and dessert?

and oreos... And the healthiest thing her kid ate is peas, which aren't exactly known for their nutritional punch as far as green vegetables go. We call that a filler in our house.

Wonder who she's comparing herself to.

Ok I’ll bite. What are your 4 year olds eating for dinner?

It’s mediterranean night-Spanakopita, carrots, hummus, chickpeas with a few chunks of rotisserie chicken. Not the healthiest meal ever but it beats pasta and pumpkin bread.

How convenient to forget the "filler" (LOL) peas and oranges.

Um, yeah. super healthy carb fest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone who grew up in a fanatic healthy family and learned to find a balance for my own life, I'd say have dessert every day. Not an entire pint of ice cream, but a daily treat w/ an overall nutritious, veggie/fruit heavy diet, is "normal healthy."

And yes, you should stock these things in the fridge/pantry. Not doing so creates more of a taboo and mental obsession with restriction, and can cause kids to overdo it elsewhere. If it's available at home, they know it's not going to go away, and they don't have to gorge the whole thing while they can.

This is us!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD (age 4) and I eat healthily. I.E: Tonight, for Dinner, she had tortellini, corn, peas, tomatos, oranges. For dessert, she had pumpkin chocolate chip bread (homemade by one of students mom.) We do eat dessert pretty much everyday. Right now, at home, we have Oreo cookies, vanilla ice cream, miniature chocolates, animal crackers, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles...:

You consider that healthy? Pasta and dessert?

and oreos... And the healthiest thing her kid ate is peas, which aren't exactly known for their nutritional punch as far as green vegetables go. We call that a filler in our house.

Wonder who she's comparing herself to.

Ok I’ll bite. What are your 4 year olds eating for dinner?

It’s mediterranean night-Spanakopita, carrots, hummus, chickpeas with a few chunks of rotisserie chicken. Not the healthiest meal ever but it beats pasta and pumpkin bread.

Barf.

Sounds good to me. You probably feed your kid nuggets and mac and cheese and brag about how healthy that is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD (age 4) and I eat healthily. I.E: Tonight, for Dinner, she had tortellini, corn, peas, tomatos, oranges. For dessert, she had pumpkin chocolate chip bread (homemade by one of students mom.) We do eat dessert pretty much everyday. Right now, at home, we have Oreo cookies, vanilla ice cream, miniature chocolates, animal crackers, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles...:

You consider that healthy? Pasta and dessert?

and oreos... And the healthiest thing her kid ate is peas, which aren't exactly known for their nutritional punch as far as green vegetables go. We call that a filler in our house.

Wonder who she's comparing herself to.

Ok I’ll bite. What are your 4 year olds eating for dinner?

It’s mediterranean night-Spanakopita, carrots, hummus, chickpeas with a few chunks of rotisserie chicken. Not the healthiest meal ever but it beats pasta and pumpkin bread.

How convenient to forget the "filler" (LOL) peas and oranges.

Oh no! It's the dipsh!ts who are afraid of fruits and vegetables because...zomg carbs!

I can't believe this idiocy is still perpetuated.

Um, yeah. super healthy carb fest.