What types of snacks will satisfy a 2 year old's sweet tooth without taking a toll on her weight?

My niece comes over to my house every week and Monday through Friday she gets no candy or cookies of any kind but when she comes over to my house my father (her grandpa) gives her anything and everything she wants from ice cream to cookies and candy (only if there's no one around to tell him not to) so my question is what types of snacks are out there that are low in fat but still have some type of sweet taste to them.


I am concerned about her weight because she is bigger than a normal 2 year old so I definitely want to cut back on the sweets she gets from us.

What types of snacks will satisfy a 2 year old's sweet tooth without taking a toll on her weight?
Dried fruit is really sweet and is pretty good for you. Organic fruit snacks... those "100 calorie packs" of cookies and treats are good too, a small portion of cookies or whatever that you know how much you're eating.
Reply:Fruit and Yogurt.
Reply:You can get sugar free pudding and jello. Yogurt be good banana fruit that sweet and applesauce.
Reply:Fruit is incredibly sweet when the tastebuds arent spoiled very often by sugarry snacks.
Reply:Sugar Free Jello pudding snacks. They are really good!
Reply:Well give her nothing but fruit- her body is probably starving from nutrition. I just ate an orange- i dont know if it is because I am pregnant- but it was almost too sweet- she wont go hungry if she refuses to eat fruit- she will have to come around eventually. Do the right thing rather than giving her the same junk but just lesser in fat.
Reply:fruit... fruit is sweet but not high in sugar or fat... I give my son mandarin orange cups (I open them and drain the juice) and I let him have at them.... also sugar free jell-o (my son loves this, as well), flavored yogurt, animal crackers.... things like that.
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Reply:You could make fruit smoothies, they are tasty AND healthy! I make them for my 6 and 7 year old cousins and they love them! All you need is a bag of frozen strawberries, a little fruit juice and a blender. Or you could make all natural peanut butter cookies, with natural peanut butter, stevia and unbleached flower - it's still a cookie but it's healthier. Animal crackers are a good option too - they are generally low fat but fun for kids to play with. Frozen yogurt is good too :)





Hope this helped!
Reply:You could try giving her applesauce or yogurt. I think that those are low fat, and they do have some sweet taste. Check the label on the containers to see how many calories and fat calories they have.
Reply:Is there any way you can talk to your dad about how eating too much junk isn't healthy for her?





I give my daughter those fruit chewies, sweet fruit (strawberries, grapes, etc...), make fruit milkshakes. It can be hard to not give into the whole sweets issue but if you can set a good example %26amp; show her that fruits can be just as yummy as a lollipop, hopefully it will make her want to pick the right snack foods.
Reply:fruit.
Reply:Well, fruit or fruit desserts, of course.





I also like those "fruity" Cheerios--they don't have a lot of sugar (less than most sugar-sweetened cereals) but they have a definite sweet taste.





Or those freeze-dried fruits. Not dried ones with added sugar, but the plain freeze-dried ones.





And water down fruit juice--you can add a little water and still get most of the taste without as much sugar per serving. I mean, like, take grape juice. That stuff has like 50 grams of sugar per serving! It's unreal! WAAAAAAAYYYY too much sugar. A lot of kids drink way too many calories in sweetened drinks.





It's better to give kids a little sweet food and water to drink than an equivalent amount of sugar in a drink. Sugar in drinks isn't as satisfying as sugar in solid food, so you can drink something sweet and still want more, more, more.





And I haven't read that cookbook Jessica Seinfeld wrote about sneaking healthy food into "regular" food (like, adding pureed vegetables to pasta sauce), but that sounds like a good idea. Kids need calories that count, like from fruits and veggies, not junky sweets. If you serve a meal and then offer sweets for dessert or a snack, your niece will be full of healthy food and won't have as much room for sweets.
Reply:Give her fruit in portions. Too much sweets, even natural ones can cause her teeth to rott. Kinda like those lil kids you see with the silver caps in her mouth. Tell your dad not to give her those type of sweets cause if she ever has to get a tooth pulled due to tooth decay he won't be the one caring for her in the middle of the night. My son prefers salty over sweet...and even sour. Try different things like yogurt or applesauce (either organic or NO sugar added). This way its still healthy for her, its sweet and inexpensive. Strawberry yogurt is like 50 cents at Wal-Mart. Don't get the colored yogurt...it has too many preservatives and dyes that aren't good for the body. Also, try cheese. Some kids prefer to just eat hard cheese. Get the colby-monterey jack cheese in blocks.


Good luck.
Reply:They have great fruit leathers at Cosco and they are real fruit and no sugar added, They are like candy though my baby loves them.
Reply:Here are some things that my kids love:


Animal crackers


Lo-fat yogurt (Gogurts are great frozen)


Fruit of any kind w/ yogurt as a dip


Granola bars (my kids called them candy bars until recently)


Home-made fruit/yogurt frozen bars


1 celery stalk w/ peanut butter spread lightly in it.


Dried fruit


Fruit snacks


Jello or Jello pudding


Applesauce


Fish crackers are not sweet, but lots of fun


My kids love canned pears %26amp; peaches (I buy the ones canned in juice not syrup)


Marshmallows are actually pretty low in calories %26amp; just a few will satisfy any sweet tooth.





My kids also love to pick out one small piece of candy for a job well done- a DumDum or Tootsie Roll or something. That way when they get a chance to get candy they don't go overboard w/ it (we still have Halloween candy left).





Good luck!
Reply:My son is almost 2 and he likes treats also but I also buy stuff like gold fish crackers but I get the color ones that way he thinks it is cool. Or they have these mini vanilla wafers they have differ colors and it is just something my son thinks looks cool so he always wants them. They also have like snack packs which there are cookies and differ kinds which are less in fat. They might not all be sweet but I think the way a lot of the stuff looks makes a differ also. The colored crackers look cool so she might like them. Also there is the animail crackers that are glazed. Fruit cocktail. Sugar free popsycles, the stick crackers and cheese, which they also have kinda that are oreo and choc chip sticks with choc frosting. Things like that where they are little packs she is not getting to many.
Reply:Banana Crisps from Trader Joe's are great. They are thin and more like a chip than regular banana chips.