What are we feeding our (grand) children? ???

Those kinds of foods are known as joyless treats in this house.

not an Open day for virtuous healthy eaters

My late mother used to insist she could buy chocolate covered Ryvita when she was wee....we used to laugh about it ,but who knows she did come from a time when a doctor recommended she started to smoke when she had PND

I had an emergency box of dark chocolates because I don't like them. I ate them all. I still don't like them. Och!

I’ve just discovered a great cross-over between sweet and worthy.
Nairn’s Dark Chocolate Chip Oat Cakes.

Will be trying them out on the grandchildren, with sweet back up biscuits if they dislike them.

*Maw Broon. Don't take offence, please. Most of us oldies have been accustomed to unnecessarily sweet foods for a long time*
No reason to assume that I have then ( I haven’t as it happens) but such sweeping generalisations are guaranteed to offend.
Would you have said it to my face?
#smugorwhat

Well my 3 eat just about anything . They are very sporty and not a pinch of fat on any of them . Nothing wrong with a chocolate bar or a biscuit now and again.

Maw Broon. Don't take offence, please. Most of us oldies have been accustomed to unnecessarily sweet foods for a long time.
I wasn't keen, tho, when my mother made me a sandwich with banana and sugar because she thought I needed energy.

We have Ella smoothies which are very popular and also Farley's Rusks - even for the older ones [good for them]; and then there's cake, small rice puddings and of course ice cream![not so good for them]

We have a biscuit tin, because it is our habit to have a biscuit or two with our morning coffee. When GS comes, it has become his habit too, but he is limited to two custard creams or a chocolate hob nob. He knows the rules. Sweets similarly are rationed, but carrots, cucumber sticks, apples and grapes are not! I can’t imagine life without a biscuit!

Ooh sorry, missed the point entirely. DGC head straight for the biscuit box when they come in. Sometimes they are lucky, sometimes not. ?? I like to keep them guessing.

We've got a patch of wild strawberries at one side of our garden, between the hen pheasant and the DGC, there are none left! The GC have also eaten all the raspberries, shaking off the ants as they went! They love foraging in the hedgerows when we're out for a walk too.

Oh dear, this was meant to be a light hearted thread about worthy organic foods, not an Open day for virtuous healthy eaters and criticism of my own eating habits. Or those of anybody’s grandchildren.
Mine don’t as it happens get chocolate, sugar, sweet things or junk food ever, their teeth are perfect and they are lean and lively.
But nowt wrong with a Jammie Dodger occasionally

I have a sweetie tub paddyann and mine just help themselves too .

I think that was completely uncalled for Farnorth

Liz46 Mine love all those things too. It's lovely, isn't it, to see them eating 'natural' things

My veg patch is just for the DGC! They love the blueberries, peas, courgettes, carrots, tomatoes and beetroot! They pick and eat staight from the plant and enjoy supper with fresh cooked beans! They also love biscuits and cakes! Everything in moderation! The more you ban the more exciting it is!

Yes MamaCaz, my GC help themselves to my chives. I did them a pot of chives to take home. Another thing that kept my GC quiet and busy for absolutely ages was a pot of home grown peas. The searched for the pods, got the peas out and ate them all raw. I had a tomato glut one year and had them picking tomatoes for me to make soup. I put the tomatoes in boiling water for a minute and when they were cool, got the GC to peel them for me.

My DGC love biscuits and sweets, but they also love fruit, raw veg and even herbs, and are regularly to be found 'foraging' in my garden. Anyone else got GC who will happily pick and eat raw chives? I wouldn't have touched them with a bargepole at their age - even if I had known what they were!

There haven't been any biscuits in this house for two months. Doesn't bother me because I don't have a sweet tooth but I often hear DH lifting the lid of the biscuit tin on the dresser hoping against hope that some jammie dodgers might have somehow magicked themselves in there.

Does a sweet tooth ever disappear?

I have a packet of Oreo cookies for emergency eating because I don’t like them. Eating one is a measure of my desperation!

Get you Far North!
What qualifies you to judge that I am accustomed to overly sweet foods?
#assumetoomuch

My DGC love those tasteless oatie biscuits with fruit in!

But they also love jammie dodgers and are allowed one each a day when they are here.

You can also get packets of little jammie dodgers - I thought they might do for you Maw - just one mind!

I have a sweetie drawer AND a biscuit tin ..or two and my GC all can help themselves .They dont overindulge or gorge on sweet stuff and I find its much better having the stuff on offer than when my own children were small and all sweets /chocolate etc was banned.Both my kids are chocoholics and I get the blame ,yes neither ever had a filling or toothache but nor do the GC despite the jellies and fudges and chocolate chip cookies.

Possibly they would seem less tasteless to you if you weren't so accustomed to overly sweet foods.
Why not ask the children what they think of the Tasty Oaties?