Emily will happily choose fruit for a snack instead of sweets, i always carry raisins or something in my bag for snacks, we have a tub of sweets in our house (courtesy of a grandparent who ignores me!!!) but i tend to eat more than Emily does.
What you have to remeber though is that when they go to school sweets tend to be brought in for birthdays, so sometimes you do have to be flexible.
I gave Jack some White choc bottons as a traet on his Birthday
ok i ate a lot of them but my god he demolished them.
Jack prefers his fruit too at the minute
I beleive it is all about setting up good eating habits, not totally denying things, sometimes this can backfire big style
if you set good habits from a young age, children tend to make the "right" chioce for themselves
And just remember fruit can contain as much harmful sugers as sweets
