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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for the 'fruit as dessert people' - do you guys not have fruit unless it's dessert?  My kids love it; I add it to almost every meal at home.  Apple, orange, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, mangoes are consumed throughout the day and also goes into the lunchbox.  I might stick a handful of blueberries on the salad I'm trying to get them to eat.  Do your kids really accept fruit as different enough to qualify as dessert?  Why do you eat so little fruit?  Or, when you say fruit, do you mean something more special than an apple or orange? [/quote]

I think we probably eat more fruit than most people, rather than eating "so little" fruit - we have berries for breakfast, we may have apple/banana for a snack, and we'll have fruit like a peach/cherries/oranges, whatever is in season after meals as dessert. To me, "dessert" means something sweet, including things that are naturally sweet, like fruit. I don't insist that they have finished all of their main course before they have fruit for dessert (though I do want them to eat all/most of their main course if they are having a non-fruit dessert, like a cake). But I don't want them to fill up on fruit before they've eaten the chicken or fish or whatever. I think it is also a cultural thing - we are European and I've noticed that my (American) nanny and many of my American friends put fruit out as part of the main meal, but I would never do that - fruit comes at the end. [/quote]

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