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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I feel so much better about myself. Dessert maybe twice a week.

+1. I find it hard to believe healthy families are doing sweets after dinner 5-7 nights a week. But whatever.

[Anonymous]

We are a healthy and active family. We eat organic and non-gmo whenever possible and mostly home cooked meals. We all eat a small dessert most nights. I like a piece of dark chocolate or an almond cacao bar. My kids will eat a small chocolate chip cookie, a chocolate zbar or a Justin’s chocolate peanut butter cup for instance. I don’t see anything wrong with a little treat each day - in fact I think it’s heajthy!

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We don't. Last night kids (6&3) ate sauteed kale, smashed chickpeas, feta, tomatoes and cucumbers served like a composed salad. Tonight we had burritos. Earlier this week we had roasted chicken and sweet potatoes with sauteed green beans. I think they had homemade cookies for dessert one night. They don't ask every day, and we don't offer if they don't ask.

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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.

I thought she was being sarcastic about calling her kid's diet healthy....but apparently not.

[Anonymous]

I remember when the Obamas made a comment about dessert being reserved for weekends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember when the Obamas made a comment about dessert being reserved for weekends.

we were like that before my kids started school. but once first grade hit, we had to bribe them into finishing their homework...

[Anonymous]

Our kids are still young but we usually offer fruit after dinner. Occasionally we'll have a reason to have a sweet (leftover birthday cake or I bake once in a blue moon), but that's usually 2x/mo.

[Anonymous]

Two kids, both very active naturally and slim. They can have dessert with every dinner if they want. Usually ice cream, or some chocolate etc. We have a variety of sweets in the house, as well as salty snack foods, and it just isn’t a big deal.

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We eat very healthfully in our house, and have dessert eery night! My husband and I work out daily, and our kids (3, 6, and 8) are very active.

Dinner examples:
Brown rice stir fried with thinly cut brussel sprouts and carrots and peas, a little soy sauce, and baked salmon.

Quinoa, lentils, white beans, carrots, and chicken (1 pot thing)

Egg frittata with potatoes, cheese, broccoli

Spaghetti bolognese (I cook the meat with a lot of pureed veggies - carrots, spinach, and tomato)

We always serve some fruit with dinner as well - melon, berries, bananas, apples, whatever's on hand.

Dessert usually comes later, after chores, homework and showers are finished. Usually a small bowl of ice cream or a popsicle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not like fanatic health nuts, just normal healthy maybe active joggers and kids might be student-athletes families. Also, do these sort of "normal healthy" families stock any sweets in the fridge/pantry? If yes, what sort?

I grew up with parents who never ever stocked sweets in the house and we maybe had dessert 2xs a month. As a result none of us kids has a sweet tooth. We can all even detect sugar in foods that are supposed to be savory. With that said, I also dont bring sweets into the house (mainly because I dont have a taste for them and I'm the shopper) we probably have dessert 1x a week. Since this really has never been a part of our daily lives, my kids dont have many preferences. They like berries and whipped cream and Halo ice cream. They also oddly like orange flavored dark chocolate.

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We keep ice cream or fruit bars in the freezer and will have that as a weekend after a meal sometimes. Not a lot of sweets in plain sight, so it is more of an occasional afterthought. We put out fruit as a side item for a meal and don’t call it dessert like some people here do.

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I don’t consider us super healthy; we eat pasta, pork chops fired with Parmesan, baked chicken with butter sauces, plus some sort of veggies.

Desserts are sometimes ice cream on the weekend, or if someone makes a cheesecake (maybe once every two months) we’ll have that a few nights until it’s finished.

November is different as they are eating thei Halloween goods. But normally no desserts, well, sometimes we’ll share something if we go out to eat.

It wasn’t part of my own upbringing, so I don’t think to have it around.

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Anonymous wrote:Every night. Dessert is yogurt or fruit. Cakes/cookies are reserved for birthdays and holidays.

Fruit is not dessert. You are on the health nut end of the spectrum.

Op we are healthy, we eat fruits and veggies with almost every meal. DD a packet of fruit snacks or yogurt raisins in her school lunch and is allowed dessert after dinner most nights. Dessert is a small piece of chocolate, few swedish fish, ice cream although that is rare, she would rather have chocolate.

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Every night. But dessert consists of fresh fruit or a homemade sorbet in the blender made from frozen fruit. Kids love "ice cream" made from frozen bananas, almond milk, vanilla, and some walnuts. Commercial baked goods, ice cream, etc. are reserved only for birthdays and holidays.

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I keep cut up fruit in the fridge (berries and melon, usually) in case anyone wants it after dinner. Usually DH eats some strawberries. I usually forget about it. About once a week we get ice cream or I make cookies (usually weekends if we grill).