5 Reasons to Serve Dessert WITH Dinner

Struggling with dessert drama? Serving dessert with dinner can stop negotiations, teach moderation, and create healthier mealtime habits.
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Dr. Kiyah Duffey, a celebrated nutrition expert with a PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill and founder of Kizingo, leverages her 20 years of experience to parents towards fostering healthier food habits in themselves and their children. As a mother of three and a globally recognized speaker and entrepreneur, she combines personal insight and professional expertise to help you transform your family’s relationship with food.

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Nice video for every mother.

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Agree that we should avoid the dessert=reward connection. However, for my 5 yo kid, there is a 100% probability that if I put dessert on the table and leave him choose what/when/how much to eat, he would pick just the dessert and would't touch any other food on the table. How would you address this? Thank you!

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This is a great question! A couple thoughts. First, give a *small* amount of dessert. Maybe in your case, very small! This should, in no way, fill him up. I would also not do it every day, and some days try offering fresh fruit (if there's fruit your son likes) as "dessert" (we used to rotate between dessert, fruit, nothing just so our kids didn't get used to dessert overnight). I would experiment and let him try eating just this small amount of dessert and nothing else a time or two. Does it persist? Make it clear to him that this is dinner, and once the food is gone, dinner is over. (that was always the hardest part for me, personally.) Also, maybe the incessant questions about dessert aren't an issue for you and your son ... in which case waiting until after dinner might be your best option! If you try it, I'd love to know what happens!