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I must admit I do tend to the GC , little sweet treats , and Grandad has a sweetie jar by the bedside so that when they come in, in the morning at 6.30 EEK , they always have a couple.

This is with the permission of DD though , we take the attitude when they at ours rules can be relaxed.

They would be a bit stale by now, When, as I worked in Brussels in 1989! However, the supermarket here is full of Swiss chocolate - will that do?
I do like one kind I get in NZ - it has burnt almonds in it.

Can I have yours then, Greatnan? Can't leave Belgian chocolates going uneaten!

I lived in Brussels for a year and did not eat one Belgian chocolate. I don't like biscuits or cakes either. I was born in 1940 and sweets were rationed until February, 1952 (or was it 1953) so I got very few in my childhood.
One of my gds loved pickled onions when she was a child, ,and they all like cucumber slices and carrot sticks. I suppose it might help if we made healthy foods sound like treats!

The kids that is. Not Freddos.

Don't worry. I only see them once a fortnight.

Mine like Freddos too. I like Freddos.

There's this new one out - caramel Freddo! Mmmmmm

Carrot sticks and hummus or soft cheese - toddlers love dipping food like that.

I always have raw carrot sticks ready as a pre-lunch snack when my grandsons come - but there's always dessert and cake for afters too!!

jings, . And don't even mention cream and/or ice-cream with strawberries

sunseeker I didn't mind Grandparents treating them but not with regular sweets.

Very simple inexpensive toys or game and novelties and yet more Berol felt tip pens. Best buy yet for baby DGS was a set of yellow plastic ducks from Dunelm at £2. One big mummy Duck and three duckings. Its a winner with him.

Our DDs used to get Cornettos from my father as a treat when we visited them or they came to us. I couldn't afford them , ice cream and/or lollies for us were cheapos from Iceland in the freezer. The DDs are all as thin as sticks, but remember Grandpa's "treats" with affection.

My DD and I do not like chocolate, in fact I do not like anything sweet, living in Belguim we get some strange comments about not eating chocolate, my DGS in 17 months and when he stays with me if he eats all his dinner he gets a very mini Cornetto as a treat, he then proceeds to pick the chocolate off and only eats the vanilla ice cream. I take him to the market on a Saturday morning and we buy lots of seasonal fruit and veg.He is quite small for his age but very active I live in the Granny flat in their house so we all stick to the same rules. My Mother used to give my oldest son sweets and biscuits just before meals, and it drove me mad and caused a lot of arguments.

My grandchildren love coming to stay at grandmas.... because she is posh and makes them Sunday dinners nearly everyday... yep loads of fresh veg, chicken etc... I do give them sweeties sometimes, but they love a bowl of chopped fruit with yogurt over...

I guess some older people might not be quite up to date with modern nutrition. Not like us gransnetters.

Sugar on strawberries? As if!!!

- so it's no sugar lumps for her then?

ga we had Friday as sweetie day, too. My children remember it fondly, but they've relaxed it with their families. I did it because, when I was a child, my dad would bring sweets home on the Wednesday when he closed his shop for the afternoon. He would go in the sweet shop next door, and buy a few quarter pound bags of lemon sherbets, wine gums, caramels and the like, and divide them between us to have after tea.

Having a special sweetie day has meant less tooth decay for my children, two of whom have never had a filling and are well into their 30s.

My grandchildren are not great sweetie fans. They love fruit and raw vegetables. My younger grandaughter thinks she is pretends to be a horse and likes nothing more than raw carrot that she takes into her mouth before galloping running off.

I never give them anything they're not allowed because I used to get really fed up with MiL stuffing my kids full of rubbish. I do have a cupboard with a few goodies in it but they know it's for treats only.

I bake cakes for their school lunchboxes and that goes down well.

That should be sweet treats

Guilty as charged but I shall mend my ways ! However, my grandson is underweight if anything and his twin is average but I suppose it is a habit-forming problem.

My own children were allowed sweets only on a Friday. When friends/relatives arrived bearing sweetie gifts the children simply put them away until Friday. I NEVER bought sweets from a supermarket checkout and the children loved their trip to Sid's shop on a Friday after school. The grandparents were very good at offering craft 'treats' or baking, outings etc. At Christmas and Easter the Friday rule was relaxed slightly.
As a grandparent I buy comics/books/craft things and very rarely buy sweets or ice creams - although yesterday I did buy the three year old a 'pop up' ice cream and was very impressed that he managed it without any mess.

I did/do spoil the grandchildren but its rarely been sweat treats except at Christmas they have picked the soft fruits out of the garden or had an ice lolly for treats in the Summer and in the Winter it was toys books etc..
The only one of the 7 that got fat was the one who lived with her Dad and other grandparents, her Dad was obese and she got to be really big but now she lives away at 19 she has slimmed right down to a nice size for her height. Some of the others got puppy fat but they are all now slim adults and the little 8yr old is like a stick although she eats for England but doesn't really have a sweet tooth she also likes to make cakes with me.

My oldest DGS is 4 and has only in the past month or so started to eat ice cream. He didn't like the cold feeling in his mouth before. He is more than happy to snack on savoury stuff i.e. Cubes of cheese, cocktail sausages rather than sweets. Plus he's always on the go.
Younger DGS is dairy intolerant so no chocolate, pastry etc. for him and at 16mths he has never tasted a sweet.
I stick to mummy's rules 95% of the time. Rules get bent more on bed times rather than food.

I buy the odd package of choc. buttons but other then that stick to my old rules, sweets in strict moderation. I spoil mine with clothes, books and treats like visits to favourite places.
I had my children in the late 1970s and early 1980s and it was drummed into us then that sweets in excess were bad for teeth and weight.