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My DD's are older (4 and 8) and we are not near as strict as we thought we would be. I mean, they are limited with the amount of sugar they are allowed to have, but I don't want them to think it's all bad. I think the teaching of moderation is a very important lesson.
I think I expected to be a lot stricter than I am and maybe it's now that I've been a mommy for a while I just don't stress about some things as much. Idk.

Yes. I eat cake at birthday parties and pie on Thanksgiving and sometimes ice cream just because. So of course I'll let my lo do the same.

My LOs are going to eat healthy--organic, free range, etc. However, husband and I like to eat frozen yogurt, ice cream and "junk food" once in a while so we'll let our LOs eat when we do.

We eat pretty darn healthy most of the time, so our kids will to. That said, I don't want to create any "forbidden foods" that will give our kids issues. I think we'll teach them that certain foods are to be eaten sparingly and that other foods are what we eat most of the time. We will avoid very processed foods.

As long as they eat healthy most of the time, it'll be ok to let them have junk food every once in awhile as a treat.

If LO eats well most of the time then there is room for the occasional junk food. Fast food will probably be completely absent as DH and I never eat it but chips and sweets every so often aren't a problem.

LO won't be eating a lot of junk food - it's not something we eat a lot of or keep around our house, so certainly the availability to those types of foods will be limited, especially before they are school age.

I don't plan to rely on "organic" or "all natural" as a failsafe - there are plenty of very high fat organic cookies, and everything nowadays is "all natural" (including some frozen, previously fried, dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets I see in the freezer section the other day. Yeah, dino shaped chicken is "natural"!).

I think instead of really restricting "junk food", our emphasis will be on a healthier diet overall. Like, for instance, we eat a lot of tacos but they are not the Americanized kind with ground beef and fried tortillas (especially flour which are pretty high fat/carb). Steamed, not fried, corn tortillas, lots of fish and lean meat like chicken, spinach, avocados and homemade salsas.

Making chicken fingers/nuggets from skinless chicken and panko bread crumbs and oven baking them instead of using frozen or fried and breaded. Choices like these, and lots of veggies and fish done in interesting ways.

Fast food will definitely be a rare treat.

We don't feed her any if that stuff at home but she can definitely eat cake at a birthday party!

I like sweets and I like to bake sweets so I'm guessing my daughter will eat sweets. I think moderation is good. And we don't keep super processed food like twinkies around. I never ate potato chips growing up so they're never in the house. If she goes over to someone else's house I'm not going to make her think she can't have some, they just won't be in our house. Baked treats will be in our house though because I love them.

@hilsy85: We are thinking of doing the same thing. "healthy junk food"... DH and I aren't huge on soft-drinks and try to keep granola bars and pretzels and unsalted popcorn as our "snacks." We will definitely be lenient on special occasions, but as an every day type snack - I think we'll try pushing the fruit/veggies thing as best we can... "everything in moderation" is a good rule for all things food in our household.