Today I had a break through with my five year old son. I have been chatting to him for the past few days about sugar and we went through the foods that he eats and we discussed the sugar content of each one. I have been making home made icecream for a couple of weeks and he refused to eat and wanted me to buy the one from the shop. I didn't give in to him and tonight him and his sister (2 1/2 years old) both sat and had a cone of my home made vanilla and strawberry icecream. I also changed our peannut butter to a low sugar / salt one and he hated it for about a week and then slowly started having it and now he wouldn't even know the difference. I thought it was going to be impossible to change his habits on the food he loves but with a little persitance it worked. yeah.

Any suggestions on getting him off bucket loads of yoghurt and also rice bubbles?

Hi,
You could try putting your home made goodies into the old store bought containers, until they get used to no sugar.

The step kids aren't FF but I want them to eat better. We have pancakes every Sunday morning. It's a tradition. So instead of the maple syrup we have I emptied the bottle and put rice malt syrup in it. Master 7 said it tasted weird, Master 14 tasted it and said it must be the real maple syrup, not the fake stuff. Lol. Yep, the real one. Master's 11&11 both know the truth (one is FF, the other is half FF, of his own doing too) and I see them smile every time the other boys say something about the foods we now have.