Sweets: How much is too much?
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- March
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Recently, I’ve been giving Zyla tiny tastings of vanilla ice cream, cake, etc…
Dessert is a whole new world for her. The other night I gave her a finger scoop of frosting and I wondered if that was too much. Her first birthday party is on Saturday and we are going to have a cake and cupcakes. I’m wondering if it would be ok just to hand her a chocolate cupcake and let her go to town. I do want her to enjoy her party but I don’t want her to get sick. Any advice would be appreciated.
Photo courtesy of TJN photographer Mark Vergari. La Tulipe cupcake
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on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 12:45 pm by Marcela Rojas.
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Well, I don’t know that there’s any magic amount, but I do know that last year, for Markus’ birthday, I gave him about one spoonful too much of ice cream cake. I think he’d gotten about halfway through a small slice.
He, ahem, unate it. It wasn’t too bad and it’s not like he yuked up everything he’d eaten, but I did have to take him upstairs to change his clothes while my mother-in-law took the cover off the high chair and tossed it in the basement to wash after the party.
For Pumpkin’s first birthday, I made cupcakes and let her devour one. I didn’t know if she would eat it, but she managed pretty well. And she was really only 9 months old by the developmental timetable — since she was born three months early. She didn’t get sick.
These days, we try and keep sweets and similar to a minimum, but I think for birthdays and holidays it makes sense to allow enjoyment of treats. (I’ve seen a lot of magazine suggestions for “healthy” cakes for birthdays, which I’m sure are delicious, but there has to be room in life for chocolate, I believe.)