Do you allow unlimited fruit?

[Anonymous]

Yes unlimited fruit, vegetables and nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Diversify and offer protein.

What protein snacks do you offer?

This is op. Family will eat whatever snack I put out, but if they're left to their own devices it's mainly fruit since that's the only thing that lives on the counter. We had a mouse problem years ago and I'm paranoid about leaving out nuts out other snacks.

I might try buying more clementines but only putting one bag with one the fruit bowl at a time and hiding the other bags somewhere.

I'm happy because they could be making much worse food choices, but it is a lot.

Dp- I boil 6-8 eggs at a time and kids peel/eat at will. I also leave out fresh veggies and hummus for when they walk through the door after school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't have rules but I'm not buying 15 bags of clementines a week either.

Agree - I probably buy one a week and if it's gone, it's gone.

This.

Too much fructose is unhealthy, linked to NAFLD. One of my kids doesn't eat much fruit the other would eat nothing but given the option. So, only so much comes in the door.

[Anonymous]

No limit in our house. We go through pounds of berries, grapes, mangos, apples, bananas, kiwi, oranges/clementines, pears, pineapple, melons, peaches/nectarines/cherries (strangely, these are the only fruits that I only buy in the summer) etc week after week.

My kids probably eat about 3-4 cups of fruit per day. We have always served fruit as a side with every meal. It doesn't seem to mess with their teeth or digestive system. But it is expensive.

Isn't the recommended amount 2 cups of fruit per day?

[Anonymous]

I allow it but no one is taking advantage of my generous fruit policy.

[Anonymous]

A whole bag per kid per day?? What size are these bags?

The ones I buy are 3lbs, it's hard to believe each of your kids is eating 3lbs of clementines/cuties per day?

That said, I get the bags for $3 at Aldi, and if I had kids consuming them in mass quantity I would buy them - there is essentially no downside to eating vitamin C in quantity, and it's a much better food habit to encourage than most any other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't have rules but I'm not buying 15 bags of clementines a week either.

Agree - I probably buy one a week and if it's gone, it's gone.

This.

Too much fructose is unhealthy, linked to NAFLD. One of my kids doesn't eat much fruit the other would eat nothing but given the option. So, only so much comes in the door.

Source saying fruit causes NAFLD?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't have rules but I'm not buying 15 bags of clementines a week either.

Agree - I probably buy one a week and if it's gone, it's gone.

This.

Too much fructose is unhealthy, linked to NAFLD. One of my kids doesn't eat much fruit the other would eat nothing but given the option. So, only so much comes in the door.

It's true that too much fructose is unhealthy, but that refers to HFCS laden food products, HFCS fizzy drinks, and fruit juice - not really to fruit. When fructose is attached to fiber it is healthy to eat plentiful quantities, because the fructose is processed differently by the body when there is fiber to slow the digestion of it.

I promise you that whole food vegans who eat pounds of fruit every day are not getting NAFLD unless they have a secret candy habit on the side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't have rules but I'm not buying 15 bags of clementines a week either.

Agree - I probably buy one a week and if it's gone, it's gone.

This.

Too much fructose is unhealthy, linked to NAFLD. One of my kids doesn't eat much fruit the other would eat nothing but given the option. So, only so much comes in the door.

Source saying fruit causes NAFLD?

Good luck finding one, except some carnivore diet weirdo propaganda maybe.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30710884/#:~:text=Adjusted%20for%20age%20and%20lifestyle,was%20not%20associated%20with%20NAFLD.

[Anonymous]

Fruit and NAFLD: A surprising find
A review of 33 studies that looked at the dietary habits of those living with NAFLD, and those without, found that those with NAFLD actually had lower fruit intake than those without. The authors discussed that fruits (and vegetables) can help prevent NAFLD because they are high in fiber and antioxidants. This is the perfect combination for helping manage the metabolic and inflammatory issues associated with NAFLD! Because fruit contains these additional nutrients, the body benefits from fruit more than sweet foods such as cookies and sodas.

Similar findings were also noted in another systematic review and meta-analysis from 2020, which looked at 24 studies. In this review, fruits and vegetables showed to help reduce the occurrence of NAFLD. Although research in this field is generally based on looking at a tiny snapshot of a person’s entire diet and lifestyle, the overall evidence suggests that you shouldn’t avoid fruit completely to prevent or manage NAFLD – on the contrary, eating fruits is actually encouraged.

https://www.cleaneatingmag.com/clean-diet/disease-prevention/can-you-eat-fruit-with-nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease-nafld/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes because I am not poor or mean

This. Also not crazy. Also do not have disordered eating or thoughts around food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’ll get tired of them soon enough.

No, they don’t.

I had to stop buying berries out of season.

Right now, they get bananas, apples, citrus, and grapes, if the last is on sale. Occasionally, I buy pears.

In summer, they get berries or stone fruit.

We buy at Aldi, Lidl, or an international grocer and it’s still the biggest part of the grocery bill.

They also eat hard boiled eggs, cheese, and other protein snacks, but the fruit is the thing they ask for. Especially grapes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes unlimited fruit, vegetables and nuts.

Nuts are wonderful nutritious healthy fat, but they shouldn't be eaten in unlimited quantities.

It may not be an issue when they are young, but the habits instilled now will persist and when in a few years they are not so protected by growth hormone, eating unlimited nuts will be a bad habit. Nuts are very sating if you give them time to register, but they are easy to mindlessly eat in large quantities especially if they are lightly salted which triggers the brain to eat more and given how calorically dense nuts are, that's not a great thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No limit in our house. We go through pounds of berries, grapes, mangos, apples, bananas, kiwi, oranges/clementines, pears, pineapple, melons, peaches/nectarines/cherries (strangely, these are the only fruits that I only buy in the summer) etc week after week.

My kids probably eat about 3-4 cups of fruit per day. We have always served fruit as a side with every meal. It doesn't seem to mess with their teeth or digestive system. But it is expensive.

Isn't the recommended amount 2 cups of fruit per day?

do you spend a hundred dollars per week on fruit in the winter?

Berries right now can more more than $5/pint (this week at Giant there was nothing under that--I know because we didn't buy any due to cost). We bought some apples and a pineapple but those were the only fruit that were in budget

[Anonymous]

"Rules" is your go-to word?