Feel rubbish at healthy eating

[Notsoyummymummy1]

My dd is 2.5 and full of energy and very slight but I worry that her diet is less than perfect. She eats lots of fruit and veg but I worry that I treat her to cake or ice cream a bit too often as do her grandparents. I try and be heathy but I keep finding that whatever I give her - raisins, yoghurts, brioche, is actually loaded with sugar.

I recently went on holiday with sil and her daughter and she was very strict. Her daughter could only drink water or milk and wasn't allowed anything with sugar in not even a blob if ketchup. When I unwittingly offered her daughter one of DD's fruit juice carton sil looked at me like I was poisoning her.

I just worry that I'm not doing well enough in this area - does anyone else have the same worries?

[headoverheels]

Well, if you're worried, why not make an effort to cut down on sugar a bit? It certainly won't do any harm, and at your DD's age it's easy to make some changes without her really noticing. You don't need to go as far as your SIL (sounds like she is quite extreme), but maybe try and find a halfway house, eg cut down on juice and cake, think of some healthy snacks and make sure you always have some in the house (eg rice cakes or oat cakes instead of brioche, hoummous and cucumber instead of raisins). Worth a try?

[tobysmum77]

sil is ott imo.

It's about balance but ice creams out all the time probably is a bad habit.

[tobysmum77]

also have you tried natural yoghurt?

[odyssey2001]

Everything in moderation. What is moderation is down to you. We allow fruit juice every now and again and a year every day or so.

Your SIL sounds like she is being too strict. That could lead to an unhealthy relationship with food when the child is older, wanting everything that she wasn't allowed as a child.