How do you Mums do it?

I'll answer as a father, because I feed my child too...


My daughter eats healthy whole foods, so if I decide to eat off her plate.. it's still good for me food.

best WW tip ever as soon as your children have finished eating squirt washing up liquid on the left overs ( used to buy a value bottle)

You have to do it quick though before you think about it or your lost!

Anything that can be seen as a treat, I remind myself that he doesn't eat a lot of sugar anyways so what little bit he gets - is his.

We all eat the same thing, now. Even before I started eating better, my son ate healthy. I couldn't stand to give him the crap I gave myself. (I just had horrible will power for myself.)

I don't give the kids too much sugar but I find their mealtimes really hard. Its not just what they are eating but the time they are eating. They eat around 5pm since it takes quite a long time to get all 4 of the washed and into pj's afterwards and the triplets are only just learning to do it themselves. My dh doesn't come home until around 9pm and we eat then so I'm more tempted to eat something at both meals. I'ts driving me crazy!

Then set up a snack allowance for the time that the kids are eating. It's good to sit down to eat with your children, that way you're not just feeding them but also leading by example, dinner time is also an important reconnect time when everyone gathers to share their lives. I know it doesn't feel that way, but as the mother of a 2 yo that's what i try to do. My DH doesn't get home until 8:30 so I sit with my son for dinner at 6 (an usually sip on a glass of wine while he eats), and eat dinner by myself after he goes to bed at 7:30, and I have a snack if DH eats dinner when he comes home. I'm excited for a time when my son's appetite is a little more predictable so that I can eat with him.

I feed my kids the same thing I eat as well. For snacks, I also keep a fruit bowl and a basket with food they are allowed to snack on. My kids are both underweight and so the only difference they get from me is full fat milk and they can have seconds at meals. I do let me kids have some junk food, because my parents would not allow me to have it at all growing up and so when I got old enough to get a hold of it myself, I would hide it in my room and binge on it when I had the chance. I am trying to teach them healthy portion sizes and that it is okay in moderation. We do eat very healthy meals though and they are allowed to have one "junk food" snack a day. That might be a small bag of chips, 1 cookie etc. I don't find it hard to stay away from those things.

My kids love chicken, fish, shrimp and most vegetables. I always prepare them a baked potato, rice or some type of filler carb that I don't eat, and I agree that is difficult for me to not eat a little bit of.

I feed my 2 year old whatever we are eating, so that nullifies that temptation.