My 8 and 6yo are really healthy and varied eaters. We allow a small treat (like 1 small organic cookie) plus a slightly bigger treat (chocolate yogurt, pudding, hot cocoa) - most days. Now that they are starting lunches at school again we’ll reduce it to once a day at home and something moderate.

4 nights sweet/ 3 nights salty

We never have dessert. We just don’t do dessert in our family. A treat for the kids are dried dates or apricots. They have cake and ice cream on their birthdays. They never ask for dessert because we’ve never had it at home.

We have a sweet treat some afternoons and rarely after dinner, unless we're eating out. It just doesn't get requested.

I've never been a fan of an after-dinner dessert...so painful watching some parents and kids fight and negotiate how many bites of broccoli = getting to have dessert. "No, *actual* bites. Not just putting it to your lips" (Ugh.)

For me as I am watching my sugar intake I eat one small dark chocolate piece a day. I gave up ice cream chips etc and will only eat cake for birthdays of my own, my dh and my two kids.