What snacks do you buy for your kids weekly?

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?? I think we're snacking too much and need to cut down

Normal parent here ✋

The kids eat crisps, biscuits, breadsticks, sweets, popcorn, handfuls of dry cereal, bananas for a week and then never again, one bite of an apple, mini cheddars, ice lollies and cheesestrings

Oh and loads of bogeys, they snack on them constantly 🙄

Starting to think I was the only one!

I thought the seaweed and boullion post was a joke!

Feta, olives, crudités and a cup of beef stock 🤣✋

Snacks- loads of doritos and hummus. That is a current food obsession for DS1 who has food issues galore. I'm not too bothered by it.

donuts. Popcorn. and they eat nutella and toast by the bucket but DS1's dietician said this is not an issue as it is one of his only reliable sources of calcium.

But DS1 has very restricted eating. DS2 gets whatever DS1 gets poor thing.

Fruit, cereal bars, malt loaf, crackers, cashew/pistachio nuts, roasted chickpeas. Sometimes homemade cake. Sometimes crisps or kitkats for lunch boxes, but not every day. In the current weather, ice lollies.

And also olives for DD!

We don’t really snack 😬, I don’t understand all this snacking, people taking snacks when they go out, snack boxes when the kids are home, a snack straight after school etc…etc…

we might buy a packet of biscuits and have a bowl of fruit (apples, bananas) but rarely snack, 3 meals a day is plenty and a ice cream if we go out somewhere.

Good grief. Do your kids have room in their bellies to eat real food?

My kids will think I'm very mean if they read this, there was fruit in the bowl and water in the tap! I don't agree with snacking, it encourages overeating bad eating and then too full for healthy meals

I love sun bites.

I assume all that is what she buys, generally, not what she feeds the kids every single day 😂

Too many ! I’ve a 9 and 4 year old. 4 year old isn’t really a snacker but 9 year old drives me insane with constant snacking! She very much needs to eat little and often rather than the 4 year old would have three big meals and some fruit for snacks - though more crisps etc in the holidays !

Our snacks are yogurts, rice cakes, cheese, crackers ( ritz , tuc or carr crackers ), nature valley bars, popcorn, all fruit - bananas, apples, melon , berries, grapes, oranges - pretzels , salami , ham, breadsticks , pop chips, raisins .
Holiday time I also get in a 6 of crisps ,some kind of multi pack of choc - Kit Kat etc and lunchables.

I am stopping all this snacking when they go back to school. With prices going up everywhere I’m going to try and offer just a bowl of cereal , toast or fruit for a snack . Hopefully it works 🤣

Yogurts, mini cheddars, sometimes Pringles/kitkats/cookies
cherry’s and grapes

Mars bars, snickers, Pringles, Nutella, turkey twizzlers and coke. Three times a day.

Seaweed and bouillon my arse.

Why would it be a joke? Itsu seaweed is at the crisps and nuts isle in Sainsbury's and Marigold Bouillon also from Sainsbury's you just boil a kettle and add a teaspoon. How is it different than cup a soup or cup a noodles and crisps?

Nairn Oat cakes are really good too by the way with sliced cheddar or hummus. Apples and nut butter, too.

Seaweed and bouillon... I would never give my DC so much salt and the plastic packing waste with itsu products is eye watering

@RausageSoul Exactly, I'm not some holier than thou martyr. The DC who has them is old enough for the salt content. Bouillon comes in a lower salt version.

It sounds really funny! I can't ever imagine a child coming home from school hungry 'mum, can I have a snack please?', 'yes love, what do you fancy?', 'some seaweed and bouillon please!'. Reminds me of the Catherine Tate Goosberry cinnamon yoghurt sketch 😄

I buy more snacks in summer (because I usually bake and cook for the weeks snacks and who can be be arsed baking in the heat!) But we only have snacks for lunches, so little bags of popcorn, fruit pots/bags and usually some mini sausages

Too many. My job over the summer is to do something about the kids requesting snacks every 5 minutes.

We buy weekly; packs of snack biscuits (animal biscuits, mini Jammie dodgers etc), Aldi baby flapjack bars, baby bells, crisps.

Cereal bars, crackers, hummus and veg, cheese, pepperami, yoghurts, mini rolls, soreen bars

Crisps, cereal bars (one box choc, one box fruit) one packet of Oreos or jammie dodgers or similar. Lots of fruit. I only have one 14 yo and he's pretty good at rationing himself

Seaweed and bouillon is the most Mumsnet thing I have ever read.

Snacks here are breadsticks, apples, satsumas, carrots, humous, grapes, digestive biscuits, cheese triangles and Soreens.

Out of the house they can have ice cream, cake in a cafe etc

Mine have a snack corner in the kitchen with dried fruit snacks, mini cheddars, go ahead bars, little soreens etc and in the fridge are cheese strings, Peperamis, yogurts and fruit.