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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, just to clarify: we're definitely not the most health-nutty family we know but due to our specific family histories, we cook at home most of the time, with whole ingredients, and abstain from certain foods (refined sugar, white flour, transfats) as best we can. Cake, crackers, etc are not band per se - I did make DD a cake for her birthday - but our notion of "moderation" is a couple times a year, not a couple times a week. So if we were to green light cookies or ice cream for every day that Grandma+Aunties+family friends visit and for every birthday party, then we'd have a lot more junk food in the diet than what is recommended by our Ped, what we would feel comfortable with based on our own health histories, and even more than what the actual grandparents want DD eating. No one wants DD to eat that much junk food either; they just don't realize that they're not the only ones trying offer DD treats.[/quote]

This seems reasonable, but extended family who only see the child once in a long time want to spoil you children.  So seek moderation as you usually do but communicate with them.  If your in-laws visited and you allowed your children some special treat but then your sister is coming to visit (or you are going to visit your sister), then tell your sister in advance "unfortunately visiting with the grandparents recently, Larla had a lot of special treats, so we're going to have to avoid sugary treats for a while.  It's much better for Larla if she doesn't have sugar too often.  But she's currently loves with blueberries."  Extended family has expectations that they'll be able to spoil children and sugary treats are a common way to do this.  If it isn't an option, just talk to the family and adjust the expectations.  And give them alternative options.  My family never knows what to get for us, so my mom and I have a new tradition.  Whenever we go to visit, after we put the kids to bed for the first night, she and I go to the all-night grocery store and we shop.  I pick out things that we'll all eat and she buys the cart.  My  mom likes it because now, shopping for our visit isn't something she has to plan for before we arrive.  We just know that we'll do that the first night and plus, she and I get to catch up in Chinese without being rude to my spouse who doesn't speak Chinese.  Win-win.[/quote]

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