A practically guilt free candy to slip to your kids (or yourself) in an emergency. Which we all experience at one point or another…
Ok so we’ve been to the ice cream parlor. But sometimes we are in the car, or on the train, or at the bank desperately trying to keep the kids’ eyes off of the pot of those solid pieces of blue high fructose corn syrup disguised as lollipops. And for those times, I give you St Claire’s Organics’ Lemon Tarts.
Yes, they are slightly sweetened, but more by the molasses than by the organic cane sugar. And at least it’s just straight up sugar, like what’s in homemade cookies, and not syrup, like what’s in marshmallows and snickers bars. And they are tiny, but full of that sweet/tart dichotomous flavor, so a little goes a long way.
In my next life, I’m coming back as a No-Sugar-No-Screen-Media style parent (hopefully with a trust fund and a driver too, while I’m fantasizing.) I have read about how sugar is essentially poison and how TV before age 2 can really impede brain development. And I’ve already thrown out the plastic food storage containers and the non-glass water bottles, so I’m already half way there, right?
But in my current reality, I am choosing my battles, going for moderation rather than extinction, and hoping for the best. Every once in awhile, my kid gets some kind of candy. I have decided that watching old Wonder Woman episodes and sharing the occasional sweet with my daughter is too much fun to pass up completely. And if that makes me some kind of selfish parent, then so be it.
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