Bernard O'Shea: Coming down off sugar? Eat an apple

My six-year-old, when I told him he could have an orange if he was hungry, replied, "A chocolate one?"

Bernard O'Shea. Picture: Moya Nolan

For the last week, the family are basically coming down off sugar. I promised myself before Christmas I wouldn’t touch the stuff, but I had selection boxes for breakfast in November.

Admittedly I wasn’t the most fantastic custodian of my kid’s consumption of their cocoa bean intake either. They are now looking at their usual go-to snack of yoghurts and fruit as the second rate.