Now that I've gotten rid of the candy basket and have none in the car either things are much more peaceful at home!
I also stocked up the snack drawers and serve lots of delicious snacks. Lately dd has been on a kick for rye toast with butter. Last night she asked for scrambled eggs!
: I handed her a slice of watermelon today and she ate it.
I think we're back on track!
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Originally Posted by Mama.Pajama  Mama, I think you need to make some cookies. Healthy, whole grain oatmeal raisin cookies sweetened with honey or maple syrup. Replace the candy craving with cookies and milk- no child turns down cookies and milk.
Just use your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe and substitute the sugar with 1/2 the amount in honey (or even 1/4), use whole grain flour, and add raisins or other dried, unsweetened fruit instead of chocolate. Use some oats in there for some added nutritional punch!
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Yeah!!
We used to bake a lot when I was home on maternity leave for 1 year, but now that I'm back at work I haven't been baking with her. I tried baking cookies with a mixture of whole wheat and quinoa flours. That went down like a led zeppelin.
But I can certainly tweak the recipe so it's healthy and palatable to my dds (and, let's be honest here, dh too
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Can you please clarify about substituting the sugar with honey? So if the recipe says use 1 cup of sugar, I should use 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup honey? That's a great idea.
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Originally Posted by EnviroBecca This sounds SO familiar! Did you read my thread about my 4-year-old eating his father's desserts? There are some other issues tangled up in that, but part of it is the same: wanting more sweets than is healthy, taking a sweet he is not supposed to have, then showing/telling a parent that he's doing so. I think this can be translated as, "I'm showing you how hard it is for me to resist sweets."
Like me, you have a problem with the behavior of your child's father being not the most helpful (although it's a different problem--mine tries to save his sweets for later while leaving them within reach of the kid, while yours is setting an example of overconsumption and serving too many sweets to the kid) and it's probably most useful to approach that as a SEPARATE problem rather than blaming either person's behavior on the other.
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Hi EnviroBecca, I haven't read your post because I haven't been to this forum in a long time. Thanks for weighing in. Yeah, I agree with your reading of the issue being, "I'm showing you how hard it is for me to resist sweets."
And I also agree that the issue with dh should be seen separate from the other issue with my daughter and not just lumped in together.
Thanks Mamas. If two heads are better than one, a dozen is great!!
