Junkfood free house

Interesting thread. Maybe if I remove snacks Elle would eat dinner. She has not eaten dinner for absolutely weeks and weeks. No veg, no meat. Nothing. She flattly refuses. Maybe if I remove ALL snacks she will be forced to eat dinner. That seems so mean though...

Charlotte probably gets crisps once a week. Chocolate or lollies about once a fortnight, if that- we are quite restricted over what she can eat anyway because of her allergies. The only takeaways she can have are either fish and chips or Maccas- F&C are revolting here and Maccas are about a once a month thing.

I don't consider crackers junk food- plain baked crackers with a bit of cheese, tomato and marmite on them always go down well here.

I find if she has anything like lollies she goes absolutely nutty and is really difficult to deal with. She'll often stay up later and that means shes grumpy and over tired the next day. When the ILs are around they like to 'treat' her with lots of lollies- but considering they are bad for her teeth, bad for her health and basically mean she behaves terribly and get told off lots I think they're more of a punishment! You would think that if they care, they would want what is best for them- health wise. Its like they get a kick out of being the ones to give them something nice and treaty- buggar the consequences.

My MIL has horrible sweet tooth and she wants DD to be the same and then she will say things like "oh well since you guys dont give her any, some one has to...she is a kid" Yah exactly...she is a kid, she doesnt need extra energy!!

I, on the other hand have tons of treats.

I really dont limit stuff as badly as it sounds. I think those we have saw me at meets have seen McKayla sharing cake with me ect. But I take what she eats over a week and then a month into account and as soon as I see that we eat too much junk or she doesnt eat the healthy food I will just adjust it for a bit and have us all back on track.

I am petrified that she lands up with PCOS as well and I know I cant prevent it if she has to end up getting it but I can try and help her all I can while she is still small. And moderation is key to us.

Once again I dont think crackers are bad but I do think it was bad if she had that instead of lunch and then it affects her dinner as well and then have toast on top of that for breakfast. Just way too much "bread, cracker" type meals in one day for my liking.

Oh yes, to be able to go back to the time when Michaela was eating gluten free so I had complete control over her diet.  Then again I hope she doesn't have coeliacs it's a pretty inconvenient disease to have to live with.

MIL just turned up with a small bag of mcdonalds fries and gave them straight to Michaela.  So bad, firstly because this is a junkfood free house atm and secondly because Michaela's due to have dinner in 45 mins.

I confiscated them - mean mummy aye - then quickly shoved together some other bits and pieces for dinner (ham, cucumber, tomatos and cheese) and gave her a small portion of the chips, ate a couple myself and threw the rest of the bag (about 1/2) away.

I don't think I'll ever get it through to her that I don't like junkfood treats.  Why doesn't she treat her by taking her to the park?

joshierocks wrote: My MIL is the same - will give Joshua all sorts of things when he's with her that I wouldn't. DP and I have had discussions about it and came to the decision (albeit grudgingly) that when he's with her she can give him what she thinks is ok.

 

The problem with that plan for us is that MIL looks after Michaela every afternoon until I get home from work and she pops up a couple of times a day 7 days per week

joshierocks wrote: Stick to your guns. Perhaps you need to list out for your MIL what you consider to be junk? Maybe she thinks a few fries are ok.....

 

That's a good idea.  I obviously need to be more clear.  I've also wondered a few times in recent months if she is beginning to suffer from althzeimers or similar - sometimes she appears to be a few sammies short of a picnic and things we tell her go in one ear and out another and sometimes I feel like I'm talking to a toddler.  This is one of the reasons we invited her to move in so I should probably cut her a break.  Then again it probably has more to do with the fact it's only been 3 months since her DH died and also she's at an age where she chooses to ignore us because she knows it all now. 

 

ETA: re-reading this it sounds like I leave my daughter every afternoon with an elderly person who suffers from dementia or something... it's really not like that at all.  She is quite capable, just occassionally annoying.

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