[Rennes Templar]

Cookies No Longer the Top Snack for Kids
In 1987, cookies were the most common snack for children under 6, and fruit ranked second. Today, that order has been reversed; fruit is the most common snack, and cookies are in second place.

In addition, kids today are less likely to consume carbonated soft drinks, ice cream, candy, cake and fruit juice as snacks than kids the same age did 20 years ago.

The information comes from the NPD Group, which tracks national eating trends. The number are based on food and beverage journals from 500 mothers in 1985-1987 and 600 mothers in 2005-2007. The women kept diaries for 14 days on all the foods and beverages consumed by under-age-6 children.

Sources:
USA Today June 11, 2008

I take it your kids are not in the fruit group.

[AnAmericanMother]

My kids are perfectly healthy, thank you, though not under 6. One is a BSA Venturer, she's in Costa Rica doing field work for her biology degree, hiking up and down mountains, she's slim as a reed and an expert swimmer, rider and dancer. The other is a USNSCC cadet who runs 50 miles a week and is a rock climber and mountain biker, wants to join the USMC (I wish them the joy of him!)

We all like fruit AND cookies, in moderation. Moderation is generally a good thing.