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

My husband is Vietnamese, and in his culture, fruit is dessert. He knows how to choose the most delicious, ripe fruit. It's loaded with natural sugar, but obviously less sweet than cakes.

We're not fans of sweet bakery products, and I always halve the sugar content when making my own cakes, otherwise I can't eat them. But because we're all lazy, we don't eat homemade cakes very often. Just for special occasions like birthdays and holidays.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Right. Peas are a “filler.” Good god get yourself someone to remove that nutritional superiority stick from your a$$.

We are a very active and health eating family. I’m a runner. I have a sweet tooth so I eat a dessert every day. The size and quantity varies but generally something like a smal bowl of sorbet, a couple of cookies, 150 calorie ice cream bar. Kids get a small treat most days if they eat healthy meals all day. We tend to have a bigger dessert on a weekend day especially if we go out to eat.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ok I’ll bite. What are your 4 year olds eating for dinner?

Do you feel better now? I'm sure there are lots of four year olds who want kale salad for dinner! That's a fine dinner. You're ridiculous.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

We are an active, healthy family. DH and I both run. He does MMA. I used to, but at 50, I've stepped away from contact sports. I teach yoga and group fitness classes and that keeps me healthy. Our kids are athletic as well. We have dessert every night. My family would laugh if I tried to use fruit as dessert. I bake a lot and there is always something for dessert. Today it was chocolate chip cookies. I have a pecan pie in the oven right now. We have a sweet dessert pretty much every night.

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?

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...:

Every day. We always have ice cream in the freezer, we like good chocolate and I love to bake, so there is almost always some home made baked good available. Lifeis too short. We are not athletes, but work out regularly, kids each do a sport EC and we are not obese.

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

As someone who grew up in a fanatic healthy family and learned to find a balance for my own life, I'd say have dessert every day. Not an entire pint of ice cream, but a daily treat w/ an overall nutritious, veggie/fruit heavy diet, is "normal healthy."

And yes, you should stock these things in the fridge/pantry. Not doing so creates more of a taboo and mental obsession with restriction, and can cause kids to overdo it elsewhere. If it's available at home, they know it's not going to go away, and they don't have to gorge the whole thing while they can.

I make my own desserts so that I know how much sugar is in them like Thai sticky rice with mango. DH likes to have a cup of ice cream but I find desserts in the US to be way too sweet.

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?