Snacks, snacks and more bloody snacks.

[Libertyfree]

What are you all packing for healthy snacks?
DD is 12 and has a long time between breakfast at 7.30 and lunch at 1.30.
I usually give her some fruit and hot cross bun/tea cake /bagel etc.
Now she’s saying she wants treats all the time. Sick of the constant debate about it.
Breakfast - cereal or pancakes/crumpets

Morning snack - fruit/bagel/hot cross bun

Lunch - sandwich, crisps, veg, small chocolate bar, water

After school snack - couple of biscuits or rice cakes and fruit

Dinner.

She’s very fussy and won’t eat malt loaf, bananas, nuts, humous etc.

How are you all getting by on houmous and veg sticks?

Anyone?

But she is having plenty of treats - she’s having crisps, a chocolate bar and biscuits? I’m very relaxed about food in our house but I’d just be telling her a flat out no to more treats, that’s plenty. If she doesn’t like what she’s given, she can leave it. She won’t starve.

For healthy(ish) treats, what about some sort of cheese based snack? Bit of protein to fill her up. And a fruit smoothie carton.

We've all given up snacks for lent except fruit and vegetables, long may it continue IMO. The only complaints have been from Grandparents who think we are being mean 🙄

Could she have a more filling breakfast, omelette, breakfast burrito, cheese toastie?

I think there is often a phase around that age when they just want to eat crap, my older two used to buy all sorts on the way to/from school. It was short lived though, the novelty wears off I suppose.
At home I removed the pestering by buying individual snack boxes, in the cupboard and the fridge. Strictly filled once a week 'when it's gone, it's gone'.