We make breakfast cookies (oatmeal and banana), breakfast popsicles (yogurt and fruit), and breakfast ice cream (cottage cheese, nut butter etc blended and frozen). These are all "special treats".

Date stuffed with nut butter with a chocolate chip on top

Greek yogurt fruit smoothie but with greens, flax, etc.

Milk blended with strawberries and a bit of honey

Toast with nut butter and thin sliced fruits

Basically... fruit! Once in awhile I let him go nuts grating zucchini and carrot with a box grater and I bake very lightly sweetened whole wheat mini muffins.

Anonymous wrote:When my child was a toddler, he was excited for "ice popsicles" (aka ice cubes) and "broccoli popsicles" (aka frozen broccoli) for dessert. That wouldn't work past age 2 or 3.

There should be a parenting merit badge for this. Maybe a medal.

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Anonymous wrote:When my child was a toddler, he was excited for "ice popsicles" (aka ice cubes) and "broccoli popsicles" (aka frozen broccoli) for dessert. That wouldn't work past age 2 or 3.

Broccoli popsicles? And he bought it for a bit? That is actually freaking adorable.

I agree, adorable pp!

frozen grapes

Anonymous wrote:My kid has always loved frozen peas and acts like they are a big treat. I thought she’d outgrow this but she just mentioned them excitedly today at age 10

My teenager still eats frozen corn. They will eat corn on the cob cooked, but frozen corn must be eaten frozen.

Bare backed apple chips with cinnamon are a hit here.

My kid has always loved frozen peas and acts like they are a big treat. I thought she’d outgrow this but she just mentioned them excitedly today at age 10

Anonymous wrote:When my child was a toddler, he was excited for "ice popsicles" (aka ice cubes) and "broccoli popsicles" (aka frozen broccoli) for dessert. That wouldn't work past age 2 or 3.

Broccoli popsicles? And he bought it for a bit? That is actually freaking adorable.

Anonymous wrote:When my child was a toddler, he was excited for "ice popsicles" (aka ice cubes) and "broccoli popsicles" (aka frozen broccoli) for dessert. That wouldn't work past age 2 or 3.

My kids (1 and 3) are currently enjoying spinach popsicles (they also have yogurt, banana, and honey in them) for snack and considering it a high treat. I am sure it will stop working soon enough (the 3yo will always choose candy for fruit given the choice these days and that was not true last year) but I’m going to milk it as long as I can. 😆

I don’t given them plain frozen veg for dessert but I have it as an opinion for dinner (they get to choose if they want “hot peas” (cooked) or cold peas (still frozen)) and most of the time they go for frozen and eat the whole helping. If I inflict cooked vegetables they eat way less.

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Anonymous wrote:When my child was a toddler, he was excited for "ice popsicles" (aka ice cubes) and "broccoli popsicles" (aka frozen broccoli) for dessert. That wouldn't work past age 2 or 3.

My 4yr old still thinks ice is a treat.

Though to clarify, my kid is on a very strict keto diet for epilepsy and does not eat any sweets whatsoever.

Anonymous wrote:When my child was a toddler, he was excited for "ice popsicles" (aka ice cubes) and "broccoli popsicles" (aka frozen broccoli) for dessert. That wouldn't work past age 2 or 3.

My 4yr old still thinks ice is a treat.

When my child was a toddler, he was excited for "ice popsicles" (aka ice cubes) and "broccoli popsicles" (aka frozen broccoli) for dessert. That wouldn't work past age 2 or 3.

We just do small desserts so it doesn't matter how junky they are.

We make fruit and veggie smoothies and freeze them into popsicles and my kid is as excited for that as for ice cream or another treat. Made me wonder if other parents whose kids crave sweet things have other ideas of relatively healthy desserts.

Another idea I had was for slightly sweet cereal for dessert (e.g. life cereal with milk).

My kid loves the ritual of dessert and it’s a nice family time for us…but looking for some healthy-ish options.