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Thanks for all the answers - very interesting!

To all those people whos kids eat hardly any junk/packaged foods ----- please see my other post re healthy snacks .... what, besides fruit, do they eat between meals?

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DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs)
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[Age of Toddler: 16 months
Lollies: had them wine gums or marshmellows about twice
Ice-blocks: once or twice
Ice-cream: about 2-3 times a week
Chips/Cheezels etc: never
Hot chips: once a week
Chocolate: never had
Biscuits:2-3 times a week
Cake/Muffins:once a month
Crackers: daily
Fruit bars: either that or a museli bar daily
Muesli bars: either that or a fruit bar daily
Fizzy drinks: sipped some the other day

It might just be me being pregnant and hormonal (thus taking things to heart) but I don't consider museli bars, ice blocks, crackers, biscuits or fruit bars junk food (if you read the label and buy appropriate ones!), I do consider them convience foods at times!

I am also one of those bad Mummys who lets them child have McDonalds every now and again so maybe its just me

Anything else you can think of?

Thanks! [/QUOTE]
       
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Thats why I said "junk" / packaged foods. I don't think of crackers, plain bikkies or ice blocks as too bad either. I was really just curious about how much of this type of food other toddlers are eating.
But crackers are generally high in salt and alot of muesli bars and fruit bars have a very high sugar content. Ice blocks are just sugar, colours, flavours and water so not great nutritionally.

I think of hot chips as just a way of getting him to eat potatos with dinner and fill him up tho!!
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We have Maccas here, too, on Daddys "pub night" lol.
I tend to read labels and won't buy anything with sugar over 10g per 100gr or whatever, and only buy plain rice crackers with no msg etc. Although, Like I said, there are no "banned" foods in our house, tho, moderationis the key. Oh I lie, I won't feed my kids 2 minute noodles.
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Age of Toddler: 21 months
Lollies: 2 once weekly at Nanas
Ice-blocks: frozen yogurt daily in summer
Ice-cream: 3 x weekly
Chips/Cheezels etc: 5x weekly
Hot chips: 1 sometimes 2 x weekly
Chocolate: only at easter
Biscuits: 3x weekly
Cake/Muffins: daily
Crackers: daily
Fruit bars: nope
Muesli bars:1/2 weekly
Fizzy drinks: nope
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Age of Toddler: 2 1/2
Lollies: once a week - once a fortnight
Ice-blocks: Not at all in winter and alternate between
Ice-cream: ice cream and ice blocks in the summer
Chips/Cheezels etc: Once a fortnight
Hot chips: once a week - once a fortnight
Chocolate: Occasionally
Biscuits: Plain ones daily, 1/2 a Cookie Time once a week
Cake/Muffins: randomly depending if we bake
Crackers: daily
Fruit bars: Every few days
Muesli bars:Never
Fizzy drinks: Once in a (very) blue moon, usually from their grandfather
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Age of Toddler: 3 years 4 months

I dont really limit McKayla. She is great at doing it herself. At parties she tends to go for more healthy stuff even thought she will eat sweets she prefers the fruit and I think it is due to me not really limiting it.

We are however cutting certain colorants out and planning to go as colorant free as possible.

So we always have Natural confectionary sweets in the house. Fizzy drinks are like once every 6 weeks and then she has a sip but we get The Charlie stuff so no colorants.

Ice cream she is not really limited on it. So if we have it in the hous eshe can have it every day.

She eats a huge breakfast and prefers not to eat stuff like Ricies and chocolate covered chocolates. She prefers weet bix now and then but Oats and slappap is the best for her.

She has a snack at morning tea and afternoon as well. She loves her fruit. But like I say if we have sweets and she ask she gets and she got in the habit to ask if there is any bad colors in it.




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Age of Toddler: 20months
Lollies: never
Ice-blocks: once or twice.  he has only finished one once
Ice-cream: not fussed on it so he has yoghurt
Chips/Cheezels etc: one or two chips every now and again. he doesnt like them but wants to have what we are having
Hot chips: doesnt like them. uses them to lick tomato sauce with
Chocolate: had his first egg this easter.  never gets choc otherwise..I DONT SHARE
Biscuits: milk arrowroot most days...but half is usually found later
Cake/Muffins: LOVES these.  when I bake
Crackers: doesnt like
Fruit bars: starts one 3x per week. leaves the sticky other half somewhere for me to find later
Muesli bars: hardly ever 
Fizzy drinks: has had a couple of sips. Love the reaction.  But he did seem to like ginger beer...so I dont drink it around him..or he begs...not cute

Anything else you can think of?

Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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