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<blockquote data-quote="leggott" data-source="post: 127888" data-attributes="member: 20065"><p>Hi, I would say that my five year olds diet is very similar to that. We try and restrict chocolate to the weekends and they don't often eat crisps (may be 2 bags a month). We give fruit & yogurt for puddings and sometimes a small mini milk or custard. We also use granary/wholemeal bread and like you we go for the healthier cereals, like bran flakes / porridge and weetabix. My kids have a fruit snack mid morning and normally after school too. They have packed lunch at school which comprises of a sandwhich, fruit and yogurt or small biscuit. I always cook a meal from scratch and I always do streamed veg with every meal. Bed time snacks vary depending on their reading, but this may be a small glass of milk, cheddar biscuits or fruit. They tend to drink water throughout the day and have may be one glass of juice at breakfast and 1 glass of no added sugar squash with their evening meal.</p><p></p><p>I have friends who also say their kids don't have lots of treats, but I've noticed that they eat a lot of white bread and high sugar cereals, ususally followed by lots of yogurts which tend to be loaded with sugar. They also use a lot of convenience foods which have sugar & salt added, so really their diets are not as healthy as they are proclaiming!</p><p></p><p>I think it's all about balance. It sounds like your sons diet is healthy to me and you have also achieved an excellent HBA1c, which is not easy in a child of that age.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="leggott, post: 127888, member: 20065"] Hi, I would say that my five year olds diet is very similar to that. We try and restrict chocolate to the weekends and they don't often eat crisps (may be 2 bags a month). We give fruit & yogurt for puddings and sometimes a small mini milk or custard. We also use granary/wholemeal bread and like you we go for the healthier cereals, like bran flakes / porridge and weetabix. My kids have a fruit snack mid morning and normally after school too. They have packed lunch at school which comprises of a sandwhich, fruit and yogurt or small biscuit. I always cook a meal from scratch and I always do streamed veg with every meal. Bed time snacks vary depending on their reading, but this may be a small glass of milk, cheddar biscuits or fruit. They tend to drink water throughout the day and have may be one glass of juice at breakfast and 1 glass of no added sugar squash with their evening meal. I have friends who also say their kids don't have lots of treats, but I've noticed that they eat a lot of white bread and high sugar cereals, ususally followed by lots of yogurts which tend to be loaded with sugar. They also use a lot of convenience foods which have sugar & salt added, so really their diets are not as healthy as they are proclaiming! I think it's all about balance. It sounds like your sons diet is healthy to me and you have also achieved an excellent HBA1c, which is not easy in a child of that age. [/QUOTE]
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