FOOD FOR THOUGHT
I’m a mum and here’s why I ALWAYS serve dessert at the same time as dinner – it’s a gamechanger
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MOST OF us have been brought up hearing that we can only have dessert once we've finished dinner.
But one mum disagrees and explains why serving dessert alongside dinner can be beneficial to your children.
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Veronica, a mum-of-one, revealed why she serves dessert alongside dinner.
She revealed that doing so can help her daughter, Harp, create a healthy relationship with food.
In an , Veronica showed her daughter sitting a the table enjoying dinner which was served with her 'dessert', a cookie.
She responded to a commonly asked question 'you serve dessert with the full meal? not after?'
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"Uhmmm YUP," Veronica stated.
"Dessert before the meal?
"YES! If she wants to. It’s her choice. By always offering dessert at the table with the “regular food” we take away any intrigue of dessert," she explained.
The mum added that growing up, she was surrounded by diets and didn't want her daughter to experience the same.
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Instead, Veronica wants to build a foundation that food is food.
"There are no rewards with food. Food is what we eat every day to provide nutrients for our bodies," she wrote.
Veronica added: "The order of the meal today was: Tortillas with cheese, a bowl of guac, some quinoa, some chicken. She didn’t even go for the cookie."
Plenty of parents who saw the reel were in agreement that it was a great way to build a healthy relationship with food.
One wrote: "Probably more likely to not even care about it!!"
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"yup we do this too! and find sometimes he would down the sweets first, other times would take a bite continue with his other food and circle back to it or not at all," another parent commented.
A third penned: "Wow I love this!"
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