My kids are 7,5 and 3. They all have access to a ‘snack’ cupboard which includes biscuits and chocolate plus dried fruit and things like oat bars. They also have free access to the fruit bowl. They could fill their faces with chocolate from morning till night but they just don’t.
They all have home cooked meals (not all the time obviously! Chicken nuggets, chips and other feeezer items are also well consumed
) and moderate themselves what ‘treats’ they have.
Surely that’s a more ‘healthy’ approach? Even if they do have the occasional sugar rush?!!!!