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How do you stop your children from wanting sugary snacks?

Wai Kee - posted on 02/28/2012 ( 1 mom has responded )

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How do you stop your children from wanting sugary snacks?

Offer them fruits and vegetables 33% (2 votes)

Offer them flavored yoghurt with chunks of fruits 50% (3 votes)

Offer them savory snacks as alternative 17% (1 vote)

Offer them sugar-free snacks 0% (0 votes)

I do not stop them from having sugary snacks 0% (0 votes)

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Amanda - posted on 03/01/2012

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I would think the best answer would be to never let them develop a taste for sugary snacks in the first place. But how many of us have truly done that? I'm as guilty as the next person, but instead of giving him a cookie I have decided to let him enjoy a little Greek yogurt with fruit in it instead. He loves it! We no longer buy the cookie snack packs like we use to, and now his options are either fresh or frozen fruit, carrot sticks, dehydrated corn that we do ourselves, and homemade lower carb desserts. On occasion I make low carb brownies that he can't tell apart from the real deal and every time he tell me that they're the best he's had yet! That's all I need to hear :)

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